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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
While psychology is generally considered a “soft science” (meaning not provable by scientific means or physical laws), educational psychology has produced many years of data through...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Cognition can be defined as the mental ability or a set of mental processes that are involved in thinking, reasoning, perception, comprehension, making judgments and decisions, etc. In simplest...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
To know what this says about her score, we first have to understand a couple of statistical terms. First of all, mean in the average score. Standard deviations are set marks that are based around...
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Business
Of course one has to agree with the facts about the disadvantages of extensive multitasking. Cognitive science has rapidly advanced thanks to functional MRI scanning (real-time MRI brain scanning)...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
"Sound" refers to a type of wave that emits from particles when they vibrate. Humans can hear only a certain range. What you hear at any given moment depends on how your brain decides to process...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
A schema (plural schemata) is any pattern of thought, idea, or habit that exists in a structured form (Wikipedia). Constructive processing is the conscious examination and absorption of outside...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
"Schema" is usually used to mean any cohesive thought or behavioral pattern. Any collected or organized group of ideas, habits, or knowledge can be classified as a schema (Wikipedia). New knowledge...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Memories serve a very important function in our lives. To examine the importance of memories though, one must understand their functions in different capacities. First, memories are important in...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Psychotherapy is a spoken therapy, used by individual therapists or sometimes in group therapy designed to increase or improve the mental health of a patient by working on weaknesses or practicing...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
In Lockhart and Craik's alternative to the Atkinson-Shiffrin memory model, it is suggested that the depth of mental processing affects memory function. The range of processing goes from shallow...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Your question is a bit hard to understand. It would be helpful to know what you want to study. Without that piece of knowledge, all I can do is offer you some suggestions of possible experiments of...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
This is a great question and you are right that our memories are not passive but very active. Many scholars from different field have been working on this topic. Here are two examples of how our...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The old favourite stick and carrot method. Well, as a parent of four children who desperately tries to do a good job, I think it is all about finding whatever lever you can that will work. Our...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The Russian Scientist, Pavlov, demonstrated “conditioning” of dogs in an experiment involving exposure of the dogs to meat powder (the unconditional stimulus, or UCS), resulting in salivation...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Gestalt principals have to do with what is known as "visual perception." It's how people view visual information and organize what they see. Gestalt, in German, means form or shape. By nature of...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
All three of these terms relate to the perception of stimulus. I can't give you original examples based on your experiences, of course, but I can think of a few common ones and you can add your...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
I really think this question means that this person is important to you, and you may see her in many different roles or places in your life. To be your mother according to the dream may simply be...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
In 1992 Costa and McCrea published their Five Factor Model (FFM) or so called “Big 5” broad categories or dimensions of personality types. The authors sought to explain certain academic...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
This is an important question, because people are complex. In other words, there is not only one way to help people. Hence, the assumptions of classical conditioning can be very reductionistic in...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
This is a fascinating question. Recently a lot of scholars from all disciplines have been working on this topic - philosophy, history, and psychology. Here are some thoughts on each of these...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Instinct theory is one of the behavioral motivation theories which suggests that the reason for a behavior within a particular species is a genetic predisposition. This is one of the few theories...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
According to humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, all individuals strive to become self-actualized, or reach their fullest potential; however, in order to do so, a series of needs must first be...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Beginning at the base of Maslow's pyramid, the first type of need is physiological needs. These are the obvious things, like food, water, and sleep that we need in order to survive. After we have...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
A man named, oddly enough, Erik Erikson came up with this idea. He developed a list of 7 stages of "psychosocial" development: HOPE --"trust versus mistrust." An infant is unable to take care of...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, created psychoanalysis and founded clinical psychiatry as we know it today. His theories have been challenged and changed but remain the base of modern...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The answer given above is very helpful. The idea of archetypes presumes that human nature is basically pretty much the same everywhere and always and that certain characters, themes, and symbols...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Unfortunately, I can answer this from experience. My children were 4 and 6 at the time of my divorce. Prior to my divorce, the stress both I and their father were feeling was quite overwhelming....
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Given the scope of such a question, I imagine answers could be across the board, so I will try to narrow mine to a field of psychology with which I believe I have immediate personal and...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
I usually think of it as organizational psychology, but it can also be called industrial psychology. Here is a link to a useful bit of information:...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Here's one! The Rorschach Inkblot Test was developed/based on a common parlour game called "Blotto" or Klecksographie (German for 'blot and blot game). People would gather in someone's home parlor...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Clinical and counseling psychology both require similar graduate level training, which includes academic coursework in all of the major areas of psychology (developmental, psychopathology, social,...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Psychology is the science behind or the study of the mind and behavior. One of the main goals of applied psychology is to benefit society. A huge component of psychology is the drawing of...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Application of Rank's The Myth of the Birth of the Hero most directly relates to child and family therapy. In his studies, Rank looked at the qualities and similarities of well known literary and...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
A sociopath (or antisocial personality disorder), as defined by Dictionary.com, is : a person, as a psychopathic personality, whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
As a parent, teacher, and former therapeudic counselor I have come to believe that one of the most important components of raising, developing, or helping children grow with emotional stability, is...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
I do not necessarily think it is imperative that a parent fully understands the how's and why's of child-development, as long as the parent is willing to pick a path of parenting and attempt to...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Psychology forces us to answer many of the questions we have about ourselves, other people and the nature of human life; why do we feel lonely ? Why do we forget ? How people learn ? Heredity in...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
First of all, people who are likely to benefit from psychological therapy are the ones who already know that there is a psychological problem that must be solved and not avoided, in order to get...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The passive- aggressive personality is intricate, and extends into many different domains. Shame can be a part of this personality. Perhaps, the shame, or embarassment, at not being successful at...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The nature of this question is almost too vague to answer with specifics, unless some definition is brought to some of the terms provided. I'm going take this from the angle that a difference in...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Dementia involves symptoms of loss of brain function, including memory, as well as distortions in personality that are out of character. Patients may also lose the ability to perform basic motor...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The developmental theories of Piaget and Vygotsky are not only different in nature, but different in approach, and you are right in that they are difficult to compare. The best way to approach the...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
One key principle of Vygotsky that is currently present in the classroom is the idea of "scaffolding." Whether labeled as such or not, this was Vygotsky's term for building new learning by using...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Patience and tolerance initially appear to be relatively similar; however, upon closer examination, they are actually quite different experiences. According to some psychologists, patience and...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Type A personalities are generally thought of as high-energy, high-strung, high-risk for heart attacks. Everything must be perfect, on time (preferably early), and in order. They are goal-driven...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
These three types of mental illness are different in both symptoms and known causes. Schizophrenia has genetic precursors, and is neither trauma or chemically induced. The schizophrenic has...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The classical conditioning theory was proposed by Ivan Pavlov in the early part of the 20th century. The gist of the theory is that behavior can be learned by instinct with the application of a...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
The theory of operant conditioning is defined as an approach used in behavioral sciences with the purpose of creating or extinguishing a behavior based on the application or retention of stimuli....
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
I'm not sure that without some sort of medical or psychological degree, you have it in your power to disprove your friend "scientifically." In fact, when it comes to behavior, psychology is unique...
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Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Attribution (in psychology) is a term which denotes how individuals explain behavior, their own and the behavior of others. Attribution can be internal (causes are from within, personality or...
