By admin on 27/03/2009
Kids may roll their eyes when their mother asks them about their school day, but answering her may actually help them learn. New research from Vanderbilt University reveals that children learn the solution to a problem best when they explain it to their mom.
“We knew that children learn well with their moms or with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged children, human development, kids, mothers listen, Psychology
By admin on 27/03/2009
Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback (‘Well done!’), whereas negative feedback (‘Got it wrong this time’) scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brain development, children, clinical psychologists, development
By admin on 27/03/2009
A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy 6 to 18 year olds. The correlation is evident in regions that integrate information from different parts of the brain.
The imaging study published this week [...]
Posted in General | Tagged behavioural skills, brain development, brain size, intelligence, relationship
By admin on 25/03/2009
THE DREAM ABOUT ROME
Before giving the dream Freud states: “I note the fact that although the wish which excites the dream is a contemporary wish, it is nevertheless greatly reinforced by memories of childhood. I refer to a series of dreams which are based on the longing to go to Rome. For a long time [...]
Posted in Practical Psychology | Tagged childhood, dream about rome, Dream Theorists, dreams, Sigmund Freud
By admin on 22/03/2009
A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences takes a closer look at how music evolved and how we respond to it. Contributors to the volume believe that animals such as birds, dolphins and whales make sounds analogous to music out of a desire to imitate each other. This ability [...]
Posted in General | Tagged classical music, Emotions, music's positive effects, reviving memory
By admin on 22/03/2009
Freudian dream theory
Freud (1900/1961) claimed that dreams were attempts to fulfill peremptory wishes, arising during sleep, derived from appetitive (‘libidinal’) urges. He based this claim on findings from a purely subjective method: he collected dreamers’ associations to the individual elements of their dreams and then inferred implicit, underlying themes from the converging semantic and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged clinical psychologists, Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, dreams, nightmares, psychoanalysis, rem sleep, Sigmund Freud
By admin on 22/03/2009
It’s important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. It is hard to get a handle on a number that large (or connections that small). Let’s try to get an understanding of this complexity by comparing it with [...]
Posted in General | Tagged big computer, brain works, electrical and chemical machine, neurobiological, vision
By admin on 22/03/2009
Generally speaking, death cannot be represented in dreams as such, as it is no psychic content to be experienced, lived. Hence the conclusion that, when dreams about dying do occur, we have to interpret this in a completely different direction.
Dreams about dying are not infrequent. It has been conclude that such dreams are also part [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, dreaming about dying, dreams, reviving memory, symbolic death
By admin on 21/03/2009
It was once thought that you were born with a set number of brain cells and they just decreased as you got older. Researchers at Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered walking three hours per week for three month increased many new neurons to grow causing a measurable increase to the size of the participant’s [...]
Posted in Exercise & Sports Psychology Tidbits | Tagged brain, reviving memory, sports
By admin on 19/03/2009
First, don’t try to wing it, because you’ll make mistakes and look foolish. Why would you want to fake it anyway? There’s no shame in not knowing about a topic you’ve never studied. When referring to something that’s not too difficult, you may have used the expression, “It’s not brain surgery”, but did you ever [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged chating, networking, talking people