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Is the World Ready for a Positive Psychology?
Imagine that by the year 2051 51% of the American population is feeling engaged at work, in meaningful relationships and is healthier, more grateful and calm. Government, education and health care leaders recognize and act on scientific evidence that societies function better when people are doing well. It sounds far fetched, but then again, ten [...]
Psychological abuse
Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behaviour that is psychologically harmful. As of 1996, there were “no consensus views about the definition of emotional abuse.” Psychological abuse involves the willful infliction of mental or emotional anguish by threat, humiliation, [...]
Blended Learning
Blended learning is the combination of the different style of learning using the technology and instructor. Instructor takes the face to face sessions for providing pertinent information to the learners and then motivates them to take the advantage of the different medium of learning like e-learning. Technology has helped a lot in development of certain [...]
Cognitivism
Behaviorism was the dominant paradigm in American psychology throughout the first half of the 20th century. However, the modern field of psychology largely came to be dominated by cognitive psychology. Noam Chomsky’s 1959 review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time and [...]
Humanism and existentialism
Humanistic psychology was developed in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. By using phenomenology, intersubjectivity and first-person categories, the humanistic approach seeks to glimpse the whole person–not just the fragmented parts of the personality or cognitive functioning. Humanism focuses on uniquely human issues and fundamental issues of life, such as self-identity, death, [...]
Secrets of a happy marriage
No one can truly know what goes on inside a marriage except the two people involved, but researchers are getting increasingly good glimpses at what makes couples tick, how relationships are stressed and what factors can keep the spark alive. The goal: To find out what keeps love alive and couples together. Putting marriage under [...]
Non-Freudian Theory of Dreams
Dream theories developed by Freud suggest that dreams are psychological, revealing hidden urges, for example. Later research argues that dreams are physiological, beginning with random electrical impulses deep within the brain stem. The meaning of dreams has remained a controversy for centuries. Sigmund Freud believed dreams serve to gratify unconscious wishes and longings. However more [...]
First recognition of the significance of dreams
“Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.” Sigmund Freud Austrian Originator of Psycho-Analysis, 1856 – 1939 Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, now Pribor in the Czech Republic. Freud developed the techniques of “Psychoanalysis” for the treatment of [...]
Kids Learn More When Mom Is Listening
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 [...]
Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12
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 the same, [...]