By admin on 08/08/2010
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well [...]
Posted in Neuropsychology | Tagged autism, genetics of autism, neuropsychology |
By admin on 08/08/2010
Perhaps most well known, Ole Ivar Lovaas, was a psychology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. Dr. Lovaas began working with older children with autism in the same decade that Skinner wrote his now famous, Science and Human Behavior text in 1953. Lovaas began to apply the experimental behaviour analysis developed by [...]
Posted in Biography | Tagged autism, Ole Ivar Lovaas, Science and Human Behavior |
By admin on 15/08/2009
1) We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of Recollecting, belongs. For the persons who possess a retentive memory are not identical with those who excel in power of recollection; indeed, [...]
Posted in History of Psychology | Tagged Aristotle, classics, Memory and Reminiscence |
By admin on 15/08/2009
Norman Triplett (1861-1931) was a psychologist at Indiana University. In 1898, he wrote what is now recognized as the first published study in the field of social psychology (Strube, 2005). His experiment was on the social facilitation effect. Triplett noticed that cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the presence of other cyclists [...]
Posted in Biography | Tagged concealment, Indiana University, laboratory experiment, Norman Triplett, psychology of magic, Social psychology, sport psychology, suggestion |
By admin on 15/08/2009
Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9, 1890 – February 12, 1947), a German-American psychologist, is one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the “founder of social psychology” and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development. Biography In 1890, he was born [...]
Posted in Biography | Tagged Applied psychology, Kurt Lewin, Mogilno, Poland |
By admin on 15/08/2009
Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being. The [...]
Posted in Social psychology | Tagged people feelings, people's thoughts, Social psychology |
By admin on 15/08/2009
Dr. Lightner Witmer was born in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a devout Catholic mother and father. He obtained his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1888. After teaching briefly at a secondary school and flirting with the possibility of a career in law, [...]
Posted in Biography | Tagged American Psychological Association, APA, Clinical psychology, Lightner Witmer, School psychology, University of Pennsylvania |
By admin on 09/08/2009
Probably the most detailed and precise of the various notions of ‘unconscious mind’ — and the one which most people will immediately think of upon hearing the term — is that developed by Sigmund Freud and his followers. It lies at the heart of psychoanalysis. Consciousness, in Freud’s topographical view (which was his first of [...]
Posted in Featured | Tagged consciousness, instincts, Sigmund Freud, superego, unconscious mind |
By admin on 26/07/2009
An interpersonal relationship is a relatively long-term association between two or more people. This association may be based on emotions like love and liking, regular business interactions, or some other type of social commitment. Interpersonal relationships take place in a great variety of contexts, such as family, friends, marriage, acquaintances, work, clubs, neighborhoods, and churches. [...]
Posted in Social psychology | Tagged anthropology, Psychology, relationship, social work, sociology |
By admin on 26/07/2009
The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world), and affect (feelings and emotions). Consequently, this description tends to apply to [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Cognitive, Mental processes |
