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Lightner Witmer
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, [...]
Freud and the psychoanalytic unconscious
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 [...]
Interpersonal relationship
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. [...]
Mental processes – Cognitive
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 [...]
Hiding emotions makes it difficult to build friendships
An Indian-origin researcher in the U.S. says that people who keep too much of their emotions to themselves may find it difficult to Build friendships. Sanjay Srivastava, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, says that even though suppressing emotions in new or difficult situations is understandable and perhaps appropriate, carrying the practice [...]
The Stroop Effect
The Stroop Effect is one of the most-studied phenomena in psychology. The test is easy to administer, and works in a variety of contexts. The simplest way to see how it works is just to look the following two lists. Don’t read them, instead say the color each word is displayed in, as quickly as [...]
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 [...]