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 into a [...]
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 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
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 [...]
Posted in Social psychology | Tagged counterproductive, Emotions, friendships, satisfaction
By admin on 19/07/2009
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 [...]
Posted in Positive psychology | Tagged American population, Dr. Martin Seligman, Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Happiness, influence of negativity, Lyubomirsky, positive emotions, Positive psychology, societies, traditional psychology
By admin on 30/05/2009
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 [...]
Posted in Cognitive psychology
By admin on 30/05/2009
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, [...]
Posted in Humanistic psychology