In Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, the pleasure principle is the driving force of the id that seeks immediate gratification of all needs, wants and urges. In other words, the pleasure principle st
“Let’s see what’s on my to-do list today: reply to email, wash clothes, shop for groceries, lose weight.” We’re less than a month out for the next round of New Year’s resolutions. I bet “lose weight” will be on a number of resolution lists, and not necessarily because ...
It’s risible: Four instances of admitted frauds, two instances of discovered fraud, three examples of tests with “negative results,” and explanations such as hyperaesthesia (acute hearing on the part of the “receiver”) and coincidence to explain the rest. Louisa and J.B. Rhine’s many ...
One of the biggest challenges in the intro psychology course is keeping students on track in a course where there are a lot of concepts to learn and mastering them is not always easy. There is a wide range of students, and many find the course challenging. They don’t have the tools to...
The work embodies revolutionary Principia of Mind that clarify how autonomous adaptive intelligence is achieved. It provides mechanistic explanations of multiple mental disorders, including symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, autism, amnesia, and sleep disorders; biological bases of morality and religion, incl...
APPLYING PSYCHOLOGY TO EVERYDAY LIFE How Neurotransmitters and Hormones Affect Us NERVOUS SYSTEM ORGANIZATION Central Nervous System (CNS) Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) A TOUR THROUGH THE BRAIN Lower-Level Brain Structures The Cerebral Cortex CASE STUDY/PERSONAL STORY Phineas Gage Two Brains in One?
Remember, this is just the beginning! This course is your springboard to further exploration, opening doors to diverse and exciting avenues in the vast world of psychology. Overview: Foundation Of Psychology This course is designed to introduce learners to the basic concepts and theories of psychol...
infants and children actively try to organize and make sense of their world Schemas Beliefs about the world images, models, and or concepts assimilate making it fit in with your belief accommodate making it change your belief authoritarian
Just being subtly reminded about concepts related to being old, it seemed, is enough to make a person act old. I reported this fun finding in previous editions because the measurement of walking speed seemed like a great example of B-data, as described in Chapter 2, and also because I ...
first as a language user and second as a language learner.And since language teaching is concerned with the acquisition by individuals of a dual language command,its theory is bound to operate with linguistic and psychological concepts of language use and language learning.Psychological thinking on ...