Posted What I will remember to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
Five years from now, I think I will remember about analyzing psychological claims and not falling into the logical fallacies that our book discussed. I found this concept very interesting because people are pelted with new, intuitive psychological claims every...
Posted g, the factor of general intelligence to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
In our Lilienfeld text, a topic that was covered was the development of g or general intelligence. This concept was first introduced by Charles Spearman, who believer that the positive correlations among intelligence test items must be related by a...
Posted Take your medicine, or you won't remember to. to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
A subject that the Lilienfeld text touched on in chapter seven was memory pills. Apparently there is a huge market for "smart pills" with dozens of brands and different remedies. One of the most popular brands of memory pills is...
Posted Take your medicine, or you won't remember to. to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
A subject that the Lilienfeld text touched on in chapter seven were memory pills....
Posted Split brains to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
A topic covered in lecture and also in the Lilienfeld text this past week was the Split brain subject test. This test is performed on someone who has had a procedure done to their corpus callosum in which the fibers...
Posted Only ten percent? to Section 04 and 05 F11 PSY 1001
Human beings only use ten percent of their brains has been a very popular psychological claim. It is a myth that has been passed around for years, most often used to explain psychic activity. Psychics will often claim that we...
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