Posted Practical Thinking to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Something that I will remember from psychology and use in everyday life is the concept of scientific thinking. The terms 'ruling out rival hypotheses', 'correlation vs. causation', 'falsifiability', 'replicability', 'extraordinary claims', and occam's razor' may sound like complicated philosophies that...
Posted Kim Ung-Yong: Korean Prodigy to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
In a society that values education and intelligence at a very high level, it is only natural that their model citizen has an IQ of 210, an IQ score that is off the charts. Kim Ung-Yong was born in the...
Posted Konrad Lorenz: Mother Goose. to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Developmental psychology is defined as the study of how behavior changes over the life span. Many studies and experiments have been conducted on the development of infants and children, and many theories have been hypothesized about how and why we...
Posted "Office Conditioning" to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Pavlov's experiment with his dogs and meat powder is way more famous then you probably thought. The essence of Pavlov's quintessential conditioning experiment was captured in an episode from the hit show "The Office". This episode portrays everything involved in...
Posted Dangers of Sleepwalking to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
As we all know, sleepwalking is the action of walking around or doing something in our sleep during which we are unaware. We, ourselves, have probably been a "somnambulist", or sleep walker at one point in our life or at...
Posted ESP to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Walking down State Street in Madison, WI, you are bound to see at least one storefront that reads "Psychic" or "Tarot Card Readings Here." Across the United States, even the world, people who claim to have ESP, or extrasensory perception,...
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