Posted Obedience and Helping Others to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
The chapter of psychology that will stick out the most to me the most down the road is social psychology, more specifically the study of obedience and the study of helping and harming others. Obedience is the adherence to instructions...
Posted Different Kinds of Intelligence to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Intelligence is a very interesting topic of psychology because many people are unsure of how to test it. This is because there are many different kinds of intelligence. When someone calls another person intelligent, what do they mean? They could...
Posted Lie Detection and the Polygraph to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
People have been trying to detect lies effectively for ages. Many people have tried to find a 100 percent accurate way of detecting lies and one of these possible solutions is the polygraph. The polygraph has actually been around since...
Posted Lost Memories to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
While reading through the chapter on memory in our psychology textbook, I became extremely interested in the discussion of amnesia. There are two main types of amnesia, retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. Retrograde amnesia is amnesia in which the person...
Posted Sleep Talking to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
Our textbook explained sleepwalking and what actually happens to sleepwalkers. I have always been told that I sleep talk so I decided to do a little research. My parents told me that when I was younger I had a consistent...
Posted The Placebo Effect to Fall 2011 Psy1001 Sec21
If you are conducting an experiment in which you give participants a pill that is aimed at stress relief, the patients might tell you they do not feel as much stress after taking the pill for 3 weeks. This however,...
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