Posted Behavioral Psychology to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
The most influential topic for me that we have covered in Psych 1001 has been Biological Psychology. Biological Psychology can be defined as "a neurophysiological perspective on human consciousness" (Peterson). During this unit, we talked a lot about the brain...
Posted Freud's Tripartite Model of the Human Psyche to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
In the opinion of Sigmund Freud, literature's purpose is to reveal the unconscious fantasies of the author, critic, reader or character. His tripartite model of the human psyche can be seen in the characters of nearly any piece of literature...
Posted Smart Pills: How "smart" are they? to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
LINK TO NEWS REPORT As you're thinking about this upcoming Psych exam and perhaps all the other midterms you have in the coming weeks, you may be wondering how on earth you will manage to stay awake long enough...
Posted Consciousness vs. Sense of Self to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
BBC Horizon: The Secret You The experiment conducted in this video was measuring the difference of consciousness between sleeping and awake brains. Researchers hooked the subject up to monitors with a number of electrodes, and monitored their brain activity while...
Posted What do you see? Parallel Processing to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
Parallel processing is defined as the ability to attend to many sense modalities simultaneously (Lilienfeld 127). Often times, examples that we see of this are images which can be perceived in multiple ways. We all know of the classic image...
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