The Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act provides the first federal funds allocated specifically for the homeless population. The act includes provisions for mental health services, and responds, in part, to psychological studies on homelessness and mental disorders.

These studies marked the first time researchers realized that there is a difference between the sensation of a stimulus and the perception of that stimulus, and the idea of using reaction times to study mental events has now become a mainstay of cognitive psychology.

Nature versus nurture. Are genes or environment most influential in determining the behavior of individuals and in accounting for differences among people? Most scientists now agree that both genes and environment play crucial roles in most human behaviors, and yet we still have much to learn about how nature (our biological makeup) and nurture (the experiences that we have during our lives) work together (Harris, 1998; Pinker, 2002). T

By understanding the history of psychology, you can gain a better understanding of how these topics are studied and what we have learned thus far.

n the early years of this century, Chinese scholars had already studied the then newly emerging discipline of psychology in the United States, England, Germany and Japan, and John Dewey himself went to China several times to introduce his pragmatic philosophy and educational reform, which were of the greatest importance to Chinese psychology.

Over the past 20 years, some people in China claimed to have been using CBT; however, their home-grown practices are a far cry from what CBT really is. In a sense, CBT only got started in China in the past 3 years (the first CBT conference in China was held in 2008).

hinese people place a strong emphasis on collectivism because they can’t live on their own, both spiritually and materially speaking.

The fundamental purpose of philosophy is to find meaning in one's life and purpose to one's path, and there is no major difference between eastern and western philosophy according to that understanding.

The basis of this tradition originated during 800-200 BCE, a time of deep political and social change and intellectual awakening in China.

It is known that early Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC - 1046 B.C.) thought was based on cyclicity, from observation of the cycles of day and night, the seasons, the moon, etc.

sounding off alarm bells about the danger digital books pose to everything from literature to democracy.

This is a Epicurean (341–270 BC) belief that the gods are too busy to deal with the day-to-day running of the universe but they set it in motion using mathematics.

The same is true for language, art, music and other “Third World” constructs—these are incrementally evolving systems and form one of Karl Popper’s ontological tools (Carr, 1977).

as well as research advances in social and motivational issues and assessment, offer new opportunities to help bridge the gap between basic research and classroom practice.

Another similar type of psychology, psychometrics, differs in that it measures the behavior of populations while mathematics paired with psychology in this arena looks at the behavior of the “average individual.”