1.1 Psychology as a Science | Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition - 1 views
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Because values cannot be considered to be either true or false, science cannot prove or disprove them.
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This factual information can and should be made available to help people formulate their values about abortion and incarceration, as well as to enable governments to articulate appropriate policies
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Although scientists use research to help establish facts, the distinction between values and facts is not always clear-cut. Sometimes statements that scientists consider to be factual turn out later, on the basis of further research, to be partially or even entirely incorrect
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Our brains are wired for storytelling | Socialgrrrl World - 1 views
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it is part of the human experience to want to communicate and share with each other through stories.
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Even in a digital age, oral stories continue to be committed to memory and passed from generation to generation – fairytales, mythology, legends tie us to our history and give us a sense of belonging.
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eople can only hold attention for 10 minutes at a time before they tune out
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Why Some Soldiers Develop PTSD While Others Don't - Association for Psychological Science - 0 views
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The researchers re-examined data from a subsample of 260 male veterans from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
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three primary factors: severity of combat exposure (e.g., life-threatening experiences or traumatic events during combat), pre-war vulnerabilities (e.g., childhood physical abuse, family history of substance abuse), and involvement in harming civilians or prisoners.
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e, as 98% of the veterans who developed the PTSD syndrome had experienced one or more traumatic events.
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The unconscious mind: Hidden depths | The Economist - 0 views
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unconscious—a sort of shadowy basement of the mind
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Freud's unconscious (a hot, claustrophobic place full of repressed memories and inappropriate sexual fantasies about one's parents)
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place of super-fast data processing, useful survival mechanisms and rules of thumb about the world that have been honed by millions of years of evolution.
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Animal Emotions: Exploring Passionate Natures | BioScience | Oxford Academic - 1 views
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because emotions have evolved in specific contexts.
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Categorically denying emotions to animals because they cannot be studied directly does not constitute a reasonable argument against their existence.
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Field research
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment - 0 views
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Our study was terminated on August 20, 1971
Exercise, pleasure and the brain | Psychology Today - 0 views
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And so, like nicotine or orgasm or food or gambling, it can become a substrate for addiction as well.
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This can indeed be a genuine addiction
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Exercise has a dramatic antidepressive effect.
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Intuitive Thinking and Non-Intuitive Thinking - 2 views
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Non-intuitive thinking provides some of
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the best opportunities to learn and grow. Book knowledge is important.
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The part that I have to deal with is why we believe the unbelievable and it has a lot to do with the intuitive thinking. I didn't clearly understand the difference from intuitive and non intuitive thinking and this site makes it clear to me. This site is valid because it is used as a problem solving site and is powered by an organization.
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Chapitre 7: Corrélation - 0 views
Behaviorism - 4 views
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Psychology should be seen as a science.
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Its theoretical goal is … prediction and control” (1913, p. 158).
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concerned with observable behavior,
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The Mind of the Narcissist - 0 views
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Some people explicitly state that they do not love themselves at all (they are ego-dystonic). Others confine their lack of self-love to certain of their traits, to their personal history, or to some of their behaviour patterns. Yet others feel content with who they are and with what they are doing (ego-syntonic). But one group of people seems distinct in its mental constitution – narcissists.
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Some people explicitly state that they do not love themselves at all (they are ego-dystonic).
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"The World of the Narcissist (Essay)" - tons of information +lots to read through, primary resource! like a fountain of info on narcissists. Reliability: not many ads, written by a doctor (has his CV published online, http://samvak.tripod.com/cv.html), wrote two books- one of which is an "ebook"
Harvard Education Letter - 2 views
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Behaviors like embracing novel experiences, supporting peers, even pestering parents for lessons can predict whether a child will emerge as a leader in adulthood, according to researchers who say they are the first to plot a pathway from childhood experiences to adult leadership.
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new studies use longitudinal data
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relative importance of factors such as the role of parents, inner motivational drive, intelligence, childhood social skills, and personality traits like extroversion
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