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Daryl Bambic

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.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 03 Dec 16
       
      Falsifiability + Popper
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      See Popper and why it is important to be able to prove something false.
  • 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
  • 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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  • A major goal of psychology is to predict behaviour by understanding its causes. Making predictions is difficult, in part because people vary and respond differently in different situations.
  • differences in extraversion, intelligence, self-esteem, anxiety, aggression, and conformity.
  • we cannot always predict who will become aggressive or who will perform best in graduate school or on the job.
  • predictions made by psychologists (and most other scientists) are only probabilistic.
  • behaviour is that almost all behaviour is multiply determined, or produced by many factors.
  • depression is caused by lower-level genetic factors, by medium-level personal factors, and by higher-level social and cultural factors.
  • single cause.
  • are not independent of one another
  • much human behaviour is caused by factors that are outside our conscious awareness,
  • Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), who argued that many psychological disorders were caused by memories that we have repressed and thus remain outside our consciousness.
  • Research demonstrates that individuals who are exposed to highly stressful situations over long periods of time develop more health problems than those who are not
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      "Research demonstrates"...what is wrong with this? Can we know how this study was conducted? What were the variables? Was it correlation or causation?
  • Although science is not perfect, the requirements of empiricism and objectivity result in a much greater chance of producing an accurate understanding of human behaviour than is available through other approaches.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Great psychologists have not used the scientific method and contributed important insights into human behaviour. What role does the unconscious mind play in behaviour?
  • biological influences
  • abilities and characteristics of individual people
  • social groups,
  • cognitive and motivational biases
  • Research psychologists use scientific methods to create new knowledge about the causes of behaviour, whereas psychologist-practitioners, such as clinical, counselling, industrial-organizational, and school psychologists, use existing research to enhance the everyday life of others.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 20 Aug 21
       
      Leave a sticky note for yourself or others with whom you share this page.
  • collect and interpret data in their everyday lives
  • accepting explanations for events without testing them thoroughly may lead us to think that we know the causes of things when we really do not.
  • Empirical methods include the processes of collecting and organizing data and drawing conclusions about those data
  • scientific method as the set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research.
  • Statements that cannot be objectively measured or objectively determined to be true or false are not within the domain of scientific inquiry
  • Values are personal statements such as “Abortion should not be permitted in this country,” “I will go to heaven when I die,”
Erin Waxman

Why Some Soldiers Develop PTSD While Others Don't - Association for Psychological Science - 0 views

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soldiers ptsd

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  • The researchers re-examined data from a subsample of 260 male veterans from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study
  • 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.
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      very important factors that were well picked for this study.
  • e, as 98% of the veterans who developed the PTSD syndrome had experienced one or more traumatic events.
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  • Of the soldiers who experienced any potentially traumatic combat exposures, only 31.6% developed the PTSD syndrome.
  • This suggests that there were other factors and vulnerabilities involved for the minority of exposed who did end up developing the PTSD syndrome.
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      what could these factors be? Why did some soldiers get it and some not?
  • Among these factors, childhood experiences of physical abuse or a pre-Vietnam psychiatric disorder other than PTSD were strong contributors to PTSD onset.
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      very important factor 
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      makes sense because the brains of the younger men might not be as developed and the older men might have had more experiences in life to prepare them for this combat. 
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      guilt shown as an important factor in the illness
  • The combined data from all three primary factors — combat exposure, prewar vulnerability, and involvement in harming civilians or prisoners — revealed that PTSD syndrome onset reached an estimated 97% for veterans high on all three.
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      looks like they pretty much solved it. 
  • these results emphasize the need to keep the more vulnerable soldiers out of the most severe combat situations.
    • Erin Waxman
      Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
       
      good idea. Or maybe prepare the soldiers more for the type of environment they will be placed it.
  • Dohrenwend and colleagues also point out that the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, like the Vietnam War, are “wars amongst the people,” and they underline the need for research examining the circumstances in which harm to civilians and prisoners is likely to occur. Such research could provide important clues for preventing such devastating violations of the rules of war.
  • Erin Waxman on 01 May 13
     
    Very interesting study done for the Association for Psychological Science about why some soldiers get PTSD and some don't.
dunya darwiche

Catalyst 2001 Features - Birth Order Psychology - 0 views

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      dunya darwiche on 01 Feb 11
       
      Wow did this make me think of my Boyfriends family SOOOOOO MUCH! His older brother the oldest He as the middle child and the little sister oftenly seen as the angel wich in many cases she deserves it but that is out of context
  • five major birth order positions: only, oldest, second, middle, and youngest child
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 01 Feb 11
       
      This made me think of Horoscopes and how they seem to identify your personnality and anticipate your moves, decisions and thoughts according to your date of birth
  • Adler did document exceptions
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  • birth order is sometimes not a major influence on personality development and that the child's opinion of himself and his situation determines his choice of attitude
  • mélange of two distinct sciences: sociology and psychology
  • Like all sciences, social psychology searches for concrete proof before belief
  • “the biologizing of human beings is not only bad humanism, but also bad science.”
  • study at Ohio State University conducted in the winter of 2001 showed that birth order affects career interests. In the Journal of Career Assessment, researchers noted that only children and first born children tended to have more cognitive and analytical interests, while those later-born were more artistic and outdoors oriented.
  • twenty-five types of marriages according to birth order
  • most common marital relationship is between an only child and a second child, and it has a fairly high rate of success, while first born-first born relationships seem to rarely happen. Firstborns are less likely to connect romantically.
    • dunya darwiche
      dunya darwiche on 01 Feb 11
       
      Number 1 My parent were both first borns and they had a Very healthy romantic relationship that shined bright with passion and two I am a Firstborn and i do not see how WE are "less likely to connest romantically"
  • seems to have no scientific proof
  • influence of being the first born of a specific gender, the influence of changing family dynamics, and the potential for methodical pitfalls in birth order research interest not only studies on birth order, but the research of many other social trends.
mira ahmad

Why teens are prone to drug addiction, behavioural disorders... - 0 views

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psychology Brain adolescent teens

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  • why adolescents are more vulnerable to drug addiction, behavioural disorders, and other psychological ills.
  • adolescent brains react to rewards with far greater excitement than adult brains.
  • a greater degree of disorganization in adolescent brains.
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  • At the time of reward, nearly one-third of adolescent neurons became excited (shown in red) though the level of inhibition (in blue) changed marginally. Adult neurons registered much higher inhibitory activity and less excitation.
    • mira ahmad
      mira ahmad on 01 Feb 11
       
      This explains the science behind the difference in brain activity between adults and teens. The adult neurons reacted with less excitation and higher inhibitory. 
  • The extreme difference in brain activity provides a possible physiological explanation as to why teenagers are more prone than adults to rash behaviour, addiction, and mental diseases
  • "This could intensify the effect of reward on decision making and answer several questions regarding adolescent behaviour,
  • The type of erratic activity in the cortex that she and Sturman observed could aggravate these conditions at a time when the maturing brain is vulnerable.
  • mira ahmad on 01 Feb 11
     
    This article is interesting because it explains the science behind the difference in brain activity between adults and teens. It then gives a physiological explanation as to why teens are more prone then adults are to addiction, mental diseases, behavioural disorders and psychological illnesses. It speaks about different parts of the brain, relating them to their specific activities and then explains how this effects the teen negatively, while comparing everything with adults.
Dayna Rabin

The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate O... - 1 views

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Storytelling brain learning story research

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  • A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that?
  • When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich
  • are very likely to never forget the story of who invented the sandwich ever again
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  • For over 27,000 years
  • stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods.
  • Our brain on stories: How our brains become more active when we tell stories
  • We all enjoy a good story,
  • why do we feel so much more engaged when we hear a narrative about events?
  • we listen to a powerpoint presentation with boring bullet points, a certain part in the brain gets activated.
  • It's in fact quite simple. I
  • Broca's area and Wernicke's area
  • language processing parts in the brain, where we decode words into meaning.
  • things change dramatically.
  • but any other area in our brain that we would use when experiencing the events of the story are too.
  • how delicious certain foods were, our sensory cortex lights up. If it's about motion, our motor cortex gets active:
  • A story can put your whole brain to work.
  • can have the same effect on them too.
  • The brains of the person telling a story and listening to it can synchronize, says Uri Hasson from Princeton:
  • By simply telling a story, the woman could plant ideas, thoughts and emotions into the listeners' brains."
  • Evolution has wired our brains for storytelling—how to make use of it
  • hy does the format of a story, where events unfold one after the other, have such a profound impact on our learning?
  • We are wired that way.
  • story, if broken down into the simplest form, is a connection of cause and effect.
  • We think in narratives all day long,
  • We make up (short) stories in our heads for every action and conversation.
  • In fact, Jeremy Hsu found [that] "personal stories and gossip make up 65% of our conversations."
  • henever we hear a story, we want to relate it to one of our existing experiences.
  • metaphors work so well with us.
  • While we are busy searching for a similar experience in our brains, we activate a part called insula, which helps us relate to that same experience of pain, joy, or disgust.
  • John Bargh
  • We link up metaphors and literal happenings automatically. Everything in our brain is looking for the cause and effect relationship of something we've previously experienced.
  • ou mention the same story to him, as if it was your idea?
  • According to Uri Hasson from Princeton, a story is the only way to activate parts in the brain so that a listener turns the story into their own idea and experience.
  • tell them a story,
  • According to Princeton researcher Hasson, storytelling is the only way to plant ideas into other people's minds.
  • Write more persuasively—bring in stories from yourself or an expert
  • multitasking is so hard for us.
  • xchanging stories with those of experts.
  • The simple story is more successful than the complicated one
  • easy to convince ourselves that they have to be complex and detailed to be interesting.
  • the simpler a story, the more likely it will stick.
  • Using simple language as well as low complexity is the best way to activate the brain regions that make us truly relate to the happenings of a story.
  • ask for quotes from the top folks in the industry or simply find great passages they had written online.
  • educe the number of adjectives or complicated nouns in a presentation or article
  • Our brain learns to ignore certain overused words and phrases that used to make stories awesome.
courtney galli

Cult Formation - 0 views

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  • ideological totalism,
  • Cults can be identified by three characteristics: a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
  • milieu control: the control of all communication within a given environment. In such an environment individual autonomy becomes a threat to the group. There is an attempt to manage an individual's inner communication. Milieu control is maintained and expressed by intense group process, continuous psychological pressure, and isolation by geographical distance, unavailability of transportation, or even physical restraint. Often the group creates an increasingly intense sequence of events such as seminars, lectures and encounters which makes leaving extremely difficult, both physically and psychologically.
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  • Intense milieu control can contribute to a dramatic change of identity which I call doubling: the formation of a second self which lives side by side with the former one, often for a considerable time. When the milieu control is lifted, elements of the earlier self may be reasserted.
  • Three further aspects of ideological totalism are "sacred science," "loading of the language," and the principle of "doctrine over person."
  • Perhaps the most significant characteristic of totalistic movements is what I ca
  • Sacred science is important because a claim of being scientific is often needed to gain plausibility and influence in the modern age.
  • language
  • The principle of doctrine over person' is invoked when cult members sense a conflict between what they are experiencing and what dogma says they should experience.
  • The term loading the language' refers to literalism and a tendency to deify words or images.
  • l "dispensing of existence." Those who have not seen the light and embraced the truth are wedded to evil, tainted, and therefore in some sense, usually metaphorical, lack the right to exist.
  • That is one reason why a cult member threatened with being cast into outer darkness may experience a fear of extinction or collapse.
    • courtney galli
      courtney galli on 01 May 13
       
      History of the person
  • Totalism should always be considered within a specific historical context.
Julian Posteraro

Addiction Studies Program - 0 views

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    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      Excellent example of the consequences and effects of drugs during our adolescence. This will capture the attention of my peers who are listening to me because this situation happened at the same age as us. 
    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      A little about the Doctor: Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom, Ph.D, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Professor of Biological Psychiatry Director, Undergraduate Studies in Pharmacology Director, RISE (Raising Interest in Science Education) Director, Duke Center for Science Education Duke University Medical Center 
    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      Many people sometimes ask why people like drugs. Why do they like the feeling they give us? This is an excellent explanation of what goes on in the brain that we like after the consumption of a certain drug. 
Jenn Orleans

Harvard Study - 0 views

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  • Jenn Orleans on 06 Apr 13
     
    This page is from a harvard study, published by the national institute of mental health.  It discusses how ADHD can relate with other mental disorders and also what the symptoms. 
Helena Daoud

How poverty influences a child's brain development - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

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poverty child brain development globe mail psychology depression stress sleep adolescent learning data addiction chart

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    • Helena Daoud
      Helena Daoud on 07 Apr 13
       
      Trying to find ways to help children living in poverty
    • Helena Daoud
      Helena Daoud on 07 Apr 13
       
      Not all children living in poverty grow up with physical or mental problems.
  • Helena Daoud on 07 Apr 13
     
    This article was very interesting to read because it proved that poverty does affect a child brain and I love that they are trying to find a way to make sure these children aren't terribly affected in the future. 
Dayna Rabin

Our brains are wired for storytelling | Socialgrrrl World - 1 views

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Storytelling brain story learning research

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  • it is part of the human experience to want to communicate and share with each other through stories.
  • 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.
  • eople can only hold attention for 10 minutes at a time before they tune out
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  • we as marketers need to understand how we can adapt it to social media and digital technology.
  • The brain is so fascinating. It has been the focus of science and mystery alike trying to understand how it works including why it seems so wired for storytelling.
  • One thing we know is that large amounts of data or information with no context cannot be easily remembered;
  • The human brain can only hold about seven pieces of information for less than 30 seconds, which means, your brain can only handle a 7-digit phone number
  • omething interesting and relevant needs to happen in a lecture or presentation every 10 minutes so that the audience pays attention and remembers what you say
  • Hearing information told in the narrative from another person helps to reach the old brain, triggering emotion as we imagine ourselves in the story reacting and feeling.
  • Repeat to remember
  • ure data with no context is extremely difficult for the brain to put into long term memory –
  • thinking about fantasy first prepares us for situations that may come up in real life, narrative provides context.
  • The ‘old brain’ in humans is driven by basic primitive instincts such as hunger, sex and fight-or-flight are also intrinsically tied to emotion. 
  • The old brain does not understand numbers or abstract terms, like “integrated approach” or “comprehensive solution” which are an evolutionary part of our new brain
  • he old brain is influenced by beginnings and endings like in a simple story structure with patterns we can recogniz
  • It is important to not only recognize the history behind storytelling but explore why it is so prevalent across centuries, cultures and mediums
  • hearing a story in narrative about a specific situation actually helps us prepare for when this situation potentially happens to us.
  • share information with each other and will continue no matter what the medium.
  • We want stories to be memorable so they can easily be shared with others creating word of mouth.
Daryl Bambic

Is Anybody in There? Searching for Consciousness in an Injured Brain | Wired Science | ... - 2 views

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brain neuroscience consciousness

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  • eft to languish in nursing homes where no one bothers with physical therapy or even to check for glimmers of regained consciousness
  • many patients with no outward signs of awareness retain some degree of consciousness
  • In Wallis’ case, brain scans revealed evidence that his brain had rewired itself to some extent to compensate for the injury
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    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      Brains re-wiring themselves is called brain plasticity.  
  • y rare, a 2009 study by Belgian researchers found that 41 percent of hospital and rehab patients with a vegetative state diagnosis were actually minimally conscious
  • ike a flickering light, and you’re going to miss it unless you systematically look for it,” Fins said.
  • n a few cases, this technology has enabled rudimentary communication with patients trapped inside an unresponsive body. In the future, some scientists believe, it may be possible to directly decode these patients’ thoughts.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      For an explanation of how this decoding might work, go to the end of the article.
  • Getting these methods right is crucial, as pressure mounts to use them in medical decisions, including whether or not to terminate life support, and in the legal battles that sometimes ensue. There are a number of ongoing legal cases in Canada that involve vegetative or minimally conscious patients and end of life decisions, says Adrian Owen, a neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario. “I’m absolutely sure fMRI is going to play a role in one or more of these cases in the next 12 months.”
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      The role of technology in ethical decision making.
  • technology that created these disorders in the first place.
  • ut a badly damaged brain is not necessarily unconscious. The recent research tells us quite clearly that human consciousness is not binary. It can exist in degrees, fade in and out, even when the body is unresponsive.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 13 Feb 13
       
      Consciousness is not binary but a question of degrees.
  • wen also described a new way to assess mental function in unresponsive patients. It involves scanning someone’s brain as they watch an 8 minute clip of an Alfred Hitchcock film. When healthy people do this, various parts of the brain synchronize their activity at certain times in the clip. Owen argues that if brain injury patients exhibit similar patterns, it could be a telltale sign of residual cognitive function.
  • imple yes-no communication probably isn’t enough to allow patients to participate in decisions about their care.
  • Gallant’s lab has shown that it’s possible to reconstruct still images and video clips from the patterns of activity elicited in the brain of the person viewing them. If Gallant can see what your visual cortex is doing, he can tell you, more or less, what you’re looking at.
Daryl Bambic

Behaviorism - 4 views

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behaviourism psychology

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  • Psychology should be seen as a science. 
  • Its theoretical goal is … prediction and control” (1913, p. 158).
  • concerned with observable behavior,
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  • a person’s environment determines their behavior
  • 'tabula rasa' (a blank slate).
  • There is little difference between the learning that takes place in humans and that in other animals.  Therefore research can be carried out on animals as well as humans.
  • Behavior is the result of stimulus – response
  • no matter how complex,
  • All behavior is learnt from the environment
  • Limitations
  • Strengths
  • The psychodynamic approach (Freud) criticizes behaviorism as it does not take into account the unconscious mind’s influence on behavior, and instead focuses on external observable behavior.
  • (tabula rasa)
  • Humanism also rejects the nomothetic approach
  • humans have free will (personal agency
  • Chromosomes and hormones
  • Mediation processes occur between stimulus and response, such as memory, thinking, problem solving etc.
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 26 Apr 12
       
      What are the three main objections of the Behaviourism?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 27 Apr 12
       
      The three main objections is that human cannot be compare to animals, human have free will and they make their own decisions and it doesn't take into account the unconscious mind.
    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 27 Apr 12
       
      1) Humans have free will and are able to make their own decisions. This is objected because our actions are made based on our surroundings. 2) Animals and humans are not comparable. They are however because they can both be controlled by a stimulus for example. 3) People are born with a blank slate in their mind. Freud believed that they were actually born with instincts.  
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 27 Apr 12
       
      The three main objections of the Behaviourism is that humans cannot be accurately represented by animals because we have a different and more complex mind we also have free will and a different decision making process. Hormones also have a huge influence on our behaviour, this does not effect animals as drastically. 
    • Ally Talarico
      Ally Talarico on 27 Apr 12
       
      We are born with a "blank slate" therefore we are not born with a unconscious mind. Behavior isn't determined by our unconscious mind but by our environment. If it's not measurable, it's not a good theory. Also, we can't test on animals and just accept that they are the same as humans. They aren't. We are a lot more advanced and complex than most animals. We have free will and we make decisions differently than they do. 
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 26 Apr 12
       
      What are the strengths of Behaviourism?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 26 Apr 12
       
      The strengths are that it's scientific so the experements done can support the theories. It helps us understand certain behaviours we have. Also, it can help us compare ourselves to animals since most of the experements are done on animals. 
    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviourism is beneficial because knowing that a simple or complex stimulas can trigger a certain reaction, we can learn how to better control other people or animals. For example, a stimulas can be used to train your pet animal or to calm your energetic child down. Knowing that behaviourism is predictable, we can have a certain amount of subtle control over others when needed, in therapy for example. There are also many experiments that help support the theories of Behaviourism. This is also something that is common between animals and humans. We both can react a certain way based on our environment. 
    • Ally Talarico
      Ally Talarico on 27 Apr 12
       
      It's scientific, it's highly applicable through therapy, it emphasizes objective measurement. There are many experiments to support theories as well. 
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 27 Apr 12
       
      The main strengths of Behaviourism are that it is scientific and therefore can test and approve or reject falsifiable theories. It can also be used as therapy or treatment if used or understood properly. It also helps us understand our behaviours by comparing them to animals, this helps us further understand our own species through the observation of another. 
    • Daryl Bambic
      Daryl Bambic on 26 Apr 12
       
      Why is Behaviourism primarily concerned with observable behaviour? How is that different from Freudian psychoanalytic theory?
    • Marie-Lise Pagé
      Marie-Lise Pagé on 26 Apr 12
       
      Behaviourism is primarily concerned with observable  behaviour because it wants to have data and the only way to get it is by seeing something happen. It is different than the Freudian psychoanalytic because Freud's theory was that you can't change the behaviour, but in behaviourism we can change the reaction.  Behaviourism says that internal events like thinking will be explained with olur behaviour.
    • Jordyn Shell
      Jordyn Shell on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviourism is primarily concerned with observable  behaviour because the only way to know if something is occurring is to OBSERVE IT, hence 'observable behaviour' (behaviours which are required to be seen, like MLP said). It's different than Freud's theory because he believed that behaviour was permanent, no matter what the behaviour was. However you acted and such wasn't controllable or changeable.
    • Ally Talarico
      Ally Talarico on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviorism is proven by observation. Also, the theory explains that we can change the reaction of certain other actions. Freudian theory believes that behavior or permanent. Although we believe that we are being rational when making decisions, we really aren't.
    • Eli Michon
      Eli Michon on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviorism need observation to be justified because you cant know what is happening unless it's witnessed. when thinking about this, i think of how a person under arrest is innocent until proven guilty. Freudian theory however presumed that behavior was a permanent thing and that every psychological advance you made would be determined and preset.
    • Julian Posteraro
      Julian Posteraro on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviourism is concerned with observable behaviour because our environment determines our behaviour. Technically, people have no free will because every action made is a reaction to another. Freud doesn't take into consideration the unconscious mind and disregards behaviourism. He also believes that we are born with instincts and not with "tabula rasa". These two theories are different because if our surroundings can predetermine our behaviour, then our behaviour isn't permanent unless our environment is.  
    • kelsey sazant
      kelsey sazant on 27 Apr 12
       
      Behaviorism is primarily concerned with observable behaviour because the only way to be certain that a change is occurring is to see it. This is quite different than Freud's theory because he believed that the behaviours that humans have cannot be altered. However, although our behaviours are believed to be set in stone, some things like routines and environments can change our reactions and perspectives. 
    • Emilie L
      Emilie L on 27 Apr 12
       
      'Because the study of behavior(ism) relies on the things we do visually (thus observable behavior). Like the text mentions, its an external and measurable study, instead of "average" physcology which is passed off on internal oberservaton (thoughts). It's different because Freudian theory suggest that everything is done mentally: our decisions, reactions. Happens through the brain; behaviorism suggests that we can study something that is said to be in our minds, based off of our actions (externally)
Daryl Bambic

Twitter is harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, study finds | Science | The Gu... - 1 views

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      Daryl Bambic on 10 Feb 12
       
      the lastest addiction
Julian Posteraro

Drug Abuse and Addiction | National Institute on Drug Abuse - 0 views

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      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      There are four main reasons why people take drugs. Understanding why someone used the drug helps understand why they may become addicted.
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      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      Great illustration that can show the risks and effects that drugs may have on us and those around us. Many people consume drugs thinking it's their choice and it won't do any harm to people in their environment. This table shows otherwise. 
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      Julian Posteraro on 12 Mar 12
       
      Although we cannot determine if someone will definetly become addicted to a drug, there are clearly certain factors that increase the chance of addiction, as you can read in this paragraph and in the following few paragraphs.
Giuliano Musacchio

Psychopathy: A misunderstood personality disorder - 0 views

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  • "Psychopathy has long been assumed to be a single personality disorder. However, there is increasing evidence that it is a confluence of several different personality traits,"
  • Many psychologists also assume that psychopathy is inalterable -- once a psychopath, always a psychopath.
  • Recent empirical work suggests that youth and adults with high scores on measures of psychopathy can show reduced violent and other criminal behavior after intensive treatment.
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  • psychopathy appears to be a complex, multifaceted condition marked by blends of personality traits reflecting differing levels of disinhibition, boldness, and meanness.
  • "psychopaths" do not appear different in kind from other people, or inalterably dangerous,"
  • "In short, research on psychopathy has evolved to a level that it can greatly improve on the current, 'one size fits all' policy approach,"
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      Giuliano Musacchio on 01 Mar 12
       
      I believe this article can be useful during my research because it specifies that psychopaths are normally categorized the same way, but this can give us a different opinion and how they really are. As the author states, many people interpret this the wrong way, and these people are often misunderstood.  This website seems credible because, the last time it has been updated was today, so it is used frequently. ScienceDaily is one of the Internet's most popular science news web sites. Since starting in 1995, the award-winning site has earned the loyalty of students, researchers, healthcare professionals, government agencies, educators and the general public around the world. Also the editorial staff is qualified and specified. 
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