Psychology

On Memory and Reminiscence – Aristotle

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:36:30 +0000

1) We have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of Recollecting, belongs. For the persons who possess a retentive memory are not identical with those who excel in power of recollection; indeed, [...]

Norman Triplett

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:00:21 +0000

Norman Triplett (1861-1931) was a psychologist at Indiana University. In 1898, he wrote what is now recognized as the first published study in the field of social psychology (Strube, 2005). His experiment was on the social facilitation effect. Triplett noticed that cyclists tend to have faster times when riding in the presence of other cyclists [...]

Kurt Lewin

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:49:56 +0000

Kurt Zadek Lewin (September 9, 1890 – February 12, 1947), a German-American psychologist, is one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology. Lewin is often recognized as the “founder of social psychology” and was one of the first researchers to study group dynamics and organizational development. Biography In 1890, he was born into a [...]

Social psychology

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:43:37 +0000

Social psychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being. The [...]

Lightner Witmer

admin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:04:55 +0000

Dr. Lightner Witmer was born in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a devout Catholic mother and father. He obtained his A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1888. After teaching briefly at a secondary school and flirting with the possibility of a career in law, [...]

Freud and the psychoanalytic unconscious

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:15:06 +0000

Probably the most detailed and precise of the various notions of ‘unconscious mind’ — and the one which most people will immediately think of upon hearing the term — is that developed by Sigmund Freud and his followers. It lies at the heart of psychoanalysis. Consciousness, in Freud’s topographical view (which was his first of several [...]

Interpersonal relationship

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:30:46 +0000

An interpersonal relationship is a relatively long-term association between two or more people. This association may be based on emotions like love and liking, regular business interactions, or some other type of social commitment. Interpersonal relationships take place in a great variety of contexts, such as family, friends, marriage, acquaintances, work, clubs, neighborhoods, and churches. [...]

Mental processes – Cognitive

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:20:11 +0000

The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world), and affect (feelings and emotions). Consequently, this description tends to apply to [...]

Hiding emotions makes it difficult to build friendships

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:41:09 +0000

An Indian-origin researcher in the U.S. says that people who keep too much of their emotions to themselves may find it difficult to Build friendships. Sanjay Srivastava, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, says that even though suppressing emotions in new or difficult situations is understandable and perhaps appropriate, carrying the practice [...]

The Stroop Effect

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:41:04 +0000

The Stroop Effect is one of the most-studied phenomena in psychology. The test is easy to administer, and works in a variety of contexts. The simplest way to see how it works is just to look the following two lists. Don’t read them, instead say the color each word is displayed in, as quickly as [...]