Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychotherapist and expert on stress management embraced a new way of self-expression. He, and his followers, claim to live better and more honest lives without any lies, even without white lies. Nevertheless, the problem of this book is that such a method is self-centred and ego-oriented and not people or environment-oriented. […]
Continue ReadingPsychoanalytic Main articles: Psychodynamics and psychoanalysis Group photo 1909 in front of Clark University. Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, Carl Jung; back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Psychoanalysis refers to the theories and therapeutic techniques applied to the unconscious mind and its impact on everyday life. These theories and techniques […]
Continue ReadingCognitive Main article: Cognitive psychology Green Red Blue Purple Blue Purple Blue Purple Red Green Purple Green The Stroop effect is the fact that naming the color of the first set of words is easier and quicker than the second. Cognitive psychology involves the study of mental processes, including perception, attention, language comprehension and production, […]
Continue ReadingBehavioral Main articles: Behaviorism, Psychological behaviorism, and Radical behaviorism Skinner’s teaching machine, a mechanical invention to automate the task of programmed instruction A tenet of behavioral research is that a large part of both human and lower-animal behavior is learned. A principle associated with behavioral research is that the mechanisms involved in learning apply to […]
Continue ReadingBiological Main article: Cognitive neuroscience False-color representations of cerebral fiber pathways affected, per Van Horn et al.[V]: 3 Psychologists generally consider biology the substrate of thought and feeling, and therefore an important area of study. Behaviorial neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, involves the application of biological principles to the study of physiological and genetic mechanisms underlying […]
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