IQ Measures Only Three Out Of Seven Types Of Intelligence

When we talk about intelligence, we tend to think about what system we can use to measure it. When we talk about how intelligent a person is, we may think about how high his/her IQ level is. IQ is the Intelligence Quotient of a person derived from the equation of mental age over chronological age. It is said that the higher a person's cognitive capability is, in relation to his number of years lived, the more intelligent he is.

A Special Bond Between Animals and Disabled Humans

Animals can be mysterious and unpredictable, but more and more animal behaviorists and others who work regularly with our nonhuman fellow beings are finding that many seem to have a special rapport with mentally or physically disabled people.

Clinical Psychology

Clinical psychology is aimed at understanding and studying human and animal behavior. Clinical psychologists evaluate mental health problems and conduct and use scientific research to understand them. They also develop, provide, and assess psychological care and interventions (psychotherapy). In America, clinical psychologists are normally required to hold a Ph.D. or a Psy.D. and often have postgraduate work experience.

Adolescent Psychology

Adolescence is the intermediary stage of growth between childhood and adulthood. It represents the period of time during which a person is subjected to an array of biological transformations and runs into a number of emotional tribulations. The ages, which are termed to be part of adolescence, vary by ethnicity and extend from the preteens to nineteen years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), adolescence encompasses the epoch of life between 10 and 20 years of age. Adolescence is an especially unstable as well as a vibrant period of any person?s life.

Stanley Milgram

Would you kill a person if somebody asks you? If asked this questions, you, most probably would give the definite answer “No” and will be sure in its truthfulness. Killing people in Nazi camps, tortures and during the war seems so distanced evil created by brutal and heartless people.

Assessing Future Risk of Youth Violence

It is essential that youth-serving agencies use the most up to date tools to assess the risk of future youth violence. In this way they can ensure that at risk youth receive needed services to prevent future violence.

Success and Safety in Online Dating

Dating has proven to be a good way to meet new friends, romances or even one's soulmate.

One Dream Interprets Another to Predict the U.S. Mid-Term Election Results

Dreams come from wherever we do. They regularly predict the future and they link people together in the world of dreams. In the following case one dream even arrived to interpret another dream! And just in time to predict the outcome of yesterday's midterm U.S. elections (November 7, 2006).

Pavlov vs. Freud

Ivan Pavlov and Sigmund Freud had made a valuable contribution to the development of modern psychological and medical thought, as they had outlined new directions in psychiatry and physiology. Their works and their ideas are considered to be actual nowadays and form the fundamentals of teaching about psychics, mental activity and nervous system functioning.

Learning Theory

Nowadays, probably as never before, scientists are extremely interested in the process of learning. Naturally, a number of different theories aiming at the explanation of this process were developed. It is quite difficult to decide what theory is better and more successful. On the other hand, we can say that all of them have to be analyzed in order to help us realize the main trends in learning theories.

Some Dreams Save Lives: A Case Study of a Heart Attack

One of the surprising secrets of professional dream interpretation is how often dreams predict life challenges and prepare us to meet them. This dream foreshadowed JT's upcoming heart attack, without spelling it out, and it prepared her to survive it.

Heuristics and What are They

Heuristics and its nature, as well as the role that they play in the understanding and clarification of human behavior can not be ignored in the study of cognitive psychology. Heuristics, put in simple terms, can be recognized and defined as shortcuts employed by humans to draw up potential solutions to a task or problem at the beginning of the problem and are widely recognized as highly effective, remarkably good methods for making spontaneous and rapid decisions or judgments even under heavy time constraints. As for how they can be considered as either helpful or as a hindrance in the decision making process and in problem solving, there are obvious implications from the very nature of the concept of heuristics, such as the time saving and convenience of such shortcuts and the possible drawback of making rash decisions and eliminating potentially viable means to come to a solution because of a lack of information or inexperience in that area. Based on the definition of what heuristics are, there are a variety of different conclusions that you could come to in regards to what they tell us about how our mind works. In this essay we shall attempt to identify what conclusions can be made about how our mind works when considering the effects that heuristics have.

Humanistic Psychology Study

The main focus of Humanistic psychology study is based on conscious consciousness, morals and theoretical thinking. These include the spiritual experiences and the beliefs that people live by. Emerging in the 1950's and 1960's, humanism is about rewarding yourself, and places great importance on the individual and their own individuality. Personality depends on what people believe and how they perceive the world and a major factor in this learning theory is that people are seen as freely exercising choice over how to behave. They are the architects of their own lives and 'personal agents' in their own psychological growth.

The Word: Personality

Life is a learning experience. The complexity of human behaviour is finely related to the several mechanisms which define how, what and when we learn about the world...