While we are awake, our sensory organs provide us with a huge amount of information, from which we can make an inner representation of the external world. Instead
image cover image Behaviorist psychologists in the USA had been influenced by Pavlov’s experiments and tended to study animal behavior in terms of stimulus and response. The German psychologist
image German therapist Hermann Ebbinghaus identified distinct patterns of memory and forgetting from the results of his experiments. As well as rapid onset and slow decline that marks what
It’s really difficult to disregard the blast of gross-out recordings. Recordings where somebody pops a million-year-old pimple, the discharge sprinkling on the camera lens, or expels a mile-long
At the time of John Watson’s advocacy of behaviorist psychology, many of his contemporaries were supporting the idea of eugenics. Watson, however, opposed the idea, coming down firmly
Many years ago, psychiatrists and psychologists believed that anxiety was solely a psychological condition. Psycho dynamic theories still focus on anxiety symptoms as an expression of underlying conflicts.
Until the 1950’s, our understanding of how we learn was based almost entirely on behaviorist theories of the stimulus-response model of conditioning. Not all psychologists were convinced, however,
From London England, a father shared a video of an optical illusion that features his son’s toy train tracks. The tracks appear the same size until it is
