Psychology

Differences, Clinical psychology and Happiness The main questions are: How we are different from other people? Why we are different from other people? The main difference in 2 persons are: Personality To measure the personality we use reliability and validity. Harrower-Erickson Multiple Choice Rorschach Test is a test which was used earlier to test personality, although there is no way to test its validity. Inkblot test: Harrower-Erickson Multiple Choice Rorschach Test ...

Emotions and Social Doctorine of Physicalism It states that everything is physical. It is closely related to materialism. Where do complex things come from? Suppose you are walking on a path and your foot gets hurt by a stone, then you might ask the question as to how the stone got there. Then you might get the answer that the stone could have been there since eternity. But suppose you would have found a watch, then the answer would not have been the same as watch is very complex than all other things there. Similarly, we can say the same thing about human organs. This is known as argument from design. ...

Perception, Attention and Memory Perception Our brain percieves things very fast, lot faster then a computer. It all begins with eye, but even then there are too many question. It is believed that brain understands things by these three ways: Perception of brightness Our brain automatically brightens an object in light and darken an object in light. This can create an illusion in some cases. Adelson’s Same Color Illusion - BrainHQ from Posit Science ...

Development Big questions about development Do we start as moral or immoral? Whats the relation between child and adult? How are they related in terms of continuity? How much knowledge are we born with? There are two group of thoughts around this: Empiricism: They believe that we are born empty and we learn along the way Nativism: We are born with existing structure in brain Constructivism: It is a hybrid of above two ...

Skinner theory Why do have unconscious part? Deception: Animals have been at the forefront when it comes to decieving other living beings. When in danger, chimpanzee hairs stands so that it can look bigger. Same happens in humans as well, we try to decieve others into beliveing that we are tougher, smarter, etc. We have developed a lie detection mechanism as well to counter the decieving part. We are better liar if we believe that the lie is true. The best lie is the lie which we tell to ourselves. The sinister or bad decision is better when taken with the help of unconscious part. Skinner theory Skinner worked on behaviourism. Although behaviourism was already there but he bought it to the masses. Some of the key points of behaviourism are: ...

Freud theory There are theories which are specific to some domains of psychology, but theories of Freud and Skinner spans accross many different domains of psychology. Freud theory has a very big scope. Freud is consisdered to be a very hyper personality. He was a cocaine addict. He gave lot of theories, some of which are not rationale. One of his theory is Penis envy which seems false but also true. Its so vague that you can’t prove it false and also cant prove it to be true. If we dont dive into these irrational theories and focus on other interesting rational theories he proposed then he was quite an extraordinary personality. ...

Introduction to psychology Below material was captured as notes, while I was studying Introduction to psychology out of curiosity, a course made available by Yale. Brain Astonishing hypothesis It was given by Francis Crick, who was one of the discoverer of molecular structure of DNA. He said that a person’s mental activities are entirely due to the behaviour of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them. ...

The most basic in human psychology is “Why do we talk?”. I have always been a shy kid in front of people I don’t know. I have seen my friends talking for hours with their friends, some with their girlfriends. Then I joined Amazon, still struggling to have an informal talk. To undestand why this is happing to me I started looking around and came across this wonderful theory of Transactional analysis by Eric Berne. ...