Cognitive Psychology
Gender-Neutral Language Makes a Difference
If I tell you that a person is a specialist, does that person have to be male? The answer, of course, is no. “Specialist” is not a word with any gender connotation. Yet it turns out that many people associate being a “specialist” with being male. This can be demonstrated using the “specialist riddle.” Here’s…
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Are Girls Better at Jigsaw Puzzles?
Sex differences are a tricky topic for psychology researchers. It’s unclear to what extent the brains of men and women work differently. On top of that, it’s hard to tell whether any differences that exist have an underlying biological cause, or whether they’re just the result of society encouraging different behaviors in men and women.…
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Media Literacy: An Essential Twenty-First Century Skill
Here’s an idea you won’t here about in, well, the media: we should have media literacy classes in schools. Despite how much information we get from the media, we don’t talk much about how to critically evaluate the things we see on TV or read in the papers. But not helping students learn how to…
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Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer 1880-1943 Max Wertheimer is considered the founder of Gestalt Psychology. He studied law for several years before graduating with his degree in philosophy. He served as a professor at several Universities in Germany before leaving the country in 1934 due to the war in Europe. After which, he moved to the United States…
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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget 1896 – 1980 Jean Piaget was born in Switzerland and by age 10 had already begun his professional career as a researcher and writer. He was interested in biology and wrote a paper on the sighting of an albino sparrow that propelled his interest in the scientific study of nature. He studied natural…
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Herman Ebbinghaus
Herman Ebbinghaus 1850 – 1909 Hermann Ebbinghaus was born in Bremen, Germany. He received his education, including a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn. In 1880 he published his first paper on memory and began his nearly 30 years of teaching and publishing in the field of human memory. Although the first to apply experimental…
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Alfred Binet
Alfred Binet 1857 – 1911 Alfred Binet was both a psychologist and a lawyer. His greatest accomplishment in the field of psychology lead to what we now call the Intelligence Quotient or IQ. As a member of the French commission investigating educational concerns, developed a test to measure the ‘mental age’ (MA) of children entering…
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Aaron Beck, MD 1921-2021 Aaron Beck was born on July 18, 1921, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the youngest of five children and grew up in a Jewish family. Beck’s father was a successful businessman, and his mother was a homemaker. Beck attended Brown University and graduated in 1942 with a degree in humanities.…
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Chapter 6.2: Intelligence
PSYCHOLOGY 1016.2 Intelligence Psychology 101 Contents1: How to Learn Psychology – 1.1: Influence of Research on Psychology – 1.2: Experimental Research – 1.3: Types of Research 2: Biopsychology – 2.1: Neurotransmitters – 2.2: The Brain & Nervous System 3: Intro to Development, Personality & Stage Theories – 3.1: Motor & Cognitive Development – 3.2: Erikson’s…
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Chapter 6.1: Memory & Forgetting
PSYCHOLOGY 1016.1 Memory & Forgetting Psychology 101 Contents1: How to Learn Psychology – 1.1: Influence of Research on Psychology – 1.2: Experimental Research – 1.3: Types of Research 2: Biopsychology – 2.1: Neurotransmitters – 2.2: The Brain & Nervous System 3: Intro to Development, Personality & Stage Theories – 3.1: Motor & Cognitive Development -…
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