Shanice Addison General Psychology 1101 Deeper Exploration #4 April 1, 2013 The Truth behind the 10% Myth Over the years many people have developed theories on how they think the brain works, and the most popular one of them all is the idea that people only use ten percent of their brain. Yes, our brain is a complex and mysterious structure that process conscious and unconscious thoughts, but that doesn’t mean that we only use ten percent of our brain. The idea that we use ten percent of our brain is widespread between psychology students, well-educated people, and even some neuroscientist (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, & Beyerstein, 2010, p. 21). Psychologists and neuroscientists have spent time and effort showing that this myth cannot be possible. The sources of this myth are word of mouth, desire for easy answers and quick fix, but most of all it was spread through misleading films and media portrayals (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, & Beyerstein, 2010, p. 9).
‘Textese’ is not as deviant as people think, they make it out to be the biggest first world problem anyone has ever seen but really its only if people are in a real rush that they use it. David Crystal author of ‘Txtng: the Gr8 Db8’ explains that shortening words and changing letters has been around almost forever, since Ancient Egyptians and Shakespeare. The fact that teachers are worried about this generation’s intelligence is also quite absurd. Studies show that the amount of texting we do
After Graduating, he took his first post at Stanford University in 1953 where he has worked ever since. In 1963, along with his colleagues Dorothea Ross & Sheila Ross they set up an experiment to investigate whether aggressive behaviour would be imitated by children. This was done by observing them under different circumstances, recording the results and analysing them. (Investigating Psychology, Open University 2010 page 109) The Experiment The experiment consisted of 96 children with an equal split of boys & girls, ranging from the ages of 3-6 years and was conducted on an individual basis. The group was divided into 4 equal groups; * Group 1 – Observed a live model behaving aggressively towards a blow up doll * Group 2 – Observed a film of a live model behaving aggressively towards the doll * Group 3 – Observed a film of a cartoon model behaving aggressively towards the doll * Group 4 – Observed NO aggressive behaviour towards the doll The experiments were carried out in the same
Jasper Johns False Start Aaron Zavala Art 03 False Start by Jasper Johns False Start uses interlocking, varied patches of colors, the usage of the triad colors, and false labeling, all in one painting. 1988, False Start brought $17 million at the auction at Sotheby’s. In year 2006, the painting was sold to the Kenneth C. Griffin, for $80 million, making it the most expensive painting to be sold by a living artist. The False Start is one of the popular oil paintings of Jasper Johns and was made on a canvas 170.8 centimeters long and 137.2 centimeters wide. The colorful painting has always impressed the people since the time it was released.
The Muller-Lyer visual illusion: Dependency on the presence of “distance cues”? Abstract The assumption that distance cues are responsible for the functioning of the Muller-Lyer illusion was examined by presenting three conditions with varying degrees of ambiguity. Eighteen participants made up a mixed gender sample of university students who were presented with a Powerpoint presentation of 32 trials depicting the Muller-Lyer figure, Necker cube components and a combination of Muller-Lyer and Necker components. Participants were instructed to record where they perceived the figure to be divided. Single and repeated measure t-tests were produced using SPSS.
Two lab studies both using independent measures design were carried out. The independent variable in both of the experiments was the verb used in the sentence. The dependant variable in experiment 1 was the PP’s speed estimate, whereas in experiment 2, the dependant variable was whether or not the PP’s believed they saw glass. The PP’s for experiment 1 were 45 students at the University of Washington and for experiment 2 there were 150 student participants. The PP’s were shown 7 short film clips from safety films for driver education of traffic collisions.
The results suggest that participants took shorter time to read the nonsense words than that of reading the incongruent words. These findings maintain the hypothesis for the Stroop colour word task. Comparison of Reaction Times for the Stroop Colour Word Task The Stroop effect was discovered by John Ridley Stroop (1935), involving cognitive interference in colour-word processing tasks and continues to captivate experimenting in psychology to this day. Cattell in 1886 was doing his own dissertation under Whundt, and this influenced Stroop's research some 50 years earlier by reporting
W. Sheldon’s theory vs. Myers-Briggs’s type indicator Every person is a world unto himself. No wonder it is an enigma which they can even last all their whole life in order to solve it. Everyone is undoubtedly unique, hence that there are certain aspects, in the way of thinking or acting of everybody, which gives the chance to classify them. The psychology is the responsible to link each trait from people in different groups. As we know, in the first half of the twentieth century there were a lot of famous and great psychologists, among them I would highlight: William Sheldon and the family Myers-Brigg.
Portugal Debt Crisis Portugal is a recently developed country with a population of over 10 million people. Despite the gradual modernization and relative expansion of Portugal since the 1960s, it remained underdeveloped until the 2000s. Since then it has achieved significant recognition for its world-standard practices, trends and exports. Portugal has suffered severely from the recent Euro crisis. Previously, Portugal was one of the most long-lived modern empires in Europe.
When you think of all the accomplishments mankind has made over the years, you also can't deny the mistakes and error which may have led to them. On the topic of the Bermuda Triangle, many disappearances happened during the early 1900's. This time period is a major key to realizing that while the world was moving forward fast with new inventions, it came with great errors such as the famous Star Tiger and Star Ariel of Britain.