Extreme Phobias: Collyer Brothers
Extreme Phobias
Extreme phobias: an extreme case of fear meeting fate.
Synesthesia
I Hear Red. I Taste 5.
For 11 year old Elizabeth, the world of math is an unexpectedly colorful one. Elizabeth experiences digits as colors. If she sees or hears the number 5, her brain experiences it as the color red. The number 2 is yellow to her mind. Does that mean that five plus two equals orange? "No," Elizabeth says with a laugh....
Forensic Psychology
Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychology is not really a "branch" of psychology in the same sense that Behaviorism or cognitive psychology are. This is because there is no "forensic" theory of psychology, nor any perspectives that are unique to this label. What, then, is it? Forensic psychology is essentially just the application of psychology to the...
Reductionism In Psychology
Reductionism in Psychology
In psychology, reductionism refers to a theory that seems to over-simplify human behavior or cognitive processes, and in doing so, neglects to explain the complexities of the mind. "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" Greek Philosopher Aristotle in The Metaphysics Reductionism can be undesirable if it ignores variables...
Humanistic Approach
When Experiments Just Aren't Enough
The humanistic approach in psychology developed in the 1960s and 70s in the United States as a response to the continual struggle between behavioral theorists and cognitive psychologists. The humanists brought in a new perspective, believing that the study of psychology should focus not just on the purely mechanistic aspects of cognition, nor purely on...
Approaches In Psychology
Approaches in Psychology
Psychologists take different approaches, or perspectives, when attempting to understand human behavior. For instance, psychologists taking the biological approach assume that differences in behavior can be understood in terms of genes, brain structure and hormones, which can predispose a person to particular health conditions. Behavioral psychologists...
Evolutionary Approach In Psychology
Our Evolving Behavior
Just as evolutionary theories in the biological sciences assume that living things adapt generation-by-generation to survive in their environment, in psychology, the evolutionary approach (also referred to as "evolutionary psychology") involves the study of our cognitive processes and behavior with the view that they too have been altered over...
Rational Emotive Therapy
Think Rationally.
Rational Emotive Therapy, sometimes called Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, is a form of therapeutic psychology that emerges from behaviorism. It attempts to use reason and rationality to recognize self-defeating cognitive processes, and learn to emote more appropriately. Effectively, the idea is that subconscious destructive behaviors are...
Observational Psychology
Observational Psychology
Observational psychology is an interdisciplinary system of study that usually falls under the banner of the psychology of learning. The psychology of learning is a particular branch of psychological study that attempts to draw conclusions about how people learn, what it means to learn a behavior, and how this understanding of learning can be applied in...
Environmental Psychology
Environmental Psychology
Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field that attempts to study the interplay between environment and psychology. The term "environment" here is often used somewhat loosely, and environmental psychologists might study a broad range of topics, such as how architecture affects behavior, how environment in the sense of family life...
Guides
Guides
Guides
Phobias
Phobias
Common fears and phobias and their names.
Psychology Studies And Experiments
Psychology Studies and Experiments
Psychologist World contains many, many experiment, study and theory explanations. Those referenced below are listed by author. If you're looking for a study name, please use the search above (note that repeated names below link to different articles on studies by a psychologist): Colter (1971) Goorney (1968) Koller...
