Psychology Articles

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 12th November 2007 @ 12:34 AM

Memory is the human's ability to retain and recall things. The human brain is the grand storage system of many events and information. The events, experiences, outlook of a human or animal, everything is stored in the brain. Some of the events are stored without the knowledge of the person. Some of the things are remembered after a long time also, while many of the events are forgotten within a short period. Developing the memory is nothing less than an art. There are many advantage... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Monday, 12th November 2007 @ 12:33 AM

According to law of attraction, you are attracting everything that you are giving attention to, at every moment. You draw attention towards the things that are predominant. You can attract everything that is wanted and stop attracting that you do not like. The law of attraction reacts only to the matching vibrations. It is a major means of a Soul to master physical life. Law of attraction cannot be understood only by five sensory intellects as they are non-integrated objects as by the wi... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 7:10 PM

No matter what your age is or what profession, there is plenty of pressure these days to stay in form both physically as well as mentally. Most people are looking for ways to get a mental edge and improve their memory so as to be able to think faster and become more organized and creative. Certain memory boosters or tips to improve memory can help you gain the competitive edge over others. Flash cards are very useful to help boost your memory. These contain questions on one side with answers on ... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 7:08 PM

Many experts believed earlier, that children did not possess any memory skills till they were eight or nine months old, but many parents have been giving contradictory statements based on their experiences. Recently with the development of technology and latest research into a baby's memory it is found that a baby's long-term-memory can be as long as 24 hours when it is just 6 weeks old and up to four months at sixteen months old. This proves that even a baby has specific memory. <... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 6:40 PM

The human memory has unlimited possibilities and no other animal on the earth today possesses so much memory potentialities. It is a very complex mechanism and as such, considerable medical and psychological studies have been done in this area. This has made impossible things possible and the birth of the supercomputer capable of many thousands and billions of calculations was born that greatly resembles the human-memory. It is classified according to the duration, kind, and the recovery of the ... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 6:40 PM

Human memory is one of the most complex functions. The brain allows one to store certain information and let one to retrieve later. There are mostly tow types of memory systems. A system is that allows one to keep a record of all the experiences and is called as autobiographical memory. The second type of memory is semantic-memory where the system holds knowledge about the world. Working-memory is when the brain is where the brain tries to store certain things in order to make immediate calculat... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 1:27 AM

Consciousness is the fact of awareness of our thinking, feeling and doing. That is to say things that are done by a person, when the person knows that he is doing them. Although what a person does i.e. 'the response to external stimuli' may differ from person to person or even in the same person from time to time, the fact that every person is capable of responding, or reacting, is taken as a sign of consciousness. These conscious acts are referred to as the actions of the conscious mi... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Friday, 9th November 2007 @ 1:16 AM

In order to understand the process of setting personal goals, it is necessary to have a clear picture of the functioning of the mind. It can be thought of comprising of two parts- the conscious and the sub conscious mind. The responsibility of the conscious mind is to be aware of the current situations and it is the sub conscious mind that keeps all information regarding all other things. It is in the sub conscious mind that the personality of the person, the feelings, habits and thoughts are st... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Thursday, 8th November 2007 @ 9:34 PM

Subconscious mind power is something like an anticipating smile towards a person when you meet him. It is like improving your odds of receiving what you were anticipating from that person. It also can be a way of unconsciously moving towards a problem to solve it. Basically, it is the power which comes from the good programming of your mind. How do you program your mind for the sake of obtaining a subconscious mind power? Consciously, take one step at a time, first learn the new method and then ... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Thursday, 8th November 2007 @ 6:46 PM

Learning begins at birth and children learn things by playing. Creative play helps them in solving problems by imagining a particular thing. Children should be introduced and provided with learning opportunities early in their lives. This helps them in developing the skill set of a child and helps in its growth. With the help of playing puzzles, he develops social, physical, emotional and cognitive skills. These skills are very important in the development of a child. Imagination and cre... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Wednesday, 7th November 2007 @ 4:25 PM

Many a times you read a book and when you close the book and try to recollect what you have read, you are blank. Therefore, you need to know the capacity of your working memory, strategies, metamemory, and content. One can have memory problems like infantile amnesia or eyewitness testimony. It improves with growing age, throughout the entire childhood. Working memory is that remains for a short period of time and allows the information to process while it is still in being stored. There ... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 6th November 2007 @ 6:59 PM

Short term memory is known as working, primary, active memory. It lasts for a very short period. Short term could be described as a capacity of a mind to hold the active memory. Only a small amount of information for a short period could be held in it. The information that is held in short term could be recently processed or information retrieved from long term memory or even the result of recent mental processing that is related to working brain/memory. Short-term-memory means the capac... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 6th November 2007 @ 12:15 AM

The memory is the ability to store the events, things and details that we have come across in our life. Not only humans, but even animals have memory. The brain stores all the necessary information about some event or thing, only if it watched, heard or sensed carefully. Any information that our senses have obtained is gathered and stored in the brain methodically. When the information is obtained, firstly it is encoded. This way the brain registers the event in some particular form. Next step i... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Wednesday, 31st October 2007 @ 2:40 AM

Dyslexia is a defect which causes difficulties with learning language based skills. It is not related to the intelligence but more with difficulties in spelling, reading, writing and sometimes speaking. The causes of dyslexia are not very clear but it mostly occurs because of the difference in the way that the brain processes given information. Most experts agree that it occurs because of biological or physiological differences that tend to run in families. People with it tend to have di... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Wednesday, 31st October 2007 @ 2:40 AM

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic disorder which affects millions of children and can continue into adulthood. This disorder has problems associated with inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behavior which can affect every aspect of life and these children often struggle with low self esteem, poor performance at school or troubled personal relations. Certain psycho stimulant drugs may be prescribed to treat these symptoms but though these drugs can relieve t... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 30th October 2007 @ 11:04 AM

Nature is one of the never-ending mixture and replication of a very few laws. There are three basic laws of memory that are as rock under the feet of the serious student in his pursuit for a reliable memory. These laws are at once the foundation of any sensible and sound memory system. Knowing these laws the serious student, for the right process cannot go wrong. Those who have been doubtful about the importance of memory systems, as well as those who have imaginary memory education to be a exte... more...

Psychology | By Stephen Campbell @ Tuesday, 30th October 2007 @ 11:00 AM

There are several different ways in which one can achieve self improvement through self -help. One such method is through psychological self help. Psychological self help is nothing but, the use of this techniques combined with the concept of self help. Psychological self help deals with the enforcement of self control on oneself by controlling one's conscious. Some of the psychological self help techniques deal with recognizing one's own weaknesses and thus, dealing with them in order... more...

Psychology | By Jimmy Cox @ Friday, 26th October 2007 @ 2:40 PM

Color is so constantly in evidence in our daily lives that we are inclined to give it almost no conscious attention. We merely accept color, failing not so much in our appreciation of its beauty - for we all like cooler - as in a full realization of what an important part it plays in our daily lives. Color is a thing to admire consciously or openly only now and then, when particularly called to our attention, as in a sunset or a striking painting. Actually, however, even though we do not... more...

Psychology | By Jimmy Cox @ Monday, 22nd October 2007 @ 8:37 AM

Graphoanalysis has given me one reward that cannot be measured in dollars and cents, or for that matter, in any other way I can describe. It has given me the ability to know people. All kinds of people. There have been famous religious leaders like Stephen S. Wise, the great Jewish Rabbi, and Hal Wallis, the famous motion picture producer. Great artists, some of the world's great poets, and singers, motion picture stars, and some that society describes as "rats". There has been a lo... more...

Psychology | By Jimmy Cox @ Monday, 22nd October 2007 @ 8:29 AM

Decoding handwriting can be used for all sorts of purposes. It's used for finding criminals, explaining a person's emotional state or personality. Some even say it can be used to determine if a person is homosexual. A very famous woman medical doctor, with years of teaching in a famous medical college has this to say about sex when she was asked this question: "Why is it that there can never be a discussion of sex with an impersonal slant?" Her comment which follows is t... more...