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  1. Human Memory - Theories, Improvement and Tests

    ...ychology Theories of Memory, how we remember, forgetting and how to improve your memory Take the Free Memory Test and see how we you can improve your memory in minutes! Free Memory Test | View live results How chewing gum can improve y
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  2. Psychology theories, articles, personality tests and more at Psychologist World

    Psychology resource for all, including psychology theory explanations, practical guides to psychology and online personality tests.
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  3. Altruism in Animals and Humans

    ...-accepted theories to explain the seeming dichotomy is 'reciprocal altruism'. The term was coined by Robert Trivers in 1971. His paper, "The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism" introduced a mathematical model to explain why individuals
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  4. Intelligence Theory

    A look at theories of human intelligence, and how we can categorize difference types of intelligence.
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  5. Language Acquisition

    How do we learn languages? A look at theories of language acquisition with criticisms of these theories.
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  6. Behavioral Psychology

    Articles on Behaviorism in psychology, including an overview of the behavioral approach branches of behaviorism, theories and treatments using behavioral psychology
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  7. Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

    ...ans. Many theories such as those of Freud, agree that we are motivated by primitive desires such as sex, and the need to feed and drink, and that our behaviour prioritises fulfilling these needs for survival and reproduction. Maslow, however, took
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  8. Headaches

    ...ne of the theories is that the pain may be caused by a malfunctioning pain filter which is located in the brain stem. The view is that the brain misinterprets information, for example from the temporal muscle or other muscles, and inte
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  9. Dopamine Neurotransmitter

    ...iological theories of addiction, which argue that these dopamine pathways are pathologically altered in addicted persons. However, the idea that dopamine is the 'reward chemical' of the brain now seems too simple as more evidence has been gat
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  10. Observational Psychology

    ... the core theories to arise from the field, claims that learning takes place in three stages: observing, retaining, and replicating. Observational psychology has weighed in on current issues quite a few times, most recently in the question of wheth
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  11. Self Image Body Language

    ...cognitive theories to understand behaviour. Of course with the passage of time these two schools came together and became somewhat resolved (at least in pragmatic terms) in the form of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. I think that if we approa
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  12. How to Interpret Your Dreams

    ... theories on dreams and why we dream 2 Learn the background that the past 120 years of psychoanalysis have provided us with regarding dream processes and the reason for dreaming.
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  13. Why do we dream?

    .... Freud's theories are difficult to prove, but, while they can not be disproven, they are very popular among many psychologists, and the relevance of some dreams to our lives would indicate that they are of some significance. Dreami
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  14. Emotions

    ... of these theories: Why do people and animals experience emotions, and what makes us experience different types of emotions. In this area, Ian Heath looks at emotional states (right) and below, the link between the sub-conscious
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  15. Evaluation of Freud

    ...d and his Theories - Hypnotic World Psychology Does Freud's theory add up? A major criticism of th e psychodynamic theories Freud put forward to explain the development of our personalities and disorders is that he based much of his re
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  16. Freud

    Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a leading thinker in psychology. Psychologist World takes a look at his theories and explanations of personality development.
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  17. Introduction to Freud

    ...d and his Theories - Hypnotic World Psychology Freud's theories Sigmund Freud was arguably the world's first psychoanalyst, pushing forwards psychology and significantly influencing modern-day our understanding of the mind's workings.
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  18. Neo-Freud

    ... with the theories of a discipline he eventually christened psychoanalysis. In 1900, when Freud published his first full book, The Interpretation of Dreams, he was widely regarded as a crackpot expounding ridiculous theories. There were, however,
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  19. Neo-Freudian Psychologists

    .... Freud's theories placed the onus for nearly all behaviors on a person's early sexual development, and theorized that unresolved sexual desires were at the root of man's quest for achievement. Adler disagreed. In his view, man was constantly stri
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  20. Psychosexual theory

    Freud's dubious reputation for sexually-oriented theories on our behaviour was confounded by his theory of psychosexual development.
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  21. Handedness

    ...number of theories have been proposed. Evolutionary theories: The warrior and his shield This theory attempts to explain left-handedness by the position of a warrior's shield and his heart. Basically, since the heart is on the left side of
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  22. Social Influence

    ... studies, theories and explanations of the influences we succumb to in every day life. The events of World War II and the Holocaust, in which millions were sacrificed by soldiers' willingness to obey to authority figues in Nazi Germany raise que
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  23. Anti-Psychiatry

    ...entional theories of psychiatry from Western believers in Marxism, but the anti-psychiatry movement is by no means homogenous ideologically, and Szasz approached anti-psychiatry from a civil libertarian perspective and challenged Cooper's Marxist
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  24. Developmental Psychology

    Overview of developmental psychology, including related theories and an evaluation.
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  25. Causes of Schizophrenia

    ...iological theories of mental illness to promote their own sales of biological treatments. Much recent research has focused on differences in function in certain brain areas in people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Studies using neuropsychological
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  26. Reductionism in Psychology

    ...uctionist theories tend to be based on the assumption that everything can be considered in terms of its smallest constituent parts. In psychology, therefore, we may see the brain in terms of the atoms that it is composed of, and assuming that no othe
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  27. Craik & Lockhart (1972) Levels of Processing Theory

    Traditional theories of memory segmented human memory into different stores
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  28. Craik & Tulving (1975) Levels of Processing

    ...re Memory Theories: Multi-Store Model : A popular explanation of how we remember. Multi-Store Model Miller's Magic Number : How many chunks of information can our memories store? Magic Number Working Memory Model : Do our memories work to
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  29. Psychology Articles Index

    ...sychology theories and issues at Psychologist World Psychology Articles Index PsychologistWorld.com, for psychology articles, how-to guides and psychology-related downloads: Psychology Studies & Experiments (listed by psychologist)
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  30. Color Perception

    ...s basic theories, chromology is often viewed as an immature discipline, and chromatherapy is seen as alternative medicine. Critics point out that color perception is affected by cultural conditioning, and that color is not perceived alone but
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  31. Sigmund Freud

    ...reud, his theories, and his treatment of his patients were controversial in 19th century Vienna, and remain hotly debated today. Freud's ideas are often discussed and analyzed as works of literature and general culture in addition to continuing de
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  32. AS Psychology Revision

    ... Memory - Theories & Improvement Memory and Chewing Gum Memory and Association Conditioning Introduction Craik & Lockhart (1972) Rehersal Craik & Tulving (1975) Levels of Pr
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  33. ...-oriented theories on our behaviour was confounded by his theory of psychosexual development... • Stages of Development • Electra and Oedipus Complex • More on Freud & Psychoanalysis
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  34. Psychology Forums

    ...scuss the theories of Sigmund Freud. 0 Humanistic Approach For questions regarding Humanistic approaches to psychology. 0 Memory Issues Forum for memory psychology. 0 Portions Copyright 2006-10 Psychologist World (http://www.psychologist
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  35. Cognitive Psychology

    Overview of cognitive psychology. Includes theories, studies and tests, along with evaluations of research in the cognitive field
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