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What exactly is IQ, and how to develop or improve it?
Some people are said to have exceptionally high IQ.
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
Is it possible to develop high IQ if one doesn't have it? If yes, then how?
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Is positive self-talk beneficial for those with low self-esteem?
According to the paper Positive Self-Statements: Power for Some, Peril for Others by Wood (2009) positive self-talk is beneficial when the person has a reasonable level of self-esteem in the statement, but harmful when they don't. The PsychCentral…
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Does correcting responses after feedback lead to better learning?
In a typical supervised learning experiment, one might present visual stimuli, e.g. faces, one after another and ask participants to classify each one into one of two categories, e.g. A and B. Usually participants are not required to DO anything…
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How to set up a binocular rivalry experiment which splits a single image in two separately controlled ones?
The question is about the actual physical setup and steps needed to take in order to experiment with the phenomena. I found a tutorial on jove.com, "How to Create and Use Binocular Rivalry", and it also has a dedicated explanatory article. However,…
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Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
Often, if one is concentrating too hard on a particular task, it seems as though it's quite easy to skip to the next step of a plan of action. For example, a baseball infielder may attempt a throw to first base before he has fielded the ball…
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Why do one's surroundings still seem to rotate when you stop whirling around?
When you spin your head around in circles, the world appears to continue to spin.
Why do one's surroundings still seem to rotate when you stop whirling around in a circle?
What is happening in the brain?
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What is the most common age for developing psychosis?
Background: Lately I've been watching a lot of Criminal Minds and in the season that I've just finished, one of the main characters - a 20-something Dr. Spencer Reid - is worried that he might be developing some form of psychosis (as I understood…
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How is history of psychology taught around the world, and if it is not, why not?
When you study medicine in Germany, lectures on the history and ethics of medicine are an integral part of your curriculum. Many universities have a separate Institute for the History and Ethics of Medicine with related chairs.
When you study…
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What is the psychology behind the need to be the centre of attention?
In conversations, there are often times when a member of the group will consistently divert the conversation back to their own topic (often to do with them). A 'pseudo-conversation' example:
Persons 1-3 are talking about A - going back and forth…
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Is it possible to create a false memory by trying to remember something that eludes you?
Sometimes I have difficulty remembering the specifics of an event, specifically if I'm tired or possibly have recently consumed alcohol. A close friend of mine has gotten me in the habit of specifically trying not to think about the details of what…
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Does identifying a student's sensory learning style and exploiting it result in significantly better performance?
Do people tend to have one pronounced sense (i.e., there is high variability in how strong the auditory, visual, olfactory etc. perception is among people) and can
this sense, once identified, be exploited in both beneficial (e.g.,…
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How much additional sleep is required to recover from a given number of hours of sleep deprivation?
A previous question dealt with whether it is possible to catch up on lost sleep.
This question is a little different.
Assume that a healthy adult has been deprived of sleep for "x" hours.
How much sleep is required to restore healthy brain function,…
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Is the concept of neuroplasticity applicable to visual cortex and how does it affect visual perception?
I've been searching about this but all I found was this presentation, which is a bit too technical for me to understand, e.g: Visual Cortical Plasticity
In what way does neuroplasticity affect the visual cortex?
For example, a person that wears…
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Is sluggishly progressing schizophrenia recognized outside of Russia?
I've been trying to look up information about sluggishly progressing schizophrenia, but the only source accessible to me was a Wikipedia article, that states that the term “sluggish schizophrenia” was created to diagnose political dissidents, but…
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What do id, ego and super-ego exactly mean?
I don't know much about psychology, but I've heard about Sigmund Freud's structural model of the psyche, with the three part of the psychic apparatus. However, I couldn't really understand the parts.
As far as I could understand it: the ego is the…
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