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How does parental expectation lead a child from adaptive perfectionism to rebelliousness?
I find many sources saying that parents with perfectionist ideals can ultimately push a child to shed his or her attitude of wanting to please their parents and become rebellious. What I cannot find is an explanation of the mechanism behind this…
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What is the definition of sanity? How can I prove someone either sane or insane?
In my experience the definition of insanity is thus:
Insanity: The state of being seriously mentally ill, mad, and/or irrational.
Is there a proper scientific definition of this term? While mentally ill is relatively easily to pin down, the others…
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How does one add a commutator to the UCLA miniscope cable?
The UCLA miniscope is an open source alternative to the Inscopix system for calcium imaging in freely behaving animals. One of the benefits of their system that they tout is the ability to have a commutator on the data cable. A commutator allows…
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Effects of aerobic vs. resistance training on cognition
The beneficial effects of exercise are well documented on cognitive ability (1, 2) and reducing cognitive decline (1). However, has the type of exercise ever been analysed?
In healthy adults, is there a difference on the effects of aerobic (running)…
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Were the subjects in the Stanford prison experiment randomly assigned to the study?
The Stanford prison experiment tested what would happen when a group of subjects was pushed in the role of prisoner, while a second group was assigned the role of guards. Within merely a day or so, the guards started to harass the prisoners,…
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Why is IIT "unmotivated"?
I'm trying to understand Searle's reply to Tononi and Koch's objections to Searle's characterization of their Intergrated Information Theory (IIT) of consciousness.
Although I do understand why IIT is problematic, both from Searle's original review…
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Does suppressing a desire make it more powerful?
Based on my minimal knowledge of old Freudian Psychoanalysis, if our drives and urges are not met they become more powerful, even overwhelming, for the individual, perhaps causing them psychological difficulties or even causing them to then project…
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Is mindfulness meditation an effective method to fall asleep?
It's my understanding that brain activity in the prefrontal cortex is suppressed during sleep and that mindfulness stimulates activity in that region. Based on this, it seems counterintuitive to think that the average person who is lying in bed and…
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Are there bidirectional neurons?
Neurons are mostly unidirectional, i.e. electrical impulses enter from one end and leave through the other. Are there bidirectional neurons as well, i.e., neurons that have a receiving end and a transmitting end that are not mutually exclusive?
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What is a source of case studies of personality disorders?
What is a good source for case studies on a broad range of personality disorders?
I'm a writer and I'm interested in reading some case studies for character work. I've found some websites with classic case studies, but I would really like to find…
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Is procrastination greater when skill is low and rewards offer low status boost and does this lead to efficient task allocation in groups?
I am very interested in procrastination, because it is such a clear sign of lack of motivation. I have a hypothesis about why we procrastinate, which I would like to get tested by you.
The assumption for this hypothesis is that we are more likely to…
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How much sleep is required to restore maximum cognitive functioning?
Background: Recently I have really messed up my sleep schedule due to my procrastination. The internet points to some very basic conclusions but I would like to see actual experiments on effects of sleep on cognitive functions.
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What is…
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Is StackExchange.com Addiction Dangerous?
I recently looked at the meta.math.stackexchange.com and found the second anniversary was celebrated. As in the last year's Happy-Birthday post (linked therein) , some people declared the addiction to the site.
My question is: What kind of addiction…
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Does each sensory neuron type have a characteristic spike sequence pattern?
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It is known that all sensory information is input to the brain as neural spike sequences. Now, to distinguish between the spike sequences generated by retinal red/blue/green cone cells from each other, and these from the cochlear (inner…
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Can processing effort for sub-tasks in neural networks be measured?
I often heard statements like:
80% of your brain processing is computing the effect of gravity
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You only use 20% of your brain power
My question isn't about the truth of these statements but if they are well-formed: can we measure…
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