Experimental psychology

I’m half-way through my first semester as a PhD student in Applied Behavior Analysis at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. I’ve been learning about some interesting topics in my Experimental Analysis of Behavior class. I’ve never taken any previous courses on Experimental Analysis of Behavior so the topics are new to me and I enjoy sharing them with you. One of the topics we discussed last week was about stimulus control. I often refer to my “White Book” of applied behavior analysis…

Psychology is the study of human mental functions and behavior in an attempt to learn from observation in addition to the ability to predict behavior. The study of psychology can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of the Greece, Chinese, and the Egyptians. Psychology was named during a historical period of Greece. The word was evolved from "psyche", which can be taken to have the same meaning as life. Psyche can be translated many ways however each translation continues to link it to…

- In Dr. Kurt Salzinger's article, "Take back psychology," Kurt illustrates the many kinds of hardships that psychology is facing due to it's current state of affairs. That is to say, that psychology has been "given away" to be dissected and rehashed into various forms that help some causes and hurt others. The article was a nice read, and I enjoyed taking the time to look into Kurt's perspective. How he blended examples of applied and basic psychology to further his point made the article have…

Method Design This experiment was a 3 x 2 mixed factorial design. The first independent variable had 3 levels representing participant training (psychiatry, psychology and no training) x the second independent variable, which had two levels representing conceptualization of depression (biological conceptualization and psychological conceptualization). The dependent variable of the study was participants’ rated likelihood of recovery from depression for affected individuals (described in…

When referring to criminals we often think they are “bad” people without taking into consideration why they have committed a crime.Throughout the years with the help of forensic psychology, we have been able to explore the criminal mind and broaden our understanding of it. Due to the amount of research done on the criminal mind we have now been able to take mental evaluations into considerations while criminals await trial as well as other psychological factors that affect their sentence. It is…

Computers and Craniums: A Continuing Cycle of Connections The enigma of the human mind is a puzzle that has fascinated many great scientists. From the earliest musings of the ancient philosophers to the advanced neuroscience research going on today, many intelligent people have worked to understand what is going on in our own heads. In an interesting phenomenon, our understanding of the mind is intimately linked to the technology that is used to study it, and the new findings that arise feed…

His book < Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals ,1899 > not only brought light to psychology but also sheded lights on education. This also added to his achievement considering he made contributions to education field as well. It was because of this book, people came to realize the fact that psychology could be used in education, not only to study the behavior of students and children but also to…

was being introduced into Psychology 101 which I had no idea on what this course will be teaching. As I just know the word “PSY” it would be mentioning about physical or something to do with the body. Then, doing some research about what Psychology will be teaching about from YouTube. Also, reading some articles from this website on what they will be mentioning about what the body will reacts to some situations. In the past months as learning about the basic about Psychology 101 this would be an…

Abstract In the recent past forensic psychology has gained so much popularity when investigating criminal behaviors. This has seen forensic psychologists take up crucial roles in the investigation of crimes and in assessing criminal minds in order to evaluate their thinking patterns. Forensic psychology has recently been quite famous as witnessed by the many programs such as crime novels and movies being showcased on the television for example criminal minds and Crime Scene Investigations (CSI)…

In modern societies, psychology is considered as the science of the mind or of the mental states and process. On the one hand, most psychologist agree with the fact that psychology is a real science and the research behind this discipline can be fully reliable using the appropriate scientific method. On the other hand, some people believe that psychology cannot be defined as a science because feelings, mental states and behaviours are not always defined with scientific evidences. It is my belief…