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		<title>Modern Psychology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["I am really not only a man of practice whatsoever....I'm practically nothing but a conquistador by temperament, an adventurer."

(Sigmund Freud, letter to Fleiss, 1900)

"If you deliver forth that which can be in you, that which you produce forth will be your salvation".

(The Gospel of Thomas)

"No, our practice is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science are not able to give us we are unable to get elsewhere."

(Sigmund Freud, "The Long term of an Illusion")

Harold Bloom called Freud "The central imagination of our age". That psychoanalysis will not be a scientific concept within a strict, rigorous sense of this word has extended been established.]]></description>
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		<title>Montessori Approach (Basic)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Child Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maria Montessori was born in the town of Chiaravalle (province of Ancona, Italy) in 1870. She became the first female physician in Italy upon her graduation from medical school in 1896. Then, she was chosen to represent Italy at two different woman's conferences, in Berlin in 1896 and in London in 1900.

Her clinical observations led her to analyze how children learn, and she concluded that they build themselves from what they find in their environment.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Has it Taken 40 Years to Discover How to Improve IQ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Cognitive Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1950s, Professor Jensen - a leading authority on intelligence - concluded that nothing could be done to improve our IQ level - that it was fixed from early childhood. This was the scientific consensus. Numerous studies investigating the effect of different types of cognitive training over the past 40 years have not done much to change this view - that is, until 2008 when a team of cognitive psychologists from Bern, Switzerland and Michigan, United States, demonstrated that a very specific type of cognitive training can improve IQ dramatically.

Why has it taken 40 years to discover how to improve IQ?

It is only thanks to recent insights from cognitive psychology about the nature of short term memory and its importance in cognitive functioning have at last enabled a training exercise to be engineered that improves IQ.]]></description>
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		<title>The Origins of Psychology &#8211; Psyche and Logos</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Behavioral Psychology Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From two Greek words: psyche, which means the mind or the soul and logos, which means study, the science of Psychology has been studied and defined by many people throughout the ages. Hilgard, Morgan, Silverman, and Schlesinger are just a few. A careful analysis of their foregoing definitions of psychology reveals common points: Psychology is the scientific study of the behaviors of living organisms; the term behavior must not be solely attributed to man's physical reactions and observable behavior; and thoughts, feelings, and attitudes are also connected to the term behavior.

The primary goals of Psychology are mainly to describe, identify, understand and explain behavior, to know its factors, and to control or change behavior.]]></description>
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		<title>What is Intelligence? The Three Main Theories of Intelligence &#8211; Two Good, One Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about a person's 'intelligence' it is not generally clear what underlying ability or abilities this term refers to. This article is intended to clarify in layman's terms what psychologists and brain scientists can mean by intelligence. Basically, there are two good theories--and scientists are divided on which is the best theory--and one bad one which all scientists I know of reject.]]></description>
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		<title>Dream Therapy &#8211; Dreams Can Be Emotional Problem Solvers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should we bother with dreams?Aren't dreams just nonsense...just neurons randomly firing? 

 Evolution has selected for dreaming. Sleep researchers tell us that all humans and many animals dream several times every night. Dream sleep is so important that experimental subjects prevented from experiencing REM sleep, the part the sleep in which dreams occur, begin to hallucinate after just a couple of nights of deprivation.]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams and Psychotherapy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should we bother with dreams?Aren't dreams just nonsense...just neurons randomly firing? 

 Evolution has selected for dreaming. Sleep researchers tell us that all humans and many animals dream several times every night. Dream sleep is so important that experimental subjects prevented from experiencing REM sleep, the part the sleep in which dreams occur, begin to hallucinate after just a couple of nights of deprivation.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>The Epistemic Gap, Psychology, and the Scientific Method</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1972, Thomas Nagel first introduced what is now known as the "epistemic gap" amongst contemporary philosophers. It was described in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" and the gist of the argument was this: one cannot fully understand the mind unless one is experiencing that mind.

Nagel took the example of a bat because bats are so fascinatingly different than humans; they hang upside down most of the time, use echolocation, they are nocturnal, and most eat nothing but insects. Could a human ever convincingly claim that he knew what it was like to be a bat? Nagel didn't believe this was possible - I agree.

Can the same be true amongst humans? Can another human fully understand the mind of another, or, does one have to be in the first-person to understand the mind more clearly?

Philosopher Frank Jackson wrote a paper in 1982 titled "Epiphenomenal Qualia" where he introduced the famous thought experiment known as Mary's room.]]></description>
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		<title>Hypothalamus &#8211; Role in Motivation and Behaviour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Behaviour is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all." Ian Tattersall (from Becoming Human.Evolution and Human Uniqueness, 1998)

The question of why we are motivated to certain behaviours is perhaps one of the most fundamental in Psychology. Since Pavlov described conditioning in dogs in his famous 1927 paper, scientists have pondered the origins of motivations that drive us to action. For most of the early twentieth century, behaviourists like Watson &#038; Skinner sought to explain behaviour in terms of external physical stimuli, suggesting that learned responses, hedonic reward and reinforcement were motives to elicit a particular behaviour.]]></description>
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