<?xml encoding=”UTF-8″> Have you ever doubted something? And you’re like, yeah, I hear people talking about that. But then you experience it and you’re like, I’m a believer. I’m in. I’m all in on this. That’s where I’m at with total solar eclipses. Back in 2017, I met a guy here locally. His name…
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Operant conditioning is based on the idea that we can increase or decrease a certain behavior by adding a consequence. For example, if a dog poops on a carpet, we can reinforce to do it again or punishment to stop it. Both reinforcement and punishment can be positive or negative, which means we…
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Freud’s theory of psychosexual development states that, as we grow up, we go through five critical phases. Our sexual impulse, which Freud called libido, is concentrated in a different erogenous zone. In each phase, The phases are called oral, anal phallic, latent, and genital. If our experience during any of these phases…
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For my father, intelligence was all that matters Ever since my brother, Charles, was diagnosed to be a gifted child. All he talked about were IQ and intelligence. Research, W a high IQ, strongly predicts good grades, a good career, and even health and mortality stuff. His favorite story is Kim Ung…
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The unconscious mind is amazing: it has vastly more information than our conscious mind by using shortcuts, based on our background cultural environment, and personal experiences, to make almost instantaneous decisions about everything around us. The snag: is it wrong? Quite a lot of the time, especially on matters that need rational thinking here.’s…
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– [Narrator] Hey, Psych2Goers. Would you know where to start if someone asked you to describe yourself? Personality is complicated, but fortunately, psychologists have come up with five key factors to assess it. OCEAN is an acronym relating to a person’s openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism, respectively. To better understand what OCEAN is…
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Motivation is the experience of wanting something or wanting to avoid it. When we study how we get motivated to learn, develop, and succeed, we can identify two contrary forces: extrinsic and intrinsic ones On the one hand, we want to belong, desire to be loved, and seek to get the attention we think we…
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Motivation is the experience of wanting something or wanting to avoid it. When we study how we get motivated to learn, develop and succeed, we can identify two: contrary forces extrinsic and intrinsic ones. On the one hand, we want to belong desire to be loved, and seek to get the attention we…
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Upbeat instrumental music, loud dinging, Hey Psych2Goers and welcome back to our channel. Thank you so much for all the love that you’ve, given us Before we begin. We’d also like to give a quick shout-out to all of our subscribers who have joined our YouTube membership. We’re so thankful for all the support…
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In psychology, the dark triad represents three personality traits: Narcissism, Psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. If we were to ask the three, “who has the darkest personality?” The Narcissist would say “me”, the Psychopath would say, “I don’t care” and the Machiavellian would say “it’s whoever I want it to be”. People scoring high on the…
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