Category Psychology
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Cognitive development of children
Research suggests that Piaget’s ideas about Preoperational children were not entirely correct. When young children are tested using ideas and objects that are familiar to their everyday lives, they are better able to demonstrate their abilities.
Author Jyoti
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How children's body grow
A third pattern is muscles develop from the center of the body first and then toward the outside of the body called proximodistal law. Muscles around the trunk of the body develop earlier and are stronger than muscles in the hands, feet, etc.
Author Jyoti
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Cluster A personality disorders
Individuals in this cluster A tend to experience major disruptions in relationships.
Author Jyoti
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Causes of abnormal behavior
Since the dawn of civilization, people have tried to understand the causes of abnormal behavior. In the middle ages, for example, people with unusual behavior were seen as controlled by evil beings. Now a day’s many researchers adopted the Biopsychosocial model of abnormal behavior.
Author Jyoti
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Social Loafing
Social loafing is the manifestation of reduced motivation and effort that occur when individuals work collectively in a group compared to when they work individually as independent co-actors. Social psychologists refer to such effects as ‘social loafing’ .
Author Jyoti
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Theory of Correspondent Inference
Theory of Correspondent Inference was developed by Jones and Davis (1965) It is concerned with how we decide based on others’ overt actions.
Author Jyoti
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Study of emotions
Every aspect of human behavior passes through a pattern of development resulting in changes as the individual grows from childhood to adulthood. Emotions are not an exception. The basic developmental process is common in a general way for all individuals.
Author Jyoti
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Genetic influences on behavior
Heredity plays an important role in many disorders, including anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia. Whether a predisposition becomes expressed in a person’s life may depend on environmental factors such as the quality of the family relationship or the level of life stress.
Author Jyoti
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Investment and confluence theory of creativity
Sternberg drew a parallel between market investment and being creative. The theory claims that creativity can be developed — it is not necessarily linked to genetics.
Author Jyoti