Social Science

The German word gestalt was first introduced to me in my Psych 101 college freshman class many, many years ago. Since then, and during my wartime Navy experiences and following 40-year career of writing advertising and sales promotion material for…
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The study and application of colour psychology is based on the premise that specific colours arouse predictable emotional and physical reactions, and even affect seemingly rational judgement. Thus, by selecting specific colours, a specific desired reaction can be evoked. Some…
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Human beings have contemplated the nature of mind for at least two and a half millennia. As far back as ancient Greece Plato was writing the Meno, a Socratic dialogue that investigated the nature of knowledge and knowledge acquisition and…
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Gestalt psychology, founded in Germany around 1912 by Max Wertheimer (1888-1943), and his colleagues, K. Koffka (1886-1941) and W. Kohler (1887-1967), is concerned with how people perceive things and how problems are solved. Gestalt psychology presented a strict departure from…
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B.F. Skinner: (1904-1990) with his Behaviorism theory is the number one in Kendra Van Wager’s “10 most influential Psychologist” article-written in 2002. After that she listed, sequentially, Sigmund Freud, Albert Bandura, Jean Piaget, Carl Rogers, William James, Eric Erickson, Ivan…
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Only a small percentage of psychiatrist are out of line and need be peer control, but even one out of line is too much. There are plenty of options if your psychiatrist is not what he is supposed to be,…
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Humans have a wide range of vulnerabilities that can affect them at various ages and stages of life. Two major issues that leave human beings vulnerable are poverty and chronic illness. The vulnerable could potentially be the most fragile in society; the very…
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EARLY YEARS Carl Rogers was born in 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was born to a large family being the fourth of six children. His childhood was not a happy experience primarily due to the fundamentalist Christian beliefs held…
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This is an opinion I have developed  from my observations and past experiences while dealing with foster children and people who come from unstable backgrounds.  People tend to use their past experiences as excuses that hold them back.  The way…
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Everyone excels in some subjects, and everyone does not do so hot in other subjects; this is is an obvious fact of life, but many people may not realize why this is so. Howard Gardner was a professor who studied…
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