Social Science

You walk into the interview, or you walk onto the sports field, and you are clearly not the best out there. You don’t have the experience, or you don’t have the track record to make people think that you are…
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WHAT IS BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY Biological Psychology, also known as Behavioural Neuroscience looks at the relationship the brain has with the mind, consciousness and behaviour and their integration. The human brain has been the centre of fascination since 1955, when physicist…
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Harsh words can not only destroy any relationship, they can kill. The death of the very talented singer, Karen Carpenter, first came to mind when thinking of how words hurt. Children are vulnerable and believe most everything they hear, even…
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The brain contains a network of more than 100 billion neurons each linked to 10,000 other neurons which is the control center for the central nervous system. Responsible for behavior, cognitive and electrochemical neuronal processes. This organ is bathed in…
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I often wonder how many people who write articles on depression, have had first hand experiences of this awful, dark, lonely frame of mind. “Professional” people draw their conclusions mainly on second hand information. They have studied the works of…
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Shopping is great for what it is worth but the older you become the more your goals change with shopping and the way in which it brings about instant gratification (if at all), is remarkably different. The true shopaholic may…
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The use and abuse of drugs and alcohol (substances) can offer a means to escape the pressures of life, or reality, but it is always at a cost to the user. It is important to remember that there are different…
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was a psychological revolutionary in American psychology and education. The most celebrated psychologist since Sigmund Freud, Skinner believed that given the chance, most people can make themselves into anything they want….
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In a society that favors instant gratification using drugs and alcohol to help deal with reality fits perfectly. With online shopping, downloadable movies and music, speed dating, chat rooms, dating and porn sites galore people have learned that anything they…
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I am a highly sensitive individual. I will cry for other’s disappointments. I also cry for their overwhelming joys. In essence I feel the essence of others. Sometimes my sensitivity may be bothersome to others and sometimes it’s a nuisance…
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