Psychology

Psychological Research Crash Course Psychology

Can week-old pizza cause psychedelic hallucinations? Does coffee make you smarter? Or does it just make you do dumb stuff faster? Like a bunch of psychology itself, questions like this can seem pretty intuitive. I mean, people may not be the easiest organisms to understand, but you’re a person, right? So, you must be qualified […]

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Top Psychology Trends for 2023

Psychologists are increasingly being called on to help solve some of the greatest challenges we face as a society. In 2023, the American Psychological Association sees this trend accelerating along with other major changes to the field.1. Psychological Research Becomes More Inclusive: Psychologists are challenging traditional thinking about their research, including how it is conducted

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Amazing Psychological Facts About Human Behavior Transcript

When you are ignored by someone you strongly care about, the reaction in your brain is similar to physical pain. Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life.68% of the people suffer from Phantom Vibration Syndrome, the feeling that one’s phone is vibrating when it’s

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Methods of Testing in Psychology: Observation, Self-Report, and Experimentation Transcript

Speaker spk_0    00:00:00 He knows a lot about the science stuff, Professor Dave Explains. Professor Dave    00:00:06 All sciences use the scientific method to understand how something works. Scientists use models to make predictions, collect data and then see if the data ultimately support their predictions. In the case of psychology, we are trying to understand how

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Imperfect Perception: Illusions, Gestalt Principles of Grouping, and Language Relativism Transcript

Dave Farina 00:06 Before we can talk about how the mind works, we need to understand how the mind gets information. Sensation, or how we acquire information about the world through our senses, is one of the building blocks of psychology. Perception then steps in, making sense of the information received through sensation and turning it into something useful.

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A Brief History of Psychology: From Plato to Pavlov Transcript

Dave Farina 00:00:06 If we are going to learn psychology, we actually have to start with a little bit of history first. Now, you may be wondering why a psychology series is starting with a history lesson. Well, it turns out that what we consider to be psychology today is very different than what was

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Introduction to Psychology Transcript

Speaker spk_0    00:00:00 He knows a lot about the science stuff. Professor Dave Explains. Professor Dave    00:00:06 In the Biopsychology series, we took a deep dive into the human brain. We talked about the structure of the brain as well as the process by which specialized cells called neurons transmit information throughout the body via action potentials

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Jordan Peterson Reveals The Psychology Behind Selling Anything Transcript

Jordan Peterson 00:00:03 You can’t really create a product and then launch it because first of all, you don’t know how to do that. You might know how to create the product, but you do not know how to market or sell it. You don’t know how to advertise it. You don’t know how to

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