Psychology Archive

In the small film below, Jerry Andress Shows a few amazing optical illusions. We can call this perception failure:
"The wonderful brain interprets something different as it actually is but it doesn’t mean that it made a mistake. It took the information that it had and did it’s best job"

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Mindomo is a versatile Web-based mind mapping tool, delivering the capabilities of desktop mind mapping software in a Web browser - with no complex software to install or maintain. The application is based on Flash.  Mindomo  offers several solutions. The free solution allows only to store 7 privates maps online.
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Caffeine replacement Brainwave

The Brainwave coffe replacement by Anabubula is now a popular digg story. It’s a 20 minutes mp3 file that is suppose to have the same effect as coffe on your brain. I tried it once in the afternoon. And I was not sleepy. So it worked for me. The digg users comments are interesting, to […]

How to be creative?

hugh macleod of gapingvoid wrote a very long and interesting post with some tips to be creative. I reproduce below the summary and some cartoons that I found insightful:
1. Ignore everybody

2. The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to change the world.
3. Put the hours in.
4. If your biz plan depends on […]

How do we learn?

There is a great post on Lifehack about learning. We find in the post a quote attributed to psychologist William Glasser to keep in mind when we prepare a training:
We Learn…
10%…of What We Read
20%…of What We Hear
30%…of What We See
50%…of What We See and Hear
70%…of What We Discuss With Others
80%…of What We Experience Personally
95%…of What […]

Habits Of Mind

I found via Juice Analytics, a very good education web site called Habits of Mind. The web site provides resources for Educators and teachers. The “Habits of Mind” concept has been developed by Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick:“A Habit of Mind is knowing how to behave intelligently when you DON’T know the answer.” So it’s the […]

Anthony Robbins presents in “Unlimited Power” what he calls the seven lies of success. Those ‘lies’ are empowering beliefs that help us to have better reactions in everyday life. They are listed below with some comments:

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it must serve us. You might think about this ‘lie’ if […]

An article from “San Francisco Chronicle” based on a Walter Mischel experiment, states  that Selt-control is the key to success. For this experiment 4 years old children are left in a room with a marshmallow and a bell. If they rang the bell, the scientist would come back and they could eat the marshmallow. If however […]