Fallacy List. 1. FAULTY CAUSE: (post hoc ergo propter hoc) mistakes correlation or association for causation, by assuming that because one thing follows another it was caused by the other. example: A black cat crossed Babbs' path yesterday and, sure enough, she was involved in an automobile accident later that same afternoon. example: The introduction of sex education courses at the high school level has resulted in increased promiscuity among teens. A recent study revealed that the number of reported cases of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) was significantly higher for high schools that offered courses in sex education than for high schools that did not. 2. SWEEPING GENERALIZATION: (dicto simpliciter) assumes that what is true of the whole will also be true of the part, or that what is true in most instances will be true in all instances. example: Muffin must be rich or have rich parents, because she belongs to ZXQ, and ZXQ is the richest sorority on campus. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Q&A: The Science Behind Psychic Phenomena. Psychiatric Drug Facts with Dr. Peter Breggin - HOME. 'Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences' by Robert Sapolsky. Wake up to nap time. Jill Murphy Long of Steamboat Springs, Colo., used to sneak naps. Her husband, she says, would occasionally find her asleep in the middle of the day. "He'd say, 'What are you doing? Are you sick? ' " The experience led Long, a former advertising executive turned yoga and ski instructor, to write a book for other tired women, called Permission to Nap. It was published in 2002. But these days, just about anyone who craves a midday snooze can find plenty of encouragement. •Greek adults who took regular naps were significantly less likely to die of heart disease than those who didn't in a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in February.
•Fast-living New Yorkers are paying $12 and up to nap at trendy sleep salons, the New York Times reported recently. •A psychologist who has spent her career studying naps is promoting a new book, Take a Nap: Change Your Life (Workman Publishing), which says napping is an underappreciated route to health and well-being. Share this story: Tetris effect. Screenshot of a tetromino game. People who play video puzzle games like this for a long time may see moving images like this at the edges of their visual fields, when they close their eyes, or when they are drifting off to sleep.
The Tetris effect (also known as Tetris Syndrome) occurs when people devote so much time and attention to an activity that it begins to pattern their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris. Other examples[edit] The Tetris effect can occur with other video games.[2] It has also been known to occur with non-video games, such as the illusion of curved lines after doing a jigsaw puzzle, or the involuntary mental visualisation of Rubik's Cube algorithms common amongst speedcubers.
On a perceptual level, sea legs are a kind of Tetris effect. ’Tain’t—so—bad—by—day because o’ company,But—night—brings—long—strings—o’ forty thousand million Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up an’ down again. Place in cognition[edit] L'effet Tetris[edit] Critical thinking web. Dunning–Kruger effect. Cognitive bias about one's own skill The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that describes the systematic tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability.
The term may also refer to the tendency of high performers to underestimate their skills. It was first identified by the psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of denoting specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas. The Dunning–Kruger effect has been demonstrated across multiple studies in a wide range of tasks from fields such as business, politics, medicine, driving, aviation, spatial memory, examinations in school, and literacy. The original study by Dunning and Kruger focused on logical reasoning, grammar, and social skills. Measurement, analysis, and investigated tasks [edit] Intelligent people have unnatural preferences and values that are novel in human evolution.
Issendai's Superhero Training Journal - How to keep someone with you forever. So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover they've ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace they've ever had, with challenging work, rewards for talent, initiative, and professional development, an excellent work/life balance, and good pay. But both of those options demand a lot from you. You create a sick system. A sick system has four basic rules: Rule 1: Keep them too busy to think. Rule 2: Keep them tired. This is also a corollary to keeping them too busy to think. Rule 3: Keep them emotionally involved.
Also note that if you set up a system in which personal loyalty and devotion are proof of your lover's worthiness as a person, you can make people love you. Rule 4: Reward intermittently. How do you do all this? Keep the crises rolling. But why wouldn't people eventually realize that the crises are a permanent state of affairs? PANIC! High Self-Perception, Low Brain Activity. By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 7, 2010 Researchers have discovered the less you use your brain’s frontal lobes, the more you see yourself through rose-colored glasses.
“In healthy people, the more you activate a portion of your frontal lobes, the more accurate your view of yourself is,” says Jennifer Beer, a University of Texas assistant professor of psychology. “And the more you view yourself as desirable or better than your peers, the less you use those lobes.” Those findings are being published in the February edition of the journal NeuroImage. The natural human tendency to see oneself in a positive light can be helpful and motivating in some situations but detrimental in others, Beer says. Her research, conducted at the university’s Imaging Research Center, gives new insight into the relationship among brain functions and human emotion and perceptions.
Source: University of Texas at Austin APA Reference Nauert, R. (2010). Can a mother's affection prevent anxiety in adulthood? Babies who receive above-average levels of affection from their mothers are less likely to grow up to be emotionally distressed. Adults who recieved above-average levels of affection were less likely to be anxious The study followed nearly 500 infants into their 30s The babies-turned-adults were interviewed about their levels of emotional distress The findings make a strong case for policies that would help foster positive interactions (Health.com) -- Babies whose mothers are attentive and caring tend to grow into happy, well-adjusted children. But the psychological benefits of having a doting mother may extend well beyond childhood, a new study suggests.
According to the study, which followed nearly 500 infants into their 30s, babies who receive above-average levels of affection and attention from their mothers are less likely than other babies to grow up to be emotionally distressed, anxious, or hostile adults. Health.com: Feeling stressed? Health.com: Boost your mood naturally. On-Line Cognitive Therapy Program - Australian National University. Cognitive therapy was developed by Aaron Beck in the 1970s. It grew from empirical and theoretical work undertaken in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. To use Aaron Beck’s words: "Cognitive therapy... is based on an underlying theoretical rationale that an individual’s affect and behaviour are largely determined by the way in which he structures the world".
(Beck, A, Rush, JA, Shaw, BF, Emery, G 1979 Cognitive Therapy of Depression) Cognitive therapy programs train people to replace maladaptive cognitive styles with helpful thinking patterns and increase behavioral coping skills. There is extensive evidence that cognitive therapy, or cognitive behavior therapy is an effective treatment of mild to moderate depression. What Is MoodGym? MoodGYM is an interactive web program designed to prevent and decrease depressive symptoms. Feelings Module The Feelings module takes about 20 minutes to complete. There are four exercises for you to complete in this module. The Power of Saying "I Don't Know" - VerticalResponse. Column by Janine Popick, Inc.com "Girl Power Female CEO's" February 11, 2010 Imagine six business colleagues in a meeting and the leader of the meeting says: "Did everyone get the TPS report?
" Everyone in the room nods. If you have no clue what a TPS report is and you’re like me, you raise your hand and say, "At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I don’t know what a TPS report is, can you elaborate? " The leader then elaborates and you see a sign of quiet calm come over all of the people that now know what a TPS report is, because you asked. They wouldn’t risk looking like an idiot or risk showing a sign of weakness, but you actually showed a sign of strength. In today's ultra competitive work environment, many people feel the need to be "super workers" and have an answer to every question. I once worked with a guy who was a stereotypical Sales Shark! In another incident, I was recently on a conference call with someone who was trying to get our business.
Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church / The victims. Abuse victims not afraid to share their anger at meeting By Thomas Farragher, Globe Staff, 7/3/2003 The meeting had been hastily arranged. Its agenda was open-ended. And, as participants sipped iced water and soft drinks, its tone was unusually blunt. ''I'm the victim of Father James Porter, and my son is a victim of Father John Geoghan. And I want you to understand that everybody's tired of this situation, and it has to be resolved -- and resolved immediately,'' Thomas Fulchino of Weston said he told O'Malley at the Tuesday afternoon meeting at a first-floor conference room at the archdiocesan residence. By then the Vatican's announcement that O'Malley would succeed Cardinal Bernard F. He nodded as Fulchino spoke. ''There have been two guys who got up to bat before you, and both of them have struck out,'' Fulchino continued.
Bernie McDaid, who says he was abused by the Rev. ''I just turned to him and said, `So, Sean, don't blow it,' '' McDaid said. ''He said: `I know who you are. Does Spiritual Awakening Have "Symptoms"? It does according to Karen Bishop: 1. Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. There is something called the Triad Sleep Pattern that occurs for many: you sleep for about 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for another couple of hours, wake again, and go back to sleep again. For others, the sleep requirements have changed.
You can get by on less sleep. Lately I have been experiencing huge waves of energy running into my body from the crown. Advice: Get used to it. 2. Advice: This is nothing to be alarmed about. 3. Advice: Accept your feelings as they come up and let them go. 4. Advice: Same as #3. 5. Advice: Don't freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. 6. Advice: Don't deny what your body tells you it needs. 7. 8. 8a. Advice: Your vision is changing in many ways -- you are experiencing new ways of seeing. 8b. Advice: Surrender to it. 8c. Can You Overcome the Ego? Wayne Dyer Thinks So... Here are seven suggestions to help you transcend ingrained ideas of self-importance.
All of these are designed to help prevent you from falsely identifying with the self-important ego. 1. Stop being offended. The behavior of others isn’t a reason to be immobilized. That which offends you only weakens you. 2. Ego loves to divide us up into winners and losers. You’re not your winnings or your victories. 3. Ego is the source of a lot of conflict and dissension because it pushes you in the direction of making other people wrong. When you let go of the need to be right, you’re able to strengthen your connection to the power of intention. 4. True nobility isn’t about being better than someone else. 5. The mantra of ego is more. The universal Source is content with itself, constantly expanding and creating new life, never trying to hold on to its creations for its own selfish means. 6. This may be a difficult concept if you think you are your achievements.
Grief Counseling After the Death of a Parent. On January 24, my mother turned 79. Given her love of Catholicism, I sent her chocolates, a ceramic plaque that read peace be with you, and a card showing a photograph of two old nuns in traditional garb, laughing, with the words "Happy birthday! Here's to another year of bad habits! " Our telephone conversation that afternoon was brief, as my mother wasn't wearing her hearing aid, and I would be getting on a plane later in the week to visit her. She was excited and happy because, as she so often said, "I've been lonely for you. " Nine days later, my mother died. Months pass, but every day feels as if she died the day before. I go to bed hoping to dream of her, but my dreams are empty, and I wake from fitful sleep in a panic, my heart thudding.
The rush of comforting friends keeping me fed and flowered and feeling loved eventually wanes, as it should. I venture downtown to my pal Joanna's for dinner. Joanna has a better idea. "Thanks, Jo," I say, handing it back. "Dr. Female Depression - ELLE Investigates Why Women are Unhappy in Life. At long last, it's been scientifically, mathematically, and economically proven: Women are kinda bummed out.
And not just since the unemployment rate started creeping toward 10 percent; we have been sinking into this funk for the past 35 years. According to a perplexing new study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, women have experienced a steady erosion in happiness since the early 1970s, such that, while we used to test as happier than men, we are now notably less stoked than the hairier sex. The finding holds across many different polls and no matter how you slice the data—whether you are married, single, teenaged, elderly, rich or poor, American or European, a single mother or a child-free career gal—if you have two X chromosomes you are, statistically speaking, probably less happy than the dudes you know (who have become slightly more happy than they used to be, though still not as happy as women were in 1972).