Brain Pickings 5 Bad Habits You Can Blame Your Brain For We all have a few bad habits. Fortunately for you (and the rest of the human race), it's only partially your fault. Your brain works in mysterious ways, and not always to your advantage. In fact, it's really good at producing special "biases" that make all those terrible habits of yours such a problem. We can't help you with your inability to put the toilet seat down or the fact that you somehow still smoke (seriously, quit already!) 1. Do you tend to be a bit of a know-it-all or pushy when it comes to the things you like? There's actually a reason you feel the need to so adamantly defend your favorite things; it's called choice-supportive bias, and it leads you to believe that the things you choose to support — whether it's a football team or your decision to quit your job — are the best. Bottom Line: Sometimes you're stubborn because you support something that has become a part of you. 2. Your boss has heard it all: Traffic was awful. 3. 4. Not a gambler? 5. Wrong.
Psychology magpie | Psychology in everyday places Psychlology Teaching Resources from psychlotron.org.uk Introduction to Psychology Syllabus Professor Paul Bloom, Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology Description What do your dreams mean? Texts Gray, Peter. Requirements Exams: There is a mid-term and a final. Reading Responses: Starting on the third week of class, you will submit a short reading response every week. Book Review: You will write one book review. Experimental participation: All Introductory Psychology students serve as subjects in experiments. Grading Reading responses: 15%Book review: 20%Midterm examination: 30%Final examination: 35% Join a Study Group Through a pilot arrangement with Open Yale Courses, OpenStudy offers tools to participate in online study groups for a selection of Open Yale Courses, including PSYC 110. View study group OpenStudy is not affiliated with Yale University.
Lasting Relationships Rely On 2 Traits Gottman wanted to know more about how the masters created that culture of love and intimacy, and how the disasters squashed it. In a follow-up study in 1990, he designed a lab on the University of Washington campus to look like a beautiful bed-and-breakfast retreat. He invited 130 newlywed couples to spend the day at this retreat and watched them as they did what couples normally do on vacation: cook, clean, listen to music, eat, chat, and hang out. Throughout the day, partners would make requests for connection, what Gottman calls “bids.” The wife now has a choice. People who turned toward their partners in the study responded by engaging the bidder, showing interest and support in the bid. These bidding interactions had profound effects on marital well-being. “There’s a habit of mind that the masters have,” Gottman explained in an interview, “which is this: They are scanning social environment for things they can appreciate and say ‘thank you’ for.
Learning Visually | Living the Dream Infographics work in the classroom because they grab students and allow an entry point to learning — and because they sum up pages and pages, even chapters, of information that would take a reader hours to process. Interactive infographics make kids want to immediately start clicking around to see what’s what. For a teacher who prioritizes an inquiry-driven classroom, that’s a great starting point. Infographics and Data visualization are not just for consumption though, teachers and students can also challenge the learning process by creating original graphics for themselves. Go here –> Consuming the information is one portion of the equation when discussing data visualization. There are elements of design to evaluate as well as functionality/clarity of purpose. … classroom examples of consumption graphics … classroom examples of interactive consumption graphics Tools for creation… Data to play with…
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