Deric Bownds' MindBlog Adventure Club APS Wikipedia Initiative More than 3,300 psychological scientists and their students have joined the APS Wikipedia Initiative (APSWI) by editing and rating article quality and students, under the supervision of their professors, are using Wikipedia entries as course writing assignments. The goal of APSWI is to make information about psychology on Wikipedia as complete and accurate as possible. APS is calling on you to support the Association’s mission to deploy the power of Wikipedia to represent psychological science as fully as possible and thereby to promote the free teaching of psychology worldwide. Why Wikipedia? Teaching with Wikipedia The easiest way to improve psychology on Wikipedia is to make editing articles part of a course writing assignment, in which students contribute content to Wikipedia in place of a traditional research paper. Students gain valuable experience from writing Wikipedia articles: Other Ways to Help Become a Volunteer Editor. Become a Volunteer Rater. Ready to get started?
Teen Brain Vulnerability Exposed Experiences mold and change the brain, but never more so than during childhood, when the brain is rapidly building connections between brain cells. This process can be modified by all kinds of experiences, and is called synaptic plasticity. Although the brain is less “plastic” in adolescence than in childhood, the changes occurring in the teen brain increase its susceptibility to both good and bad stimuli in the environment. Reward Hungry The remodeling of the brain takes place at different stages, with the back of the brain maturing ahead of the front. Studies in humans and animals show adolescents react more strongly to reward than adults and children. Animal research suggests drugs and alcohol exploit teens’ weakness to resist rewards, and can lead to changes in the brain that last long into adulthood. Exposure to large quantities of alcohol during adolescence can also permanently alter how the body responds to stress during adulthood, other animal studies show. Troubled Mind
TechPsych Courtkneecap - Freestyle Writing Self-realization and Psychological Disturbances, by Roberto Assagioli By Roberto Assagioli , Source: Psychosynthesis Research Foundation. Issue No. 10 See all english psychosynthesis articles on Kentaur Training The study of the psychopathological aspects of human nature has contributed a vast mass of observations, theories and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. It has produced the widespread psychoanalytic movement and other aspects of dynamic psychology which have greatly enlarged and deepened our knowledge of the human psyche. However, this pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated emphasis on the morbid manifestations and on the lower aspects of human nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings. These limitations have been realized in recent times by a growing number of investigators who have started a healthy reaction. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2.
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