Almost everyone imagines things that they can see and hear. More than half of us can picture how things move, feel, taste, or smell. So, mental images in your mind aren’t always just “a
On average, African American children in the US scored 15 points lower than European American kids on standardized IQ tests in the past. Children of Japanese Americans as a whole had IQs that were
What is Interpersonal Attraction? Interpersonal attraction is the basis for most voluntary social relationships. To form friendships, we must first identify potential friends and then get to know
What is Rehabilitation Psychology? Rehabilitation psychology is an integrated set of treatments that help people with disabilities, and long-term health problems interact in their daily lives in
There are two main parts to a person’s sense of touch. One of them, the cutaneous or tactile system, uses mechanical and thermal receptors. These receptors are built into the skin to get
Around the end of the 1950s, there was a lot of concern about advertising. People discovered a way to show ads that could change people’s behavior without their realizing it. At that time, a
Creolization is the process of combining parts of different cultures to make a new culture. In Spanish, the word “creole” was first used in 1590 to mean “Spaniard born in the New
If you want to influence operant learning, you will need to know how patterns of reinforcement affect behavior. In operant learning, Imagine, for example, that a mother wants to reward her child for
Observing someone’s body language is one of the simplest methods to interpret their behavior. This is one of the first things to learn if you want to know how to analyze people in different
Before you can understand other people, you must figure out who you are. The more you learn about yourself, the easier it will be to understand other people. When you have
