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      What is personality?    Personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving. The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole. How is personality tested? In order to study and measure personality, psychologists have developed a number of different personality tests, assessments, and inventories. Many of these tests are widely used in a variety of settings. For example, the famous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is frequently used.  In 1936, psychologist Gordon Allport found that one English-language dictionary alone contained more than 4,000 words describing different personality traits. He categorized these traits into three levels: Cardinal Traits: These are traits that domi...

The nature vs. nurture debate within psychology is a product of either inherited (genetic) or acquired (learned) characteristics.  Nature refers to all of the genes and hereditary factors that influence who we are—from our physical appearance to our personality characteristics. Nurture refers to all the environmental variables that impact who we are, including our early childhood experiences, how we were raised, our social relationships, and our surrounding culture. The nature-nurture debate is concerned with the relative contribution that both influences make to human behavior. 1) High Blood Pressure & Obesity  An example of this debate is whether high blood pressure and obesity is a health risk that is passed genetically from parent to child. Nurture proponents point to the poor eating habits that cause obesity and the limited ability to regulate personal habits that lead to high blood pressure. 2) Personality The development of personality is of...

By interviewing my mom, I realized adults and teens really do differ in many ways. Teenagers can look like adults, dress like adults, and even act like adults at times; sometimes, it might be hard to tell the teenagers from adults (and other times it isn’t hard at all). But it’s also crucial to remember that their brains are wired completely differently. It’s long been known that at the end of the day, teenagers just don’t think like adults, and that’s because the different sections of their brains aren’t connected the way they will be once they’ve matured a little more. Most specifically, teenagers lack many of the nerve connections that tie the frontal lobe to the rest of the brain, limiting their ability to think ahead. My mom made really good references and was a great person to interview because she currently has 2 teenage kids and she also used to teach teenagers. “Well, no,” you have to say, “your brain is sometimes an explanation; it’s never an excuse.” ― Frances E. ...

What is the color of this dress?  CLICK HERE FOR POLL  http://pollmaker.vote/p/0Z9PRK4P Remember "the dress", a hugely controversial issue that was all across social media? So, how do we know what the actual color of the dress is? Scientists have done research and how our brain perceives these colors.  According to Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who teaches at Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the differences in color perception are probably due to assumptions the brain makes about the illumination of the garment so that it will appear the same under different lighting, a property known as color constancy. People who saw the dress as a white-gold color probably assumed it was lit by daylight, so their brains ignored shorter, bluer wavelengths. Those who saw it as a blue-black shade assumed a warm, artificial light, so their brains ignored longer, redder wavelengths. Those who saw the dress as a blue-brown color probably...

Article:  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/20/long-distance-relationships-2013/2568295/ This article was a very interesting read, especially for someone currently in a long-distance relationship. I could not have agreed more to the research and thoughts of the psychologists of this idea. Of course, long distance is not for everyone, but personally, I believe that long distance should not affect the relationship if a couple is truly in love. Also, like the article stated, with today’s technology it is more than possible to maintain a healthy relationship. The idea of this psychological research positively influences our everyday life. From the studies, it may give couples hope and an even more positive outlook on the situation they may be in. Through research, society may have different opinions on something once perceived in a different way. A psychological study that fascinated me was the study that falling in love takes one-fifth of a seco...

⇧LARGEST PART OF THE BRAIN  ⇧ Consists of: cerebrum  thalamus  hypothalamus (part of the limbic system) Limbic System: Forebrain structures involved with emotions, drives, memory, and psychological functions In the late 2015 movie, Concussion ,Will Smith plays real-life doctor Bennet Omalu. In 2005, Omalu found CTE, an Alzheimer's-like brain disease, in former football players. The disease was known to occur in people who had experienced repeated hits to the head, such as boxers usually as they enter their 40s to 70s. But a disturbing new study now reports CTE in a young college football player. Watch this segment of the movie Concussion to get an idea of what happens to a football players brain explained by Will Smith:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlbgVdDES1A Visual of what Will Smith is explaining   *When the cerebral cortex is damaged it can link to substance abuse, dementia, and suicide* CTE is ...