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The Purpose of Dreams
Posted on February 23, 2008 | No CommentsDreams may be the one way that our brain organizes and stores our memories. The time we spend dreaming could be a period when the brain can reorganize and review our day’s events and connect our new experiences to older ones. During dream time, the... -
Describe Hindsight Bias
Posted on February 23, 2008 | No CommentsWhen interviewing job candidates, many interviewers tend to be overconfident of their gut feelings about the job applicants. The overconfidence stems from past cases where their hunches have proved right in the past. Maybe a job applicant did all of the right things to present... -
thinking critically about psychology
Posted on February 23, 2008 | No CommentsAll science is based on curiosity, a passion to explore and understand without misleading or being misled. For example, is there life after death? Do ghosts and demons really exist? When it comes to questions related to paranormal psychology there are more skeptics than believers.... -
Sexual Immorality
Posted on February 21, 2008 | No CommentsSeveral studies by Ames (1997), Gladue (1990), and Meyer-Bahlburg (1995) conclude that there is a critical period in a fetus’ development that predisposes the person to be attracted to a particular sex later in life. This critical period has to do with the brain’s neural-hormonal...