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Personality Scale
What does the way you draw a tree reveal about your personality? That’s the premise behind the Baum Test — a projective personality assessment developed by Swiss psychologist Charles Koch in 1949. The idea is deceptively simple: the choices you make when sketching a tree, the shape of the trunk, how you draw the branches,…
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“I’m Getting Old” — And That Thought Might Be Killing You
Do you catch yourself saying “I’m getting old” more than you’d like to admit? Turns out, that habit might be doing more damage than you think. Psychologist Becca Levy of Yale has spent decades studying how our aging mindset — the beliefs we hold about what getting older actually means — shapes how we physically…
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Levels of Processing Activity
Levels of Processing: An Online Memory Activity Levels of Processing An Activity On How Your Memory Works You Are About to Run a Memory Study on Yourself Actors who memorize scripts don’t succeed by repeating lines over and over. Research shows they do something different: they focus on meaning. The deeper they process a line…
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The Psych Files – Most Popular Episodes
I’ll bet you’re looking for one of these episodes. They are my most popular and the ones that really make me proud (if you’re looking for some other previous episode/blog post on this site, please contact me at: mikrbritt at mac dot com):
AP Psych Terms
accommodation aging animal cognition assimilation Attractiveness Automatic processing biological bases of behavior bystander intervention Cognitive Dissonance Confounding variable Craik and Lockhart depression dopamine elaborative rehearsal encoding Evolutionary psychology First Impressions Framing health psychology Heuristic Humor Lawrence Kohlberg Leon Festinger levels of processing long-term memory memory mere exposure effect mood disorders narcissistic personality disorder neuroplasticity neurotransmitters Peripheral route persuasion Piaget pluralistic ignorance Selective Attention self-fulfilling prophecy sensation seeking social cognition social support stereotype threat