10 Things You Should Know About Psychology
10. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior Psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior. The term comes from the Greek word psyche meaning “breath” , ” spirit” and ” soul”. The -logy part is derived from logia, meaning “study of.” It emerged from biology and philosophy and is closely linked to other disciplines such as sociology, medicine, linguistics and anthropology. 9. Psychology offers a range of career options Just a few of the possible career options include clinical psychology, developmental psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive neuroscience, forensic or health psychology and industrial-organizational psychology. 8. Psychology and scientific methods A common myth about...
Top 10 Places I’ve Been
In my short life I have already traveled a bit and have already seen quite some of the world. I won’t number these because I don’t want to rank them. These are all amazing places. I wish I could go back to many of them, but there’s still so much of the world to explore! I will include many pictures in this post. Many will be pictures I have made, but I don’t have (good) pictures of all these places so some I will take from the net. Click on them to enlarge them! Additionally, I will create links to the Wikipedia pages, in case you’d like to read more about any of these places. Southern France In 2009, my boyfriend (Tim) and I made a trip through Southern France by car. Although we visited many places, four particular ones stick out to...
Top 10 Most Influential Psychologists
In 2002, the American Psychological Association created a ranking of the 99 most influential psychologists . The rankings were based on amount of journal citations, introductory textbook citations. They also surveyed the 1725 members of the APA. The following list is an overview of that ranking survey. These are not just well-known people, they all made a significant contribution to psychology and our collective understanding of human behavior. They play an important role in the history of psychology. The attempt of this list was not to name who was the best, but instead focuses on the influence their work has had on psychology and on the culture as we now understand it. 10. Carl Jung Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist. He was an influential thinker...
Top 5 of Most Used Illegal Recreational Drugs
Worldwide, there are an estimated amount of nearly 400 million drug users. Today, I list what their favorite (illegal) drugs are. These data are taken from the World Drugs Report (2010) by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 5. Cocaine It’s estimated that there are, globally, between 15,07 million and 19,38 million people who used cocaine over the year 2009. Cocaine is particularly popular in Northern America, where most of the users are located (6,17 million users). It’s also popular in West/Central-Europe. Interestingly, although close to the source of cocaine cultivation and manufacture, cocaine is relatively unpopular in Central America and the Caribbean, where the estimate lies between 110 and 320 thousand users. 4. Ecstasy (aka MDMA,...
Top 10 Death Traps for Psychologists
From early on in their training, psychologists are taught that they have certain “cognitive biases” to overcome. Like every other human, psychologists observe people and judge them by certain beliefs, ideas or attitudes they have. Because diagnosing people with a certain disorder is an enormous responsibility, they have to make sure they don’t judge them incorrectly. For instance, when an eccentric looking man, who speaks incoherently and in odd language, you might be easy to attribute it to a psychotic disorder, but it might as well be a schizoid personality disorder, which is something different altogether. These two disorders require very different sorts of treatment and if the person is misdiagnosed, it could be very harmful. Consequently,...
Top 10 Drugs Movies
I’ve always enjoyed movies about drugs. Somehow, to me, it’s not surprising that I find drugs criminality the most interesting field of criminology. Since I’m currently doing the Drugs Trafficking series, I thought I’d share my favorite movies on drugs*. Go see all of them, if you haven’t yet! I took the plot summaries from IMDb and you can click the titles of the movies to go to their IMDb pages! If you click the “trailer” link behind the title, you’ll be sent to a youtube trailer of the movie. *This list is not organized by the quality of the movies, but by how much drugs the movie characters use… 10 . Pulp Fiction (1994) (Trailer) Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson,...
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