PsychNut: Non-Credit Psychology Courses

18 Physiological Psych

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:10 +0000

There are so many interesting areas of psychology. Here’s an intro into physiological psychology.

If You Know Nothing About Physiological Psychology

17 Albino Eyes Part 5

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:00:50 +0000

To explain the parts of the eye and how they work, let’s take a look at my eyes. You’ll learn how your eyes work and how they differ form mine. We’ll start at the front and work our way back.

Part 5 of An Albino’s Guide

16 Albino Eyes Part 4

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:43 +0000

To explain the parts of the eye and how they work, let’s take a look at my eyes. You’ll learn how your eyes work and how they differ form mine. We’ll start at the front and work our way back.

Part 4 of An Albino’s Guide

15 Albino Eyes Part 3

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:52 +0000

To explain the parts of the eye and how they work, let’s take a look at my eyes. You’ll learn how your eyes work and how they differ form mine. We’ll start at the front and work our way back.

Part 3 of An Albino’s Guide

14 Albino Eyes Part 2

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:00:45 +0000

To explain the parts of the eye and how they work, let’s take a look at my eyes. You’ll learn how your eyes work and how they differ form mine. We’ll start at the front and work our way back.

Part 2 of An Albino’s Guide

13 An Albino Eyes Part1

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:00:50 +0000

To explain the parts of the eye and how they work, let’s take a look at my eyes. You’ll learn how your eyes work and how they differ form mine. We’ll start at the front and work our way back.

Part 1 of An Albino’s Guide

12 Eye Design

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:12:23 +0000

If you were designing an eye, here are some of your options. Overall, humans chose well.

If I Only Had An Eye

11 Perceiving Light

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:00:58 +0000

To understand our visual systems, you need to know a bit about light. Here’s a quick introduction on the characteristics of light.

Show Me The Light

Great Minds, Great Ideas

Dr. Ken Tangen — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 08:45:21 +0000

ALPHABETICAL LIST.

Theories come out of people’s lives. You can’t separate the theory from the person. To understand the theories of psychology, you have to look closely at the those who generated those theories, and the people who infludenced them. The more you know about the person behind the theory, the better you’ll understand the theory.

Similarly, your theory will come from your background. You may never formalize your theory but since you have ideas and make assumptions about why people act the way they do, I believe everyone has an internal theory.

If you decide to formalize your theory, you’ll need to take a closer look at youself. Your theory will be better, the more you know your beliefs, your assumptions, and yourself.

Don’t worry. Other people have thought about the major issues you’ll want to address. You don’t have to start from nothing. You can, and should, steal from others (giving complete credit where due, of course). In generating a theory, it’s not stealing to agree with great thinkers who have gone before. It’s building on the shoulders of giants. Highly recommended.

Alfred Adler

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:50:17 +0000

Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) Born in Vienna, the 2nd of six kids, Alfred Adler has an unhappy childhood. Suffering from rickets, and having been injured in two accidents, Adler was frail and unathletic. Although he was pampered by his parents (a wealthy grain merchant), he resented Alfred resented his older brother (his mother’s favorite).

Adler stressed the inherently social nature of man, and the importance of future goals. Like Freud, Adler stressed the importance of birth order, and a child’s early environment. He did not stress the unconscious but maintained that it was not a problem until thoughts became conscious. Adler thought Freud overemphasized sex as a motivating force, so he stressed compensation, individuality, masculine protest, the striving for power, superiority, and social interest.

Adler suggested that people compensate for their feelings of inferiority. He believed that a person’s style of life was set by the age of 5, and that early childhood memories are the best indicators of which style has been selected.

For more on the subject, here is video I made about Adler.

Key Words: birth order, compensation, individualtiy, social interest, masculine protest, superiority, inferiority, style of life