760 Answered Questions for the topic psychology
03/27/19
Why are children afraid of the dark?
Why are children afraid of the dark, in particular more afraid than adults? Is it an evolutionary mechanism? What causes this?
03/27/19
Correlations with alien abduction experiences?
I cannot find statistics about how many supposed alien "UFO abductees" have sleep paralysis.
I can't find statistics about how many alien abductees were hypnotized before concluding that they...
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03/27/19
What is cultural relativism?
Is there a name or explanation for the behaviour of writing the second letter first?
When I am writing (pen and paper) I sometimes write the second letter of a word first. I write it like the first letter, so capitalized if that applies. I notice this problem the second I put it on...
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Psychology
03/19/19
Why are patterns appealing to us and why is it the first thing we notice?
03/19/19
Is there a disorder that causes one to feel heat from an inanimate object?
We just met a woman that feels heat (literally, hot enough for her to say she was burned) from inanimate objects. She says it is mainly the floors and chairs in her home, and she is unable to walk...
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Psychology
03/19/19
What is biopsychology
Psychology
03/19/19
What are neurotransmitters?
03/19/19
Which experimental design is this? Factorial vs within groups?
I have two independent variables (age and gender) and one dependent variable (the results of a questionnaire using a Likert scale).
I'm trying to see whether age and/or gender have an effect on the...
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03/18/19
What is neural firing in psychology?
Psychology
03/18/19
How does addiction occur in the human brain?
03/18/19
What is the motivation behind fluorinated pharmaceuticals?
From what little research I've done, it appears that a significant portion of modern psychoactive drugs are fluorinated in one way or another (for example, Buproprion, Fluvoxamine, or any number of...
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Psychology
03/18/19
How does the brain repair/rewire itself after a stroke or traumatic brain injury?
03/18/19
What is the name of the bias that associate a thing as good because it has a relation to another good thing?
A customer buys X from "brand A" and has positive experience with it. "Brand A" also sells Y. Now the customer things it is good to buy Y because of his/her positive experience with buying X from...
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Psychology
03/18/19
Do mood stabilizers like Lamictal and Depakote permanently change brain chemistry and normalize moods?
Psychology
03/18/19
What is aphasia and can it be treated?
03/18/19
What is Cognitive Science?
Psychology
03/14/19
Where do psychologists typically search for literature?
I hope this is the right place to ask this question.. If not please advise. In computer science, we often check digital libraries of ACM, IEEE, etc. And also Google scholar. But are there search...
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03/14/19
What can I study as a layman to develop practical knowledge of human psychology?
What can I study as a layman to learn enough facets of psychology to develop better understanding of human behaviour? Unfortunately as I know nothing of the field I'm not really certain about what...
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03/14/19
Why ADHD instead of ADD? / Why predominantly hyperactive-impulsive instead of predominantly-impulsive?
The types of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are:
1. predominantly inattentive
2. predominantly hyperactive-impulsive
3. combined
Not sure I understand. People with ADHD are...
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