How do hallucinations happen? They are caused by a chemical imbalance or some kind of abnormality in the brain. All hallucinations are created by the sensory parts of our brain and they are basically firing without the stimulus. If you look at a dog, light is bouncing off the dog and entering your eyes. Your […]
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Watch on YouTube How do facial expressions work? There are 20 muscles in the face that can be moved in different combinations. There are two kinds of facial expressions: voluntary and involuntary. A lot of study has gone into reading facial expressions and there are many theories about whether they reveal inner thinking or not.
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What is Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy? It is a psychological illness where a parent or caregiver pretends their child is sick in order to get attention and sympathy. Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is technically known as Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in the UK or Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (FDIA) in the USA. It
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Is a psychopath’s brain different? Yes. There are differences in the areas that deal with empathy and guilt, and the areas that deal with fear and anxiety. What exactly is a psychopath? “Psychopath” is not actually a clinical diagnosis. The real condition is antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) and a psychopath would be on the far
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I learned this today. The gambler’s fallacy is the belief that a random event is more or less likely to happen based on the outcome of a previous event. For example, if a coin is flipped ten times and it comes up heads ten times, the gambler will believe that heads is less likely on
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I learned this today. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a universal classification system which has the most important needs at the bottom and then the following needs in an ascending order of importance. Maslow was an American psychologist. He worked from the early 1930s until his death in 1970. He published his hierarchy of needs
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I learned this today. Floor indicators were added to elevators in the 1950s in order to distract people while they waited. The actual waiting time wasn’t as bad as the perceived waiting time. This was discovered thanks to queuing theory. Queuing theory was invented by Agner Krarup Erlang in 1909. He was working for the
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