Human person

Within the course of human history, many discoveries and inventions have impacted our view of the universe as well as the development of the human person. Some of these discoveries were unarguably necessary not only for the survival of the human species but also for its development and enhancement. For example, the discovery of fire [...]

Behaviorism vs. Cognitive

Psychology is an extremely vast topic and is broken down into many different perspectives. Two views of psychology that share similar ideas are Behaviorism and Cognitive Psychology. Behaviorism is based mostly on the idea of tabula rasa or “blank slate.” The theory behind Behaviorism is that everyone is shaped by their environment mentally to the [...]

Psychology of the mind

His style is normally focused on the general public. The messages that he tends to create are for those people that have a concern for the world today, and how to make it a better place. In order to read the book, he made it so you would need at least a high school education. [...]

The Chosen

Chaim Potok’s novel The Chosen is the story of the friendship between the Hasidic Jew, Danny Saunders, and the more liberal Jewish teenager, Reuven Malter, in Brooklyn during and after WWII. At the beginning of the novel, both are fifteen years old and live near one another, although they have never met because they go [...]

Alfred Binet and the Age of Intelligence Testing

“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one’s self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile [...]

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Human person

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