Psychology Best of the Century
Psychology has redefined itself quite differently in this century. Psychology is opened to everyone. It has been determined that 80% of those who participate in group therapies, seminars and workshops benefit from them. Therapies are no longer confined themselves to one culture. With multi-cultured therapies, therapists can devise new methods to help people from different cultural backgrounds. For example thousands of addicts have been inspired to quit their addictions. New methods of therapies have developed like behavior therapy. As a result, many therapists are able to manipulate therapies and combine them to form new and more effective methods of treatments. With advances in diagnostic machines, biological and neurological studies have quickly evolved. Psychotherapy has evolved and incorporated means of spiritual and religious issues.
Even though there are a lot of new breakthroughs in this century, the five that I think is most important are the issues of our memories, benefits of thinking, development of the brain, the benefits of the environment, and mental and emotional development over the age of 12.
1. Elizabeth Loftus has showed us how unreliable our memories are. As an eyewitness, their testimony can easily sentence a person to life in prison. However memories that we think is real, can still be false. As a result, personal account is not always reliable.
2. Ellen Langer has shown us that just thinking can help us live longer. I find that very interesting. It seems to me that thinking causes reactions in the mind that keeps the brain active. As a result, I think that a brain that is not commonly used would degenerate faster. In my opinion the mind works in the same principle as a car. If you use it everyday, it sometime still might break down but it shouldn’t breakdown as quickly as a car that has been left in a garage for years.
3. Jean Piaget has demonstrated to us that the mind develops in stages. As a result, the reason why little kids cannot learn rocket science or nuclear science is not because they are stupid or just not willing to learn. However, it is because their minds are not able to comprehend such a complex concept. As a result with detailed studies, we can produce a curriculum that children can best benefit from.
4. Marian Diamond has demonstrated that rats have a more complex brain when left in a more active environment. Humans too should have more development if we stay in an active environment. As a result we should have a more complex brain. In the end if we had a good environment, theoretically we will have a better mind set than those who never did anything throughout their life.
5. Erik Erikson was the first to propose that intellectual and emotional development occurs throughout our entire life. I agree with Erikson, even though the brain is no longer growing, the neurons are still making new connections. As a result, to the point of death, the human mind can change. I think this is important because, in life, you have to adapt to the environment. The environment cannot always be changed to fit your liking.
Psychology has redefined itself quite differently in this century. Psychology is opened to everyone. It has been determined that 80% of those who participate in group therapies, seminars and workshops benefit from them. Therapies are no longer confined themselves to one culture. With multi-cultured therapies, therapists can devise new methods to help people from different cultural backgrounds. For example thousands of addicts have been inspired to quit their addictions. New methods of therapies have developed like behavior therapy. As a result, many therapists are able to manipulate therapies and combine them to form new and more effective methods of treatments. With advances in diagnostic machines, biological and neurological studies have quickly evolved. Psychotherapy has evolved and incorporated means of spiritual and religious issues.
Even though there are a lot of new breakthroughs in this century, the five that I think is most important are the issues of our memories, benefits of thinking, development of the brain, the benefits of the environment, and mental and emotional development over the age of 12.
1. Elizabeth Loftus has showed us how unreliable our memories are. As an eyewitness, their testimony can easily sentence a person to life in prison. However memories that we think is real, can still be false. As a result, personal account is not always reliable.
2. Ellen Langer has shown us that just thinking can help us live longer. I find that very interesting. It seems to me that thinking causes reactions in the mind that keeps the brain active. As a result, I think that a brain that is not commonly used would degenerate faster. In my opinion the mind works in the same principle as a car. If you use it everyday, it sometime still might break down but it shouldn’t breakdown as quickly as a car that has been left in a garage for years.
3. Jean Piaget has demonstrated to us that the mind develops in stages. As a result, the reason why little kids cannot learn rocket science or nuclear science is not because they are stupid or just not willing to learn. However, it is because their minds are not able to comprehend such a complex concept. As a result with detailed studies, we can produce a curriculum that children can best benefit from.
4. Marian Diamond has demonstrated that rats have a more complex brain when left in a more active environment. Humans too should have more development if we stay in an active environment. As a result we should have a more complex brain. In the end if we had a good environment, theoretically we will have a better mind set than those who never did anything throughout their life.
5. Erik Erikson was the first to propose that intellectual and emotional development occurs throughout our entire life. I agree with Erikson, even though the brain is no longer growing, the neurons are still making new connections. As a result, to the point of death, the human mind can change. I think this is important because, in life, you have to adapt to the environment. The environment cannot always be changed to fit your liking.
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