Imitation: The Oldest way of Learning, still valid in Education
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most…
Monkey see, monkey do. We aren’t just monkeys, but a learning technique they used – learning by observation – still is one of the most…
Psychological richness is 1 of 3 primary components of a good life[1] and overall well-being. The other 2 are eudaimonia and hedonia. Eudaimonia (pronounced U-die-mow-nee-ya)…
When you imagine a meme, many of you might imagine a funny image with text related to a moment in the universe with some clear…
People go to extreme lengths to counter loneliness. They hug clothes in a closet, talk to themselves and toys, fall in love with an avatar…
For eons we have been a civilization that used skills to adapt and adjust. We used skills to alter our environment by building things. One …
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …
When we think of productivity, we often think about productivity habits, focus, and getting work done efficiently. There is enough good and bad advice on …
We’ll do a visual recap of the first part first. Since we are talking about good behavior, naturally there is bad behavior. These are the …
We seek people out on a URL instead of IRL pretty much all the time. So we need to know what is considered good behavior, …
I’ve been thinking about memes. 2 years ago, I called meme templates, meme phrases, and reel content outsourced cognition – borrowing others’ structured thoughts. Using …
What if smelling a flower makes you spend a few months’ worth of income on a vacation? That could just be happening right now. Welcome …
Highlights We have a relationship with money based on “money scripts”. Money Scripts are our beliefs about money. Scripts are akin to personal rules of …
Learning your personality type is probably the most basic way to conceptualize yourself. And, considering we are meaning & pattern-seeking creatures, understanding personality becomes a …
Some psychology myths have gained immortal fact status in the business world. The reason for this is that misinformation appears believable, the myths are often …
I’ll introduce 2 frameworks to assess how people respond to their work demands. The first one is by the notable Positive Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and …
From a theoretical POV, our memory is the base component of measurable learning. Read on to explore learning and memory in an educational context. This …
Either we are not that special and unique, or our AI is far more capable of acquiring human language quirks. Psycholinguistics is about understanding language …
The moment new information is processed in a brain, 2 paths begin – one toward forgetting it, and one toward remembering it. Both paths act …
I figured this out too late, but glad I did. I created the screenshot test to use on all of my social media content, blog …