Excelling Psychology

(Please Note - I have diversified my work on Excelling Psychology into different blogs for better organization of content. I am continually working on the same, so these sites will be updated with more content soon. Introductory Psychology learners may be interested in the following: Statistics for Psychology in very simple language : https://statisticsforpsychology.blogspot.com/ ) I am working on developing a complete, free beginner's course on psychology : aimed at self-learners - those pursuing psychology for their own interest; as well as those pursuing it formally, but looking for a little help in making their understanding simpler, yet stronger. I have already published the first two lessons in the series, which can be found here : https://sites.google.com/view/excelling-psychology/home (*Please click on image to enlarge it.) Here's a little sneak peak into lesson 1 - What is Psychology? Here's a preview of lesson 2 - What is the subject matte...

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I read an article titled ' Seven Steps Beyond Fear ' by Michael Neill in ' Heart and Soul ' magazine issue 20 recently. The article can be: Read online/downloaded in the aforementioned issue here ; OR Purchased for offline reading here . I have read several articles and books on fear, anxiety, avoidance, and the like. No other piece has left such an indelible impression on my mind. The author presents - in such simple language - heartfelt guidelines that will surely change any reader's perspective on fear. The way that author Neill has brought down the giant called fear into focus with a conversational narrative is what makes the article appealing. And what makes this article worth treasuring is the solid content of advise that the author gives the reader, which makes not only for good reading, but motivates the reader to start making a change immediately. Seldom do we find ten-minute reads that actually present so much more than entire books do. Th...

Welcome! This post presents and illustrates the Explanation of Phobias: i) Behavioral Explanation of Phobias (classical conditioning, Watson, 1920); ii) Psychological Explanation of Phobias (Freud, 1909); iii) Biomedical/Genetic Explanation of Phobias (Ost, 1992); iv) Cognitive Explanation of Phobias (DiNardo et.al., 1988); as per the requirements of the IB IGCSE A 9990 syllabus including summaries of the studies mentioned in the section, and an evaluation of the explanations from the point of view of the issues and debates as outlined in the syllabus. It also includes an explanation of key terms from an operational point-of-view. Included in the last sections are specimen, model answers to paper 3 and paper 4 pertaining to this study.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Specialization -Psychology and Abnormality Syllabus Reference -  3.2.1. (d)...