Archive for February 26th, 2007
Theories Of Forgetting II
Monday, February 26th, 2007One of the first people to study the mechanisms of forgetting was German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. Using himself as the sole subject in his experiment, he memorized lists of three letter nonsense syllable words – two consonants and one vowel in the middle. He then measured his own capacity to relearn a given list of [...]
Causes Of Delusions
Monday, February 26th, 2007One of the principal mental disorders associated with delusions is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by illogical thinking; often there are other signs and symptoms such as hallucinations. However, it is important to understand that a mental disorder such as schizophrenia is not in and of itself a “cause”. The important [...]
