Myths And Misconceptions Of A Psychology Study

Psychology is the study of the mind and it is also the study of the human behavior. Psychology teaches a person to understand unconscious thoughts a person thinks. It also allows someone to view the world around them in a different way than they used to before. With the basic understandings of psychology, people will be able to understand one another more easily. Also people will know how and why people think a certain way in certain situation. I am most excited to learn about the brain and the nervous system. I am interesting about learning this topic because there are many things to learn about the brain and the nervous system. Since the human body depends on the brain and the nervous system, it is the most important part of the human body

The author debunks 10 common myths many people believe to be true. I found this article fascinating because I was always curious about the brain for my whole life. Additionally, I have been told many myths about the brain and I’ve always wondered if they were true. I learned that most misconceptions about the brain are usually deemed false. One thing I found surprising was that the brain still develops after the age of 40. Numerous amounts of people believe that the brain stops improving and developing once people reach a certain age. As people grow older, their brains’ develop in different kinds of ways compared to when people were younger. For example, vocabulary, wisdom, and emotion all increase as people get older. This article relates to my life because I believe in some myths about the brain. A few of the myths I believed in were mention by the author in this article. It helped me realize that the brain is a very unique organ in the human body. The article also relates to me because when I get older my brain will not function compared to when I was a kid, but to learn that the brain develops in other ways for older people is

Studying longer and taking the test involves too much information to cram and memorize for the test. But when students take a pretest with minimal study time, those students tend to have better scores because they know what specific information the test will be over. The author does three experiments to prove his statement. Throughout these experiments, the students who took either a pretest or tested before some of the students had a better grade than those that took the test later. The reason is because taking similar pretests to the main test helps the student easily remember the information. What I learned from this article is that longer study hours doesn’t always mean better scores. What I found surprising is how pretests actually helped the students’ scores instead of hurting them. Another surprising factor was how studying longer could actually make you more forgetful on the topics. This relates to me because whenever there is a test, I tend to study for long periods of time. Also taking quizzes helps me know what the topics for the test will be