Thurstone’s 7 Primary Mental Abilities: A Deep Dive

Thurstone’s Theory of 7 Primary Mental Abilities, which emerged in the 1920s, is one of the most important psychological models of intelligence in existence. Louis Leon Thurstone (1887-1955) is considered one of the most influential authors in the field of psychometry. His main contribution is his theory of the 7 primary mental abilities, which opposed the unitary and hierarchical models of intelligence proposed by other pioneers such as Charles Spearman or P. E. Vernon.

Thurstone denied the existence

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Altered States of Consciousness, Learning, and Memory

Altered States of Consciousness

The characteristics of altered states of consciousness include the following changes:

  • Confused temporal sense
  • Uncontrolled thinking
  • Changes in emotional expression
  • Changes in body image
  • Distortions or reversals in perspective
  • Changes in meaning

Altered states can be triggered in different ways, from overstimulation to sleep stimulus. The disappearance of all four stages of sleep is called NREM sleep. After having gone through the four levels, our sleep becomes lighter, and

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Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory: Unconscious, Personality, and Development

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Theory

Sigmund Freud developed psychoanalytic theory in the early 1900s. He argued that conscious experience is just a small part of our psychological makeup and experience, and that much of our behavior is motivated by the unconscious, a part of the personality that contains the memories, knowledge, and instincts of which the individual is not aware. The contents of the unconscious far surpass in quantity the information in our conscious awareness. For Freud, much of our personality

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Sensory Perception and Memory: A Deep Dive

Pinilla: A Worldview Beyond Our Own

Our worldview is not the only one, nor is it necessarily the best. The view of birds is more accurate; they have a panoramic vision of the world. Animals’ globalization is different.

Tegelen: Light Perception in Ticks

Ticks can see light through your foot. If they don’t have eyes, what allows them to go up and then drop onto their food? They can capture it because of its smell. They can only sniff mammals, and they go around their prey because of their perception

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Understanding Society: Key Concepts and Social Dynamics

Key Concepts in Sociology

  • The Individual: Refers to a specific subject. The term “individual” need not refer only to a human but to any complete being that belongs to a species, whether animal or vegetable.
  • Society: In a broad sense, all individuals who interact with each other, sharing a variety of purposes, behaviors, or cultural features.
  • Social Intelligence: We call “intelligence sharing” or “social intelligence” that which emerges as a phenomenon of the interaction between people.
  • Social Status:
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Personality Psychology: Approaches, Situations, and Cognition

Approaches to Personality

Internalist Approach

This approach dominated the landscape of personality psychology until the 1970s. It argues that:

  • Behavior is merely a reflection of internal structures.
  • Behavior always has a purpose: an objective.
  • Internal structures are the key meaning and define the individual, so they are considered stable.
  • Any behavior of the subject will have meaning for their personality.
  • The individual is involved in particular situations and is active towards them.

Situationist Approach

This

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