Restatement summary "Babies shows social inteligence"

The new research shows that babies are able to socialize since their first month in our world.

Research was held at Yale University by Kiley Hamlin and colleagues. For 12 six-month old and 16 10-month-old babies were represents two characters - positive and negative. Almost all babies reached out to play with the positive rather than with negative one.

This evidence shows how babies without having any foundations of morality are apt to learn basic social skills by their own observations.

Sleep and dreams

Meaning of the dreams, their importance and secrets have interested the humanity all the time.
Now is known that all the people are dreaming even 4-6 times per night. But not all remember that they have dreamed at all or what exactly they were dreaming. It is thought that people who are not interested in the content of the dream usually do not remember their dreams. But most of us frequently remeber our dreams.
Why do we dream? Do the dreams have any hidden meaning?

The person who has influenced me

During my life I have met a lot of people and everyone of them have influenced me. Some of that influences were very positive, some of them not. But I very appreciate each of them because they help me to grow up and become who I am.

When I was younger I used to be very associated with my sister. By the time I became a teenager our relationship get a little bit worse as we both were at the same age, and this period wasn't very easy. During the years rapport between us get much better, but actually I think I influenced her more than she influenced me. So I would like to distinguish one my friend Stas and now I'm gonna talk about him.

I met him about three years ago and summarily understood that this person is quite unique. He is a little bit older but so open and warm. When I saw it I get in with him soon.

Stas is one of those people who very easily communicate and I actually can absolutely rely on him. After meeting him my life have changed to the better side! I get a lot of new friends, met people who have a great and very positive influence on me. I have visited a lot of new places and even countries. And I think the most important think is that I have changed my attitude towards many different things.

I am very happy about this friendship and I hope it will go on forever!

Phobias

Phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation. Usually phobia involves a sense of endangerment or a fear of harm. Phobic symptoms can occur through exposure to the fear object or situation, or sometimes simply thinking about the feared object can lead to a response. Symphtoms associated with phobia are: dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, a sense of unreality, fear of dying.
There are three types of phobias: Social phobias—fear of social situations; Agoraphobia—fear of being trapped in an inescapable place or situation; Specific phobias—fear of a specific object (such as snakes). Specific phobias are divided as the natural environment - fear of lightening, water, storms, etc; animal - fear of snakes, rodents, spiders, etc; medical - fear of seeing blood, receiving injections, visiting a doctor, etc; situational - fear of bridges, leaving the home, driving, etc.
So, if you feel a chill when you walk by a cemetery at night, do you have coimetrophobia? A little bit of fear is not a phobia. But a person who feels an overwhelming, irrational fear of a certain object or situation may have a condition known as a specific phobia.
People with specific phobias often know that their fears are irrational, but this logic does not prevent them from experiencing high levels of anxiety and even panic attacks when facing, or thinking about facing, their phobias.
Actually phobia can be treated. There are a lot of ways of treating it. For instance, exposure treatments or counter-conditioning. In exposure treatment a patient is exposed to the frear object in order to learn how to coupe with the fear. I counter-conditioning treatment patient is taught to the new reponse to the frear object.
Phobia is a very wide spreaded disorder. As ilustration of this I would mention few famous people who have or had some kind of specific phobias. For example, boxing champion Muhammad Ali suffer from fear of flying, or aviophobia (also known as aerophobia). Tennis star Andre Agassi is arachnophobic, or has a fear of spiders. Adolf Hitler was claustrophobic. Napoleon Bonaparte, who was the emperor of France, suffered from ailurophobia, a fear of cats. There are only few examples.

Many people all over the world suffer from this quite strange and irrational disorder. But it can be treated.

Information: http://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/Phobias.htm

Picture: http://www.fiahtherapy.com/phobia-fear.jpg

Psychology of colours

Do you often give thought about the importance of the colours in our life? I suggest that it is quite importat for everyone of us. But do you frequently use the colours deliberately? I am asking this questions becouse there is the psychology of colous, each colour imagines different feelings and emotions.

For example green is the most relaxing and less tiring colour, so it is very suitable for painting the walls of the bedrooms and other areas, where you would like to come loose.
The simbol of peace is white dove, because white is pure strong colour, doctors usually wear white smocks instil trust. Black is opposite of white. It is the colour of power, authority. Frequently gangsters, vampires wear black. Brown is the opposite of black too. It is the colour of warm, friendly, sometimes weak people. But if a person wears grey it means that he or she do not want to be noticed at all. So it is better to stay away from him or her that day. Yellow colour fits best when you are going to meet new people, because it is a colour of openness and freedom. Red colour is very excitening and stimulating colour. 80% flags contain red colour. It is successful colour and is usually used by footbal teams. Blue is reverse red. It is very calm and peaceful colour. this colour is on the flag of the United Nations.

So my recommendation is to keep in mind that colours have a particular meaning.

Picture: http://www.blog.davidairey.com/images/colourwheel.jpg

The most interestning branch of psychology

There are about twenty branches of psychology. Some of them are concentrated on examining the biological stucture of the mind, others are focusing on the observable behavior. All the branches are very wide and revealing. But in my opinion the most interestning subfield of psychology is Cross-cultural psychology. This way of psychology focuses on the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and across various ethnic groups and cultures.

But as same as in the other subfields the are some advantages and disadvantages. The most important difficulty is in the culture. Different people in the different parts of the world think in the different way. Therefore we can not compare them as the alikely ones. For example in some cultures is normal to teach children to pull out all the stops and reach their destination while in other is normal to say that some of us are more dowered than others. In some parts of the world frequently women ground-floor with men, when in other part of our planet women do not have almost any rights. Those womenfolk have to accept this fact live threir lives in the ordinary way. They event do not dream about education, career and other things like this.

So the most important think for Cross-cultural psychologists is to take in mind the differences between cultures and then would bee easier to understand the psychology of those people.

Why I decided to study psychology

By ending the school I was thinking about my future and what I would like to study. It was very difficult to me because I never was seriously thinking about my future plans. I just knew that I want to live an interesting and exciting life.

By the time I passed my exams I had to fill the application and it was the hardest part of all. I was contemplating different variants. From the economics up to the history study. Then I saw the studying program 'psychology' in this university, calculated my score and understood that I have a chance to be accepted and I decided to try. This speciality attracted me because I knew that after graduating I could choose the way I want to be in. Then I'll be more grown-up and it would be more easier to make a decission than now. I'm expecting to get a lot of new knowledge of this four years course. Maybe I would even change me life and become more self-confident than I am now. Of course i would like to became more experienced and aware.

Finally I want to help. Help to others and me to live the better way. I suggest that it is not a very unreal dream. I hope it'll become true after some time.