How we become who we are…..oooooohhhhhaaaaa American Flag Optical Illusion - Sick Science! - YouTube Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - YouTube Classical Conditioning Operant conditioning (sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning) is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior. The Hawthorne effect — an increase in worker productivity produced by the psychological stimulus of being singled out and made to feel important. Stockholm Syndrome is an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them. Jaycee Lee Dugard The Syndrome is named after the Norrmalmstorg robbery of Kreditbanken at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm, in which bank employees were held hostage from August 23 to August 28, 1973. In this case, victims became emotionally attached to their captors, and even defended them after they were freed from their six-day ordeal. Harlow Experiment The nature of love…. Darwin The Origins of Species and The Theory of Evolution Carl Jung Collective Unconscious “My thesis then, is as follows: in addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”.1 youtube tank the dog - Bing Videos elevator conformity AShe The Asch Experiment Hilarious! Or Is It? - YouTube What would you do? Interracial Couple Arguing: Would You Intervene? YouTube http://www.y outube.com/ watch?v=H7 dfkZKjWSo WWYD? Taking On Mean Girls YouTube Milgram’s Experiment Authority studies Milgram's Shocking Experiment The Bystander Effect THE BYSTANDER EFFECT - YouTube The Bystander Effect - experiment YouTube The Marshmallow Delayed gratification The Marshmallow Test YouTube Planet of the Apes Integration and Alikeness studies Stereotypes What do psychologies have to do with mythology? Control, obedience, power, morals, punishment, fear, cultural norms, anomalies, traditions, selfishness, cheating, conformity, hubris, pressure, peers, delayed gratification, roles, wrath, sins, love, jealousy, habits, ego, esteem, role models, archetypes, predispositions, indoctrination, questions, answers, blind faith, faith, taboos, cultural differences/similarities….it just keeps going.... Ask yourself “Why do I believe in __________?” or “Why do I do __________?” and you will find a psychology behind it….Ask yourself “Why did/do they believe in __________?” and you will also find a psychology behind it.