Finding Balance
Good behavioral health and real balance depend on sensitivity and goodness. Human beings don’t become human because they are able to think. What gives us our humanity is our capacity to feel other people’s pain. We must cultivate goodness in our hearts in order to become really human. Without sensitivity and goodness, we will never [...]
Introverts and Extroverts
Often, when people talk about introverts and extraverts, they think in terms of whether people enjoy social interactions. In fact, the true definitions of introversion and extraversion have to do with where a person finds meaning – and for this reason, knowing which you are can help you make life decisions that leave you happier [...]
Aging Baby Boomers
Plasticity in the nervous system support cognitions, and is affected by age.Plasticity in the nervous system support cognitions, and is affected by age. Brain cognitive functions decline with age. Naturally, then, several neural mechanisms in the same brain areas also shift with age. This article presents significant advances in understanding age-related changes in the medial [...]
Cognitive and Behavioral Theory
Here’s a short primer on Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Theories Behavioral learning theories suggest that learning results from pleasant or unpleasant experiences in life while cognitive theories of learning suggest that learning is based upon mental processes. However, in an admonishment against being too closely guided by any one set of pedagogical principles, Johnson (2003) [...]
Behavioral Psychology
Behavioral psychology, with its subsets of behavior modification and operant conditioning, is a field that’s ripe for use and abuse in the realms of violence, peace, and conflict. Perhaps the least subtle or most “directive” of all the fields of psychology, in its purest form behaviorism rejects all cognitive explanations of behavior and focuses on [...]
Phobias “T”
Tachophobia- Fear of speed. Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms. Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries. Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious. Taurophobia- Fear of bulls. Technophobia- Fear of technology. Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony. Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones. Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear [...]
Phobias “S”
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween. Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia) Satanophobia- Fear of Satan. Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies. Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter. Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars. Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows. Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms. Scolionophobia- Fear of school. Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at. Scotomaphobia- Fear of [...]
Phobias “R”
Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays. Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs. Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases. Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand) Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation. Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles. Rupophobia- Fear of dirt. Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
Phobias “P”
Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost. Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease. Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything. Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope. Papyrophobia- Fear of paper. Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility. Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion. Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites. Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th. Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young [...]
Phobias “O”
Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia) Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs. Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles. Octophobia – Fear of the figure 8. Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery. Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia) Oenophobia- Fear of wines. Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia) Olfactophobia- Fear of smells. Ombrophobia- Fear of rain [...]
