While it has always been thought that memory is part of the cognitive processes, people had bee also thinking that it could be related to organic functions of the brain. An experiment on zebra flinches revealed that their brains reacted differently when they heard an unfamiliar song. Moreover, they also saw an unusual pattern of [...]

Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD as it is lovingly called is one of the most stubborn personality disorders ever. The treatment approaches to most BPD people have proven useless and ineffective. The solution to BPD has always been a client cantered approach and of course, existential therapy. The BPD always finds it difficult to regulate [...]

Psychologists today are in great demand due to the plethora of mental illnesses found in the society. Psychologists trace the reasons for mental disorders to biological, psycho-social and socio-cultural reasons. Psychology is being touted as a complete science, which may not be true and most clinical psychologists refuse to acknowledge the subjectivity involved in the [...]

For 14 year old Olympic diving star Tom Daley success at Olympics has become a curse. Ever since he has returned to his school after the games he has been bullied by his school mates. The situation has become so worse that recently he had to be pulled out of the school by his parents. [...]

Mnemonics are a way to improve ones memory using special structures and designs which bring back the memory from the unconscious. Mnemonics could be abbreviations that help you remember a long phrase or a picture that brings back to mind a complicated theory. Mnemonics can have a tremendous therapeutic effect on those who suffer from [...]

Development may also occur in guided participation, in which adults guide and the children participate. But in western cultures, context independent learning also takes place. In this case, a child himself/herself makes an effort to learn new things. However, this again boils down to ‘western culture’ and hence everything is related to culture.
Thus in Vygotsky’s [...]

Speech is something that gradually develops in a growing child. Parents must know what the mechanisms behind speech and learning are. Vygotsky gives a very good concept about how speech might occur and take shape in a growing child. Socio-cultural theory states that cognitive development varies across cultures. Secondly, it states that cognitive development stems [...]

When we consider human developmental processes, we must consider Phylogenetic development as it refers to the changes that have taken place in humans over millions of years, and the evolutionary process that have left an imprint on our genes. Vygotsky believed that if we looked at the history of our species, we could understand a [...]

There is something really cool about the ecological systems theory, but Lev Vygotsky and his socio-cultural theory are also very important. Vygotsky was a Russia developmental psychologist who died at the early of age of 38. He argued that cognitive growth occurs in a socio-cultural context and that it influences the form it takes. He [...]

The ecological systems theory has much strength. However, it also has many shortcomings and weaknesses. It only considers children’s development and not adulthood and old age. Though it says it is a bioecological theory, there is very little about the actual biology, which influences a person’s development.
He does not talk about the normative patterns of [...]