The non material mind or soul , is seated in the brain's pineal gland doing the thinking, while the body is like a machine that operates by animal spirits, flowing through the nervous system to cause movement.

Socrates believed that main purpose of philosophy is to increase happiness through analysing and understanding one self, famously saying:- The unexamined life is not worth living.

Purpose of philosophy

Persistent vegetative state in which patients in a coma are awake and breathing independently, but have apparently lost all higher brain functions.

Intelligence is not a fixed quantity, but grows just as the child does, and even though we have devised a way of quantifying it, no number can ever give an accurate measure of a person's intelligence.

Intelligence- Alfred Binnet

A syndrome in which we can nearly but not quite grasp a word from memory that we know very well.

Tip of the tongue syndrome

A special kind of autobiographical memory in which people give a highly detailed, vivid account of the exact moment they learned about an event with a high shock value.

Flashbulb Memories

It holds that we are all motivated to act in ways that increase pleasure and decrease pain.

Choice Theory

<ul><li class="ql-align-center">The whole is greater than the sum of parts. </li><li class="ql-align-center">The conscious mind is merely the surface of a complex psychic realm.</li><li class="ql-align-center">To live the good life is to learn to trust ourselves.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment, it finds a meaning.</li><li class="ql-align-center">The greater your number of exposure to something, the more affection you will feel towards it.</li><li class="ql-align-center">Any deed that any human being has ever done, however horrible is possible for any of us to do - under the right or wrong situational pressures.</li></ul>

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How does memory work? Who is the "distractor" in your family? What was the "car crash" experiment? The Psychology Book is your visual guide to the complex and fascinating world of human behavior. Discover how we learn, become emotionally bonded with others, and develop coping mechanisms to deal with adversity, or conform in a group. Get to know key thinkers, from Freud and Jung to Elizabeth Loftus and Melanie Klein, and follow charts and timelines to make sense of it all and see how one theory influenced another. With concise explanations of different schools of psychology including psychotherapy, cognitive psychology and behaviorism, this is an ideal reference whether you're a student, or a general reader. It's your authoritative guide to over 100 key ideas, theories and conditions, including the collective unconscious, the "selfish" gene, false memory, psychiatric disorders, and autism. If you're fascinated by the human mind, The Psychology Book is both an invaluable reference and illuminating read.

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