Adam Park, Social Science Teacher at Senioritis.io

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Psychology

Unlocking Personality Traits: The Importance of Empirically Derived Inventories

What does it mean that personality inventories are empirically derived? “Personality inventories (such as the MMPI) are questionnaires on which people respond to items designed to gauge...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Psychology

Discovering the Big Five Factors – Understanding the Universal Dimensions of Personality for Better Predictive Outcomes

Be able to identify and describe the Big Five Factors. “The Big Five personality factors—openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (OCEAN)—currently offer our best approximation of the...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Unraveling the Mystery of ESP: Exploring Telepathy, Precognition, Clairvoyance, Psychokinesis and the Controversies Surrounding It

Extra sensory Perception (ESP) Controversial claim that perception can occur apart from sensory input-telepathy -> mind to mind communication -clairvoyance -> perceiving remote events-precognition -> previewing future...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Unlocking the Power of Perceptual Set: How Our Mental Biases Influence Perception, Attention, Memory, and Decision-Making.

Perceptual Set Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not the other Perceptual set refers to the mental predisposition or readiness to perceive particular stimuli based on...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Unlocking the Power of Perceptual Adaptation: How Our Brain Adapts and Fine-tunes Sensory Perception

Perceptual adaption In vision- the ability to adjust to an artificially displayed or inverted visual field Perceptual adaptation is a process by which our brain adjusts and...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Discovering the Wonders of Color Constancy: How Our Brain Perceives True Colors in Different Lighting Conditions

Color constancy Perceiving familiar objects as having consistent color, even if changing illumination alters the wavelengths reflected by the object Color constancy is the ability of the...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Perceptual Constancy: Understanding the Brain’s Ability to Maintain Stable Object Perception

Perceptual constancy Perceiving objects as in changing even as illumination and retinal images change Perceptual constancy refers to the ability of the brain to maintain stable perception...

Adam Park
June 21, 2023
Cognitive Psychology

Mastering Monocular Cues: Understanding their Importance in Perception, Depth, and Distance

Monocular cues Depth cues available to either eye alone1. Relative height2. Relative size3. Interposition 4. Linear perspective 5. Relative motion6. Light & shadow Monocular cues are visual...