kostas + psychology 14
Lack of parental pressure turns nos into yeses
september 2009 by kostas
"They direct the parents to temporarily back off almost entirely: to stop asking their child to do the desired behavior and say it's OK not to do it at all, stop offering praise or other rewards for doing it, and mask their attitude of engaged enthusiasm or frustrated rage with an appearance of bland disinterest in whether the child does it or not. What happens next, frequently, is that within a day or two the child starts doing the behavior with no prompting from parents or anyone else."
psychology
september 2009 by kostas
30 Minutes a Day
september 2009 by kostas
"Pimsleur shows us that memory isn’t linear; that even if you spend the same total amount of time studying, the time you spend in between significantly affects what your brain does with the information. Learning is the space between the doing."
psychology
september 2009 by kostas
Jani's at the mercy of her mind -- latimes.com
august 2009 by kostas
"Michael and Susan Schofield's 6-year-old daughter is locked in a nightmare realm of schizophrenia -- and no one can help her." Her father keeps a blog: http://www.januaryfirst.org/www.januaryfirst.org/Blog/Blog.html
psychology
august 2009 by kostas