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Kevin Conti

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    Glasgow, Scotland
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    Glasgow Celtic, women!
  • College Major/Degree
    Forensic psychology
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    Psychology
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    At University studying behavioural sciences
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  1. Studies into creatine show that is has a neuroprotective effect, as well as boosting short-term memory and mental functioning.
  2. Really? from what I see i contribute more in this forum than you do, if you analyse the standard of replies. Every since i have joined i have responsed to most questions and gave explanatory information to what I have said. Not that i should mention it, just you questioned my credibility here. You seem a very confused immature young lad. and radical edwards, who win on Sat?
  3. ofc, cognitive-behavioural therapy is quite effective in helping individuals with avoidant personality disorder, maybe you should enquire about it.
  4. I don't recall saying it wasn't. Don't call me 'kid'. << It seems as though one of our boys has a personality problem And just to MAKE something clear, my post reply was for the poster of the question, not you.
  5. Perception is certainly subjective and subject to interpretation. In fact, the empiricism vs. rationalism debate was central to european philosophical thought over the last few centuries. In terms of what you said i am sure it has some meaning to you but has no psychological research foundation in it so i will not comment kid. later
  6. Obviously not you, Cap..
  7. No need for your sarcastic way of putting it, but am going with the evidence that i've came accross to specifically answer the question the guy asked. I am the authors of the research.
  8. I would not be so sure, they reckon they the origin of medical miracles have an orign in psychoimmunological thoughts. In one example, i read of an individual who was cured of an illness based on his positive thinking.
  9. This is not true, the mind is the controller of the physiological system and thought power can greatly influence how the physical system operates. I have referred to psychoimmunology before and essentially the area of specialism focuses on the effect of the mind on the immune system. Adding to that, studies with place groups show that they are likely to have physical side effects if told prior to the issuing of the placebo. How does the placebo work then? From the top of my head here and the current views on it. Firstly, proponents of classical conditioning may say that it results from involuntarily associative learning, where a past drug (UCS) results in positive effects (UCR). However, the placebo drug at a later date may act as a CS seeing that is is generalised as a help mechanism, and the response is the effects of the drug. In addition, placebo's are more likely to work on individuals who are easily stressed and anxious. it could be that the mock pill invokes a sense of relaxation, which is the causal effect for the subjective reportings of the effectiveness of it. However, but crucially the real reason behind placebo's that i advocate is that it is down to endorphins. That is, the bodies natural feel good pain killers that share a similar chemical form to opiods like heroin. Specifically, studies have shown that when a endorphin antagonist is used in the placebo drug, the placebo effect is non existent. This i feel is conclusive proof that endorphins have a significant role to play in the workings of the phenomena. In terms of how endorphins may affect the physical system, they act as a pain killer so obviously have an adapative value in times of injury and survival. But i think placebos, at least in the form of the drug version, is not the thing you want to be looking at. You want to be studying into the collective field that governs it and find out how the power of thought has a monumental effect on the physical system, and how thinking positiively etc can promote greater health and longer living.
  10. Once again, this is not my own theory, it is central to the whole of psychological knowledge on the memory process. If something decays it does not necessary imply that the information is accurate. Rather, the traces of the reconstruction of a specific memory just deteriorate meaning that it cannot be retrieved accurately or inaccurately at a later date.
  11. To furher add on what i've said, recent study on my part has revealed what you are talking about is known as the "tape recorder theory" of memory The evidence for it, specifically concerning the question of whether or not individuals store every memory and past happening is non existent. Essentially, what i've said is backed up, attention is very selective and memory information decays over time. This can be due to pro or re-active interference, i.e when old and new memories affect current ones, or it can be down to metabolic processes affecting memory processes eventually leading to their disintegration (animal study support for this). Furthermore, without going into detail memory retrieval is very much due to cognitive reconstructions, and due to that, memories can be an inaccurate reflection of what really happened. Consider, leading questions in hypnosis in in courts. What effect do they have on cognitive reconstructions? confabulations are likely... This also applies to the strongest form of memories, flashbuild ones.
  12. biggles: like most of psychology, it is based on statistical averages, not population actualities.
  13. Well Hello there *flicks eye brows*
  14. LOL my bad, i was just drunk at the time. (no am not al alchy!, my football team glasgow celtic got knocked out the UEFA cup so i was annoyed, ended up getting leathered with all the boys.
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