How do I keep track of everything? - trackingsymptoms health monitoringdevice What is the easiest and most convenient way to keep track of my physical and emotional health in great detail? I don't have a great memory and want something that reminds me to record various information throughout the day. I have a couple of chronic illnesses that I need to keep track of and I never remember to write stuff down when it happens. Ideally this would be a program on a device that I carry with me where at different points in the day it alerts me to enter information, and then tracks this information and displays it on a calendar or chart. Things it needs to track: -My emotional state every morning and evening, with the opportunity to write a journal entry -The time I take my medication and vitamins -My physical state - ie pain, symptoms I may be experiencing -My menstrual cycle -My diet and exercise -It should also function as a calendar with reminders for appointments. All I have now is an old Nokia cellphone and a couple of paper notebooks I always forget about.
Borderline Personality Disorder: Mental Illness on Rise? Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology, though, remains a profession practiced partly as science and partly as linguistic art. Because our knowledge of the mind's afflictions remains so limited, psychologists — even when writing in academic publications — still deploy metaphors to understand difficult disorders. Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30! Traumatized Children: How Childhood Trauma Influences Brain Development Sandy was four years old when I met her. Nine months earlier, she was found covered in blood, lying over her murdered mother’s naked body, whimpering incoherently. But now, her eyes studied my face, my hands, and my slow movements - only partly attentive to the few words I spoke. She was justifiably suspicious as I joined her on the floor in coloring. But soon I had to ask her about what had happened. "What happened to your neck?" I repeated the question. Again I asked. Sandy stood up, grabbed a stuffed animal, held it by a tuft of hair and slashed at the neck of the animal with the crayon. She threw the animal to the floor, ran to the radiator, climbed up and jumped off - again and again. An acquaintance of her mother came to their apartment. The assailant cut her throat - twice. A three-year-old, throat-cut child, weeping, whimpering, comforting and seeking comfort from her naked mother’s hog-tied, bloody, cold body. Sandy was alone - her world forever changed. Traumatized Children
Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments Hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on at any given time, many cool and amusing to take part in. They’re great for researchers due to the ease and low cost of finding subjects, and because of that, more data. There are drawbacks, though. The University of Essex’s Department of Psychology points out: “… factors may cause the data to become less clear, for example: everyone uses different types of computers and monitors; we can’t be sure they have understood the instructions properly and we have no idea who is actually doing the experiments.” Debate is ongoing but the popularity of online studies keeps growing too. By design these studies are ephemeral, disappearing from the web once a deadline is reached or enough data collected. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Honorable mentions: Psychological Research on the Net is a fantastic meta-list of online psychology experiments. Help them learn while you learn about yourself — take a test!
Best Online Psychology Tests Want to know what’s really going on in your own head? The mental health Web site PsychCentral offers a list of the best online psychology tests. Some of these are used to collect data for research experiments, while others are skill tests or quizzes that offer personal insights. Here are a few of the best. 1. The Stroop Test. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. And for even more insight, take PsychCentral’s own Sanity Score quiz, which is designed to assess aspects of your mental health, including your risk for depression, anxiety and other emotional disorders. For additional tests and more information about online psychology assessments, read the full PsychCentral article by clicking here.
Emotional stroop test In psychology, the emotional Stroop task is used as an information-processing approach to assessing emotions. Related to the standard Stroop effect, the emotional Stroop test works by examining the response time of the participant to name colors of negative emotional words. For example, depressed participants will be slower to say the color of depressing words rather than non-depressing words. Non-clinical subjects have also been shown to name the color of an emotional word (e.g., "war", "cancer", "kill") slower than naming the color of a neutral word (e.g., "clock", "lift", "windy").[1] See also[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Gotlib, Ian H.; McCann, C. Algom, D.; Chajut, E.; Lev, S. (2005).
Why Are Women So Unhappy? I saw Justin Wolfers a few weeks back, and I joked with him that it had been months since I’d seen his research in the headlines. It didn’t take him long to fix that — he and his partner in life and economics, Betsey Stevenson, made the news twice last week. The first time was in the form of an op-ed here in the New York Times pointing out that the media had totally misinterpreted newly released statistics on divorce. While the reports had trumpeted the new data as evidence that Americans today are more likely than ever to get divorced, Stevenson and Wolfers show that this pattern is purely an artifact of a change in data collection methods. In fact, fewer people today are getting married, but the ones who do are more likely to stay together. In addition, Stevenson and Wolfers released a new study, “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” that is bound to generate a great deal of controversy. There are a number of alternative explanations for these findings. 1. 2. 3. 4.
I guess even Psychology Today has limits : Pharyngula Among the many reasons that I detest evolutionary psychology, one has a name: Satoshi Kanazawa. He has a blog on Psychology Today called The Scientific Fundamentalist, and earlier he published this charming article: Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?. Don’t bother trying to follow the link, the article has mysteriously disappeared from the site…although you can still find a copy here, if you really must. I’m a little surprised that it’s gone. In order to make his determination that black women are ugly, he draws on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) which I now learn to my surprise has a subjective component in which the people doing the survey make judgments about the subjects’ appearance. Add Health measures the physical attractiveness of its respondents both objectively and subjectively. Good grief…shades of Francis Galton! Wait a moment there…where in this study is the objective evaluation of attractiveness?
Collaborative on Health and the Environment :: ICEH ICEH History In 1999, when the Institute for Children's Environmental Health (ICEH) initially surveyed the rapidly expanding field of children's environmental health, we noted a number of government agencies, research institutions and citizen-based organizations undertaking important and often effective initiatives on a wide range of concerns. Some groups were working on legislation and regulatory policies that take into account children's unique susceptibilities to exposures. Others were spearheading scientific research on the health effects that different chemicals may have on neurological development and other biological systems. Two essential components of this burgeoning field, however, appeared to be missing: As ICEH initial programs became more established, other opportunities emerged. Even as ICEH's programs have evolved since 1999, our core commitment remains as solid as ever: to create a healthy, just and sustainable future for all children. Activities Book Review, Summer 2002.
The Reason We Reason Let me tell you about a classic psychological study that I don’t believe. In the early 1980s, Amos Tversky and Thomas Gilovich began sifting through years of statistics from the Philadelphia 76ers. The psychologists looked at every single shot taken by every single player, and recorded whether or not that shot had been preceded by a string of hits or misses. All told, they analyzed thousands upon thousands of field goal attempts. Why’d they do this? After analyzing all the shots of the 76ers, the psychologists discovered that there was absolutely no evidence of “the hot hand.” The 76ers were shocked by the evidence. But maybe the 76ers were a statistical outlier. Why, then, do we believe in the hot hand? Here’s where things get meta: Even though I know all about Tversky and Gilovich’s research – and fully believe the data – I still perceive the hot hand. The larger question, of course, is why confirmation bias exists.
Myers-Briggs and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Tests Are Used in Family Therapy