The Defensive Activation Theory (DAT) is a scientific hypothesis proposing that the biological purpose of REM sleep and dreaming is to periodically stimulate the visual system. By actively firing signals into the idle visual cortex during sleep, the brain prevents neighbouring sensory areas from taking over that neural tissue
Contents1 Is There an Organismic Self?2 Goldstein: The Organism as an Integrated Individual3 Rogers Made an Important Distinction Between the Organism and the Self-Concept4 Rogers’ Incongruence Is Especially Relevant5 Neisser: The Ecological Self Exists Before Read more
This article introduces the idea of intuition and asks if our intuition can both help and mislead us?
This article explains Pavlov's Classical Conditioning, and uses his dog-training analogy to introduce the theory, before explaining the differences when applied to people.
