MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'analogy'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:38:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921518&cid=t_122114_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F10%2Fcan-you-have-too-much-happiness%2F I can safely say that I think few of us struggle with having too much happiness. We turn to the happiness gurus to help us increase our happiness for a reason — who wouldn’t want to be happier? Pretty much all of us do. For many of us, the pursuit of happiness is not only something we’ve grown up on, it’s something we’ve come to expect as a right. I mean, it’s right there in the Declaration of Independence! But like everything in life, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. This includes the pursuit of happiness. Too much happiness can be just as detrimental in your life as not having enough. That’s the finding anyway of Gruber and her colleagues (2011), in a recent review of the happiness research. Let’s see what they had to say. Too Muc... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921518 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:25:45 +0100 4921518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921519&cid=t_122114_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F06%2F10%2Fbest-of-our-blogs-june-10-2011%2F One of the unexpected gifts that come when you get healthy is the sudden realization that everyone around you isn’t. Awhile back Gabrielle of the The Therapist Within talked about the black sheep of the family as being the scapegoat. Sometimes after stepping back and working on your own stuff, you realize that you were not the big problem that you thought you were. Maybe it was your parents, your friends or even your partner that unintentionally made you the big bad black sheep so that they could be okay with their own idiosyncrasies. In your light, it made their shadows not so bad. So you’ve broken away from the pack and rediscovered yourself. The question is, “How do you venture back?” It’s summertime and that may mean gathering for friend’s birthdays ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921519 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:20:58 +0100 4921519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3895936&cid=t_122114_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F23%2Fobama-kanazawa-endogamy-and-religion%2F A recent blog entry by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist, recently came across my desk that made the outrageous claim that one cannot chose one’s religion. If one’s family is a Muslim, you will be too, no matter what you actually practice — genetically speaking. He relates this piece of news by suggesting that Obama cannot choose to be a Christian, because his family was a Muslim. He suggests that, genetically, Obama is a Muslim no matter what he practices. If this doesn’t pass the basic logic smell test for you, then you’re not alone. Like other world religions, Islam not only is a religion but also comprises largely endogamous ethnic groups. When a group of individuals remain largely or entirely endogamous (marry only other members of the group ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3895936 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0100 3895936 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2616763&cid=t_122114_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F07%2Fbeginnings-of-reason-earlier-than-you.html Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget observed that if you presented 10-11 year olds with a counterfactual syllogism such as:All cats bark. (major premise)Muffins is a cat. (minor premise)Does Muffins bark?Most children fail to solve the syllogism because they answer, "No, cat's don't bark." But when a clever psychologist group decided to retry the questions in a playful tone of voice, they actually found that children as young as 2 years old could deductively reason (hmmm- now do we in our school systems assume that children reason that early?). Piaget had assumed that children did not develop the capacity for abstract reasoning until they were 11 years old or so, but he was wrong. Children were expecting the answers should be given on the basis of real-world reasoning and not as a hypot... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2616763 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:05:00 +0100 2616763 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1472766&cid=t_122114_109_f&fid=36089&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthesituationist.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F05%2F27%2Fmoral-cognitions-abstract%2F In light of the previous post on Moral Psychology, we decided to provide the abstract to John Mikhail’s paper, “Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect” (May 2002), which is available on SSRN. * * * Where do our moral intuitions come from? Are they innate? Does the brain contain a module specialized for moral judgment? Does the human genetic program contain instructions for the acquisition of a sense of justice or moral sense? Questions like these have been asked in one form or another for centuries. In this paper we take them up again, with the aim of clarifying them and developing a specific proposal for how they can be empirically investigated. The paper pr... The Situationist blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1472766 Wed, 28 May 2008 00:57:12 +0100 1472766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1369707&cid=t_122114_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F04%2Ffluid-reasoning-from-right-brain.html Children (like adults) may vary widely in their ability to engage in fluid reasoning, but as a group they are inferior to adults at analogical reasoning (a car is to a road as a boat is to...). One reason for this may be that it takes time for the right prefrontal cortex to develop.In the figure, it's clear that children are able to activate many brain regions to identify different relationships between information, but they are less able to integrate the information, and so the picture of a child knowing lots of information, but missing the forest for the trees, is a normal part of development, and not "ADD".Analogical reasoning is important for virtually all inventive or creative work:From the Dunbar lab: "Analogy is a basic human reasoning process used in science, literature, art, educa... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1369707 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:01:00 +0100 1369707 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=822005&cid=t_122114_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F148050004%2F As has been noted, I write a lot of posts here—-and, as each post needs a title, sometimes I go for the straightforwardly descriptive; other times, inspiration strikes and something a bit snazzier (to my ear) results. One knows not to “judge a book by its cover” nor, in the same vein, a blog-post by its title, but the volume of information on the internet often means that a reader is more likely to follow the link to a website if the title sounds promising. (Unless, of course, you are the type of reader who is not swayed by clever wordplays and title making big claims.) The titles of some recent articles about autism research are attention-grabbing, but somewhat misleading. Research May Unlock Mystery of Autism’s Origin in Brain trumpeted a Science Daily article (wh... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=822005 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:07:41 +0100 822005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=645202&cid=t_122114_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F05%2Fmath-teaching-under-microscope-more.html Science has this interesting short article about the differences between mathematics classroom teaching in the U.S. vs. Chinese and Japanese classrooms. Based on videotaped math classes:1. Teachers in Hong Kong and Japan were more than twice as likely than U.S. teachers to use visual examples in their instruction. 2. Japanese and Hong Kong teachers were also more likely to use mental and visual imagery in their lessons.3. The Asian teachers used more physical gestures in their instruction to emphasize comparisons. 4. In general, the Asian groups demanded less working memory and fact-based retrieval because of their use of cognitive supports.The take-home points: "If the source analog (or source for comparison) is not familiar and not visible, then students may struggle with processing...U.... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=645202 Tue, 29 May 2007 07:01:00 +0100 645202