Chimps beat humans in memory tests (restatement summary)

Research made in Japan showed that chimpanzees have better memory than human.

The task for chimps and humans was to remember the location of numbers on the screen and to recall the sequence correctly. Young chimps completed this task better and faster than their mothers and adult humans.


Researchers believe that young chimps have photographic memory and it helps them to memorise a complex scene or pattern at a glance. Sometimes human children also have this memory but it declines with age.

Dr Lisa Parr said that this research is "ground-breaking". In her opinion this research gives us much information of understanding the skills necessary for the evolution of modern humanity.

Dreaming

What was your dream? All of us hear this question quite often through out our life. Why are dreams so important? And what are dreams at all?

We spend 1/3 of our life on sleeping. 20% of this time we are dreaming. We have 2-3 dreams for one hour when we are dreaming. If we spend so much time on dreaming it means that it’s very important for us.

When we are dreaming we process the daily information. Without dreaming information couldn’t go from short-term to long-term memory. So we can’t learn without dreaming. Dreams are also extremely important for our instincts’ perfection. The majority of our dreams are unpleasant, we are dreaming about mean situations. Nervous system is working like when we are not sleeping while we’re dreaming. After that when extreme situation recures in the real life we can react faster.

Dreams are very important part of our life. So pay attention if you are sleeping enough and.. sweet dreams. :)

Phobias

All of us are scared of something. And it’s quite normal. But if fear becomes very big and person can’t live normally with it, it can be quite hard and dangerous in some cases.

Phobia is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. There is a huge number of phobias. People are afraid almost about everything- from butterflies to sitting. It can be related with every field of person’s life.

Some interesting phobias:

· Ailurophobia - an abnormal and persistent fear of cats. The most famous person who suffered from this phobia was Napoleon Bonaparte.

· Eisoptrophobia- an abnormal and persistent fear of mirrors. Famous person with this phobia is Pamela Anderson.

· Christianophobia- fear or hatred of Christians or Christianity.

· Ephebophobia- fear of youth or adolescents.

There are lots of methods for people who suffer from phobia to recover. The most popular are psychotherapy and hypnosis. So if you are extremely scared of something- visit your psychotherapist and your life would become easier.

Don’t be scared. ;)

My role model

Now I will talk about the person who did really big influence on me.

The person who had the biggest influence on my personality for the last few years is my friend from Latvia Lena. We met eight years ago when she opened her business in Vilnius. When she comes here she lives at my place. She knows me really well. We are good friends. I can talk with her about everything.

She taught me how to fight with stress. She had changed my oppinion on lots of stressful situations. It really helped me to pass my exams with good results. She taught me how to attain my aims. I achieved a lot of my desires after that. She also greatly changed my outlook and view on people who are around me.

I think that I wouldn’t be like now without influence of Lena. She really changed my live. She still has a big influence on me. And I think that she’ll influence me in the future too.

Psychology of colors

In my opinion colors have very big influence on us, on our mood. For example, I always become a little bit happier when I see someone in yellow or orange dress or if someone is riding yellow car. And I think that sunny days are the best prescription for good mood. I find the cause of it the bright yellow sun.

I also think that red color gives us energy and power. I feel stronger when I wear red shirt. I think that it’s the cause why it is said that when you’re going to have exam you have to wear something red, it’s the best if it’s red underclothes.

At night I’m also a little bit more scared of man wearing black clothes than of somebody who’s wearing white clothes. I think that it’s the stereotype from the movies where bad character is wearing black clothes.

I agree with psychologists who say that green color makes people feel more relaxed. All my friends whose favorite color is green are very peaceful.

So I think that colors have really big influence for our mood. We can also change our mood with colors.

What job I'd like to work in the future?

In the future I’d like to work as a community relations officer or management trainee. I find this job very interesting. In my opinion the biggest benefit is that in this field there are the biggest salaries. It’s also attractive to me because it is leadership. I wouldn’t like to work in clinical psychology field because I find it very hard job. In my opinion it’s job with very strong personalities.

Why I've decided to study psychology

I like working with people because it is very interesting for me. I want to break my world-outlook. I'm team building trainer so I need psichology in my job. I think that nowadays psichology is also very useful in communication because life became very fast and we don't have time to get known other person. I hope that after I'd learn psychology my relationships with another people would be better. It would help me to understand other people. It's also very useful thing in solving conflicts which happen in our live very often. It's also useful in solving problems with relationships, career, personal life and many other spheres. Moreover I think it would help me to understand myself, my passibilities, what I can do in the future, would help to value myself. In my opinion psychology would also help me to build happy family ant to bring up good and polite kids. I would like to work with people, to help them accept decisions and to change their life how do they want it to be. I think that in the future I'll choose business psychology. I would like to be community relations officer or managment trainee. So I think that I have chosen the right direction.