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Do You Still Believe These Myths About The Mind?

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Some ideas in psychology refuse to die. Can you spot them?

If you’re like most people, your understanding of the mind or brain and its workings is probably a bit outdated. Neuroscientists are regularly developing new tools and procedures that advance understanding of what goes on inside our heads. Test your knowledge of core facts in the field of psychology.

1. You normally use only 10 percent of your brain.
2. Left-brained people are logical, right-brained people are creative.
3. Intelligence is only partly set at birth.
4. You lose brain cells as you age, and they don’t grow back.
5. Everyone has one learning style that suits them best.
6. Memory is an imprecise narrator of events.
7. Multitasking boosts productivity.
8. Activities like playing the piano improve as a direct function of time spent practicing.
9. Your behavior can be controlled by subliminal messages.
10. Learning requires adding new cells to the brain
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Sources

National Science Foundation

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: Shattering Widespread Myths and Misconceptions about Human Behavior. Wiley-Blackwell. January 2009. S.O. Lilienfeld.

10 Myths About The Mind. Psychology Today.September 2019. 

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