In Plato's allegory of the cave, a prisoner was momentarily released from his chains in order to view the fire at the cave's entrance. The other convicts did not accept him when he returned to the chains.
Each of us can function well in social interactions with about 150 people, according to the social brain hypothesis. This suggests that throughout our lives, we are able to maintain social networks with up to 150 individuals.
The scientific study of the mind and behavior is called psychology. Psychologists are actively interested in researching and comprehending how the mind, the brain, and behavior work.
The first laboratory devoted completely to psychological research was established in Leipzig, Germany, by German scientist Wilhelm Wundt in the year 1879, which is generally regarded as the beginning of psychology as a separate field of study.
Charles Darwin's work serves as inspiration for evolutionary psychology, which applies to the mind his theories of natural selection. According to Darwin's hypothesis, all living things, including humans, evolved into their current biological forms over the course of history by a series of random, inheritable mutations.
A blank slate; a tabula rasa; is the absence of preconceived notions or predefined objectives. "The team didn't have total autonomy and a blank slate to work from"
The study of individual-level mental processes such information processing, attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, decision-making, and reasoning is known as cognitive psychology.
