Psychology myths
Things almost everyone believes, that the evidence settled years ago.
Written by Asst. Prof. Geetika Rai. For students · teachers.
Things almost everyone believes, that the evidence settled years ago.
Written by Asst. Prof. Geetika Rai. For students · teachers.
Some of the most confidently repeated claims about how the mind works were tested properly and did not survive — and they are still taught, still printed in training material, and still shaping how students are told to study. A review of thirty-seven studies found that around 89% of teachers worldwide still hold at least one of them. This is where those get taken apart, carefully, with the actual evidence rather than a slogan.
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| The ten percent claim | A number with no study behind it, repeated for a century. | not written yet |
The evidence has been settled since 2008. The belief has not moved.
Somebody has probably told you that you are a visual learner, or a kinaesthetic one, and that you should study accordingly. It may have been a teacher, a counsellor, or a worksheet you filled in at fourteen. It was said kindly and it was almost certainly wrong — and if you are studying psychology, you are in the unusua...
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