How Should We Define Intelligence?

In this video I discuss a number of ways of thinking about intelligence and determining which skills should be considered part of intelligence. I briefly describe Louis Leon Thurstone’s primary mental abilities, Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory, Robert Sternberg’s Triarchic … Read More

Early Ways of Studying the Brain

In this video I discuss early approaches to studying the brain by looking at cases of brain damage and attempting to connect areas of damage to deficits or changes in behavior. The case of Phineas Gage is considered, as well … Read More

Rorschach Inkblot Test Images

The original images from Rorschach’s Inkblot Test have been available in the public domain for several years now. Here’s an image of Hermann Rorschach himself (certainly a doppelgänger for Brad Pitt): Here’s a series of 10 of the images, presented … Read More