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Sufferers are typically more self-conscious and self-attentive than others. As a result, social phobics tend to limit or remove themselves from situations where they maybe subject to evaluation. Sufferers often recognize their fear is excessive or irrational, yet can't seem to break out of the cycle. As such, the diagnosis of social phobia is made only when the fear leads to problems with occupational functioning, social activities, or interpersonal relationships.

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A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner at the University of California, Berkeley. Among the most recent developments in neuroimaging, fMRI detects changes in blood flow related to neural activity in the brain or spinal cord.

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• "No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience." — John Locke
• "Cogito, ergo sum: I think, therefore I am." — René Descartes
• "Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." — Daniel Dennett
• "The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." — B. F. Skinner
• "Where id is, there shall ego be." — Sigmund Freud
• "A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be." — Abraham Maslow

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Jean Piaget was a Swiss philosopher, natural scientist and developmental psychologist, well known for his work studying children, his theory of cognitive development and its impact on constructivism-based pedagogy.

Piaget served as professor of psychology at the University of Geneva from 1929 to 1975 and is best known for reorganizing cognitive development theory into a series of stages, expanding on earlier work from James Mark Baldwin: four levels of development corresponding roughly to (1) infancy, (2) pre-school, (3) childhood, and (4) adolescence.

Did you know...

• ...that we use all of our brain and it is a myth that we use only 10% of it?
• ...that a phantom limb is a feeling that a missing limb is still attached to the body?
• ...that approximately 1 in 8 of Americans suffer from phobias?
• ...that social loafing is the phenomenon in which people make less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone?
• ...that it is nearly impossible for people with prosopagnosia to recognize faces?
• ...that the human brain has about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections (synapses) between them?
• ...that IQ scores explain only about 25% of differences in school grades?

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