Recreations of a Psychologist

Coniputer Recreations

I t is due cause for wonder 1hat mole­ cules of water "know" how to frame the elaborate syrr.metries of a snow­ flake. There is no architect directing the assembly, and (he molecules themselves carry within them no template for the crystalline form. Pattern on a large scale e.merge~ entirely from the shorl-range in:eractiollS of many identical \lnits. Each molecule responds only 10 [be in· tJue...

Mathematical Recreations at the Casino

What Makes a Competent Psychologist?

In developing European standards for the psychological profession, two main approaches to the definition of professional competence have been proposed. One focuses on the roles and functions psychologists should be able to perform (output model), the other on the educational curricula that should be followed in order to become a psychologist (input model). This article starts with a discussion ...

I am a personality psychologist

I am a personality psychologist, I study individual differences in affect, behavior, cognition, and motivation as they are affected by biological causes and environmental events. That is the answer I give when people ask me what I do. I do not say that I am a cognitive-psychologist, a social-psychologist, a neuro-psychologist, a behavior geneticist, a psychometrician or a methodologist, for alt...

A Psychologist Looks at Educational Reconstruction