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The Mystery of Your Mind

Edward Thomas, a curious teenager, is out to find answers to life"s most mysterious questions. Join him in his journey to find everything out there - just waiting to be found! In biweekly, thought-provoking or explorative episodes that are less that ten minutes long, learn more about the world you live in while on the drive to work, waiting at the driver-thru, or whipping together breakfast.

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10:22

Teaching, Learning, Knowing — The Piaget Perspective

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2021/05/01

As we grow throughout childhood, our intelligence somehow shifts from that of a baby to that of a young adult. But, why?Piaget asked this same question about a century before and, using his observations of children's responses to logic questions, came to some interesting conclusions on the stages of development that are still being used by schools around the globe to better modify curriculum, instruction, and content for students.In this episode, Edward Thomas explores Piaget's theories on

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Teaching, Learning, Knowing — The Vygotsky View

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2021/04/17

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10:46

Breaking and Building Habits

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2021/04/03

We are constantly building habits. Found a shortcut to work? Time to create a new habit of driving to work.Baked the best cookie ever? Time to create a new habit of baking cookies.Got to school late? Time to create a new habit of getting ready earlier.However, habits are also dangerous. Chain-smoking developed from a habit. So too does alcohol dependency or stress-eating.Habits are designed to be quickly-picked-up and hard-to-forget but breaking a habit and replacing it with something else requires

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12:06

Perception of Pain

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2021/03/20

Pain is the intersection of physiology, neuroscience, and psychology and governs our reactions, out understandings of consequences, and of the characteristics of objects. Here, Edward Thomas explains how pain has been theorized to work over the centuries and how various factors (like gender and ethnicity) can influence and impact our perception of pain and our resiliency to it.If you love this podcast, show your support by rating, subscribing, and downloading! What are your thoughts on the various

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13:18

Awareness & Attention

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2021/03/06

Focusing is hard. How we decide what to spend our mental energy on in order to achieve optimal performance has also been one of those things that, despite lots of research, hasn't truly been discovered. In this episode, Edward Thomas explores different theories on attention, focal vs automatic attention, conscious vs unconscious attention, and how attention essentially controls nearly aspect of our life!Don’t forget to rate this podcast on whichever app you are using and give me a review! What

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10:40

The Tale Behind Tests

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2021/02/20

The SAT. The ACT. The MCAT. The LSAT. Along with all the other tests you seen, heard of, or taken. Why do we love to test ourselves and others to see how we rank? From Spearman to Thurstone to Binet and Simon, intelligence has been redefined over the centuries. Can intelligence be measured by how good we are at painting? Math? What's the difference?In this episode, Edward Thomas explores famous ideas of what intelligence really is, the first standardized tests, all the while asking

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14:45

The Maturing Mind

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2021/02/06

Looking back, it's easy to question why we thought certain ways or did certain things. However, a lot happens in our first years of life -- from the impact of parenting to our sense of morality, from the effects of loneliness or isolation to familiar or unfamiliar situations, or from trust between parents and children to the way we develop our own values. In this episode, Edward Thomas dives into three of the most important experiments on childhood development and how they shaped our

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10:37

Mistaken Memories

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2021/01/23

An estimated 2.3-5% of all prisoners in the US are actually innocent. But why do so many innocent people get unfairly judged? One reason is due to incorrect eyewitnesses from mistaken memories of an event or crime. First discovered by Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer, things as simple as the words we choose to assign with a situation can cause pretty drastic changes on what we remember. In this episode, Edward Thomas dives into priming, the misattribution effect, the misinformation effect, memory

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12:03

Making Memories

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2021/01/09

What does a rose smell like? Chances are that you’ve never actually thought “huh, roses smell like [insert whatever roses smell like to you here]”.Instead, you already know how roses, or any flower for that matter, smell like. The smell of the flower was stored in your memory.In this episode, Edward Thomas explores how we store things in our memory, ways we retrieve the information we’ve stored, why we forget things, and different types of long-term memory.Don’t forget to rate this podcast on

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12:26

An Exploration into Learning

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2020/12/26

If reward and association -- the basis of the behaviorist view on learning -- was all we needed to learn, why do we act like our parents, siblings, colleagues, or those around us? Why do we enjoy watching others play video games or instinctually smile at someone else's stories -- even though we haven't experienced them ourselves? Spoiler: It's because there's a lot more to learning than just reward and association.From preschoolers shooting a doll to brain activity in macaques,

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19:07

The Key To Learning

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2020/12/12

"We never stop learning". It's an adage almost as old as time but it's more than true. From the unexpected finding that dogs learn to salivate by associating his white lab coat with food, Ivan Pavlov was the first of many behaviorists to come. However, Pavlov's idea of Classical Conditioning was soon supplemented by B. F. Skinner's discovery on the power of operant learning on continuing desired behavior. In this episode, Edward Thomas goes into-depth on how Classical

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10:12

Dreams, Dreams, Dreams...

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2020/11/28

We dream 3-5 times a night, on average. But why? What is the purpose behind our dreams? The science? From Freudian theories on how our lives influence our dreams to ways our dreams can spark our curiosity, Edward Thomas explains one of the states of our minds that we barely even know we are in when we experience it. Don’t forget to tell your friends and family about this podcast channel, “The Mystery of Your Mind” so that they too can learn a little bit more about themselves and about their world

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9:12

The Power of Perception

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2020/11/14

Things can get pretty confusing. That's why your brain became able to perceive. Without perception, you wouldn't know the difference between your face or your hands! In this episode, Edward Thomas goes into depth on different ways we perceive environment, perceptual sets, and some of the more famous theories about what perception really is.Don't forget to tell your friends, family, and everyone you know about this podcast! They will be sure to love learning more about themselves and

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10:56

Emotion: A Vehicle For Our Mind

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2020/10/31

We've all seen that one person who sits alone during a party (maybe even you were that person a few times!). Parties have been around since nearly the beginning of time --- and so has our curiosity for knowing more about why we express ourselves the way that we do. From Paul Ekman to Carroll Izard to James Russell to Robert Plutchik and more, a number of people have tried to find some way of deciding what our inherent emotions and gestures are and how to represent them. Today, Edward Thomas

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8:44

Consciousness: Theories Between Reality

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2020/10/17

How do we know what the world is? It's a question humanity has pondered from the beginnings of time. Today, Edward explores some of the most popular ways we have tried to define consciousness over the years --- from different realities to brain activity.Don't forget to tell your friends, family, and everyone you know about this podcast! They will be sure to love learning more about themselves and their world!If you want to support me, you can support me via Patreon!:

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11:48

Consciousness: An Evolution

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2020/10/03

From sight to hearing to memory and time, consciousness is the building block of our lives. Broken down step by step, Edward Thomas explores how our earliest ancestors likely became conscious of their environment and became the organisms we see today.Support me on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/TheMysteryOfYouMind?fan_landing=true

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14:05

Imagination: A Step Towards Progress

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2020/09/19

Intertwined with reality, imagination has made for itself a name so profound we can't even live without it. Take a trip to the days of the Neanderthals to find out why!Support me on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/TheMysteryOfYouMind?fan_landing=true

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Emergence: When Idiots Become Smart Together

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2020/09/05

Together, we are strong. Apart, we are weak. How can beehives exist? How are we more than a clump of cells? Welcome to the inner workings of emergence.Support me on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/TheMysteryOfYouMind?fan_landing=true

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9:18

What is Life?

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2020/09/05

From the tropical jungles of the Equator to the freezing glaciers of the Antarctic, life is everywhere. But what makes life ... life? In this thought-provoking episode, I try to answer the question we have wondered for millennia - but could never answer.Support me on Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/TheMysteryOfYouMind?fan_landing=true

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1:38

Introducing: The Mystery of Your Mind

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2020/08/30

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