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If you want something a little more challenging, try this. All you have to do is write one drabble a day and it doesn’t have to be in order either.
1. Acton’s Law
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
2. Altruism
Is one aspect of what social psychologists refer to as prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior refers to any action that benefits other people, no matter what the motive or how the giver benefits from the action. It’s an unselfish concern for other people. It involves doing things simply out of a desire to help, not because you feel obligated to out of duty, loyalty, or religious reasons.
3. Bandwagon Effect
Is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. In other words, the bandwagon effect is when people do (or believe) things because many other people do (or believe) the same, regardless of the underlying evidence.
4. Black Swan Theory
Also known as the theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.
5. Bystander Effect
It refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress. When an emergency situation occurs, observers are more likely to take action if there are few or no other witnesses. Being part of a large crowd makes it so no single person has to take responsibility for an action (or inaction).
6. Chaos Theory
Is the field of study in mathematics that studies the behavior and condition of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial condition -- a response popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.
7. Cheops Law
Is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as, “Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.”
8. Cobra Effect
Occurs when an attempted solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse. This is an instance of unintended consequences. The term is used to illustrate the causes of incorrect stimulation in economy and politics.
9. Dunning-Kruger Effect
Is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.
10. Finagle’s Law
Also known as Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives, is usually rendered: “Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment.”
11. Freudian Theory
The human mind is structured into two main parts: the conscious and unconscious mind. The conscious mind includes all the things we are aware of or can easily bring into awareness. The unconscious mind, on the other hand, includes all of the things outside of our awareness – all of the wishes, desires, hopes, urges, and memories that lie outside of awareness yet continue to influence behavior.
Freud compared the mind to an iceberg. The tip of the iceberg that is actually visible above the water represents just a tiny portion of the mind, while the huge expanse of ice hidden underneath the water represents the much larger unconscious. The unconscious mind played a critical role in all of Freud's theories, and he considered dreams to be one of the key ways to take a peek into what lies outside of our conscious awareness. He dubbed dreams "the royal road to the unconscious" and believed that by examining dreams, he could see not only how the unconscious mind works but what it is trying to hide from conscious awareness.
12. Hanlon’s Razor
Is an aphorism expressed in various ways including "never assume bad intentions when assuming stupidity is enough", "never assume malice when stupidity will suffice", and "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". It recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon.
13. Humphrey’s Law
It’s an psychological effect called the centipede effect or hyper-reflection. It occurs when someone consciously thinking about their performance of a task that involves automatic processing impairs their performance of it. For example, golfers who think too closely about their golf swings may find that they cannot swing properly, and a man who thinks too closely about how he knots a bow tie may find that he cannot do it.
14. Martyr Complex
In psychology a person who has this complex desires the feeling of being a martyr for his/her own sake, seeking out suffering or persecution because it either feeds a psychological need, or a desire to avoid responsibility.
15. Murphy’s Law
Is an adage or epigram that can be summed up as: "If something can be used or done a right way and a wrong way, and the wrong way will lead to catastrophe, it will be used or done the wrong way." Another way of looking at this law is the '50-50-90 Rule', which is described as 'If there is a 50-50 chance, 90% of the time it will go wrong'.
16. Paramnesia
Is a condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or confusions of fact and fantasy, such as confabulation or déjà vu. Basically when an individual feels as though an event has already happened or has happened in the recent past.
17. Pareidolia
Is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists. Common examples are perceived images of animals, faces, or objects in cloud formations, the "man in the moon", the "moon rabbit", and hidden messages within recorded music played in reverse or at higher or lower-than-normal speeds.
18. Procrastination
Is the avoidance of doing a task which needs to be accomplished. It is the practice of doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, or carrying out less urgent tasks instead of more urgent ones, thus putting off impending tasks to a later time. Sometimes, procrastination takes place until the "last minute" before a deadline.
19. Psychological Projection
Also known as blame shifting, is a theory in psychology in which humans defend themselves against their own unpleasant impulses by denying their existence while attributing them to others. For example, a person who is rude may constantly accuse other people of being rude.
20. Rationalization
In psychology and logic, rationalization (also known as making excuses) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable – or even admirable and superior – by plausible means. It is also an informal fallacy of reasoning.
21. Reverse Psychology
Is a technique involving the advocacy of a belief or behavior that is opposite to the one desired, with the expectation that this approach will encourage the subject of the persuasion to do what actually is desired: the opposite of what is suggested.
22. Segal’s Law
Is an adage that states: "A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure." While at a surface level it appears to be advocating the simplicity and self-consistency obtained by relying on information from only a single source, the underlying message is to gently question and make fun of such apparent certainty – a man with one watch can't really be sure he knows the right time, he merely has no way to identify error or uncertainty. Nevertheless, the saying is also used in its purely surface sense, to caution against the potential pitfalls of having too much potentially conflicting information when making a decision.
23. Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. Self-fulfilling prophecy are effects in behavioral confirmation effect, in which behavior, influenced by expectations, causes those expectations to come true.
24. Stockholm Syndrome
Is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors for an act of kindness.
25. Streisand Effect
Is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
26. Sturgeon’s Law
Is an adage commonly cited as "ninety percent of everything is crap."
27. Survivor Guilt
Also called survivor syndrome is a mental condition that occurs when a person perceives themselves to have done wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not.
28. Sutton’s Law
States that when diagnosing, one should first consider the obvious. It suggests that one should first conduct those tests which could confirm (or rule out) the most likely diagnosis. It is taught in medical schools to suggest to medical students that they might best order tests in that sequence which is most likely to result in a quick diagnosis, hence treatment, while minimizing unnecessary costs. It is also applied in pharmacology, when choosing a drug to treat a specific disease you want the drug to reach the disease. It is applicable to any process of diagnosis, e.g. debugging computer programs. Computer-aided diagnosis provides a statistical and quantitative approach.
29. Tip of the Tongue
A psychological phenomenon that is the failure to retrieve a word from memory, combined with partial recall and the feeling that retrieval is imminent. The phenomenon's name comes from the saying, "It's on the tip of my tongue." People experiencing the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon can often recall one or more features of the target word, such as the first letter, its syllabic stress, and words similar in sound and/or meaning.
30. Von Restorff Effect
Also called the isolation effect, predicts that an item that "stands out like a sore thumb" (called distinctive encoding) is more likely to be remembered than other items. It is a bias in favor of remembering the unusual.
31. Zeigarnik Effect
In psychology, the Zeigarnik effect states that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks.
 DamnBlackHeart · Wed Feb 17, 2016 @ 11:01pm · 0 Comments |
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