Changing Undesirable Behavior In Our Kids

Back in my undergraduate years I took a required course for all psychology majors entitled Experimental Psychology.  Early in that course in a lab we were each instructed to train a white rat to turn right in a T-maze.  (A successful trial was defined as the rat not going past a line on the left side of the maze [...]

2020-02-17T16:17:05-07:00September 21st, 2015|Categories: Children, Teens|Comments Off on Changing Undesirable Behavior In Our Kids

Video Games: The Newest Plague

Video games are like crack cocaine to today’s youth.  Many children, especially boys between the ages of 11 and 16, spend untold hours involved with these electronic games, often from the time they come home from school until they finally go to bed.  Far too many kids spend essentially entire weekends (and most of their holiday and summer breaks) [...]

2020-02-19T18:16:20-07:00March 19th, 0208|Categories: Children, Mental Health, Teens|Comments Off on Video Games: The Newest Plague