365 Days of Psychology Quotes

“Memory isn’t just about storing information; it’s about how long we hold onto that information and how we use it. Short-term memory (STM) acts like a temporary holding bin, storing small amounts of data for brief periods—typically around 20 to 30 seconds.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Another culprit is interference, where similar memories compete with one another, making it harder to retrieve specific information.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“The decay theory suggests that memories fade because the neural connections that hold them weaken over time. Essentially, if a memory isn’t refreshed,”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“short-term memory may be held briefly, while long-term memory can store vast amounts of data for years, even decades.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“This is where the brain’s filing system comes into play—sorting data into short-term memory (STM) or long-term memory (LTM).”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Memory is not a single process but rather a complex system that unfolds in three key stages: encoding, storage, and retrieval.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“When we try to focus on too many things at once, our performance suffers—a phenomenon known as divided attention.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Selective attention helps us focus on what’s important, filtering out distractions to allow us to concentrate on a particular task—whether that’s reading a book in a noisy café or listening to a friend’s story while other conversations happen around you.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“While heuristics help us navigate complex environments with limited information, they can also lead to cognitive biases.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“For example, when asked to estimate the likelihood of something, we might rely on the availability heuristic—basing our judgment on how easily examples come to mind.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“The human brain is wired to take shortcuts—mental shortcuts, known as heuristics, that allow us to make quick decisions without having to analyze every detail.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“There are two main approaches to problem-solving: algorithms and heuristics.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Our brains love efficiency, and one way they achieve this is by using schemas—mental frameworks that help us organize and interpret information.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“The cognitive approach shifted the focus back to what happens inside the mind—our thoughts, memories, and problem-solving abilities.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“The 1950s and 1960s marked a seismic shift in psychology known as the Cognitive Revolution.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to form new connections and adapt throughout life.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“One common technique used in CBT is exposure therapy, where individuals are gradually exposed to the situations they fear, helping them overcome anxiety through repeated, controlled exposure.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effective forms of therapy, and its roots lie in behavioral psychology.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“At the core of behavioral psychology lies a simple yet powerful framework: Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence, or the ABCs of behavior.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Skinner was able to explore different patterns of reinforcement, including continuous reinforcement (rewarding a behavior every time it occurs) and partial reinforcement (rewarding only some of the time).”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Skinner’s most famous contribution to behavioral psychology was the invention of the Skinner Box, a controlled environment used to study operant conditioning in animals.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“If you want to see a behavior repeated, reward it—this is the central premise of positive reinforcement.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“At the heart of Skinner’s theory is operant conditioning, which differs from Pavlov’s classical conditioning in that it focuses on the consequences of voluntary behavior.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“While Pavlov focused on classical conditioning, Skinner expanded the field by introducing the concept of operant conditioning, which emphasizes how behavior is influenced by consequences.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“This phenomenon is called spontaneous recovery.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“Just as we can learn behaviors through classical conditioning, we can also “unlearn” them—a process known as extinction.”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“conditioned stimulus (CS), capable of eliciting a conditioned response (CR)—”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More

“In Pavlov’s experiment, the food is called the unconditioned stimulus (UCS) because it naturally and automatically triggers salivation, an unconditioned response (UCR).”
― Dae Lee, 365 Days of Psychology: 365 Days of Psychology: A Year of Daily Lessons to Master Your Mind—From Freud to Skinner, CBT to Creativity, Mental Health to Mindfulness, and More