German Boy Names?
Wolfgang, Dieter, Mannfred, Hans, Johann, Otto, Rolph, Kurt
What are some interesting psychological experiments?
Little Albert ExperimentThe infamous experiment whose child subject died just 5 years after the experiment.It's one of the famous psychology experiment partly because of its dubious ethics.This is how the experiment worked. Little Albert was put on a mattress in the middle of a room and was exposed, for the first time, to nice, little, furry creatures likeDogRatRabbitAnd his response was noted. As kind of suggested in the pictures, Albert was fine with these furry creatures. No fear response, no negativity at all.Now, for the second part, Albert was put on a mattress & a white laboratory rat was placed near him and little Albert was allowed to play with it. The only difference was, each time the baby touched the rat, Watson and Rayner (the psychologists who carried the experiment) made a loud sound behind Albert's back by striking a suspended steel bar with a hammer . Albert responded to the noise by crying and showing fear. After several such pairings of the two stimuli(Albert & furry animal), Albert was presented with only the rat. Many trials were performed. We introduce another critter, another clang, another critter, another clang.Well, now let’s stop the clanging. We're not going to hit anything anymore. Let’s just bring the critter in. What did Albert do?Upon seeing the rat, Albert got very distressed, crying and crawling away.RabbitWatson wearing furry maskThe infant associated the white rat with the noise & now he reacts in fear, not only to rabbits, but to stuffed rabbits, to shawls that are furry, to anything sort of like that.Albert was about one year old at the end of the experiment, and he left the hospital shortly thereafter. Though Watson had discussed what might be done to remove Albert's fears, he had no time to attempt such desensitization and so the infant's fear of furry things continued.According to relatives, Albert never learned to walk or talk later in life. The child died five years after the experiment which according to some; was not due to experiment but because of complications from the congenital disease. It is stated that the study's authors were aware of the child's severe cognitive deficit, abnormal behavior, and unusually frequent crying, but still continued to terrify the sick infant with this experiment.
What is the definition of social hysteria?
Mass hysteria — other names include collective hysteria, group hysteria, Mass Psychogenic Illness, or collective obsessional behavior — is the sociopsychological phenomenon of the manifestation of the same or similar hysterical symptoms by more than one person. A common manifestation of mass hysteria occurs when a group of people believe they are suffering from a similar disease or ailment. Mass hysteria typically begins when an individual becomes ill or hysterical during a period of stress. After this initial individual shows symptoms, others begin to manifest similar symptoms, typically nausea, muscle weakness, fits or headache. The features of mass hysteria include no plausible cause found, ambiguous symptoms, rapid escalation of cases - often spread by line of sight - and rapid remission of symptoms. Demographically, cases are higher in females and those with greater use of medical services. Other factors that contribute to the severity of the symptoms and spread are protective clothing worn by emergency services and mistaken or misleading investigations. Sightings of religious miracles are often attributed to mass hysteria. In 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas, 34 people were sent to the hospital after they complained about having symptoms when they mistakenly thought they had been exposed to carbon monoxide. In 2008 in Tanzania, about 20 female school pupils began to faint in a schoolroom, collapsing to the floor and losing consciousness, while others after witnessing this sobbed, yelled and ran around the school. A local education officer was quoted in news reports saying that such events are "very common here"
Which piano composer is the easiest/hardest to play?
I am not listing these "on average" - all of these composers wrote difficult concert works as well. But many people would say that the easiest music for piano by a "major" composer would be the first book of Mikrokosmos by Bela Bartok. After that (in a rough ascending order of difficulty, solely by my opinion) Kabalevsky Pieces for Children, op. 39 and op. 89 Bartok "For Children" and "First Term at the Piano" Schumann "Album for the Young" op. 68 book 1 Kabalevsky Pieces for Children, op. 27 Bartok Mikrokosmos, book 2 Leopold Mozart Pieces for Wolfgang: Minuet in F Major Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach Some may add pieces by the likes of Carl Reinecke, Theodor Oesten, Louis Kohler, Friedrich Burgmuller, Carl Czerny, Anton Diabelli, Cornelius Gurlitt, Stephen Heller, and Theodor Kirchner, but the names I have listed above are considered "standard" composers. I would argue, however, that some of the music of Gurlitt, Heller, and Kirchner is as good as, or even better than, the easy Schumann, Chopin, or Brahms it seeks to emulate. There are also some occasional pieces by Handel, JS Bach, Haydn, and WA Mozart that may fall in the upper reach of this category, as well as the (spurious) Beethoven Sonatina in G. But I cannot imagine any front-rank composer writing music that is easier than that found in Bartok's Mikrokosmos book 1 and the first two Kabalevsky sets I mentioned. I should also add that there really is no "easy" music by Chopin or Debussy.....