Top 10 psychology facts Human's

Ten psychological facts that reveal a lot about you okay guys a little reverb goes a long way okay let's not overdo it over the years scientists have uncovered many of the human brain's mysteries and shortcomings that were securely hidden in our psyche today brightside invites you on a journey inside your own head to find out what makes your consciousness work. 

Number one :
             We're constantly altering our memories we tend to see our memories as small movies or video clips things that lie on some shelf inside our brain safe and unalterable but as it turns out recollections of past events change every time they pass before our mind's eye their content is influenced by memory blackouts and by events that took place in the more recent past for example you don't have clear recollections of all the people who attended a family get-together a couple of years ago but since your aunt never misses events of this kind your mind eventually includes her in the memories even if she was absent on that particular occasion.

 Number two:

               We can only have a limited number of friends psychologists and sociologists have come up with something called the Dunbar's number not dumb and Dumberer the maximum number of people with whom a person can maintain close ties so even if you have thousands of friends on Facebook you can only have meaningful communication with 50 to 200 of them.

 Number three:

               We feel happier when we're busy imagine that you're at the airport and you need to pick up the luggage in ten minutes you reach the claim area and immediately collect your suitcase and now a slightly different situation you find a shortcut and manage to get to the baggage carousel in just two minutes then you spend the remaining eight minutes waiting for your suitcase to appear in both cases it took you no more than 10 minutes to pick up the luggage however in the second scenario you probably felt more impatient and dissatisfied this is due to the fact that our brain dislikes being idle and prefers to stay busy instead and for every task completed it rewards us with dopamine the hormone of happiness ah dopamine.

 Number four:

              We can memorise only 3 to 4 things at a time studies show that our brain can store no more than three to four pieces of information at once in addition this info can only be preserved for 20 to 30 seconds after this time we forget it unless we keep refreshing it in our memory over and over again for instance let's say you're driving and talking on the phone don't do that the person on the other end gives you a number but you can't write it down so you try to memorize it instead you repeat the number again and again so as to preserve it in your short-term memory until you can disconnect and write it down by the way the fact that we find it easier to remember three to four pieces of information at a time explains why so many things consist of three to four digits or lines.

Number five:

            Our visual perception of things differs from their actual appearance our brain constantly processes information received from sensory organs it analyzes visual images and interprets them in a form accessible to us for example the reason for us being able to read a text quickly lies in the fact that we're not actually reading it we simply notice the first and last letters of each word and intuitively fill in the rest based on our past experience as the saying goes it doesn't matter in what order the letters appear in a word if the first and last letters remain in place well that was weird see we look at groups of jumbled letters yet perceive them as proper words and this doesn't just happen with texts.

 Number six:

             We spend 30% of our time daydreaming imagine you're at work studying an important document suddenly you realize that you've just read the same sentence three times in a row instead of analyzing the text your mind was wandering scientists from the University of California say that every day we spend 30 percent of our time daydreaming sometimes for instance during long trips this share increases to as much as 70% but there's nothing wrong with it studies show that people who love to wander in the clouds tend to be more creative also they're better at solving problems and getting rid of stress.

Number seven:

            We can't ignore three things in life food sex and danger have you ever wondered why people always stop to look at the aftermath of a road accident even though bystanders find the site distressing they continue to gawk such curiosity is triggered by our ancient brain a section responsible for survival its function is to constantly scan the environment posing and answering three questions can I eat that can I have sex with that can I be killed by that actually there's a fourth question can i buy that at a discount food sex and danger are still the things fundamental to our staying alive so we can't help but pay attention to them.

 Number eight:

            We need as much choice as possible as part of a recent study scientists set up two tables in a supermarket on the first table they play six types of jam on the second 24 as a result 60% of customers stop to try the jams at Table one however when it came to making purchases Table two proved four times more popular why did this happen as we already know our brain can only focus on three to four things at a time therefore making final decisions is easier when there's a limited number of options such as six types of Jam nevertheless we always crave variety we love to browse through a wide range of products that's why we're more likely to stop by the table with 24 types of jam although in the end we'll still go for the same brand we've bought many times before.

Number nine:

           most of our decisions are unconscious we'd like to believe that all our actions are the result of careful planning but in reality 60 to 80 percent of our everyday decisions are made subconsciously okay that's starting to get annoying we don't think about doing those things we just do them every second our brain receives millions of units of data to prevent over exhaustion some of the work gets relegated to the subconscious pocketing the keys turning off the lights closing the front door we perform such actions automatically without thinking all right take your hand off the Reaver button you got it now on the downside this often leads to self-doubt for instance when we arrive at the office and suddenly begin to fret over whether or not we've turned the iron off.

Number 10:

            There's no such thing as multitasking Millennials pay attention studies show that we can only perform one cognitive activity at a time try talking and reading at once or writing a letter while listening to an audio book most likely nothing good will come of it our brain just can't focus on two tests simultaneously however there is an exception if the second activity is purely physical and automatic the type of thing that we perform on a day to day basis then it is possible to combine both tasks for example you can talk on the phone while walking but even then there's a good chance of tripping and losing track of conversation do you still need the reverb maybe one last thing okey-dokey so which fact was the most surprising for you share in the comments...