The human brain is an amazing and powerful tool. Sometimes, the human brain also fails us. Cognitive psychologists study how people acquire, perceive, process and store information. This work can range from exploring how we learn language to understanding the interplay between cognition and emotion.

Our brain, whether at a conscious or unconscious level, controls every action that we take. As information enters our brain through our sensory systems, the way our brain analyzes everything that is happening around us will affect the way we identify and perceive anything considered threatening.

Yes. The physical brain can define behavior.

You carry around a three-pound mass of wrinkly material in your head that controls every single thing you will ever do. From enabling you to think, learn, create, and feel emotions to controlling every blink, breath, and heartbeat—this fantastic control center is your brain.

n. 1. broadly, all intellectual and psychological phenomena of an organism, encompassing motivational, affective, behavioral, perceptual, and cognitive systems; that is, the organized totality of an organism’s mental and psychic processes and the structural and functional cognitive components on which they depend.

Unconscious, subconscious, conscious and superconscious are the four states of mind.

Slow ways to get someone out of your head

1. Forgive to forget. This one is really difficult for many people, but just as essential.
2. Respect yourself. How to stop thinking about someone that you still love?
3. Let yourself feel the pain.
4. Avoid substances.
5. Look forward with excitement.
6. Talk to someone else!

More specifically, people with OCD are often treated using an approach called exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP). 10 In ERP, you and your therapist will work directly with your obsessive thoughts as well as any associated compulsions.