Portal:Psychology/Did you know/6

...that Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality?
...that the non-fiction book Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological point of view?
...that the effects of head trauma on memory can be seen by the post-operative results of HM, a patient who has been unable to form any new long-term memories since a surgical procedure performed in the 1950s?
...that the human brain has about 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections (synapses) between them?
...that it is nearly impossible for people with prosopagnosia to recognize faces?