Effect of Child Rearing Styles on Pro-Social Development

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PROSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 1 COMPARISON OF CHILD-REARING STYLES AND THE EFFECTS THEREOF ON PROSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT There are many factors that play a role in the development of prosocial behaviour in children. The two participants that I used are both mothers of 3 year old children. One of them is a stay at home mom with one child (a girl), and the other is a single mom, working ...

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Theories of Personality Development: An Evaluation

13 Apr 2018

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Introduction On Personality Development The development of personality across individual life can be observed from three different views, such as behaving, striving and present from a person (McAdams and Olson, 2010). In additional, Mc Adams and Olson, 2010, explained the evidence in infancy, a wide differences in social action patterns have predicted in the long term developmental which, clearly explained the transition from early temperament into ...

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Theories of Defence Mechanisms and Psycho-Sexual Development

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Psychoanalysis A discussion on what’s inside Chung Dennis Psychoanalysis’s definition is the study of a comprehensive theory pertaining to the process of understanding human nature, motivation, behaviour, development and experience through the exploration of the unconscious thoughts of the human mind. It is governed by rules of understanding whereby each individual is unique at birth, there social media, and other external factors outside and ...

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Experiential Focusing Techniques in Counselling

13 Apr 2018

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Katrina Quaye (kate) What wants my attention now?  Focusing is a unique skill discovered by Gene Gendlin. Working with Carl Rogers back in the 1960’s, research was done as to why some people have success in therapy and others do not. A very interesting result emerged; those who progressed and benefitted most from therapy were the ones who took some time to reflect, when asked ...

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Coping With School Failure and School Achievement

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DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS OF SCHOOL FAILURE Tony JREIGE   Abstract (100 to 150 words) he present study examined the relationship between goal orientation, coping with school failure and school achievement. Two questionnaires, Goal Orientation (Niemivirta, 1996a) and The School Failure Coping Scale (Rijavec & Brdar, 1997), were administered to 1057 high school students (aged from 15 to 17 years). The first goal ...

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Working and Non Working Mother Health Comparison

13 Apr 2018

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Chen and Lin (1992). Daily life demands, social support, life satisfaction and health of working women and housewives. To see the stress related to daily work overload, the Daily Life Demand scale, Social Support Scale along with the Life Satisfaction Scale and the Symptomatic scales are used to make comparisons between working women and housewives. A survey was conducted on 444 Taipei women revealing that daily ...

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Effects of Yoga on Life Satisfaction and Stress

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Literature Review and Results Chapters Contents (Jump to) Literature Review Results Discussion Conclusion Literature Review Carlson, Goodey, Patel and Speca (2003) studied the effects of mindful-based stress reduction on quality of life, mood and stress in those with breast and prostate cancer. The MBSR programme was found to be associated with enhanced quality of life and decreased stress with low cortisol levels (Carlson, Goodey, Patel ...

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Theories of Motivation and Conflict in the Workplace

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Abstract Conflict in any organization is a matter that can not be avoided. Conflict because from one viewpoint the individuals involved in the organization who have the character, vision, goals, and styles vary. In addition, the interdependence between each other that characterize each organization. Although not all adverse organizational conflict, moreover handled legitimately, can have a positive impact and will benefit the organization all in all. ...

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Effect of Drugs on Clinical Defence Mechanisms

13 Apr 2018

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Neither seeking pleasure nor damage motive are not enough to explain human's odd solution way for get ride of their misery life which represent addiction. In spite of the fact that misery life has inevitable side, substance addicts have problems with defining the emotions, difficulties with resist the pain. This individuals discover that substance which make them addict enable them to control and reduce permanantly their ...

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Online Personalities in Building Social Relations

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1. INTRODUCTION 1.1Introduction According to Gordon Allport (1935) attitude is an important concept in social psychology. He stated that the individual will experience confusion without attitude because attitude will determine what will be seen, heard, thought and done. Attitude can be defined as the measure of man's social world, whether positive or negative aspects. Attitude is a general assessment of a man, including his own, objects ...

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Effect of Pre-Existing Schemas on Memory Recall

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Aasimah Nabeebocus Abstract: Previous research has shown that everyday memory fails in being able to recall and represent data accurately, measured using a drawing task and recognition task. Researchers have explained this in terms of a schema theory. That is individuals recall and represent information based on their pre-existing schemas. However much research conducted in this field, is outdated, therefore this current study aimed ...

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Investigating Interference in Response Time

13 Apr 2018

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Saran Singh Sound An experiment to investigate Interference in response time Abstract In my investigation I have replicated the Stroop Effect, which is a test for checking interference in response time and processing. This effect has been useful as it helps us understand that brain’s reaction time slows down when there is conflicting stimuli. In my investigation i wanted to check for the difference ...

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Validity of Animacy as a Mnemonic Dimension

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Lomasi Fogarty  Abstract The objective of this report was to agree or disagree with the theory that animacy is an important mnemonic dimension. It was hypothesised that this was the case and animacy helps people with recall. First year students of 1001PSY Introduction to Cognitive and Biological Psychology, participated in an experiment where they were to remember words that appeared on a PowerPoint. A distraction ...

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Body Image, Self Esteem and Eating Relationship | Methods

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Methodology In this chapter, we are going to discuss the research design, respondents, instrument, procedure and data analysis that we use at doing the research study. For our research, we used Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-16B), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE), and Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) at investigating the relevance of body image with both self-esteem and eating attitudes. Furthermore, participants were focused at female Foundation students of ...

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Nutrition Behaviour in Attraction to Wellness Programme

13 Apr 2018

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The Role of Nutrition Behaviours in Employee Attraction to a Workplace Wellness Program Nutrition, Overweight & Obesity Between 1980 and 2014, obesity has more than doubled, on a global scale. In 2014 alone, over 1.9 billion adults were overweight, and of those, an alarming 600 million were obese (39% overweight, of those, 13% obese; WHO, 2015). Using overweight and obesity incidence from a Australian longitudinal study ...

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Exploration of Brain Processes in Reading

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Studies into the human cognition of reading tend to use Experimental Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology approaches for developing further knowledge of the processes involved in the reading of language. The experimental cognitive psychology approach designs laboratory experiments to reveal the processes which are involved in the human cognition being researched. The experiments are considered to be a scientific way of researching, as ...

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Experiences and Suppression of Intrusive Thoughts

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A Mixed Methods Research on the Experience and Suppression of Intrusive Thoughts and other ways of Thought-Control in the Non-Clinical Mauritian Adult Population ‘’The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of Hell, a hell of heaven.’’ Milton The experience and suppression of intrusive thoughts, and the use of other thought-control strategies by normal or non-clinical individuals, are some of those complex ...

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Reflective Report on Psychology Presentation

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This is a reflective report on my presentation on 4th February, 2015. Topic: "What pressures do children of immigrant families face, in adjusting to a new culture and what are the implications of this for counselling?" Introduction This was an individual presentation that was assessed by Tim Wilkinson who is the lecturer for Christian Integrative Therapeutic Counselling II, for Year 3. The second assessor was Dr. ...

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Is Memory a Constructive and Active Process?

13 Apr 2018

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Joane Cree   Memory is a constructive and active process’ Evaluate this claim, drawing upon evidence from Chapter 8. of Book 1, Mapping Psychology Memories are part of people that grow and develop overtime, through everyday life and the[p1] experience that they have. They are vital in that they tell people how to react to certain situations and the people that they encounter along ...

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Approaches to Treating Depression: An Analysis

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Stacey Obispo NCU Intervention Program Depression is an issue that will affect 10 percent of the young adults in the United States (Buss, 2012). Possible solutions towards treating depression can be found through an evolutionary perspective. By looking through the lens of evolutionary psychology one can see how the ancient environments different from the ones we have today have developed and molded the structure ...

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Evidence Basis for Psychological Disorder Classification

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Introduction A trained mental health professional will use interviews, psychometric tests, background information to be able to make a diagnosis of a psychological disorder. (Weekly 3, Weekly notes). A diagnosis is formed by comparing the data that has been gathered to that of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (APA, 2013) or the International Classification of Diseases (WHO, 1992). These manuals are both ...

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Contemporary Theories of Reasoning: An Analysis

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Computational and algorithmic challenges to contemporary theories of reasoning Kattja Madrell   Reasoning is the process of using given information to draw valid conclusions and produce new information (Goel & Dolan, 2003) based on a combination of beliefs and language of thought (Fodor, 2001). The language of thought hypothesis proposed by Fodor (2001) states that thought and thinking occurs in a mental language; mental ...

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Effect of Biological and Social Influences on Development

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Gemma L Sobah Evaluate the contribution of biological and social influences to human psychological functioning Introduction: As humans, our psychological functioning is vital to our survival and succession. So what do we mean by psychological functioning? Psychological functioning is the way in which our minds work. It includes our thoughts, feelings and emotions. Human beings are thinkers and feelers. Our worlds evolve around, our ...

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Effect of Parental Separation on Adolescence

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Zeenat Jawed   PARENTAL SEPARATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES FOR ADOLESCENCE Family is one of the important social spaces which give you identity; shelter, security, senses of belonging and also nurtures the personality of a person. Parents play an important role to run the family with harmony. They provide basis for the development of personality and, guide their children to face the challenges of the ...

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Effects of Age on Understanding False Belief

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Sarah Ogen Article Review Directions: Read the article and then respond to the questions below. Make sure that you provide explanations for your responses. Article: Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm All information was gathered from the following source: Buttulmann, D., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm. Cognition, ...

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Comparison of Working and Non-Working Mother Adolescents

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Relation Among Depression, Loneliness and Self-efficacy of Adolescents of Working and Non-Working Mother Sadia Afrin Summary The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relation among depression, loneliness and self-efficacy of adolescents of working and non-working mothers whether mother’s occupation has any effects on adolescent’s depression, loneliness and self-efficacy. Assess whether depression, loneliness and self-efficacy of adolescents differ by gender or not. ...

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Factors that Increase Sensitivity to Nicotine Dependence

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Age of tobacco use initiation, concomitant tobacco use and nicotine dependence Ziyue Wu Abstract Introduction The growing use of tobacco products have strong negative effects on public health conditions such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and lung disease (MacKenzie, Bartecchi, & Schrier, 1994). As the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., tobacco use has been linked to the death of approximately 5 million ...

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Facilitation of Voluntary Goal-directed Action by Reward Cue

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TITLE Using a human fear paradigm, Lovibond et al (2013) attempted to show competition between an instrumental avoidance response and a Pavlovian safety signal for association with omission of shock. Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning are two forms of associative learning. Pavlovian conditioning involves humans learning that initially neutral conditioned stimuli (CSs), such as a tone or colour, predicts an outcome (US), such as electric shock, or ...

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Child Observation for Development Analysis

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Kirsty Lynch Child Observation Study Introduction By the age of six, children are moving out of what Erikson called the initiative vs Guilt-purpose period and are moving into the industry vs inferiority-competence stage of their lives. This is a main developmental stage in the life of a child where many milestones are hoped to be achieved by. To demonstrate the developmental stage of a ...

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Theories of Job Satisfaction and Organisational Commitment

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Job satisfaction Job satisfaction can be described as a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from the individual’s job or job experiences (Locke, 1976). Job satisfaction is a topic of wide interest to both people who work in organisations and people who study them. It is a most frequently studied variable in organisational behaviour research, and also a central variable in both research and theory of ...

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Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance Relationship

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Assessing the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance on medical students Jaunoo Sharfaa   Introduction Since the year 1880 up till the last century, conventional means of success in life such as academic achievement, economic success, even greater health, and longevity were believed to belong only to individuals having a high Intelligence Quotient, commonly known as IQ. Students, especially, medical students who ...

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Effectiveness of Persuasive Messages on Reader Actions

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Effectiveness of the persuasive message ELM (Petty & Cacioppo, 1986) is practical to explain the capability of the persuasive message of “The party's over” TAC advertisement regarding road safety Melody Lam   Abstract Driving attitude of driver is one of the critical factors for road safety, “The party's over” TAC Advertisement on TV to promote road safety and drive for target audience's attitude change. ...

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Are Eyewitness Identifications Reliable?

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Eyewitness testimony is one of the most commonly employed forms of direct evidence presented in court and is often more persuasive to juries than circumstantial evidence. Memory is often defined as the processing, storage and retrieval of information acquired through learning. Throughout your day, thousands of sights, sounds, smells and other stimuli from the external environment flood your sensory receptors. All this information, whether paid attention ...

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Cathartic Effects of Aggression: Theories

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Tan Hui Min Psychology— the systematic study of mental and behavioural processes (Coon & Mitterer, 2012)—stemmed from Wilhelm Wundt’s founding of the first laboratory in experimental psychology in 1979. Wundt presented his discoveries about the human mind and behaviour in public lectures and soon had halls of people learning about his theories and experiments (Abbott, 2012, para. 7). Some even started setting up their ...

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Strategies to Avoid Harm as a Psychologist

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Steps to Avoid Harm Tiffany Stewart   Throughout this paper, there will be two hypothetical situations that will be discussed on how a psychologist can avoid harm. There are seven steps that will be used to try and avoid as much harm as possible when working with patients. The first hypothetical situation, Larry lost his feet to frostbite during a winter on the streets. ...

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Psychological Effects of Combat

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PSYCHOLOGY OF A FIGHTING MAN INTRODUCTION Movies make the business of fighting and war effortless and uncomplicated. They make us believe that soldiers are some sort of killing machines. The reasons for killing may be many; because they are told, if they don’t kill they will die, the enemy is a threat to enduring peace and so on. The movies make us believe that a soldier ...

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Effect of Social Isolation & Depression on Cognitive Decline

13 Apr 2018

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There is a lot of literature investigating how lifestyle factors are associated with protecting cognitive decline in old age. The influence of lifestyle factors on cognitive ageing is of much interest as it is within an individual’s power to change their lifestyle given the knowledge of how it affects their cognition. By identifying what lifestyle factors are related to poorer cognitive function in older adults, individuals ...

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Effect of Same Sex Parenting on Adolescent Developement

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Outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents: A review. What evidence is there to support the assumption that gay or lesbian parents have a negative impact on child and adolescent developmental outcomes?   Same sex parenting remains a controversial topic; the most important assumption being same sex parenting has a negative impact on children and adolescent developmental outcomes. The term “same-sex parenting” is intended in ...

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Effects of Television on Child Development

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Effects of Television Shallene K Green   Society looks at the effects of watching television, which raises the question- Does television harm children from an early age? Dr. John Grohol, Psy.D., an author, researcher and expert in mental health believes through research that television has a harmful effect on the development of children. He claims that it can negatively impact study skills and test ...

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Relationship between Parental Rejection and Loneliness

13 Apr 2018

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Tazrin Akkas Zinia INTRODUCTION In the literature there are many different dimensions such as acceptance, affection control, warmth permissiveness, restrictiveness, and demandingness about the child rearing attitudes or parental behavior. Children all over the world need a specific form of positive response (acceptance) from parents and others attachment figures. When this need is not met satisfactorily, children everywhere regardless of variations in culture gender, ...

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Research Designs and Methods Assessment

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Shallene K Green   Research Designs and Method There are three most commonly used research designs used in human lifespan development research. These designs are used widely to test traits and characteristics in human development. They include cross-sectional, longitudinal and cross-cultural designs (Toplak, West & Stanovich, 2014). To understand each design, is to look at how each can change and affect a life. Cross-sectional ...

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Religion and Spirituality Integration in Therapy: Ethics

13 Apr 2018

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Ethical Issues for the Integration of Religion and Spirituality in Therapy Danelle J. Hollenbeck   Abstract Psychologists are professional who have undertaken a code of ethics mandatory in practicing psychology. Ethical issues arising from religion and spirituality that is integrated into therapy requires psychologists to undertake a moral and ethical view on treating these clients. This paper addresses the codes in which psychologists adhere ...

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Effect of Schemas on Our Understanding of the Social World

13 Apr 2018

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Victoria Lishman With reference to relevant research studies, evaluate the extent to which our understanding of our social world is constrained by our schemas. Every[p1] day people use their senses to gain a lot of information about the world they live in. To help filter the important information, (people) human beings have developed processes to help make sense of the world around them. One ...

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Neural Correlates of Religious Experience

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An Exploration of the Reason, Methods and Research of the Neural Correlates of Religious Experience Jennifer Romano Abstract Spiritual and Religious experiences often remain and power and mysterious aspect of humanity. The aim of this paper is to address the reasons, methods and literature around the neural correlates of these events. Studying the underlying mechanisms behind these phenomenons can be controversial as it raises ...

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Effect of Motion on Facial Recognition Skills

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Introduction Humans have a remarkable capacity to learn and use facial motion to extract personal characteristic to recognize another individual’s facial motion which is considered is one of the most active areas of research in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition and numerous algorithms have been proposed to handle various aspects of the problem such as illumination, pose, expression, age (Aggarwal, Biswas , Flynn, ...

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Positive Social Competence in Mainstream Deaf Students

13 Apr 2018

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A Study of Behaviors, Characteristics and Environmental Aspects Michelle Swaney Social Competence of Mainstream Deaf Students Mainstreaming of deaf students in the general education classroom has drastically increased over the past 10 to 15 years. Generally, deaf students in general education/mainstream settings demonstrate lower social competence (e.g., self-concept, self-esteem, social skills and peer relationships) (Antia, Jones, Luckner, Kreimeyer, & Reed, 2011) reporting feelings of ...

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Influence of Religion and Education on Moral Judgement

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Morality & Education How do people explain what is moral? Or what is right or wrong? Morals signify what is right or wrong and it mainly depends on the cultural context. According to Lalonde in lecture, morality is the behaviour that people regard to be right or wrong, morality depends on culture and as a result morals are culturally imbedded into a person in a particular ...

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Causes of Occupational Stress

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Occupational stress can be referred to the physical pressure such as weary as well as body pain (Beehr et al., 2001) ( cited in Nazim & Shahid Jan, n.d., p.292) and mentally pressure such as weary, anxiety, depression, insomnia, incurred by oneself occupation or job (Millward, 2005) ( cited in Nazim & Shahid Jan, n.d., p.292). There are two types of stress, which are eustress and ...

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Neurobiological Mechanisms that Cause Aggression

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Review of the Neurobiological Mechanisms Which Underpin Reactive Aggression in Humans: a Closer Look at Monoamine Oxidase A (MAOA) Module 1: Prosocial and antisocial behaviours across the lifespan Violent acts have a significant toll on human societies: annually over 1.6 million deaths worldwide occur due to human violence (Viding & Frith, 2006). Although acts of aggression have an important adaptive purpose, when overexpressed, they may result ...

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Psychological Distress Experienced by Medical Students

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INTRODUCTION The psychological distress of medical students is more commonly associated with stress, anxiety and depression [1]. It is a fact that tertiary medical education is highly stressful due to factors that include academic pressures, obstacles to their goal achievement, environmental changes, life challenges such as transition from school to university and the change in role from student to knowledgeable physician [2,3]. Even though there were ...

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Developing Resiliency Skills in Childhood

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Arti Pasrija Issues in Young Child and Care   Research Question: Is it important to teach and foster resilience skills in early years of childhood? Adversity or negative experiences are faced by all children in their childhood. For example, when a child is trying to learn a new skill on the first day of his/her school, a child maybe suffering from some medical condition ...

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Differences on Reaction Time and Accuracy During Enumeration

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Visual field differences on reaction time and accuracy during enumeration ABSTRACT This experiment tests the difference in performance of reaction time and level of accuracy between visual fields during enumeration. The results show that the left visual field has an advantage over the right visual field for reaction time and level of accuracy. However, the results of the repeated measures t-test found that there was a ...

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Addition to Pain Medication: Causes, Effects and Treatments

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Pain Medication Addictions Angelia Holland People are going to the doctor when they are nothing wrong with them to get a prescription for pain pills. People are getting more and more addicted to prescription pain pills. When doctors do not prescribe them a prescription because they suspect that are abusing the pills, then they will buy them for someone. These pills will not stop ...

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Gender Differences in Personality

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With relevant theory and research evidence, critically discuss the view that there are gender differences in personality One’s sex, or biological reproductive chances, can be seen as a discrete component to one’s gender, or their psychological perception of themselves used for identification (Phares, 1991). These perceptions of gender differences can be extremely influential from an early age, as seen in Rubin, Provenzano and Luria (1974) study ...

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Psychosocial Characteristics of Breast Malignancy

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Substantial resources have been shared out to research into the psychosocial characteristics of breast malignancy in the last twenty years. Initial studies in this field mainly focused on describing the emotional experience of women with breast malignancy and also attempted to develop interventions which can reduce psychosocial distress and prepare them to cop-up with the situation. Ferlic M, Goldman A, & Kennedy BJ (1979) conducted a ...

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Type A Personality Implications with Stress Related Illness

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VULNERABILITY OF TYPE A PERSONALITY TO STRESS-RELATED ILLNESSES DUE TO THEIR ERRATIC PERSONA Angelica Marie C. Jarabe Outline Type A personality is prone to stress-related illness because of their 3 major negative characteristics and attitudes towards work. Introduction “It’s not the stress that kills us; it our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye. Stress is inevitable part of our existence. The self-imposing reaction of our body ...

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Growth of Cognitive Thinking During Adolescence

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Cassie Craft 1) When a child grows from early childhood to adolescence there are some cognitive changes in the brain. They grow faster at times and slows down when they get into adolescence. In the following I will be describing the process of growth from early childhood to adolescence. I personally have watched my daughter go through these changes. She currently is in the beginning stages ...

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Benefits and Applications of Sports Psychology

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1. Introduction Currently, sport psychologists utilize numerous interventions and techniques intended to enhance the performance of athletes in competition, one of which is the cognitive approach. (Greenspan & Feltz, 1989). Focusing on the understanding of information and the relationship between concepts will allow the sports psychologist to be able to enhance teaching, learning, knowledge, regulation and performance. (Glassman & Hadad, 2009). 2. Skills Attainment and Performance ...

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Personal Identity and Its Effect on Pre-procedural Anxiety

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1.0 Introduction In contemporary healthcare systems, one of the key ways of diagnosing and treating medical conditions is through invasive and minimally invasive procedures on patients. Some of these procedures are accessing the intravenuous system for treatment (venipunctures), blood collection for investigations (phlebotomy), lumbar punctures and biopsies. Regardless of age, sex or ethnicity, patients endure anxiety and pain associated with these invasive procedures (American Pain Society, ...

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Attachment, Cognitive and Language Development Influences

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Introduction In this paper we will discuss the Case Study of Hannah G. We will look at different theories to Attachment, Cognitive and Language development. We will look at how parenting styles and influence in the marital system can influence a child. We will look at how genetics and environmental factors influence development, as well as a child temperament. Attachment theory Bowlby believes that attachment isn’t ...

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Narratives and Memory Work by Nick Rowe | Analysis

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Aengus Donald A 1000 word review of one of the recommended chapters or articles. Students will choose a chapter or article from one of the prescribed texts, and write a review of the content, as understood by the student in terms of: the writer’s intent, the psychodramatic theory, and its application to practise. Response: Review of Chapter 4: Narratives and Memory Work, by Nick ...

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Impacts of Stress on the Well Being of Undergraduate Nurses

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Sanober Fazal   Introduction Every person in this world is surrounded by different kinds of stresses. (Kohler et al., 2006) as cited in (Martos et al., 2012) “stress refers to a dynamic interaction between the individual and the environment. In this interaction, demands, limitations, and opportunities related to work may be perceived as threatening to surpass the individual’s resources and skill”. Stress in my ...

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Accounting for Individual Differences in the Workplace

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Introduction In today’s society, there is little doubt that individual differences are certainly important in the workplace as one of critical predictors of training outcome, individual productivity or stress at work. For the reason it affects us most in every way to name a few, we perceive and respond information, our abilities and skills such as logic, creativity and critics, etc., it is necessary for an ...

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Is Psychology Reductionist and Is This a Bad Thing?

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Reductionism can be defined as a theory that reduces every complicated phenomena into a number of simple psychological components or principles and then identifies or explains these phenomena merely in terms of those fundamental parts (Sloane, 1945; Peele, 1981; Ausubel, 1982; Barendregt & Rappard, 2004; Vul, 2011). For instance, in psychological studies reductionism tend to oversimplify all cognitive processes, human behaviour or social activity into more ...

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Factors That Shape a Child’s Personality

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There is a growing interest in factors that influences and shapes a child’s personality, genetics and environmental factors are the two most prominent factors that are rising in debates. Personality theorist such as Sigmund Freud supports genetic factors and that it plays a huge role in shaping a child’s personality while Alfred Adler supports environmental factors that dominate in shaping the personality of a child. However, ...

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Conversational Valence and Binge Drinking Relationship

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Results Manipulation check First, a manipulation check was conducted in order to check if the different conditions (valence and activeness) led to the intended positive/negative and active/passive responses, respectively. For this purpose, univariate analyses of variance (ANOVAS) were conducted with valence conditions as independent and valence as dependent variables. The results revealed a statistically significant effect of valence condition on the participants’ valence F(1,129): 80.94, p=.000, ...

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Anonymity and 'Loss of Self' in Crowd Theory

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Phillip Tyler In locating and explaining the place of anonymity in the behaviour of crowds, and it's association with a 'loss of self' (Dixon and Mahendra, 2012), an appeal must be made to crowd behavioral theory and evidence to support these theories. This paper will look to the history of the study of crowds, the process of de-individuation and the theory of crowds based ...

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Is a Metatheoretical Psychologist a ‘Cowboy Builder’?

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Abstract Personally, I feel that Metatheoretical psychologist are not a “cowboy builder”, as I uses the progression of behaviourism as an example and further elaborated how the approach leads to the discoveries and progression of the theories, using explanation of russian physiologist known as Ivan Pavlov, followed by American Psychologist called John B. Watson and Edward Thorndike, and lastly, another fellow American Psychologist, B.F. Skinner. Ivan ...

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Ritalin as a Treatment for ADD/ADHD

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The Inaccurate Diagnosis of ADD/ADHD and the Pros of Ritalin Anthony Masi, Jr. Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a developmental disorder characterized primarily by difficulty controlling behavior and paying attention. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), ADD and ADHD are characterized by the key behaviors of “inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity” (“Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder”, n.d., para. 4). Methylphenidate, ...

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Impacts on Quality of Life and Performance

11 Apr 2018

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Steps Towards Success Abhay Shrivastava   Abstract— Success in general means achieving an aim or attaining one’s goal. To some people success is living a comfortable and respectful life, some believe that success is a journey of hard work through endless efforts to achieve the desired goal, while others think having hefty amount of money is a real success. But for me “success is ...

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Prescriptive Privileges for Clinical Psychologists

11 Apr 2018

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Erin E. Wood   In the last thirty years, many parties within the American Psychological Association have made motions to promote the motion for clinical psychologists to have prescriptive privileges. With the motions made to promote prescriptive privileges, there have also been motions to counter the arguments made supporting prescription privileges. To research the claims made by both sides of the issue, the American ...

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Influence of Location on Ecology Views

11 Apr 2018

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City, rural and Costal backgrounds: Does Location Influence our outlook on ecology? Rebecca Anne Chesser   Summary Conservation has gradually gone from being an issue to a select few, to now a global phenomenon. The widespread harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment have reached catastrophic levels. The amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is already above the threshold that can ...

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Perception of Body Image Among Adolescents

11 Apr 2018

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Background of study Obesity is a state where the natural energy preserve, accumulate in the fatty tissue of humans and it is increased to a level where it is connect with certain health state or increased mortality (Sidik & Rampal, 2009). Obesity is a vital public health problem especially in developed countries like United States where half of the adolescents are afflicted (Sidik ...

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Relationship between Yoga and Life Satisfaction | Methods

11 Apr 2018

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Criterion-related Validity: Satisfaction With Life Scale correlated with ten other measures of subjective well-being (SWB). Most measures correlated at an r = .50 and above (Diener and Pavot, 1993). Reliability The Satisfaction With Life Scale has shown strong internal reliability of 0.57 – 0.75 in a sample of undergraduate university students and from 0.63 – 0.81 in a sample of elderly persons (Diener et al., 1985 ...

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Hybrid Model of Crisis Intervention Case Study

11 Apr 2018

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Frances Roulet The assignment: (3-4 pages) Provide an analysis of the crisis depicted in the Case Study in this week's Learning Resources. Explain how you would apply the Hybrid Model to the crisis in the Case Study. Integrate Maslow's model into your evaluation and explain how you did so. In 1972 a military infantryman flew home alone from Vietnam. When he arrived ...

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Neuropsychology: Overview, Applications and Analysis

11 Apr 2018

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Neuropsychology, the Newest Tool in Psychology Neuropsychology Andrew Davis Table of Contents (Jump to) 1) An Introduction 2) Neuropsychology as a new field 2.1) Key terms in Neuropsychology Clinical Neuropsychology Experimental Neuropsychology Cognitive Neuropsychology 2.2) the role that Neuropsychology plays 3) The history of Neuropsychology 4) The difference between fields related to Neuropsychology 5) Neuropsychology in South Africa 6) Relevance of Neuropsychology for Counsellors ...

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Changing Health Risk Behaviours: Benefits and Strategies

11 Apr 2018

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Jose L. Rivera Changing Health Risk behaviors so People can Live Healthy and Productive Lives Human behavior plays a vital role in the preservation of health as well as the prevention of disease. In order to reduce or decreased the significant morbidity and mortality linked with health-related behavior, health care professionals have looked into models of behavior change to steer the development of strategies ...

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Portrayal of Schizophrenia in Clean, Shaven

11 Apr 2018

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Elizabeth Davis Abstract Media portrayals of mental disorders often provide the only contact one may have on the topic. Because of this, filmmakers have a duty to accurately portray the disorders. Clean, Shaven provides first-hand look into the frightening symptoms of schizophrenia in an attempt to humanize the disorder and admonishes society for false presuppositions based upon those suffering from mental disorders (Lim, 2006; ...

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Analysis of Cusp Catastrophe Model

11 Apr 2018

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Social Psychology of Sport Critical discussion on cusp catastrophe model and using its principles of anxiety on an athlete’s performance. Introduction The ability to cope with pressure and anxiety under strenuous conditions such as a large sporting event is an essential skill to have, especially for an elite level athlete. Anxiety can be associated with an unpleasant state of mind, which can have different effects on ...

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Theories of Authority and Obedience

11 Apr 2018

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Ioannis Sakarellos Obedience has always been ubiquitous while while at the same time was easily overlooked. According to Milgram, obedience can be defined as “the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority” (1). This paper claims that ordinary people who have a strong personal moral code tend to blindly follow ...

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Professional & Ethical Responsibilities of Career Counsellor

11 Apr 2018

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Goh Peng Hng Assessments are an integral part in Career Counseling. As responsible and trained counselor, what are the professional and ethical responsibilities in conducting an assessment for career counseling throughout the process of intervention? Assessment, as quoted in the American Counseling Association states it is “the process of collecting in-depth information about a person in order to develop a comprehensive plan that will guide the ...

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Wholistic Visual Cues When Reading

11 Apr 2018

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To what extent do we use wholistic visual cues when reading? Researchers have proposed that individuals use the outline shape of a word, meaning wholistic visual cues, in visual word recognition in reading. Various methods have been used to investigate reading in individuals with differing reading abilities. The reading abilities of young children and individuals with dyslexia have been studied to determine how this deviates from ...

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Theories of Adolescent Risk Taking

11 Apr 2018

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Adolescence is seen as a period when an individual is unable to competently assess risk. There is a general belief that adolescents believe that they are invulnerable to risk thereby unable to perceive certain behaviors. Because of this, adolescents are adjudged to be less aware of risk. This provides the reason the reason why there are legal limitations on adolescents’ right (Bellotti, 1979, Gardner, Scherer & ...

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Facebook: Motives for Use and Effects on Personality

11 Apr 2018

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The current study investigated the motives for using Facebook from the uses and gratifications perspectives and personality as predictors of Facebook addiction among the Mauritian university students. It also explored the relationship of motives and personality with attitudinal/ behavioral outcomes of the participants’ Facebook use. It was found that certain prevalent motives and extraversion trait were strongly associated with the Facebook variables studied and significantly predicted ...

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Role of Genes and Environment in the Aetiology of Schizophre

11 Apr 2018

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INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia (schiz = splitting; phrene = mind) is generally characterized as the fragmentation of psychic functions (Bleuler, 1950) of which the absolute causes are unknown. It is defined and diagnosed based on Schneider (1959)’s ‘first rank symptoms’ which can be further categorized into positive (e.g. hallucination, delusion, etc.) and negative (e.g. avolition, catatonia, etc.), depending on the described and observed experiences of patients (Andreasen ...

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Role Suitability and Job Performance Research

11 Apr 2018

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Introduction Role suitability and job performance are two of the key elements studied and developed by occupational psychologists, and have frequently been discussed over an extended period of time. Job performance measures an individuals ability and results in their job, taking into account their ability to use initiative, their thoroughness in completing the tasks assigned to them and the effort they put into each. (Boshoff & ...

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Effects of Ethics on Production of Knowledge

11 Apr 2018

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Aakashdeep Dhillon   Ethical Judgement limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. Ethics is a moral principle of an influencing conduct. It is a branch of knowledge that is similar to moral principles. However, it is not the same as morals, rather is the study of morals. A right or wrong is just an opinion, ...

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Effect of Odour and Lighting Intensity on Memory Recall

11 Apr 2018

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Galindez, Dale Gilbert Varela, Sebastian Franco Yarte, Sonja Lynn Zaidem, Arwin Alexis The Effect of Intensity of Odor and Lighting of Environment to Memory Recall The principle of encoding specificity has been a key factor for memory recall. It has been found that a person has a higher chance of retrieving an information if they are in the same place where they have encoded ...

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Risperidone for Methamphetamine Induced Psychotic Disorder

10 Apr 2018

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On the efficacy of risperidone for the treatment of methamphetamine induced psychotic disorder, a dose ranging study Induced psychosis, diagnosis and treatment Worldwide growing methamphetamine abuse is one of the most serious health problems with several different consequences for victims, especially in developing countries. Chronic methamphetamine abuse is associated with several psychiatric problems in all countries which are faced to epidemic methamphetamine abuse. Methamphetamine induced psychosis ...

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Effect of Socioeconomic Stress on Family Health

10 Apr 2018

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Revisions and Literature Review Tiffany Stewart   Socioeconomic status is defined “as the social standing or class of an individual or group. It is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation” (American Psychological Association, 2014). There are higher and lower socioeconomic statuses (SES) that can have a big effect on a family’s health. In 2012, research showed that one in five ...

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Gestalt and Holistic Treatment (Principle of Totality)

10 Apr 2018

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1. What Is Holistic Psychology? Holism talks about any way that stresses the entire psychic thinking reasonably than their fundamental elements. Conversely knows as ‘the entire is larger than the sum of its parts’. A holistic method consequently recommends that there are diverse stages of explanation and that at every stage there exist “emergent characteristics” that cannot be condensed. (McLeod, 2008) 2. Holistic psychology: A New Science ...

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Antecedents and Consequences of Organizational Intelligence

10 Apr 2018

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Chapter 1: Introduction Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning in work (doing something significant), in love (caring for another person) and in courage (during difficult times) (Frankl, 2006). This chapter provides an overall understanding of this dissertation. Section 1.1 describes the research background. Section 1.2 discusses the ...

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Overview of Leadership Personality Theories

10 Apr 2018

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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION “The study of leadership rivals in age the emergence of civilization, which shaped its leaders as much as it was shaped by them. From its infancy, the study of history has been the study of leaders—what they did and why they did it” (Bass, 1990). According to Keith Davis (1967), “Leadership is the ability to persuade others to seek defined objectives enthusiastically. It ...

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Eyesenck’s Personality Theory Model: Sanguine Personality

10 Apr 2018

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Introduction Eysenck’s Personality Theory Model Eysenck's personality of theory divided into two categories which are extraversion and introversion personality types. Extraversion type of personality person is usually relax and confident on their own while introversion type of personality person is often a quite person; focus on inner feelings and their emotional will be more negative and not stable as compared to extraversion type of person. Extrovert ...

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History and the Concept of Hypno-Psychotherapy

10 Apr 2018

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Analyse the history of the profession of hypno-psychotherapy in terms of what information is useful for your practice Historically, hypnotherapy in its broadest sense has been viewed with scepticism and mistrust. However, with the additive value of integrative clinical frameworks, it has re-emerged as a credible, evidence based application for conditions, diverse as, obstetric complications (Hammond & Brown 2007) and neurosis (Barnett 1989). Early Development The ...

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Life Experience of Children Living with Extended Family

10 Apr 2018

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Background Information All of us, despite what social status we are, whether we are poor or rich or young or old, we still belong to a family. Our family can come from either immediate or extended family. Immediate family means we belong in a unit where parents and siblings are living together, therefore, in contrary extended family means living together in the same roof with other ...

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Impacts of Mothers’ Support for SEN Children

10 Apr 2018

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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Becoming a mother is a wonderful, exhilarating experience. Raising children brings new meaning to every moment of your life and depth to your experience as a human being. Equally to become parents and to nurture a newborn baby is a great responsibility. “As parents, we develop hopes and dreams about who our baby will be in the world and how we will be as ...

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Gender and Sexual Identity

10 Apr 2018

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Stacey Obispo Gender and Sexual Identity Understanding gender and sexual identities and the functions and effects of gender roles is important because it allows one to understand themselves and how to relate to others. The creation of gender identity is a complex process involving biological, cultural, and psychological elements (Yarber & Sayad, 2012). A person’s gender identity is the deepest feelings one has about ...

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Can Psychological Theories Be Compatible With One Another?

10 Apr 2018

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Drawing on material from the lectures, and using the conceptual framework of ontology, explanation and methodology: Critically discuss the extent to which psychological theories and methodologies are compatible, conflicting or co-existing. Matthew Belmonte lecture topic (social cognition) Prof David Crundall lecture topic (risk taking/road traffic behaviour) Dr Florentia Hadjiefthyvoulou lecture topic (behavioural/drug addiction) Dr David Wilde lecture topic (introduction to a qualitative approach to psychology, critical ...

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Relationship Between Spiritual Well-being and Happiness

10 Apr 2018

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INTRODUCTION This chapter comprises of the summary of the present study, the conclusions drawn after the analysis of the data and the implications of the study. It also includes the limitations of the study along with the suggestions for future research. SUMMARY The purpose of the study was to compare the happiness of individuals scoring high on spiritual well being and individuals scoring low on spiritual ...

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