A Sample Experiment in Psychology
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This 5 page paper presents an overview on how to do a proper experiment. Various concepts such as statistical significance, the use of control and experimental groups, and which are the independent and dependent variables are discussed. A sample hypothesis submitted by a student is used to demonstrate how an experiment may be conducted. Sample results and an analysis of results are provided. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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A Self Analysis of Rational Communication
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This 10 page paper looks at the way that communication within a relationship takes place and the influencing factors that may be seen as occurring. The communication is considered in respect to jealousy, self disclosure and self deception. The paper undertakes a literature review and then applies the theories to a seemingly real relationship (please note that it is fictitious).The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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A Sensory Perception of Happiness: The Beach
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This 4 page paper describes the beach experience. Calling on the sense of vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste, the author recounts the sensory perception of the beach. No sources are listed.
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A Sports Psychology Methodology
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An 8 page paper discussing views of the effect of negative feedback on athletes and proposing a research methodology for assessing the link. The paper proposes assigning six athletes to each of six coaches, using two groups as controls, two for receiving mildly negative feedback, and two for receiving harshly negative feedback. It includes a chart of the predicted results, which is that the athletes receiving the most consistently negative feedback suffer the greatest decline in performance over the study's two-week period. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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A Study of Recency as a Negative and Sometimes Faulty Perception Communicated in Management and the Work Environment
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This is a 10 page paper discussing the perception of the recency effect within the work environment. Recency in which the most recent information received by an individual seems to be given the most weight in decision making has a great deal of importance in the field of management and the work environment. Managers within the business environment are used to dealing with recency plans within a business sense in that recency in business is a measurement of customers who have purchased merchandise “recently” or within an advertising perspective it is the psychological effect in which customers remember the “most recent” merchandizing when purchasing products. Despite management knowing about business recency, few if any are aware of the psychological recency effect within their own decision making process and the perceptual errors which can be made. In fact, the recency effect within the work environment can lead to poor judgment, poor or inconsistent management and poor communication skills throughout administration. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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A Study of Tiredness on Emotions
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This six-page-paper presents a hypothetical study on the effect of tiredness on emotions. The paper describes the study participants, the study itself and the importance of the results on various professions such as doctors, police and fire personnel.
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Abraham Lincoln - Personality Development
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This 6 page paper begins by reporting and discussing events and experiences in Lincoln's childhood and early life and comments on certain events may have shaped his personality according to theorists. The next part of the paper discusses Lincoln's developmental level according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and moral development according to Kohlberg. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Abraham Maslow’s Holistic-Dynamic Theory of Personality
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This is a 9 page paper including abstract that discusses Maslow’s holistic-dynamic theory of personality. Personality has been studied in regards to various psychological approaches including psychoanalytical theories, learning theories, dispositional theories and humanistic psychology theories among others. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) developed theories of personality from a humanistic psychological standpoint. His holistic-dynamic theory of personality advocates that individuals require the fulfillment of certain fundamental needs in order to develop their personality and use their intelligence efficiently, acquire higher functioning and problem solving proficiently. Basic needs consisted of safety, love and respect. A more complex hierarchy of needs addressed the more comprehensive concepts of belongingness, esteem, self-esteem and self-actualization among others. Without the gratification of having these fundamental needs met, individuals will suffer frustration and eventually psychological “sickness”. Within the work environment, individuals experience boredom, lack of energy, low self-esteem and personal and professional problems seems insurmountable. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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ADHD and Speech Pathology
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An 18 page paper discussing Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD), assessment, intervention and changes in views of medication. Discussion about ADHD is followed by a section discussing the role of the speech-language pathologist in treating the language problems that many ADHD children have. Bibliography lists 18 sources.
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