999 Search Results for research design in psychology
Self-Concept is what one believes about themselves. These beliefs stem from the notion of unconditional positive regard and conditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard takes place when individuals, especially parents, demonstrate unco Continue Reading...
Psychology Testing
The Impact and Importance of Psychological Testing
Defining Psychological Testing
A test is defined as a method or procedure for critical evaluation or as a means of establishing the quality, truth, or presence of something. (We Continue Reading...
Results
The results of the experiment were that performance remained consistently good in all subjects until they reached the 8-digit sequence. All four of the subjects successfully remembered the 4-digit, 5-digit, 6-digit, and 7-digit sequences a Continue Reading...
I responded "I owe a lot of money." The hypnotist then followed up with questions designed to determine what I meant and I subsequently revealed that I have concerns about my student loans and that the current economic crisis is the reason that I ha Continue Reading...
Finally, the study has a variety of implications for both the fields of education and early childhood development. Because Bortfeld et al. have distinguished that infants can recognize familiar words and words that precede or follow them at a very e Continue Reading...
Because other research has indicated that nonverbal cues can be laden with emotion, and even be important indicators of deception, understanding the use of nonverbal cues in response to certain questions by therapists can give those therapists an im Continue Reading...
Drugs thought to enhance serotonin-mediated neurotransmission have been shown to diminish appetite for carbohydrates. In a study done by Heraief, Burckhardt, Wurtman and Wurtman, (1985), they examined the ability of tryptophan (TRP), serotonin's am Continue Reading...
Each scale is intended to forecast what a person will say or do under defined conditions, and to identify individuals who will be described in characteristic ways by others who know them well or who observe their behavior in particular contexts. The Continue Reading...
Women perceive their gossip as conversing regarding something/someone. To them, gossiping regarding a particular person not close to them only strengthens shared principles and global perspectives. Male humans perceive women's gossip as conversing a Continue Reading...
This means that for both parent-acquaintance and self-other consensus, it was observed that increased length of acquaintance leads to high stereotype accuracy.
This study on the relationship between length of acquaintance and stereotype accuracy hi Continue Reading...
The same variables of the cranial and caudal sacs would be observed in order to determine if the sounds being produced where indeed coming from these organs or not. It may be that these two organs are either the source of the sound or are in someway Continue Reading...
Psychology of Happiness and a Life Well-Lived
In this paper, I have discussed that happiness as well as morality (meaningful purpose) are actually the ultimate goals and the true sign of a life well-lived. I have tried to explain how morality must b Continue Reading...
The most refined understanding on the issue of morality of terrorism is given by Michael Walzer. According to him in modern times, terror is considered to be the totalitarian view of politics as well as war. It destroys the conventional thinking as Continue Reading...
Psychology Developmental Stages Using Freud, Erikson, Or Maslow's Theories
Development Stages of Life
Prenatal and Infancy
Early Childhood
Middle Childhood
Adolescence
Emerging Adulthood
Adulthood
Late Adulthood
Liberace was born in West All Continue Reading...
Psychology
Application of E. Kubler-Ross Theory to Real Life Loss
Kubler-Ross Theory
Stages of Bereavement in relation to Real Life Loss
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross posits a theory that the process of loss and grief can be measured in seven distinct st Continue Reading...
Psychology
Daycare centers are lifesavers for many families, and are especially helpful for working single mothers. The bonding between parent and child during infancy and toddler years is of the utmost importance; however, children who spend some t Continue Reading...
It is clear from the studies thus far examined (plus a few more) that the ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects develops much earlier than Piaget imagined. Second, while it is unclear from this study if the rules of grammar in Continue Reading...
Materials used for this study consisted of a series of questionnaires: Series 1 was distributed to 300 individuals and included the question identifying sexual preference; Series 2 was designed to gauge the degree to which study participants consid Continue Reading...
It may be necessary to start with continuous conditioning and gradually increase the fixed number of responses necessary for a reinforcer to be delivered. The nature of this schedule "produces a high rate of responding, with a pause after the reinfo Continue Reading...
In this experiment the independent variable would be whether the children responded to the genitals of the doll or not; the dependent variable would be based on the observed result of the independent variable.
Chapter Five -- Question ONE: Biologic Continue Reading...
The accident occurred while the actress was taking a skiing lesson. She initial experienced no symptoms from her fall, but later complained of a headache and was taken to a local hospital. Reports indicate that her fall was not very spectacular and Continue Reading...
These sequences included: progressive, random, anti-progressive.
Results
The results of this study showed that the extent of sequencing in learning and progressive training advantages cannot be completely explained by direct associations between s Continue Reading...
Environmental Influences, Domain Specificity, and Heterozygous Potential:
Environmental influences have also contributed profoundly to human sexual behavior, which becomes particularly evident when one examines certain statistical tendencies perta Continue Reading...
Discussion:
It appears that the experimental hypothesis was confirmed by the data. The fact that no checkpoint agents permitted building access to strangers regardless of attractiveness established that if the phenomenon does exist at all, it is l Continue Reading...
Focus of the study will be males within the age group of 15-25 years old, with equal split across ethnic membership/race. Controlling for this variable is critical as this study will need to establish if there are differences in the intervention (sh Continue Reading...
Coaching
Color psychology is the study of color on human emotion, cognition, and behavior. Research reveals a distinct and measurable relationship between color stimuli and human emotional response. This paper seeks to add to the body of literature Continue Reading...
Philosophy and Psychology of the Mind and Body
Throughout human history, philosophers, doctors, and most recently, psychologists, have attempted to understand the relationship between the mind and body and how it results in human beings' awareness a Continue Reading...
RICK HOUSER'S BOOK COUNSELING AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Rick Houser's book "Counseling and Educational Research"
Rick Houser's book "Counseling and Educational Research"
Why is it important to acquire necessary skills in research for a counselor?
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Media Psychology
Psychology
The topic of the proposal is related to media psychology and reality television. Media psychology is an interdisciplinary field that works in collaboration with fields such as neuroscience, computer science, internation Continue Reading...
Discussion of the Differences Between Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Q1. How does a research problem/question guide the determination to conduct a quantitative versus a qualitative research study?
In general, qualitative research is explorator Continue Reading...
So, just as the concept of Right has to have Wrong as its counterpart to be a truth, so does theory need evidence. Science is a method of understanding, it is an understanding of what exists, what we can determine that we know about these things, an Continue Reading...
role of research problem in choosing an appropriate methodology. It also presents the research questions, methodology, and design that can be used by the researcher to analyze the research problem and proceed with his research study. The third secti Continue Reading...
Industrial/organizational Psychology deals with the human component of organizations as well as clarifying primary motivational drives together with implications of people, socially, that work at the same place within a setting of an organization. It Continue Reading...
Environmental Psychology
In basic terms, environmental psychology is taken to be an interdisciplinary subject mainly concerned with the interplay between individuals and that which surrounds them. In this text, I come up with a concise and clear def Continue Reading...
Counseling Master Questionnaire
Counseling Questionnaire
Define research
A counseling session with an individual may qualify research as, putting together of information and understandings, followed by determination of validity of the conclusions Continue Reading...
Courses in quantitative experimental techniques and research design, which comprise the utilization of computer-based study, are an essential part of graduate study and are essential to finish the dissertation. The Psy.D. degree may be founded on se Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice Research
Torres, A.N., Boccaccini, M.T., and Miller, H.A. (2006). Perceptions of the validity and utility of criminal profiling among forensic psychologists and psychiatrists, American Psychological Association, 37 (1), 51-58.
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Overall, 8% from the control group completed testing and counseling versus 23% from the intervention group, which is a "modest increase" according to the researchers. None of those who completed testing was positive for HIV.
With the results contro Continue Reading...
data collection for phenomenological research done? State the method then explain/Illustrate.
Phenomenological research is grounded in the personal and subjective perspective. It falls into the larger category of qualitative research which is not t Continue Reading...