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Clinical Psychology and Scientific Practice

it from its tenuous hold as a scientific discipline. The main belief in this type of practices was that patients were chil...

Issues of Field Collection in Criminal Forensics

evidence such as the possession of property which can be connected to a crime, to the possession of a gun which can be demonstrate...

Costly Mistakes in Forensic Evidence Collection

This paper addresses the necessity of proper field collection procedure in forensic evidence collection. The author cites the O.J...

The World Trade Organization and Appeals Criteria

What can be appealed? How does one distinguish between issues of law and issues of fact? Can factual...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

The Case Against Global Warming

influences. The urban heat island effect is an effect that will skew results, it is known that cities are often hotter that the...

Are Good Leaders Likely to be Tall?

In 1924, 1970 and 1976 the US elections for president were not won by the tallest candidate, in the others the tallest candidate h...

Law and the Impact of Evidence

investigation. Evidence can assume many forms including testimony from witnesses, forensic evidence such as DNA data, or document-...

Facts and Findings in the Alice ‘Lindy’ Chamberlain Case

* Adjacent to and on a coin on the floor well under the front passenger seat; * A flow of blood on the hinge of the right...

Presentation Guideline for Global Warming

ice caps, however, which have begun falling apart in the manner of Humpty Dumpty falling off the wall. We cant put those back tog...

Rules of Evidence: Questions and Answers

the suspect." What happens is that the investigator will either intentionally or unintentionally lead the witness. He may say som...

DNA Evidence and the Daubert Test

such evidence, "crime lab scientists from the Illinois State Police testified that lip prints are as unique to an individual as ar...

History/Education & Educational Psychology

Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) with the first applied educational psychologist, as he attempted to put Rousseaus philosophy into ...

The Misuse of Psychology

1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...

Article Synopsis; L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology

social as well as individual. The to important elements in terms of modern though are the "zone of proximal development" which is...

Why Psychology Is Considered A Science

"mental life contains no independent elements but different moments mutually implicating each other in the whole" (p. 42). ...

Contemporary Psychology and Various Schools of Thought

In one page this paper examines forensic psychology and other current schools of thought in this contemporary psychology overview....

Questions on 10th Century Psychology

as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings. In Interpretati...

Jigsaw Classroom

other groups to get together and discuss what they have learned (Aronson, 2012). Cooperative learning techniques have been found ...

Occupational Choices in the Field of Psychology

one will find that many fields are rife with opportunities for psychology majors. Many firms in fact hire anyone with a B.S. or B....

Human Psychology and the Brain

in which words are recognized to have different meanings relative to context. The metaphoric comparison between the mind and th...

The Importance of Forensic Psychology

a crime. This particular component of forensic psychology has been the focus of myriad debates ever since Sterns discovery,...

Issue in Social Psychology

with the group existed with two people, and compliance and conformity existed with the third one. On the one hand, two were confor...

Psychopharmacology and Other Topics

a stereotypical image they held in their own minds. We are not always aware of our own prejudices but some people are and take s...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

of performance measures that reflected a practical motivation, often creating a disconnect between learners and the educational fo...

INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EMPLOYEE SELECTION AND TRAINING

organization and employee. Belova, in a dissertation study in 2002, described the use of I/O psychology in conjunction with...

Social Psychology

an individual? For example, is the group a set of friends, family, or a set of co-workers? How an individual relates to a group ca...

The Major Perspectives of Psychology: An Overview

hard to define. The reason for this is that, over the years since humans first began their inquiries into the mysteries of the min...

Psychology and Philosophy

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...