Throughout puberty, young people develop emotionally, physically and socially. ... The author completed a learning style test with Child B which resulted in her being diagnosed as a visual learner who works best when they see demonstrations, diagrams, slides, charts, and other visual aids when learning. ... This makes young people feel relevant, cared about and emotionally connected to the staff member. ... SAFE (2013) describe safeguarding children and young people as "everyone's responsibility." ... Two theorists whose writings are intrinsic when working with children and young people a...

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I learned about the projective tests, in which subjects reveal aspects of their personality when they talk about ambiguous stimuli "involves the Thematic Apperception Test and the Rorschach inkblot test. ... They focused on the ways that "healthy- people strive for self-determination and self-realization. ... I always figured that most ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and women live lives handicapped by impoverished self-esteem. ... Most people I know are very hard on themselves and have barely any self-esteem whatsoever. ... I learned that action predicts behavior better...

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Through everything that we absorb daily, we are shaped into the people we will be by a young age. ... They sampled saliva from each subject to test the amount of nicotine residue in the saliva. ... Higgins, tests a somewhat new and foreign area of crime: cyber crime. ... The second restraint of this study was the theory it was testing. Morris and Higgins claim that they could not test all of social learning theory's components. ...

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Amongst the people that have scientifically investigated this particular drug, it has been suggested that it will take many years to understand its effects. ... All patients were given test in regards to memory, behavioral memory and planning abilities. To determine the statistical differences between the patients the Chi-Square test, the Student-T test and the Non-Parametric Mann-Whitney tests were used. ... All people that contacted the researches where interviewed to see if they met the criteria to be able to do the study (Topp et al, 1999). ... What this means is that they informed people ...

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Jung provided us with the Myers-Briggs personality test. ... People interpret, explain, or predict, the events in their lives through the utilization of Kelly's constructs. ... Albert Bandura's social-cognitive theory says that people learn from each other through observational learning, imitation, and modeling. ... One of the key takeaways from this course is Jung's Myers-Briggs personality test. ... Even though Jung's theory leaves a lot to be desired, this test is a good tool to help people get a better understanding of themselves and how they interact with others. ...

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Psychology professionals have done so much to better the preciseness of tests through meticulous research and analysis. ... These people helped reform the medical profession to where it would be for assistive and detailed in order to try and help people understand mental illness. ... Although what he achieved was personal, people took into consideration of what he did. ... Psychologists thus have to run research and tests in order to narrow down specifics amongst different groups of people or individuals as a drawing line to the entire population. ... Statistical tests enable researchers in c...

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PROBLEM: Do people display confirmation bias in choosing a set of questions that will possibly give information verifying their beliefs instead of choosing a set that could disprove their suspicions? ... RESULTS: A c test for goodness of fit was used to assess the data from the manipulation check. ... For the main results (data and calculations in Appendix D), a c test for independence was used to evaluate the data. ... Data for the main results (in Appendix D with calculations) was tested with a c test for independence. ... I can only guess that not only this student tried to downplay the ...

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If this is so, why are people with high intellectual ability not able to use their ability more effectively for solving everyday problems in living? ... Examples abound of people with high intellectual ability who live their lives very foolishly and of people of ordinary intelligence who live their lives very well. ... It was the observation of just such reactions that stimulated our interest in the issue of "why smart people think dumb." ... One cannot help but be impressed, when observing students in such a situation, with the degree to which some otherwise bright people lead their lives in ...

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Although in Behaviourism it is believed that animals are practically and ethically more convenient to test. ... Thorndike had to test his theory to see if his hypothesis was right. Therefore he tested it out on a cat. ... Animals were mostly tested on, because they believed that animals were practically easier and ethically more convenient to test. ... Strengths of humanism are that, it helped people to realise, that it is important to study the human mind and the experiences that people go through. ...

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Almost all people are exposed to some kind of subliminal message everyday throughout life. ... The results of his Fort Lee subliminal projection test became the seed of a National subliminal uproar. ... People were very upset by this idea, and felt the government should address it. ... However, these beliefs were not concurrent with test scores. ... Most people realize that subliminal messages do not have a strong effect on people, however most of the public still fears them. ...

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Human INTELLIGENCE As well known as IQ tests, nearly everybody has heard about it and many even have taken the tests. IQ tests are feasible because of the following assumption. ... Many scientists have devoted their effort to IQ test. And they draw these conclusions after millions of IQ tests on different group of people: First, people excelling in one type of intellectual task are likely to excel in other intellectual tasks. ... As people grow older, experiences are more and more abundant. ...

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The fact that people differ from each other is obvious. ... The theories contain predictions, or hypotheses that are then tested by further research and observation. ... The results of my personality test are that I am systematic, thorough, painstaking, and hardworking. ... I expect people to act in a similar manner. Logical and analytical I am quick to point out flaws in other people. ...

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An inquiry has been carried out to determine whether the defendant knew what he was doing was wrong' (Ogloff, Roberts & Roesch, 1993) The Durham Test simply states that the accused is not ciriminally responsible if his/her actions were produces by a mental disease or defect. ... Approaching one third of homeless people have a psychological disorder. ... (Congress 2000) In fact statistics show: 25% to 40% of mentally ill individuals become involved in the criminal justice system; In July 1999, the Department of Justice issued a Special Report announcing that at least 16% of stat...

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In a dichotic listening task participants were tested on how they responded to different messages on left and right ear that were being played simultaneously. ... In particular, neuropsychologists have used this test to explore the role of singular neuroanatomical structures in speech perception and language asymmetry. ... A consonant-vowel version of the Dichotic Listening Test was used to assess the functional integration of the left hemisphere in hallucinating and non hallucinating psychotic patients. The test was administered under three conditions: a non forced attention condition, a co...

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Personally I have found that everyday can be a challenge because new social situations arise that I have never encountered and my social intelligence is put to the test. ... Thus even someone with great social intelligence can be stumped by certain situations or people. ... There is more to a social interaction than meets the naked eye because people can bring past interactions into present ones. ... While this was mostly the case there were key instances that there was something deeper going on, such as a big project due or a test coming up. ... Here both parties are conscious of the people a...

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Concept of trait theory The basic assumption of the trait point of view is that people possess broad predisposition, called traits, to respond in particular ways. In order words, people may be described in terms of likelihood of their behaving, feeling, or thinking in a particular way. ... Superfactor defines a dimension with a low end (introversion) and a high end (extraversion), such that people may fall along various points between the two extremes. ... Research Method on personality In order to test for the concept of trait, theorists use different method to test it. Like Eysenck, he d...

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The main assumption of this model is that people are naturally good and strive for personal growth and fulfillment. ... Those engaging in prevention often use risk and protective factors to identify people who more help before major problems develop. ... When people have pseudo-neurological symptoms almost exclusively, they have a type of somatoform disorder known as conversion disorder. ... People with hypochondriasis are preoccupied or fearful of having some serious disease that may explain general bodily changes. ... A key aspect of hypochondriasis is that a person worries about having a pa...

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This age group sees people who have overcome the everyday existence that they know of as heroes. ... These real world people who have "transcended" the rules that we all live in everyday and triumphed engages their imaginations. ... This romantic outlook heightens the significance and enlarges the meaning of their thinking by applying these qualities to people and everyday occurrences. ... As a teacher I want my students to come away learning something that is valuable to their lives, not just what they memorized for a test I gave them. ...

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We are the same basic people we've always been. ... A second test group did exercises to boost short-term memory, attention and mathematical and visual-spatial skills-functions typically targeted by commercial brain-training programs. ... Because of this conclusion, the results from this test show that yes, intelligence and memory can be strengthened and gained however there is a set limit on what the mind can truly remember. ... Tests have shown how the brain can only hold so much at a time, whether it's at its limited capacity over time or not. ... Most people agree that evolution...

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The great purpose of education at Sparta was to develop courage through test and trials which were sometimes almost barbarous. ... If the character of the people is sound, laws are unnecessary; if unsound, laws are useless. ... Those who pass this elimination test will receive 10 more year of education & training in body & mind. ... At the age of 30 they will face another elimination test which"ll be far more severe. ... The ideal state, thus, will be realized & its people, balanced in soul, will be just & happy. ...

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(pg.439) Bottom line, it is the way Black people think, act, and socialize. ... The above stated came forth through an acute critique and rejection of white psychology in terms of its methodological conclusions and the ideological premises it tests. ... (Pg. 443) Black psychology has set forth new definitions, conceptual models, and test theories that come from the heart of the Black experience. ... The Radical school is the last I will discuss; this school makes no appeal to whites and directs their attention to Black people in terms treatment and transformation. ... The members of this...

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At one time it was generally accepted that men performed better on spatial ability tests while women performed better on verbal tests; however it seems that differences in test scores have also changed over the years (Terry, 2009). ... This does not meant that savants have a better memory overall, but simply that in a given task they can perform better than non-disabled people. ...

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He says that when he was diagnosed with these diseases, he had CAT scans and blood tests, among many other tests, but in actually being diagnosed, all that doctors can do is ask a series of questions to the patient and make a guess based on the responses that they get. ... He sometimes wonders if there is no suck thing as crazy, maybe some people are different than others, maybe some people see or hear things that other people do not hear, but what they see could possibly be real, just doctors and society refuse to believe that it is real so these disorders have been dreamed up by the "normal...

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To accomplish this, we need to understand how people learn. ... People are different from each other. ... Usually people come to prefer, and rely on, one main learning style above the others. ... Thus some people are born too sensitive, some too insensitive, some too serious, and some to excitable. ... In each of the four quadrants, people usually prefer one of the two choices. ...

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The lines were very easy to distinguish and if tested on their own observers made few if any errors. When they were tested in a group and most or all of the rest of the group gave the wrong answer, the subjects were more likely to conform and also give the wrong answer. ... So it's no wonder to me that so many people choose conformity over individuality. ... We tend to conform with people by whom we want to be liked or who we perceive to an authority. ... We tend to accept the information of other people whom we assume to be more knowledgeable than ourselves. ...

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