General Psychology Research Assignment April 2, 2003 Title: The Effect of Television Commercials On Mood and Body Dissatisfaction: The Role Of Appearance-Schema Activation Authors: Duane Hargraves and Marika Tiggerman Source: Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2002, pp. 287-308 Summary: In this article, Hargraves and Tiggerman used summaries and conclusions from their experiment to determine whether or not appearance related commercials have an effect on mood and body dissatisfaction. ...

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Teach Yourself Psychology explains basic psychological processes and how they influence us in all aspects of everyday life. It explores why human beings are as they are, how they came to be that way and what they might do to change seemingly fundamental traits. ...

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The summaries provided a brief insight into the evolution of a few learning theories and their developers. ... From the summaries in this paper one can see the evolution of the theories through time and through the different perspectives of each theorist; however, if one further examines in detail the different theories one can see each theorists' own learning behaviors and cognitions....

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Logos, Ethos, Pathos Summary What are some of the most important questions any writer has to ask before beginning the writing process? A writer has to determine what the audience will be and what the purpose will be. Then, when they know the answers to these questions, they will be able to decid...

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Operating Definition of Organizational Behavior In this paper I will discuss the definition of organizational behavior, and key elements, which constitutes the organizational behavior. The philosophy of organizational behavior on a basic level relates to the study of employee behavior within a com...

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Schools are in great need of systems, processes, and personnel who are able to support the needs of students with problem behavior. Research indicates, however, that information has not been made available to teachers and other professionals in a format that allows these strategies to become commo...

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Behavioral Perspective Summary: The article I chose to represent the behavioral perspective is about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It describes everything that has to do with PTSD. It includes notes from as early as the Civil War about PTSD. Also, it includes the terms that were de...

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INTERPRETATION OF "THE BAD DAYS BLUES" When I sat down to write "The Bad Days Blues," I literally wrote exactly what was on my heart and mind at that very moment. It wasn't difficult at all since the lyrics are direct expressions of how I feel and/or have felt at some time or another. And alth...

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Overview There are different ways on how to examine ourselves, it would either be medically, socially, emotionally, and or psychologically. But I'm only going to focus on this psychological part. We examine ourselves in order for us to fit in on different category of society or even just to ourselve...

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My Guardian Spirit I have chosen the dog as my guardian spirit. Dogs and humans have always had a significant connection. They symbolize loyalty, reliability, friendship, guidance, assistance, intelligence, forgiveness and a general love of life. I admire all of the qualities that dogs possess. I ha...

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Introduction After the shocking discovery of a skeleton in a park, we are here to analyze the remaining bones to find the identity of the deceased person. Summary of Findings The gender of the skeleton was first analyzed by looking at the skull and the pelvis because both have significant differen...

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In summary, I believe that for learning to be successful, it has to shift from traditional setting of knowledge acquisition to knowledge construction where students engaged actively and be responsible for their own learning and be able to see the use of knowledge in real world situation. ...

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Summary The authors have used Equal-Status Sequential Multi-type Mixed Method design (both quantitative and qualitative) to study the association between youth adjustment outcomes (maladjustment leading to externalizing behavior and adjustment leading to self-esteem) and co-parent parenting behaviors (warmth and monitoring) in specific cultural context (a sample of 185 African American single mother families). ...

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Summary: As in all things, judging whether a website is credible or not requires good judgment, and a manner in which to determine that credibility. One of the best ways to begin such a process is by checking to see if the author states who they are and offers a way to be contacted. This is useful b...

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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA) included provisions for students with disabilities for functional behavioral assessments (FBA) and Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) programs to identify the source of student problem behavior and subsequent supports. For thi...

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Conclusion Motivational interviewing is based on a client centered approach to therapy that uses open-ended questions, affirmation, reflective listening and summaries to help the client recognize the pros and cons of change and their reasons for resisting change thereby eliminating their ambivalence about change. ...

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In summary the three defense mechanism, denial, fantasy, and regression, discussed in this paper are phenomena described by professional in which people escape from the realities of their lives, and protect themselves from adverse feelings or situations. ...

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Real World Application As stated in the summary of the author's finding, a real-world application of something related to behavioral economics that could potentially affect the way people make decisions is the irrational value assessment. ...

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Summary Lincoln and Tony both got called to Mr. Ayala's office. They both thought that they were in trouble, but they weren't. In fact they called them because they both got chosen for an exchange program in Japan, because they both have showed interest in martial arts. They both thought that they w...

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You will be asked to read a brief jury instruction, a trial summary, as well as the plaintiff and defendant's side of the story, and at the end you will have to answer some of the questions about the case. ...

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Summary and Concluding Discussion An individual's mild form depression based on their own perception of personal inadequacies from a social media website is just a theory and has not been thoroughly researched and tested in a controlled, subject environment. ...

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SIGMUND FREUD (1856-1939) Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 at Freiberg, Moravia, and now Pribor, the Czech Republic. He changed his name to Sigmund when he was 22 years old. Being born to a Jewish family, he was also given a Jewish name: Schlomo. He was born in a Viennese family of three bo...

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What makes us get out of bed in the morning? What makes us do the things we do? We have to have some sort of incentive and some sort of purpose for our actions to get us to do something. We need motivation. Humans, and teenagers especially, have unlimited wants. All the big businesses in the world...

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The Alchemist Everyone is born with a Personalty. Mine may be totally different from that of Santiago, but they are equally important in each of our lives. There are many similarities between Santiago and me that aren't apparent at first glance, and there are also many things I would have done...

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Replicating Asch (1951) conformity experiment, Candid Camera program "Face the rear" revealed our tendency to mindlessly follow the dictates of group norms and situational forces in the elevator. (Zimbardo, 2007). We would like to replicate the elevator experiment to evaluate the reasons and theorie...

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