On April 27, 2012. Wrote a great blog for the previous batch. This demonstrates that you have understood how the results were derived and gives you more detail to critique. I suggest you check out this blog. One more blog to go! On March 23, 2012.

In an article in the New Scientist magazine, published 21. April 2012, it was said that addicts can be taught to forget their addiction. The article states that exposing people to drug-related cues without actually supplying the drug can reduce the addiction, but only if the memory of addiction in the addict is retrieved first.

But of course, like everything else ever in the discussion of ethics, this issue is very much a double edged sword. A prepared speech I listened to in POPPS a few weeks ago raised several points you could use to argue that the SONA system is highly unethical and should be stopped etc.

Unable to think of a Blog topic i decided to randomly open my research methods textbook and write my blog on whatever came up. I think I got off luckily. Consent and informed consent is one of the most important ethical guidelines in psychological research. There are 8 main principles which need to be met in order to claim informed consent they are;. 1 The porpoise, procedures and estimated duration should be provided. 8 Participants should be given contac.

How Good Are We At Correctly Interrupting Our Emotions? April 23, 2012. We all know the basic emotions people can feel, like happiness, confusion, sadness, anger etc. But how good are we at interpreting these emotions when we do feel them? Do we sometimes label one emotion as something else? However there are many reasons to doubt these results. Some of the problems lie within the study itself. Ethically, it does not sit well with me that men who were known to be .

and van Hasselt, V. On April 28, 2012 in Uncategorized. Cognitive Skills Programmes in Prisons. On March 25, 2012 in Uncategorized. Is Crime an Addiction? Some individuals continue their criminal behaviour even after they experienced the serious negative consequences of being caught.

However meta analysis is not necessarily a valid methodology because publication bias can occur from skewed data and the researcher is restricted in what research they can use as it must be quantitative for a meta analysis to be conducted. This entry was posted on April 25, 2012. Writing questionnaires is not as easy as first perceived. Leading question must be avoided to gua.

Do you really know yourself? Our consciousness is split into the subconscious and the conscious part and we only have access to our conscious thoughts. but just how well do we really know our own personalities? Research has suggested that we may not know ourselves as well as we like to think. These are just a few examples o.

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With exams coming up we are all hard at work with revision and how to make the best out of the time we have.