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Well done and good luck! Well done again to everyone who posted for the last set of deadlines. A really outstanding work from most of you. I recommend you to spend some time reading this entry. Although the majority of you did a very good job. And keep working at it! The skills.
Friday, October 21, 2011. How Can We Be Sure? Being a psychologist partially requires being a researcher, which means that we always have to come up with new ideas. The interesting thing about studying psychology is that the new questions never end, since we study the behaviour of individuals and there are many factors that change it. Mental disorders can influence the validity of the results of a study. What if some of the participants are compulsive liars? Motives can also be triggering.
Offender profiling is a method used by police to try and predict and identify characteristics of an unknows criminal. there are two main approaches to offender profiling, geographical approach and the FBI approach. He was a while male. Was going to kill again. Spent a lot of time by the river. Was very mobile with a vehicle. I think that offender profiling is too vag.
Forensic Psychology is very often over-dramatised in many of our favourite TV shows. We now think of it as an action packed lifestyle, chasing crazed killers across the country, but when we strip the drama away, what are we really left with? Theories; models; patterns; traits? The question however is, just how reliable and accurate are these? How useful can Forensic Psychology and Profiling be in cases such as these? There is no real evidence to back it up, and .
Is sex really an addiction? April 23, 2012. Is sex really an addiction? In this weeks blog I wanted to explore the long debated question as to whether there is such a thing as sex addiction or to what extent its greed. So could the idea of sexual addiction be mistaken for greed? It is a common practice for us a species to engage is sexual activities but how much is too much? Can it really be established how much sex is too much sex and how much sex is too little sex etc? Is there such a thing? I believe .
Due to the broadness of the concept, it can be applied and tested under many different scenarios. The aforementioned experiment conducted by Leach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Can a reserch study from India effectively translate to a Western audience? April 28, 2012. Results used statistical analysis to compare the two groups and were found to be significant for all three categories and highly so for moderate and mild groups.