Feedback for blog round 4- only one to go! April 27, 2012. Hey everyone, well done on your latest .

Blogging Benefits in Regards to Motivation. As part of the PNP-3002 course at Bangor University, we were required to write fortnightly blogs on something that we found interesting within the boundaries of emotion and motivation.

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

Some not greatly written blogs about research methods in psychology. Many believe that there are gender differences in academia with females outperforming males.

However it is not just negative effects which have been reported from studies concerning chronically ill siblings . The Effect of Educational Interventions with Siblings of.

Me, Myself and Irene. Century, children of today have become interested in a new form of role model, the video game star! The British Psychological Association have this week, furthered a parliamentary notice to the government suggesting that violent video games do not show causation to aggressive behaviour as behaviour by the in-game characters has been self-regulated by the industry themselves. Funding and researcher bias have been mani.

On the other hand, the experiment ignores the influence of different cultures. The Chinese students showed a marked preference for red. It is because red symbolizes luck and happiness in China. That is a significant element to affect the findings of the experiment. Thus, the explanations of the finding did not give the study design and finding, because a lot of errors were ignored. Besides of using internet sour.

Should psychology be written for the layman or should science be exclusively for scientists? For psychology to be understood and comprehended by everyone, surely it should be written for the layman, in a way that everyone can understand. For people interested in psychology, or any aspect of science, it would be very frustrating if all research and finding were written in a highly scientific way. Can correlation show causality? The reason behind correlations and correlatio.

Is Gender Identity Innate Or Learnt? On April 27, 2012. On March 1, 2012. Beauty is a social construct. What is seen as beautiful in one culture is seen as hidious in another. For example, women is certain african and asian.

The assignment set for PNP-3002 was designed to increase intrinsic motivation by allowing students to choose their blog topic from anything that interests them within the field of emotion and motivation. I encountered two problems with this method of assessment and its relation to motivation.