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.

The Psychology of Football Referees. Strange refereeing makes Manchester United uncatchable, says Mancini. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology,.

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.

Reductionism is an approach that explains human behaviour and mind by reducing the whole down to the various composing parts. Reductionism can occur in certain types of research methods in psychology such as laboratory experiments. Lab experiments are a controlled way of studying behaviour and can seen to be reductionist as they are seen to lay the cause of behaviour down to two variables. A case of multiple personality.

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 .

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.

Here is normally where a reference would go. To continue, manipulation of data seems to give off a sense of laziness on the researchers part. Understandably there may be problems, re.

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