Last blog, end of year one. Well guys, you are at the end of year one. Congratulations on your efforts with the final round of blogging. Generally the quality was really good. I genuinely think you have all shown improvement during this course, and hopefully you all feel that you have progressed too. I look forward to reading your reports and seeing what you are all now capable of. Good luck with your exams,. Thoughts while marking blog 4.

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For many years dyslexia was misdiagnosed. Children who were unable to read were considered stupid or less capable than their peers. Fifty years on, and while the cause of dyslexia is still not completely understood, the symptoms are known and help is given to those who have dyslexia. Currently scientists believe that the cause of dyslexia is due to a cerebellar impairment.

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Lecturers are constantly seeking to find plagiarism in students work. However there is a set back to them trying to do this as not all plagiarism is deliberate. It has even been found in research that unconscious plagiarism is a rather common memory weakness, which is present in everyday cognitive functioning. When it comes to generalisation, it is one of .

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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.

The theraputic applications of Psilocybin mushrooms. New research, led by a former government drug adviser, suggests that the active ingredient found in Psliocybin mushrooms could be used to treat chronic depression; allowing sufferers to vividly recall happy memories. Carhart-Harris, Implications for psychedelic-assis.

Overall, although certain experimental procedures can be considered invasive, experimenters do attempt to make participants comfortable and if the participant feels so uncomfortable that results can be inaccurate they have the opportunity to leave the experiment at any time and so this should not be a major criticism. Is Jeremy Kyle lying to us? Lie detect.

The Power of the Human Mind. However, there is the problem of demand characteristics in this field. Those who believe that something should make them feel better may report that it does so, despite it not working, simply because they put down their claim. People do not like being proved wrong, and so often find ways of making it seem like they are not. The effect of emotion on attractiveness.