Using babies in Television Programmes, is it ethical? April 28, 2012.

One Example of this would be this newspaper article which suggests the rioters, who criminally damaged properties and injured many people, may not have had the power to stop their behaviours due to a lower level of a chemical in their brains which keeps impulsive behaviour under control, somehow trying to justify their appalling behaviour last summer.

Are other methods in psychology as scientific as experiments and should they be used? April 29, 2012. Experiments in laboratories or in natural settings are seen as the scientific method as they can be tested. Are other methods such as observations or case studies as scientific as experiments? APA publication Manual 6.

, and Hoffman, W. American Journal of Community Psychology, 18. , and Winter-Ebmer, R. Identifying the effect of unemployment on crime. Journal of Law and Economics, 44, 259-283. Do our pets have an effect on us? However this rela.

Kind of like Lolita, maybe? But were the ASA going too far, or was the advert a step too far? It is clear advertisements and media have had a long history of sexualising women and men in order to appeal to the world, for example magazines, newspapers and music videos, but what effect is this having on the psychological health of the public? Bernard, P. , Campomizzi , S.

One topic that was talked about in our last research methods lecture of the year was the issue of ends justifying means. Should research be conducted if the process of an experiment produces ground-breaking findings, even if that process breaks ethical principles as laid out by the APA and the BPS? Baumrind, D.

There is a great deal of conflicting evidence about the effect the drug has on health which has led to much debate over whether it should be legalized or not. Cannabis is prepared from a naturally occurring plant.

Therefore for some it may be necessary to have counseling in order to learn what they are feeling and some strategies to cope. It is also beneficial as the physician can make sure the person is in the right frame of mind and will not regret their decision later. But for some it is unnecessary and only lengthens the time of them being in a body they are not comfortable with.

Here at university one of the most common reasons I hear for doing an assignment late, even though it has been set for 2 months, is that some people work better under pressure. I am sceptical, it seems like typical procrastination to me. Why do people have this illusion that their performance is better when a large amount of pressure is induced? For each individual the reason varies.

He exposed his participants to an advert several times and then interviewed them at the end to see what response they would produce. Results show that they all sucessfully portrayed a possitive response to the brand in the advert they were exposed to.