(1990) Principles of object perception. Cogn. Sci. 14‚ 29 – 56 2 Xu‚ F. and Carey‚ S. (1996) Infants’ metaphysics: the case of numerical identity. Cogn. Psychol. 30‚ 111 – 153 http://tics.trends.com 3 Baylis‚ G.C. (1994) Visual attention and objects: two-object cost with equal convexity. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 20‚ 208 – 212 4 Duncan‚ J. (1984) Selective attention and the organization of visual information. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 113‚ 501 – 517 5 Scholl‚ B. et al. (2001) What is a visual
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Describe and evaluate any two theories in developmental psychology. By Aimee Kaur This paper will focus on two theories in moral development within developmental Psychology. There are three components to our morality; these are emotional‚ cognitive and behavioural. Shaffer (1993) described morals as a “set of principles or ideals that help the individual to distinguish right from wrong and to act on this decision” In his book ’The Moral Judgement of the Child’ (1932)‚ Piaget states that ’all
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Outline and evaluate two social psychological theories of aggression Bandura’s Social Learning Theory suggests that acts of aggression are learnt through the observation of role models. His original “Bobo Doll” study showed that when exposed to aggressive behaviour small children copied this behaviour‚ not just by being physically aggressive but even copying the verbally aggressive behaviour. However this study focuses on children who are supposed to learn in this manner‚ this doesn’t demonstrate
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Explain two theories of ageing Social disengagement theory This theory was originally proposed by Henry Williams and Elaine Cumming in 1961. According to this theory‚ as people age they disengage from society. This could be because older people would have restricted opportunities to connect with others. Social disengagement is a natural part of ageing where older people experience a reduction in social contact. The potential causes of disengagement could be: Ill health‚ this could be the loss of
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Is crime cointegrated with income and unemployment?: A panel data analysis on selected European countries by A.H. Baharom1 and Muzafar Shah Habibullah ABSTRACT This paper examines the causality between income‚ unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel data analysis for the period 1993-2001 for both aggregated (total crime) and disaggregated (subcategories) crime data. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total
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SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL PROCESS 2 Theories that explain crime by examining the structure of society are only one of three major sociological approaches to crime causation. The other two are social process theories and social conflict approaches. Although sociological perspectives on crime causation are diverse‚ most build upon the principles of‚ social groups‚ social institutions‚ the arrangements of society‚ group dynamics‚ subgroups relationships‚ the structure of society and its relative
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Title – Critically compare and contrast two counselling theories Module code- Cg2030 Module tutor – Phill Goss Word count-2500 Counselling takes place when a counsellor sees a client in a private and confidential setting to explore a difficulty a client is having‚ distress they may be experiencing or perhaps their dissatisfaction with life‚ or loss of a sense of direction and purpose. It is always at the request of the client as no one can properly be ’sent’ for counselling.’(Counselling
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aspects of society. In the following paragraphs‚ I will discuss how social science theory ‚ specifically criminology can help reduce crime. Criminology & Penology is the branch of social science that deals with occurrences of crime‚ their causes and their consequences. It is the study of crime within society. In society an activity that occurs outside the boundaries of the law‚ is considered to be a crime. “Crime” in society varies by perspective. For example‚ German criminologists might look
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Law of Crimes I Q1. Explain the concept of crime and essential ingredients to constitute crime with the help of appropriate examples. A1. INTRODUC T ION Crime‚ we are told‚ is today a salient fact‚ an integral part of the risks we face in everyday life. In both scholarly and public opinion crime is associated with harm and violence; harm to individuals‚ destruction of property‚ and the denial of respect to people and institutions. It is clear that we face pressing problems of a practical
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Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov’s Extraordinary Man Theory: In the novel‚ Crime and Punishment‚ the principle character‚ Raskolnikov‚ has unknowingly published a collection of his thoughts on crime and punishment via an article entitled "On Crime." Porfiry‚ who is trying to link Raskolnikov to a murder‚ has uncovered this article‚ read it‚ and tells Raskolnikov that he is very interested in learning about his ideas. Porfiry brings Raskolnikov into this conversation primarily to find out more
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