were not told to rate violence on a "yes" or "no" basis‚ but to count the number of violent acts; Milgram had many intervals on his "shock machine" that enabled him to measure and compare statistics about what point people would drop out at; Loftus and Palmer asked participants to estimate speeds in miles per hour‚ as opposed to "were they going fast or slow." You will be calculating statistics and showing trends. The more detailed the numbers‚ the more you can say about them. And nearly half of your
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Offender profiling also known as criminal profiling is based on the principle that the characteristics of an offender can be worked out by examining the characteristics of their offences. As Ainsworth (2001) puts it‚ “profiling generally refers to the process of using all the available information about a crime‚ a crime scene‚ and a victim in order to compose a profile of the (as yet) unknown perpetrator.” Eye witness testimony refers to an account given by people of an event they have witnessed
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1. Relation to other areas of psychology Perception and cognition Motivation and emotion Neuropsychology Developmental Conditioning and learning Personality Abnormal psychology Sociology Anthropology Political science Economics Law and jurisprudence Marketing and advertising Medical science Philosophy 2. Definition Gordon Allport: 3. Social Perception and cognition Implicit personality theory Attribution theory Attitude structure
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Psychology Classical Conditioning ( John B Watson) 1.) Conditioned Emotional Response: (CER) Classical conditioning of emotional psychology E. Classical Behaviorism Watson & Rayner CER in infants (little albert B.) A.) UCS= loud noise (strike hammer one steel bar) B.) UCR= fear C.) CS= White rat (neutral stimulus) Operant Conditions A.) Psychology strengthened or weakened on the consequences that follow it B.) B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) C.) Basic components in operant conditioning
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Declan Geraghty 11/21/11 Perception Cognition The Manipulative Mind of Humans Ron Cotton‚ a 22 year old man‚ sat in his cold‚ dark‚ 6 by 8 cell with his face engulfed in his thin pillow as he sobbed and wished for the company of his family and friends. Eight days earlier Ron Cotton was living his everyday life‚ working‚ and going to school until somehow Cotton found himself in a police identification lineup for the rape of Jennifer Thompson‚ a 22-year old college student. On the night of
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Debate Language “The Argument Culture” is a persuasive essay written by Professor Deborah Tannen. As a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University‚ Tannen experience in language leads her to write many books in this field. Tannen uses “The Argument Culture” essay to persuade her audience that this society’s way of looking at debate encourages an “adversarial frame of mind” (Tannen‚ 305). Three of Tannen’s main points include; polarized views in the news‚ the use of “war metaphors’ by media
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Reliability of Memory Memory refers to the processes that are used to acquire‚ store‚ retain and later retrieve information in our brains. In most cases‚ it is the most responsible source of knowledge that we can think of. However‚ there may be several limitations in memory retrieval in different situations. For example‚ it is believed that people tend to forget the worst moments in their life. Or‚ as older people get‚ their short-term memory‚ which brings memories from few hours ago‚ worsens
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What is the most reliable Way of Knowing in relation to the world of Mathematics? Mathematics is fundamentally a translation of the tangible (and sometimes intangible) into abbreviated and simplified forms of actualization. It has been used for many centuries to put exact labels on time (e.g. counting lunar cycles was once used in its primitive form for counting days and years)‚ quantity (e.g. people frequently had to count their money‚ farm animals and even slaves) and indeed quality (e.g. to know
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mall study‚ autobiographical memory [Note: Footnotes are listed at the end of the main text‚ before the references.] The "lost in a shopping mall" study (Loftus & Pickrell‚ 1995) originated as five single-participant "pilot" experiments conducted at the direction of University of Washington researcher Elizabeth Loftus. Loftus (L oftus & Ketcham‚ 1994) described the study in terms that suggest that proper research guidelines were not followed in these pilot experiments. The results
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Past exam questions and mark schemes for Core Studies 1 (2540) 2540 Mark scheme January 2008 Cognitive Psychology 1. From the study by Loftus and Palmer outline one limitation of the laboratory method used to investigate memory. [2] Any one from: low ecological validity‚ demand characteristics‚ artificial etc 2 marks Other appropriate answers Term and Example related to study 2 marks Partially correct answer Term OR example 1 mark 2. In the study by Baron-Cohen‚ Leslie and Frith autistic
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