PSYC 431 – Spring 2013 1 Course Syllabus Psychology 431 - B: Cognitive Psychology – Spring 2013 Classroom: HLSB 366 Time: TR 11:00 am to 12:15 pm Instructor Dr. Maya M. Khanna Office: HLS 331 Phone: (402) 280-3452 E-mail: mayakhanna@creighton.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:15 – 2:00 pm and 3:15 to 3:45pm‚ by appointment‚ and by email during weekdays. Teaching Assistant Brittany Zastrow Office: HLS 324 E-mail: Brittanyzastrow@creighton.edu Office Hours: Mondays 1:30 to 2:30pm and Wednesdays
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Correlation coefficients measure the strength of association between two variables. The most common correlation coefficient‚ called the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient‚ measures the strength of the linear association between variables. In this tutorial‚ when we speak simply of a correlation coefficient‚ we are referring to the Pearson product-moment correlation. Generally‚ the correlation coefficient of a sample is denoted by r‚ and the correlation coefficient of a population is
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Psychology 250 Critical Thinking Paper Critical Thinking Paper: Parental Guidance and Discipline: Nearly one million high school teens drank alcohol and got behind the wheel in 2011(CDC Vital signs: Teen Drinking and Driving‚ 2012.) Teen drivers are 3 times more likely than more experienced drivers to be in a fatal crash. Drinking any alcohol greatly increases this risk for teens. Research has shown that factors that help to keep teens safe include parental involvement‚ minimum legal drinking
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* * The Relationship between Mental Illness and Violence and Criminal Behavior Your Name Pikes Peak Community College The Relationship between Mental Illness and Violence and Criminal Behavior The relationship between mental illness and violence is something of a fascination. The fascination grows even stronger when an individual committing violent behavior also has a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. If the violent behavior is criminal—well‚ the public will happily lap
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References: American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington‚ DC: A.D.A.M Psych Central. (2014). Anorexia (Anorexia Nervosa) Symptoms. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 28‚ 2014‚ from http://psychcentral.com/disorders/anorexia- anorexia-nervosa-symptoms/ Segal‚ J.‚ Smith‚ M
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Paper on article Done for Intro to Psychology IQ And Mathematical Learning In the article Motivation‚ Not IQ‚ Matters Most for Learning New Math Skills‚ psychologists study math abilities and habits of thirty-five hundred German students from the fifth to tenth grade. Students’ mathematical abilities were evaluated each year using standardized testing. In addition to this students were given an IQ test and surveys that questioned about their attitudes toward math. As the title of this report
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Final Research Paper When deciding on a research question‚ I wanted to choose a topic that really interested me‚ so I chose obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). This topic has been used in my household for a long time as I was diagnosed with it at 5 years old. When doing this research I wanted to learn of other treatments and tools for people with OCD. This is very important because the spectrum of OCD cases varies significantly‚ so some of these people dealing with the disorder have a large decision
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Quantitative datarelating to‚ measuring‚ or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality Qualitative data relating to‚ measuring‚ or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity Strengths of qualitative data: Qualitative research provides more insight into the sampled data‚ as their open ended nature mean they are less limiting of the information provided; they also eliminate the a priori assumptions used in quantitative data Limitations of qualitative
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Theory of Personality Todd Overstreet Liberty University Abstract Studies of personality have a varied and broad history within psychology. Some of these major theories include behaviorist‚ biological‚ evolutionary‚ humanistic‚ trait perspective‚ psychodynamic‚ philosophical‚ and social learning perspective. There are a lot of researchers and psychologists that do not identify themselves with a specific perspective. Many researchers also do not have a theory on personality
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Kathryn Graf October 29‚ 2014 Ordinary People written by Judith Guest is a story about a typical American family. The book examines how a family reacts to the adversity of losing a member. The book begins just over a year since the Jarrett family lost Buck‚ their teenage son. After reading the DSM-5 is was clear to me that Conrad was suffering from persistent depressive disorder. In order to be diagnosed with PDD you must have a depressed mood for most of the day‚ which in children and adolescents
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