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What is the significance of The Boulder Conference in 1964? What affect did this have on the field of clinical psychology?
What are the four most common subspecializations in clinical psychology?
Why can hypnosis be a wonderful tool to help people deal with certain things in their lives, but also harm or destroy lives if in the wrong hands. What are your thoughts?
Ray was assigned to barracks in a very old building with old plumbing. While showering for the first time, he heard the toilet flush and then, a few second later, was scalded when the water suddenly became much hotter. He screamed in pain. The next time he took a shower, when he heard the toilet flush, he immediately jumped out
Building rapport is a vital skill for all counselors to master. It is a skill that can be practiced and applied in any context involving more than one person. Think about an experience you have had in developing rapport with another person (for example, a client, student, fellow worker, supervisor).
-What interpersonal skill
Skinner claimed that, if we want to produce a society where everyone is
happy (read: gets lots of positive reinforcement), then we ought to
concern ourselves with the unflinching and straightforward control of
behavior. Skinner likened his approach to a technology of behavior -- a
clear tool for the scientist to design a cul
Please go to the following link on Hypnosis and read the article. Please write a summary of something that you found interesting or something new you learned about the topic. What are your thoughts on hypnosis?
http://www.institute-shot.com/hypnosis_and_health.htm.
What is the difference between a therapist who is on an insurance panel and a private fee practice? Do you think it is important for therapists to belong to insurance panels (accept insurance)? Why or why not? What are some of the common challenges of starting a private practice?
This discussion gives an argument for both sides...one agreeing with this statement and one disagreeing with this statement. The two examples support the "agree" side. There is one example for the "disagree" view. A reference is given for additional reading.
Read the Research and Publication portion (Code 8) of the 2002 APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. These codes are printed on the APA Web site, and it is best to get them from APA since it is the original source. You can find this information using the keywords APA ethics code 2002 in an Internet search.
Describe the effects that verbal and nonverbal communication can have on people's perceptions of each other when they are face to face and when they are in an online environment. Include suggestions for how people can improve how others perceive them when communicating in an online environment. Please support your statements wit
How might a researcher balance practice effects in the following example? A researcher is interested in whether a particular reading curriculum is effective in improving reading skills in a population of 6th graders. The researcher wants to compare this specific curriculum that they developed to another popular curriculum deve
There are many situations that psychologists encounter where there are very few subjects in the population of interest. For example, perhaps a psychologist is looking to develop and intervention for teenagers who engage in self-mutilation. This disorder occurs relatively rarely, at a rate of about 18 people (ages 18 to 35) per 1
What do you think when my classmate answers the question: What impact does this difference have on causal inferences? Please give and example of each.
My classmate wrote:
" The impact that this has on causal inferences, from my understanding, is when you have a specific group through the natural group design, one must con
Individual differences variables are characteristics that cannot be changed, they vary across the population. Examples of independent difference variable are race, gender, religious affiliation and age. For the researcher, it is a variable that they cannot assign an individual to, and therefore are called natural groups design
The questions are:
1. how do you decide how many people you are going to interview (or how many case files) and how do you make your expectations clear?
** do you get them to sign a written consent and outline the expectations in form.
2. would the purpose of this research be to determine if an individuals socioeco
Over the last century, there has been a great deal of discussion and research that has tried to determine the relative influence of nature and of nurture on intelligence. The consensus today is that both make a strong contribution. What is one piece of evidence showing that nature (genetics) makes a contribution and one showing
1) True or False. Prejudice is a negative/belief; discrimination is a negative behavior.
2) True or False. Prejudice are schemas that influence how we notice and interpret events.
3) True or False. Most people feel more positively about women in general than they do about men.
4) True or False. We define who we are-our
Problems and Exercises I
(See the attached page)
Description:
A behavior therapist seeks to reduce the frequency of hitting behavior exhibited by a 6-year-old child in a classroom for emotionally disturbed children. The child frequently strikes other children and even the teacher. The therapist trains one of the teacher's