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The American Psychological Association's Division 20 on aging

The American Psychological Association as we know it today is structured as a collection of special interest divisions. When it was formed in 1945 at the end of WWII, it contained 19 charter divisions.

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Job withdrawal: conditions, symptoms, and behavioral progression

Job withdrawal can best be defined as being 'on the job' yet not really 'doing one's job.' Job withdrawal is evident when an employee comes to work, sits at his or her desk, and collects a paycheck but does not really put forth an intellectual effort or use willpower and discipline to earn that…

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Obedience to authority and harm in Zimbardo's prison experiment

What is the extent to which one human can knowingly harm another? This is a question that psychologists continue to study, considering the horrors of such events as Nazi Germany. In the 1960s, Stanley Milgram's experiment told volunteers they were participating in a study about learning.

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Cultural and biological factors in children's theory of mind development

Mind: Overview and proposed experiment 'Theory of mind' refers to the ability to understand the mental states of others, and often implies that an understanding of what we call 'the mind' is universal, although mental abilities may vary between individuals (Gauvain 1998, p.37).

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Karl Popper's falsifiability principle in scientific methodology

The scientific method has been around for millennia, and ensures that knowledge derived by this method is objective and as accurate as the circumstances of experimentation allow.

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Effects of parental divorce on children's social and behavioral development

Over and over, we have been taught that family is the fundamental social institution; that it is the basic unit of the society. This very much echoes a macro perspective on the family. But indeed, a micro take on this subject matter wages equitable interest. What really happens inside a family?

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Positive and negative reinforcement in elderly rehabilitation

Reinforcement makes a behavior (response) occur with greater frequency. It has two types: positive and negative. Positive reinforcement happens when a response is followed by the addition of a favorable stimulus.

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Pogson and Tennant's theories of adult learning intelligence

Which do you think most closely explains "you" as an adult learner? I do not actually fit into any one of the specific theories that Pogson and Tennant have offered.

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Age perception's effect on employee interactions with HR representatives

This transformation has been influenced in part by the ability of human resource departments to provide high quality services to their customers in a timely fashion in both face-to-face as well as online venues.

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Dissociative disorders in psychopathology: definition and characteristics

In psychopathology, we deal with the study of various mental illness or mental distress. That illness can be "the manifestation of behaviours and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness of psychological impairment" (Wikipedia: 2008).

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