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Operant conditioning versus humanistic psychology in Skinner's Walden Two

Maslow: So, Skinner, what are your views on behavior modification, to start this dialogue? Skinner: I think that operant conditioning has a lot to offer the world in terms of behavior modification. Behavior can be reduced to a simple analysis of stimuli and response.

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Multicultural practice and the renewal of humanistic psychology

Every discipline embraces particular values that reflect on the science or discipline itself, but that also reflect on the cultural context in which the discipline or science is primarily conducted.

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Ethnographic research methods in organizational psychology

Qualitative research is conducted according to several different philosophical orientations, one of which is phenomenology. The science of phenomenology studies the consciousness of individuals according to a first-person point-of-view.

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Women's increasing participation in psychology from the 1970s onward

The research problem is clearly stated by the author and in this case, the article set out to investigate the change or the shift in gender composition of psychology and look at the implications or the effects of this shift to the subject of psychology.

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Scientific validity of contemplative psychology in clinical practice

My thoughts and feelings about contemplative psychology are somewhat conflicted. On the one hand, there are several tenets with this particular approach to psychology that I think are valid. However, I am not sure that many of them have a place in true psychology.

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The role of language and intelligence in psychology practice

The author of this report is to answer to two general questions relating to psychology and how much (or little) it interweaves with thinking, language and intelligence. Indeed, being able to process information and being able to prod patients in the right way is important.

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Mindfulness and third-wave psychology as alternatives to affirmations in life coaching

Affirmations and other signature practices of the self-help movement "are rarely based on even one iota of scientific evidence," (Williams, 2013).

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Research designs and methods in lifespan developmental psychology

Scientists use three main research designs to study human lifespan development; longitudinal, cross sectional and sequential designs. The longitudinal design involves the study of selected participants repeatedly over a given span of time.

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Guest and Zijstra's study on evidence-based organizational psychology research

The author endeavored to find such an article and found one by Guest and Zijstra. The article pertains to the academic perceptions of research evidence that exist when it comes to work and organizational psychology. The study was executed in 2012 by the aforementioned authors.

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Evaluating corporate training program effectiveness through industrial/organizational psychology

Industrial/organizational psychologists can help organizations improve their current human resources strategies and make changes that can help promote organizational goals.

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