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Carol Dweck's growth mindset theory and practical applications

Carol Dweck\'s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success describes what it is that makes people more successful in life, identifying one\'s mindset or outlook as the ultimate factor in driving people towards their goals.

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Understanding Theory: Definition, Application, and Modern Relevance

Explores the definition of theory in science and psychology, examining complexity theory, cognitive theories, and 21st-century enlightenment frameworks.

Theories

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Statistical Significance vs. Effect Size in Forensic Research

Explores statistical significance and effect size in forensic psychology, with two case studies on violence risk assessment and phallometric rapist identification.

Psychology

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Information Processing Theory: How the Brain Learns and Remembers

An overview of information processing theory in developmental psychology, covering working memory, encoding, retrieval, and how children acquire knowledge.

Psychology

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Statistical significance in perspective-taking across five experiments

The study I chose to examine is from the field of psychology: Todd, Hanko, Galinsky, and Mussweiler (2011), "When Focusing on Differences Leads to Similar Perspectives. This study was recently published in Psychological Science, a high-impact journal in the field.

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Treatment approaches to mental illness across psychological schools of thought

Each of the major schools of thought in psychology propose treatment interventions for mental disorders. The therapeutic interventions vary depending on the theory's model of mental illness such as perceptions of etiology and goals of treatment.

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Freud's theory of repression, sublimation, and neurosis

Freud conceived of and introduced entirely novel concepts to explain human psychology and the relationship of the individual to society.

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Seligman's learned helplessness theory in low-income families

Skinner's theory of behaviorism was a dominant theoretical model of psychology for many decades, but in the 1960s Martin Seligman and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments on dogs that seemed to question many of behaviorism's tenets (Shields 1997).

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Juvenile sexual abuse victimization and violent criminal behavior

It appears that the theoretical frameworks of behaviorism and cognitive psychology will be most applicable to the subject.

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Eric Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development

Eric Erikson is a founding member of developmental psychology. His theories have become a sort of cornerstone, from which many have built basic ideas about human development from infancy to adulthood.

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