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Individual differences in cognitive abilities and intelligence testing

Ever since Simon and Binet developed the first intelligence test in 1905, the field of psychology has maintained a strong interest in the nature of intelligence. How do we think? Why are some people better problem solvers than others? What is cognition, the ability to think about our environment?

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Perception theory: top-down and ecological approaches to vision

The issue of perception in various fields, including philosophy and psychology has been debated with vigor over the last fifty years.

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Edward L. Deci's theory of autonomy and intrinsic motivation

Edward L. Deci's book structures on the hypothesis of an American school of psychology called "Humanistic Psychology." The most significant of all the other advocates of this school was the philosopher and psychologist Abraham Maslow, who lived and died between 1908 and 1970.

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Student help-seeking behavior in early adolescence and its causes

Avoiding Seeking Help in the Classroom: Who and Why?" appeared in the Educational Psychology Review in 2001.

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Management derailment: personality assessment and mitigation strategies

In an article titled "Management Derailment: Personality Assessment and Mitigation," which was published in the American Psychological Association Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in 2010, the research team of Joyce Hogan, Robert Hogan and Robert B.

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Piaget's theory of cognitive development and human intelligence

The theory of cognitive development by Piaget presents a comprehensive approach in evaluating human intelligence development and nature in developmental psychology. Piaget shares that children play active roles in growing of intelligence through learning by doing and by examples.

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Rediscovering my passion for law through self-discovery

EDUCATION: the University of Miami, BA communications major with a minor in psychology and sociology (year) When I was just eight years old, I fell in love with law after watching the hit American TV show Matlock. That was the year my mother signed me up to play the violin and I hated.

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Christian clients' preferences for prayer in counseling interventions

"Christian Clients' Preferences Regarding Prayer as a Counseling Intervention" is a quantitative study by Weld and Eriksen (2007) in the Journal of Psychology and Theology.

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Freud and Erikson's theories of human developmental stages

Sigmund Freud and Erickson are the leading psychologists to have ever lived in the history of human psychology. The two had their differences as well as similarities regarding the stages that the human beings go through as they grow up.

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Power struggles between aspiring leaders in cross-functional teams

Leadership is an incredibly complex concept that has been the focus of study from many different academic disciplines -- Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology, Business, Sociology to name a few.

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