Examiner’s Use Candidate Number Surname Other Names Examiner’s Initials Candidate Signature Question General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination June 2013 Psychology (Specification A) Unit 1 1 2 PSYA1 Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods Wednesday 22 May 2013 Mark 9.00 am to 10.30 am 3 4 5 6 7 8 You will need no other materials. 9 Time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes 10 Instructions Use black
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A 4-MAT Review System: Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity Summary The book that will be reviewed in this paper is Integrative Approaches to Psychology and Christianity, which was written by David N. Entwistle. This book was meant for secular, spiritual, and Christian counselors. Entwistle wrote this book to teach these counselors how they can successfully integrate psychology and Christianity together. It is important to do this because there is a history of conflict that exists
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Thomas Powers and Eric Jack look into, “The Influence of Cognitive Dissonance on Retail Product Returns” in their research. The researchers specify two parts of cognitive dissonance used in their study: product and emotional dissonance. These dimensions are defined by the scholars in their article as follows, “Product related cognitions related to dissonance are based on unknown outcomes different from the actual purchase (Powers & Jack, 2013)” and “The emotional dimension of dissonance has
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Explain the role of "self-concept" in Rogers' theory of personality. Rogers’ idea of self-concept falls under the umbrella of humanistic approach to personality. The humanistic approach focuses on the idea that the human entity has potential for growth. All humans are born as “good” people and growth in the human condition is imperative to this truth. The self is constantly growing and building upon itself. (Carver & Scheier, 2012) An actualized person is one who lives up to their optimum
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when prior observations influence perceptions of current observations” (Cooper & Schindler, 2011). Though broadly appropriate to the research at hand, perhaps a better definition would be from the psychologist Edward Thorndike, which states that “cognitive bias in which our judgments of a person’s character can be influenced by our overall impression of him or her (Thorndike, 1920).” A good example to help explain the halo effect--one that could be argued is extremely timely in
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This essay will confirm this theory by analysing bilingual’s cognitive affect in memory, task switching and attention and demonstrate how these aspects relate to having a better academic performance. Numerous studies were found measuring and comparing memory, task switching and attention of bilingual and monolingual children. Result have indicate that bilingual consist of many cognitive advantage that outperformed monolinguals in cognitive task, however bilingual experience more difficulty when approaching
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The cognitive approach in psychology focuses on the internal mental processes of an individual. The word cognition refers to the process by which the sensory input is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered and used; this definition was from Ulric Neisser. This approach was very dominated in the 1950âs onwards. This was because of the modern research on human performance and attention during the 2nd world war, developments in computer science, artificial intelligence and the growing
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After that fifth grade summer, I was afraid of the deep end of the pool. Seeing the little boy drown at the age of ten did not give me the desire to swim in any depth pass my waist line. As stated in the textbook Introduction to Psychology, “Cognitive behavior focuses on the processes such as memory, thought or reasoning” (Page 10). As I stood on the diving platform at the pool in Navy boot camp, my mind went back eight years to where I saw the little boy drown in the city pool. Deep inside
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behavior is intention (a person’s willingness and readiness to perform a certain action).This intention is determined by attitude towards the behavior, subjective norms and an individual’s perception on their ability to control behavior (Ajzen 2005). Cognitive Dissonance theory According to this theory people have a tendency of seeking a consistency in their inner dispositions (both attitudes and beliefs). Further there is also a need for personal behavior to be in tune with attitudes and beliefs held
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The way that my identified strengths and opportunities for growth changed from the beginning of the course to now is that I have learned to challenge myself more and to be open minded when an opportunity arises. I capture the growth potential whereas prior to this course commencement, I have not thoroughly thought it through as I felt it had no real impact to me. I have learned to understand my strengths and weaknesses more thoroughly and how to build and improve upon them and to use both of them
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