So what is a discourse community? When you google discourse community, you read, “It is a group of people sharing a common goal using communication to reach that common goal.”Getting more into detail what exactly is a discourse community, we have John Swales’ academic essay, ‘The Concept of Discourse Community’, which breaks it down into six characteristics: “1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. 2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among
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Preexisting vulnerabilities, in this case, may refer to the genetic meaning interaction between nurture and nature, or schematic. B. Severe depression may be triggered by grief after losing a loved one through, divorce, death, or separation. Major challenges in life, feeling of being deprived or social isolation may be the cause of depression (Klein, Herron & Belcher, 2013). III. The problem being experienced by Joe can be analyzed and explained using psychodynamic theory. The psychodynamic
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The case against corporal punishment of children: Converging evidence from social science research and international human rights law and implications for U.S. public policy. Gershoff, Elizabeth T.; Bitensky, Susan H. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol 13(4), Nov 2007, 231-272. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1076-8971.13.4.231 In light of the fact that most Americans still support the act of corporal punishment there has been a large amount of research of psychology and its
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never been my strong hand, especially since I did not have to study much in high school. In college that is not the case, I spend my nights in the library and my mornings struggling to keep my eyes open. However, I have accumulated many methods of studying once I learned it would be an everyday thing from here on out. Psychology has led me to believe that the working memory method is the most helpful in my principles of biology class. In biology we are currently learning about classification
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Addiction has long been a hot topic both in and out of the field of psychology. Even today, researchers disagree as to whether addiction should be considered a disease or a choice. No matter what the correct model is, both sides agree that compulsive behaviors, especially behaviors which have a negative impact on daily life, are the hallmark of any addiction. Addiction has been a known problem for some time, the word itself being traced to the 17th century, defined as a compulsion to carry
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Classifying Serbian Homicides Using Multiple Correspondence, Cluster, and Discriminant Function Analyses written by Alasdair Goodwill, Jared Allen, and Dag Kolarevic. The research they conducted was about finding new and improved ways, through thematic classification of certain homicides, to profile the possible offender. In their research they conducted two separate homicide investigations from to very different regions being Serbia and North Korea. Their goal was to use a new method of profiling to initially
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A2 Psychology: G543 Options Paper Exam Technique and Tips General Exam Information You will be assessed for this unit in a 1.5 hour examination. You will need to answer four questions; two questions from the topic of Forensic Psychology and two questions from the topic of Health and Clinical Psychology. This means you will have about 20 minutes of writing time per question, plus a little bit of thinking time. This is not a long time to maximise your marks, so there are some simple exam techniques
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researcher…………………………………………………………..………………16 Population and sample………………………………………………………………………16-17 Description of action plan………………………………………………………………….17-18 Data collection………………………………………………………………………………18 Data presentation analysis……………………………………………………………………19 Methods of verification………………………………………………………………………19 Ethical issues…………………………………………………………………………………19 Time line……………………………………………………………………………………..20 Summary…………………………………………………………………………….………21 List of references……………………………………………………………………………22-25 Appendices…………………………………………………………………………………26-27
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Psychology and all of its complexity is simply, the scientific study of mental processes and behavior. So why is psychology a science as opposed to being common sense? Because, science can be tested, retested and tested again. There are processes and steps that must be taken to prove something is fact rather than opinion. Psychologists do studies, take surveys and samples of the population or a group of individuals depending on the issue they are testing and the size needed for the tests. Now with
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Psychology G544 Revision Notes Psychology G544 Section A Revision Notes Hypothesis Experimental hypothesis – predicts the effect of the IV on the DV. Operationalised hypothesis – shows how variables are going to be tested, by describing them. Null hypothesis – states that there will be no effect of the IV on the DV. One tailed hypothesis – predicts the direction in which results are expected to occur (directional) ie, revision improves
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