Social roles are defined as students' identity and status within their social network and peer system at large. Social roles provide a crucial perspective on understanding social functions of antisocial behavior. ... Future needs for research and observation included: the effectiveness of existing screening techniques and instruments, identification of students' social roles and reputations and social structures; clarifying students' affiliative patterns; developing and evaluating standard measurement protocols that can be used by special educators. ...

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In addition to evaluating the role of the American Psychological Association (APA)'s Ethics Code for experiments, this paper seeks to qualify whether research gains initially made under the likes of Darley and Latane (1968) were in any way aided by the topical research experiment. ... Additionally, "exceptions to informed consent"" would not apply, because although the rule allows psychologists to forego informed consent, the experiment must be reasonably calculated not to cause distress or harm to subjects in a private place with experimenters in an observational role only. ... Researche...

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While she accepted Freud's view that unconscious conflicts shape personality, she focused more on the role of social influences. In contrast to Freud's view that the parental role facilitated children through psychosexual stages of development, instead she espoused a view that positive parenting was needed to facilitate the development of the child's 'real self' by nurturing a feeling of belonging in the child. ... While agreeing with Horney that childhood is critical for personality development, and that parents play a vital role in shaping their children's pers...

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The behavioral perspective is a significant element in HRM given that in order for workplace strategies to be implemented effectively, various strategies require different role behaviors and attitudes from employees. ...

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The Babadook is an Australian horror movie directed by Jennifer Kent. It follows the story of a single mother, Amelia, who is still struggling to get over the death of her husband. Her son, Samuel, is also causing her issues due to his behavioural problems. The film takes a dark turn as a supernatur...

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Researchers have long been fascinated with the African American experience and how it affects a student's education. In a 2010, research was conducted and presented in an article by Michael Cunningham and Dena Swanson that examined educational resilience in African American teenagers/adolescents. Th...

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The modern concept of the diagnostic entity has emerged from influences starting from the late 19th century. The diagnostic term "borderline" came from English psychiatrist C.H Hughes in 1884, which wrote an article called "Borderland Psychiatrist Records" where he mentioned borderline for the very ...

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Because behavior in everyday life is determined mainly by the experiential system, experiential intelligence should play a vital role in determining effectiveness in living. ... We do not wish to imply that the research reported here, although conducted within the framework of CEST, could not have been conceived from other theoretical positions, particularly ones that emphasize the role of preconscious cognition in interpreting events and directing behavior (e.g., Beck, 1976; Ellis, 1962; Lazarus, 1966; Meichenbaum, 1977). ...

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As parental role models become less available at home, children have correspondingly less opportunity to observe appropriate models upon which to base their own life choices, interpersonal and vocational behavior, and upon which they may base their aspirations and preparations appropriate to societal norms and expectations. ...

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One of the unifying threads woven through the articles is the inextricable relationship between self and other, which incites interest into the world of autism. As Bargh and Chartrand (1999) discuss, nonconscious mental processing assumes a primary and adaptive role in self-regulation beyond that o...

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It is a time-proven trend that a dominant culture will try to force its methods and what it deems as "normal" on the other cultures that live within its constraints. When the dominant or more mainstream culture expects the non-dominant culture to naturally assume its belief systems, thinking patterns and frames of reference this can lead to suppression and exclusion. If a minority culture does not submissively assimilate its ideas with those of the majority, the majority feels justified in excluding and minimizing this smaller subset of people. Those in the majority position remain u...

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Meditation is vital for our 'neuroplasticity', the brain's ability to adapt to change and reorganize itself over time, as it is the essential mental exercise which strengthens and develops the mind like a muscle, just as physical exercise trains the muscles in the rest of our body. It is widely kno...

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Assignment Billig has evaluated Tajfel and Turner's theorising of intergroup conflict as limited because of the emphasis placed on cognitive processes. Discuss Billig's evaluation and assess his arguments for a discursive psychological approach. Response Michael Billig was a student of Henri Tajfel and was originally involved in research to highlight a cognitive approach to intergroup conflict. His research in this area has lead him to a discursive psychological position arguing that the cognitive social approach is limiting in relation to categorisation and does not go far enough i...

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Thus, needs and motives influence the way information is processed because information itself plays a significant "role in the construction and preservation of ideological belief systems" (341). ...

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