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    "Transdiagnostic Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: An Efficacious and Cost-Effective Method Across Diverse Populations" by Backs-Dermott et al..This newspaper proves that the therapist needed to be professional in listening in order to maintain the group or the therapist would have lost patients. Either due to lack of respect or the patient would have felt the therapist were not professionals if they did not listen. The newspaper is about is about how a group of qualified cognitive behavioral therapy

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    Combating Adult Obesity: A Social Cognitive Approach to Reduce Local Obesity Overview of the Program Focus The health crisis of obesity is becoming an epidemic in the United States. Currently in America‚ more than two thirds of all adults are either clinically overweight or obese (The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases‚ 2012). Within the population of obese individuals nationally‚ adults within the age group of 40 to 59 have the highest prevalence rate of obesity

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    Making and Rick Taking Latasha Mitchell Professor: Ami Taharka PSY 412- Cognitive Psychology August 14‚ 2013 As a parent I always wanted to know what causes teenagers to take risk and make bad decisions. Turns out it has nothing to do with how smart they are and everything to do with their brains lack of ability to control impulses and the fact that their brains are not fully developed. In this paper I will touch on the brain of adolescence compared to the adult brain and

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    explain the general concept of cognitive biases in your own words. Choose two specific types of cognitive bias‚ explain them‚ and provide an example in your own life where this bias resulted in your making a poor decision. How might that mistake have been avoided? First‚ cognitive biases are instances where personal judgement can cause problems when trying to make decisions effectively. Honestly‚ I find it a little difficult to always keep biases out of our natural cognitive thinking‚ it’s the way we

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    Acccording to Wetherell‚ J. L. Reynolds et al.‚ (2002) this research talks about the effect of anxiety on cognitive work by inhibiting some of the work and storage aspects of the working memory system. The working memory is supposed to consist of verbal data handling (phonological loop)‚ visual image handling (visuospatial sketchpad)‚ central executive for thinking tasks‚ and other substructures. Presuming the substructures are limited. The achievement in the tasks that rely on the same basic

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    Thomas Wisnewski Psychology of Adjustment Jurgens 6 December 2012 In my class Psychology 2101 I was asked to write about three major events that occurred during my lifetime for class. I have thought about this almost all semester and it was a constant struggle just to think of even one event that I would have liked to share. This class has shown me that almost everybody has their problems‚ some that cope with them well‚ and others that still struggle to figure a path that will lead them to

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    interesting to see the different perspectives of mental illnesses and disorders when comparing textbooks and material that I have learned from both classes. Most recently‚ I have conducted research on the validity of eyewitness testimonies and the cognitive psychology behind it. I also had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Belli‚ a professor at UNL that focuses most of his research on factors that affect the reliability of eyewitness testimonies such as the misinformation effect and recovered memory

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    of Psychology Amanda Fisher Professor Jennifer Thompson Aspects of Psychology SSCI206 AIU Online October 7‚ 2012 Abstract This paper is about psychology. It will discuss some different perspectives that have had an influence with the development of the field of psychology. It will give the reader a better understanding of where psychology came from and who was involved with the different perspectives. The paper will give a little bit of history to the reader. By the end of the paper‚ the

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    1 Position Paper On MEMENTO MEMENTO : Critical Analysis General Psychology By: Martin Ortiz Cumberland County College October 27‚ 20011 2 Introduction Leonard Shelby (Guy Pierce)‚ is an insurance claims investigator who witnessed his wife’s rape and murder and was hit in the head trying to intervene. He now suffers from anterograde amnesia and can only remember things in his life prior to the night of his wife’s murder. When the police did their investigation on his wife’s murder

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    their work in park patrol‚ Schmidt and Jenko are assigned to work in the specialized undercover division known as 21 Jump Street‚ and must pose as high school students in order to infiltrate a drug dealer. This comedy relates in many ways to cognitive psychology‚ as many aspects of the film exemplify important topics such as the seven sins of memory‚ types of memories‚ and problem-solving strategies. Schacter termed the various common failures of memory as the “seven sins” (Kellogg‚ 2007). The first

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