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    Cross Cultural Psychology Name Course College Tutor Date Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology Cultural psychology is a branch of psychology which makes the assumption that the mind and culture cannot be separated. It deals with the study and the influence of tradition‚ social practices and culture on the psyche for the unity of mankind. Cultural psychology rages over the definition of culture‚ the cultural factors central to cultural systems and physical phenomena‚ the origins

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    Chentsova-Dutton‚ Y. (2011). Towards a Cultural-Clinical Psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass‚ 5(12)‚ 960-975. Cultural psychology research requests a move past depiction to clarification of group variety. As far as concerns its‚ clinical psychology demands the significance of unique individuals‚ while likewise broadening the scope of human variety. Cultural–clinical psychology incorporates these methodologies‚ opening up new lines of request. Clinical psychology is concerned both with depicting

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    Legal Aspects of Professional Psychology Terri Smith PSYCH/545 Survey of Professional Psychology Dr. Erica Wansel August 26‚ 2012 Introduction Professional psychology has simplicities that set it apart from other recognized branches of psychology. The twist and turns of professional psychology make it where legal has to be taken into consideration. In any type of medical field legal always play a major role. The patients and clinicians have an obligation to one another to abide by the guidelines

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    ROLE OF NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN LEARNING AND MEMORY – Martinez and Kesner (1991) Aim: determining the role of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine on memory Method: * Rats were trained to go through a maze and get to the end‚ where they received food * Researcher injected one group of rats with scopolamine (blocks acetylcholine receptor sites thus decreasing available acetylcholine) * Injected second group of rats with physostigmine (blocks the production of cholinesterase – cholinesterase

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    specifically problems related to different cultural aspects. The cultural aspects can be understood either by reading research studies or first-hand observations and experiences. In this case‚ I understood the cultural impacts purely by experiences. Normally‚ western countries are more individualistic compared to cooperative culture in Latin America and Asia. According to Utkarsh Rai‚ author of “Offshoring Secrets” the following are the specific aspects of the Indian Culture: the compare and contrast

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    My boring life is determined daily by my cultural identity. The main aspects of my cultural identity consist of the food I eat‚ the games I play‚ and how I use the internet daily. Everyday a person’s cultural identity is changing as they experience new things all the time. These experiences can vary from type of food‚ nationality of family‚ connections through the internet‚ games played in everyday life‚ and even sports. Many other things can be listed‚ so many it would take a very long time think

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    mutual reverence between different cultures inhabiting the same planet. Sometimes culture is additionally used to describe categorical practices within a subgroup of a society‚ a subculture‚ or a counterculture. Within cultural anthropology‚ the ideology and analytical stance of cultural relativism holds that cultures cannot facilely be objectively ranked or evaluated because any evaluation is indispensably situated within the value system of a given culture. Yet within philosophy‚

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    Biological Psychology Worksheet July 17‚ 2012 PSY/340 Biological Psychology Psychoanalytic and behavioral perspectives in human behavior influenced the early views of psychology. This was because the role between behavior and the brain was not understood and science had not evolved far enough to understand the complexities of the human brain. However‚ as science and technology developed‚ the ability to learn what regions of the brain were associated with specific types of behavior was explored

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    Psychology Perspectives and the Biological Foundations of the Brain Cassandra Tabor PSY/300 October Fifth‚ 2009 University of Phoenix Psychology Perspectives and the Biological Foundations of the Brain Psychology is the scientific investigations of the mental processes such as: behavior‚ thought‚ and emotions. Emerging from philosophy and biology‚ psychology revolutionized the way scientists study the human brain. Wilhelm Wundt‚ the “father of psychology‚” applied scientific research and

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    Differently than most civilizations in Latin America‚ the Brazilian society has some unique aspects that were formed as a result of a very singular colonization process performed by the Portuguese. The lack of political interest‚ social inequality between the black population and the white population‚ the feeling of individualism that prevails on our so called “jeitinho brasileiro” (Brazilian way)‚ are all cultural traces left by a colonization process that was basically only looking forward to take all

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