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    man so far as murder? Many things today confuse‚ yet enthrall the masses. War‚ murder‚ medical science‚ incredible rescues‚ all things you would see on The History Channel. There is another topic that is also made into documentaries however‚ serial killers. Dark twisted people that commit multiple murders are of interest to the population‚ but what caused them to be this way. What horrible tragic set of events could twist a man to murder one or many people. Could Schizophrenia‚ psychopathy‚ or sociopathy

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    Throughout all of Dutton’s theories and tendencies‚ he puts forward the argument that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: “after all‚ psychopaths tend to be fearless‚ confident‚ charming‚ ruthless‚ and focused―qualities that are tailor-made for success in the twenty-first century.” Dutton’s main theory or finding was the fact that although there are already a lot of diagnosed psychopaths in this world‚ the percentage is rising everyday. It has gone from 2%-78% in the past 20 years

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    Theories of Sleep The ’Restoration Theory’ is a psychological approach to sleep which claims that we need to sleep in order for our brain to restore energy resources depleted from biological processes throughout the day and remove any useless waste from the muscles. Oswald’s research in 1966 proposed that the brain and the body are restored through different stages of sleep‚ the former being restored during rapid eye movement sleep and the latter during slow-wave sleep‚ part of non-rapid eye movement

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    H.H. Holmes is known to be the first American serial killer. Holmes would murder people‚ mutilate their bodies‚ and sell their skeletons to science. His most famous work was the “Murder Castle”. His Murder Castle was his very own hotel‚ which had secret rooms‚ to kill multiple people in‚ most were women. The Castle was located in Chicago and gave Holmes a good chance to kill many people in 1893 during the World’s Fair. Holmes was also a doctor. He studied at the University of Michigan Medical School

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    Theories of Knowledge and Psychological Applications Robin A. Finlayson University of Saskatchewan Ed.Psy: 855.3: Advanced Educational Psychology October 16‚ 1996 How individuals are able to obtain knowledge is something that psychologists have studied for a number of years. The ability to store and retrieve knowledge provides individuals with the propensity to form logical thought‚ express emotions and internalize the world around them. In order for a psychologist to

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    Movies often contain characters with psychological problems or that have an altered state of mind. To learn how learn more about how psychological problems can affect people’s lifestyle we can compare movie films with our knowledge that we have acquired in psychology class. The movie “The Perks of being a Wallflower” shows characters with different psychological problems and altered states of mind. The movie also does a good job of showing how drugs can make you act. The movie “The Perks of Being

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    television‚ and troops returning home from the Vietnam War. With all the changes evolving‚ the 70’s was also the start of the worst violent serial murders in America’s history with credit given to Dean Corll. You may know him as the infamous Candy Man but lets rewind a little bit-Dean Arnold Corll‚ born December 24‚ 1939 in a small town in Indiana‚ was an American serial killer who‚ with the help of two young accomplices‚ David Brooks and abducted Elmer Wayne Henley Jr- sodomized‚ tortured‚ and murdered a

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    head with a .22 caliber rifle and stabbed her repeatedly about the body. When his grandfather returned home‚ he also used the gun on him shooting him as he exited his vehicle (Fisher‚ 2003b). This was the first murders of the future serial killer known as the “Co-ed Killer”.

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    Serial murder is an example of the most extreme types of behaviour we see in human beings. It can be defined at a person who kills three or more people in a short space of time. But what really is a serial killer? Is it the way we were brought up that can lead to us becoming a serial killer? Or is there a serial killer gene? No‚ there is not a killer gene (Cassel & Bernstein‚ 2007). What causes a person to commit such crimes and is it solely caused by psychological errors in one’s mind?

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    Look at Female Serial Killers Michael Clouse Des Moines Area Community College There are endless documentations on male serial killers. However female serial killers are a little less common. Females are known to be nurtures and gentle by nature. There are nine classifications for females serial killers. Angel of Death An angel of death is a female serial killer that usually preys on the sick. She has a sense of playing God by controlling how well the person gets and how sick the person

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