Positive Psychology-A Current perspective Author Krishan Kumar Dr. Rajiv Dogra Corresponding Address Krishan Kumar‚ M. Sc‚ M. Phil (M& SP)‚ PhD (Pur) Clinical Psychology‚ Computational Neuroscience National Brain Research Centre‚ Manesar Email- keshusony@rediffmail.com Ph.no. 9999516319 Dr. Rajiv Dogra Associte Professor‚ Department of Clinical Psychology Post Graduate College and Medical Sciences‚ Rohtak Email- Rajeevdogra@rediffmail.com What is positive psychology?
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repetition of information‚ either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage. importance- creates knowledge or learned information.  Spacing Effect- the tendency for distributed study or practice. importance- yields better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice.  Serial Position Effect- our tendency to recall best the first and last items in a list. importance- further illustrates the benefits of rehearsal.  Mnemonics- memory aids‚ especially
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Personality Traits .................................................................2 Organizational Culture in Police Force ................................ 17 The Communication Problem of Police Inspector ................21 General Working Environment........................................... 24 Working Schedule ............................................................... 25 Stress .................................................................................. 26 Designed Learning Process
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PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is derived from the Greek words Psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To Greeks‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology as the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Scientific because it uses the steps in a scientific method in its quest to understand why a person behaves in a certain manner. It is systematic and empirical and it is dependent upon measurements. Psychologists - study human issues that begin before birth and continue
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PSY 2237 Online Unit 3 Observation Study For my observation study‚ I asked my cousin‚ Grace‚ if it would be alright with her to observe her oldest child. For the purposes of this paper‚ I will call her Jamie. Jamie is 17 years old‚ and will be entering her senior year of high school in the fall. Both of her parents have full-time jobs; her father is a salesman and her mother works as a manager at a hardware store. Economically‚ they do very well. The household
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Jenny’s Diagnosis Brianna Johnson Psychology 101 Cassie was a woman I recently read an article on. She was an average collage student who lived on the campus at a university and balanced schoolwork with a workload‚ and a somewhat social life. However‚ Cassie was anything like anybody else. She had such rage in her about such small things she was unable to finish her schoolwork. It wasn’t until the middle of her junior semester
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brilliant and uncompromising thinker‚ a leftist feminist considered it as the order of the big doctor and an often underestimated and aloof “irrepressible crank”-as she puts her in describing herself; Judith Levine’s choice in her “Boston Review” forty years celebrating article was more than obvious. As a radical cultural critic who never really sounded dogmatic and a journalist Allen Willies was one of the great public intellectuals of her generation. It didn’t take a long for her fondling left-leaning
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Psychology Chapter One Psychology started as a speculation and has evolved into science over years. . It was born as an independent discipline. The discovery began in 1870 by a small number of scholars. The founders are disciplines of philosophy and physiology which share an interest in the mysteries of the mind. In 1832- 1920 Wilhelm Wundt changed the view‚ he created the first laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig Germany. He mounted a campaign to make psychology and independent discipline rather
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Factors to consider in evaluation: 1.cultural bias in the instrument or clinician 2. Theoretical orientation 3.Underemphasis on the external situation 4.insufficient validation 5.inaccurate data Classification system: • -delinates meaningful subvarieties of maladaptive behavior • -first step in the nature‚ causes‚ and treatment process of a disorder • -provides a means of universal communication regarding abnormal behavior • -the product of human invention-disorders can be “constructs”
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Describe the behaviourist approach in psychology and evaluate the research methods used by behaviourist psychologists. The behaviourist approach in psychology states that all behaviour is learnt from experience and from the environment we are in. John Locke (1690) a psychologist described the mind as ‘Tabula Rasa’‚ believing when we are born our minds are completely blank slates‚ and that all of our behaviour is dependent upon our interactions and experiences with the environment. Behaviourists
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