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    Translate Full textUndo TranslationTranslateUndo Translation Press the Escape key to close FromTo    Translate Translation in progress... [[missing key: loadingAnimation]] The full text may take 40-60 seconds to translate; larger documents may take longer. Cancel * Turn on search term navigationTurn on search term navigation * Jump to first hit Headnote ABSTRACT A resilience framework for understanding cognitive aging implies a search for factors that buffer against existing risk‚

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    Four Principles

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    Running Head: FOUR PRINCIPLES 1 The Four Principles of Community Corrections Ashley Hargrove CRJ201 Professor Jodi Levit December 17‚ 2012 FOUR PRINCIPLES 2 Community corrections are “non-prison sanctions that are imposed on convicted adults or adjudicated juveniles either by a court instead of a prison sentence or by a parole board following release from prison.” (Joan Petersilia Para. 1) There are four general principles of effective

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    somewhat complicated problem‚ a counselor is consulted. These are a relatively simple form of psychotherapies that individuals have been practicing from centuries. However‚ with the development of modern science and advancements in the field of psychology‚ theorists have identified some more effective approaches for psychoanalysis. The most noticeable work in this regard was done by Sigmund Freud who was the first to develop modern techniques for psychoanalysis. Despite of the fact that Freud’s approaches

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    drugs affect Elizabeth’s neurotransmitter‚ feedback loop in the brain attempts to prevent the underproduction of neurotransmitter levels. Elizabeth’s brain may try to compromise this by reducing the number of receptors sites and the sensitivity of key neurotransmitter in the brains ‘reward circuits’. As a consequence of this action‚ more of the drug is needed to reach the same level of stimulation as fewer receptor sites are available. Elizabeth drug taking may be down to the fact that she needs

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    Development in Psychology

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    Development in Psychology Childhood and Adolescent Development Watching children grow is one of life ’s biggest joys‚ especially when the children are yours ans you can take certain notices of the milestones that occur from a personal perspective. But one thing people don ’t often acknowledge are the deep‚ inter-workings that actually occur during development‚ such as the psychological processes that take place. In obvious developmental stages such

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    Foundations of Psychology

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    Foundations of Psychology Paper Kristin McLauchlin PSY-300 January 14‚ 2013 Betsy Ferronato Foundations of Psychology Paper The foundations of psychology rely mainly on their major schools of thought: the psychodynamic perspective‚ first introduced by Sigmund Freud‚ the behaviorist perspective‚ the cognitive perspective‚ and the evolutionary perspective. These four main theories were developed to explain how we as humans behave‚ think and react. Although the human mind still remains a mystery

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    Perspective Theories in Cognitive Development Cognitive function deals with the processes of the mind to know‚ to think‚ to learn and to judge. Its development is generally based on a variety of interweaving factors like genetics and learning through experience. Cognitive psychology has been an area of great interest over the centuries since understanding the cognitive process has been able to raise the standards of human interaction. There were a number of breakthrough studies that have

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    Section One – 1 When psychology first began to become a science in 1860‚ it was more of a field of philosophy than an actual medical study. It dealt with a more abstract concept than other medical fields; the human body is something concrete that you can physically look at and study whereas‚ at the time‚ you could not physically see the mind. In Ancient Greece thinkers such as Aristotle and Plato could only come up with theories as to how the mind works. Plato believed that some knowledge is

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    The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview* Vyvyan Evans‚ Benjamin K. Bergen and Jörg Zinken [In press for 2006. To be published in ‘The Cognitive Linguistics Reader’‚ by Equinox Publishing Company] 1. Introduction Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought and practice. It is concerned with investigating the relationship between human language‚ the mind and socio-physical experience. It originally emerged in the 1970s (Fillmore 1975‚ Lakoff & Thompson 1975‚ Rosch 1975)

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    Getting older is a time of social‚ emotional‚ mental‚ and physical change. Retirement might change how a person interacts socially every day‚ affecting a person’s mood and well-being. Cognitive aging—the normal process of cognitive change as a person gets older—can begin‚ or a permanent change in physical function may arise. Technology offers a path for people who are navigating these changes potentially to prevent or minimize the risks associated with them

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