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The Culture Change Imperative for Learning Assessment. October 2012 Richard Hersh and Richard KeelingThe September 2012 issue of the NILOA Newsletter included NILOA’s 15th Occasional Paper, “The Seven Red Herrings About Standardized Assessments in Higher Education,” written by Roger Benjamin, with a foreword by Peter Ewell, and including ...
- Psychoanalytic Theories. Psychoanalysis centers on uncovering unconscious thoughts and emotions that contribute to an individual’s mental afflictions.
- Behavioral Theories. Behavioral theories in psychology posit that human behavior is learned and shaped by environmental stimuli. Breaking from the introspective nature of psychoanalysis, behaviorism asserts that all behavior can be explained without considering internal mental states.
- Cognitive Theories. Cognitive theories focus on understanding how mental processes such as thinking, memory, perception, and problem-solving influence behavior.
- Developmental Theories. Psychological development theories are concerned with changes in cognitive, physical, and social abilities over the course of life.
udies behavior through research. These students have learned that psychology is a science that investigates behaviors, me. tal processes, and their causes. That is what this book is about: how psychologists use the scientific method to observe and understan. behaviors and mental processes. The goal of this text is to give you a step-by-step ...
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By Kristen Fescoe Published January 2016. The field of psychology is a very broad field comprised of many smaller specialty areas. Each of these specialty areas has been strengthened over the years by research studies designed to prove or disprove theories and hypotheses that pique the interests of psychologists throughout the world. While each ...
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- Historical Psychology Today
- Data from Dead Minds
- Sources of Historical Data
- Acknowledgments
Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, and has only recently begun seriously grappling with the issue of cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that the roots of cross-cultural variation often lie in the past. Therefore, to understand not just the way, but also why psychology varies, we also need to g...
To explain contemporary behavior and psychology, an increasing number of researchers have found themselves turning to cultural evolutionary theories and historical data. Here, we describe some illustrative examples that link contemporary psychological variation—including cooperation, trust, personality and gender differences—to historical processes...
There are at least two ways in which an engagement with history can be useful for psychologists. In the previous section, we focused on how contemporary cross-cultural psychological patterns might be driven by past cultural or ecological dynamics. In this section, we turn to a discussion of how traces of past cognition can be extracted from histori...
It is helpful to think of historical data in terms of a spectrum from unstructured to structured. Fully unstructured data consists of uninterpreted artifacts or physical texts from the past, the raw data upon which scholarly interpretation is built. As the identity and function of artifacts are inferred, or texts are deciphered, standardized and i...
We thank Rachel Spicer for creating the graphs used in this paper.
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CONTENT STANDARD 1: Development of psychology as an empirical science. Students are able to: 1.1 Define psychology as a discipline and identify its goals as a science. 1.2 Describe the emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline. 1.3 Describe perspectives employed to understand behavior and mental processes.
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Oct 21, 2019 · For example, Sally can make Nour feel sad without being aware of this—Sally might be aware of her action under a different description, such as telling Nour that she has a poor sense of humour. So, I have to say why subjects don’t just simply think of what they do when answering the world-directed question in terms of normative reasons.
