Posted Examining the Validity and Applicability of the Rorschach Test to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
In examining the psychological aspects of personality, some of the most controversial studies stem from the psychoanalytic views of projective testing. In such tests, examinees are asked to interpret otherwise ambiguous pictures in an application of the projective hypothesis that...
Posted Examining the Relationships between Gender and IQ/Mental Ability Levels to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
One of the most interesting things that I happened upon in my reading of this weeks Chapter was the controversial studies looking at the differences between men and women in terms of mental ability. Although there are some studies that...
Posted The Intriguing Results of Severing the Corpus Callosum in the Brain to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
Previous to listening to Dr. Peterson's lecture on consciousness, I had never critically examined the idea of a conscious thought in relation to those choices made without us being actively aware of them. The idea that we could be aware...
Posted Examining the Bizarre Occurrences of Out of Body and Near Death Experiences to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
One of the more unusual and captivating topics that I gleaned from my reading of the chapter involved the phenomena of out of body and near death experiences. I had heard of such happenings in the past, but was never...
Posted The Placebo Effect to Section 16 and 17 F11 PSY 1001
The placebo effect refers to the phenomena of improvement in a trial subject simply due to the expectation of improvement. (Lilienfield 62) For example, a patient may improve following the introduction of a drug simply because they were aware that...
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