Amnesia in Alzheimer’s Disease

Compare and contrast the memory deficits observed in patients with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) with those of patient H.M.

Your boss has noted that employee job satisfaction seems to be low.

Your boss has noted that employee job satisfaction seems to be low. He has asked you to suggest ways to improve job satisfaction. After researching this issue, prepare to discuss the specifics with regard to defining the problem as well as proposing diagnostic techniques and potential interventions.

Abnormal Psychology

Over the past 20 or more years the primary paradigm in Clinical Psychology has gradually become the cognitive-behavioural, which is a (loose) combination of the cognitive and learning paradigms. Psychiatry has adopted a primarily biological paradigm. The previously dominant paradigm of Psychoanalysis (and to a lesser extent Huma ...continues

This posting aids with a project on Emotional Intelligence.

This posting gives two other sources of information regarding Emotional Intelligence. It then guides users to write an assessment of strengths and weaknesses in five areas that are thought to comprise Emotional Intelligence.

Illnesses caused by stress are cited.

What illnesses can be caused, or made worse, by stress?

Attitudes/Behaviour

1. Do our attitudes determine our behavior? If not, does that make us all hypocrites? 2. When do attitudes predict behavior? 3. How does our behavior influence our attitudes?

Sexual Identities are brainstormed.

What are some ways that a parent can help teenagers with their sexual identities?

Sexual Identity

What should be the role of teacher when helping adolescents form their identities?

Diversity and ethics in personnel psychology

Consider the following situations: 1. Martin is the best candidate for a Trainer position. Martin has a scar running from his eyebrow to his jaw line on the right side of his face. 2. Gerard is an IT Specialist and his co-workers have complained of his body odor. QUESTIONS: For each issue, determine (1) whethe ...continues

Learning Questions

1) How can you demonstrate spontaneous recovery in a laboratory with rats? 2) Make up an example of conditioned inhibition and make sure to label all the parts ( CS+, CS-, CR, US, UR). 3) Develop an example of higher-order conditioning pointing out the US, UR, CS, CR.