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This paper contends that the affective properties of music upon one's emotive state appear as the source of much research throughout the realm of psychology, with theories regarding its effects and emotive properties being recruited and adapted, from non-musical literature. One important role which music plays within society is in cinematography, as congruence between auditory and visual stimuli is a fundamental component due to its ability in conveying emotionality. Throughout this paper the circumplex model was incorporated, as a measure of emotion and a template from which to obtain congruence between auditory and visual stimuli. The paper assesses the importance of such congruence, between auditory and visual stimuli and its resulting impact upon emotion.

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"Music is a key element of everyday life, its role within society is divergent. Variation in temporal structure allows for diverse utilization, permitting music to pervade all cultures and play a significant role in the majority of social and religious rituals: birthdays, weddings and funerals, and so on. The affective properties of musical stimuli are the source of much research and theories regarding music's effects and emotive properties have been recruited and adapted from non-musical literature (Ritossa and Rickard, 2004). With such an impact upon on society, the effects of music on behavior deserve further exploration. The research reported here was such an exploration, with the primary focus concerning arousal, performance and the importance of the relationship between audio and visual stimuli."

Tags:arousal, circumplex, model, music

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This paper considers how an experimental test may be designed and implemented. The author designs a two-stage study, explains the various controls used and includes recognition of the limitations of such as study. The author uses the example of the hypothesis that left handed persons have lower levels of emotional control than right handed people.

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The paper describes world renowned psychologist, B.F Skinner's Operant Conditioning Theory - the primary focus of this form of learning being on the relationship of reinforcement to the change in overt behavior. The paper provides a biography of Skinner and shows how his ideas affected the psychological world.

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"We, as human beings, are distinguished by the fact that our vocal responses can be easily conditioned as operants. Because the behavior must be reinforced through the mediation of other people, who do many different things, there are many kinds of verbal operants (http://www.bfskinner.org/Operant.asp). Language is composed of the reinforcing practices of a given culture. These practices are responsible for the majority of the extraordinary achievements of humans. Other species acquire behavior from each other through imitation and from modeling or showing each other what to do."

Tags:Walden, II, Beyond, Freedom, and, Dignity, Skinner, Box, reinforcer

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"Coercive persuasion and thought reform share many similarities, mainly the goal of altering behavior and attitude through coercive influences often based in groups. Schein, Lifton, and Professor Ofshe's through his Sociology 156 class all give different emphasis regarding the subject. Schien the apparent "father" of the study, analyses coercive persuasion in a three-stage model, Lifton focused on eight key elements that contributed to the totalistic qualities of the methodology, while Ofshe elaborated on the role of coercive persuasion in police interrogations. All theorists seem to agree with Schein's three-stage process, with the additions of their further findings. The result is a elaborate theory of coercive persuasion that gives insight into the results on the individual formed through confined/assertive and nonconfined/nonassertive programs, belief internalization, and the effects of the methods, graded on adherence to the leader and doctrine."

Tags:coercive, persuasion

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This paper explores the role of the scientist-practitioner model and the contributing effects of both group focused statistical analysis and single-case design to modern psychology.

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"The scientist-practitioner model is deeply embedded in both applied and educational psychology alongside its faithful counterpart: group focused statistical analysis (Blampied, 2001). Although regarded by some as useful in its role within our educational system, its saturating effects are seemingly detrimental to our graduating psychologists. Such effects flow over to science as a whole and are believed to be the foundation of psychology's inability to be recognized and regarded as a valuable asset within modern day science (Johnson and Pennypacker, 1993)."

Tags:model, practitioner, scientist

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"The twenty participants were required to complete an anagram task in a set time of 12 minutes within the mere presence of the other participants. (Task 1.) They were then required to complete a similar anagram task with the object of evaluation. (Task 2.) The results showed that the mean number of correct answers was significantly higher in the anticipated evaluation task than in the mere presence task."

Tags:an, animal, behavior, facilitation, in, increases, is, its, occur, of, others, presence, said, social, the, to, when

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This paper explores what false memory is and how and why we use it. It also explores the difference between semantic and phonological processing. The effects of false memory and the varying factors influencing it including thought processing and time before encoding are investigated and discussed thoroughly. The papers also compares this experiment to other similar studies. The results are consistent across all participants and support the theory of false memory effects efficiently.

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"One hypothesis that can be looked at is: HA: False memory effects are influenced by the depth of processing at encoding. HO: False memory effects are not influenced by the depth of processing at encoding. This can be studied by looking at the empirical results and searching for a large difference between the amount of unstudied critical words and the amount of unstudied unrelated words that are "remembered" across the field of participants. Another hypothesis that can be tested is: HA: False memory effects occur for phonological as well as semantic associates of encoding lists. HO: False memory effects occur for only phonological associates of encoding lists. From the results, it cannot be proven that these types of false memory effects absolutely exist, but can be strongly argued that they do. The larger amount of participants used the better the result that we can achieve."

Tags:disorder, psychology, dream

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This paper intends to determine whether semantic representations of words with HI or LI are retained better in short term memory loss when presented visually. For many years imagery was regarded as questionable area of study for experimental cognitive psychology because individual?s visual imagination is inherently private and cannot serve as unbiased observable behavioral data. The paper refers to recent research, which suggests that word imageability greatly influences recognition and recall. The memory task was conducted in a form of immediate serial recall of HI and LI item lists. General prediction and experimental hypothesis were supported by the data. Potential implications of the study and proposed further research are considered in detail.

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"In the theoretical framework of traditional short-term (working) memory, mechanisms of retrieval of information generated a lot of interest in the area of cognitive psychology. A variety of evidence that has accumulated in the past few years suggests that short-term memory processes may be influenced by a number of phonological, orthographical and semantic factors. Researchers designed standard procedures to study memory performance by presenting a list of unrelated items to require reproduction with either immediate free recall or serial recall after some interpolated activity."

Tags:ability, imagery, memory, recall

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This paper explains that temporally, music's structure has many determining characteristics, which shape affective properties (such as tempo and tonality). Throughout this paper these structural characteristics are explored, accompanied by an exploration of the ability of music to elicit emotions, the link between performance (both visual and manual) and emotions and the relationship between music and physiological response. Conclusions of this review involve general methodological considerations for future research and potential hypotheses to be explored.

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"Music is a key element of everyday life; its role within society is divergent, and temporally, music takes on many forms. Such variation in temporal structure allows for diverse utilization, thus permitting music to pervade all cultures and play a significant role in the majority of social and religious rituals, such as birthdays, weddings and funerals. The affective properties of musical stimuli upon behavior appear as the source of much research throughout psychology with theories regarding its effects and emotive properties being recruited, and adapted, from non-musical literature (Ritossa and Rickard, 2004). With such apparent impact upon individuals throughout society, the profound effects of music deserve further exploration. This paper shall conduct such an exploration with the primary focus concerning the impact of musical exposure upon affective states, arousal, performance (both visual and manual), and physiological reactions."

Tags:structure, psychology, body, motion, emotion, physical

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This study utilized Rapee's (2001) model for the development of anxiety, in order to test whether there are factors, which protect children against anxiety. The study specifically suggests that anxious children should have a withdrawn and negative reactivity temperament, having experienced more negative life events than non anxious children and in response to these events, implementing an avoidant coping style. The study was conducted on 143 mother and child pairs. The study uses self-report questionnaires for both the mother and the child and the participants were instructed to complete these anonymously. The data obtained suggests that temperament is not a salient construct in regard to anxiety, with there being no significant differences in temperamental behaviour between high and low anxious children. The study also found that there was evidence of both negative life events and an avoidant coping style in highly anxious children.

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"Anxiety is suggested to be the most common form of psychopathology in children, affecting around 10% of the population and is often severe enough to "interfere in daily functioning" (Spence, 1998 p 545; Rapee, 2002). Due to the debilitating effects of anxiety, it is important to identify the factors, which may increase a person's vulnerability to developing an anxiety disorder."

Tags:events, life, negative, temperament, parent, school