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The Utility of Mindfulness
A summary of what mindfulness is, how it is fostered in oneself, and why endeavoring to do so is worth the effort.
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Psychometric Testing in Mental Health Counseling
Psychometric Tests can measure many constructs, aptitudes, and levels of achievement. Within the Mental Health paradigm occupational assessments and personality assessments can be most useful.
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A Brief Comparison Between Theories of Intelligence
The Psychology that is used to buttress various theories of intelligence have a long and divergent history. Constructs can only be measured indirectly and debate on how to validly do so abounds.
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Mean, median, and Mode; Measuring Central Tendency and Skew in Bell Curves
When measuring a number of pieces of data, the numeric central tendency, can be expressed in one of three ways. The relationship of these three tendency's depends on the distribution of data.
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How to Use PEMA to Guide Order of Operations in Arithmetic Problems
When solving complex arithmetic expressions, the order in which you perform which functions is crucial in getting the correct answer. The acronym PEMA is a good mnemonic tool for these problems.
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How to Solve Word Problems Using , "Let Statements"
This is the second installment in my series of math problems that tend to trip people up. This time we will be using let statements and algebraic expressions to solve word problems.
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The Difference Between Objective and Subjective Data
Both social and physical sciences researchers distinguish between objective and subjective date this is a primer on the two types of evidence and the differences between them.
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Piaget and Child Cognitive Development
Though criticized as somewhat reductionist and overly codified, Piaget was the first developmental psychologist to postulate a series of cognitive stages through which children grow and develop.
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Communism Vs. Socialism; A Slippery Slope of Good Intentions?
A lucid argument can be made that we have never seen a truly Communist State as Marx envisioned it. What we see instead are Communist parties slipping into Socialism, Fascism, and despotism.
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Plato's Hostility Toward The Arts
Despite the Aesthetic sensibilities within his own writing style, Plato saw the Arts as potentially dangerous deformers of character. He proposes draconian means of controlling them in his Republic.
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Is The United States A Secular Democracy?
The U.S. was crafted to be the First Secular Democracy. It is arguably still the only Federalist Secular Democracy, at least in name and theory, but are these tenets honored in Washington, D.C.?
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Freud's Psychosexual Development and Erickson's Psychosocial Development
Erickson's expansion on Freudian development into his 8 stages of Psychosocial development expanded the theory of developmental stages from a process finished by adolescence to a lifelong process.
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The Socratic Method and Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning
The Socratic Method (or the Elenctic method) refers to the dialectical method of questioning and analytical probing used by the Athenian Philosopher Socrates (469-399B.C.E.).