What are some misapplications of Psychology related resaerch?
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The most current and destructive form of the misapplication of psychological research is within the United States Military. Young men being taken in the formative years of their life and following six weeks at Paris island are equipped with weapons of destruction and sent into an environment where every single step they take may very well be their last.\n\nI was 18 years and 3 months old when with my squad; we came face to face the enemy. After about 40 minutes of a firefight, I had killed two men who surely would have taken my life instead. This reality didn’t hit until the next day. I found myself numb to all external feelings, and it went on for weeks. We continued our almost daily routine of 12-hour treks into the surrounding jungle seeking new engagements. A few weeks later, a young native girl crossed a large downed tree that stretched a ravine. As she cross to our side, an improvised explosive device blew sending shrap metal into my chest. It missed my heart and vitals by only centimeters. But physical recovery was months out.\n\nIn that time span of about 9 weeks, I had killed two human beings and watched a young girl blow herself to bit before my very eyes. To this day, over 35 years later, I still wake with vivid dreams of this. My country saw it fit to have me speak with professionals on this issue, who helped me to understand what I did and saw and felt was all a part of war.\n\nTo this day, the last words of my military therapist ring in my head. “You have done your duty, You are cured”! Talk about misapplication!
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You can do many things - there are many, many different types of psychologists:\nClinical - dealing with mentally ill/deviant(ha) people\nEducational - dealing with the school environment\nResearch - researching the human/animal mind\nIndustrial - figuring out how to market to the masses ......\n\nThe list goes on.  With psychology you can pretty much just pick what you like/what drives you and go for it ...
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Hi\nI can recommend a good web-site that may help you find appropriate journals etc. You can download the tool bar and locate relevant literature (with the references to in some cases).\n\nwww.PsyPlex.com\n\nMichael
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Most science today has very exact measurements and descriptions. Such is not yet the case in the science of the brain and human behavior. Having more names helps a little as the science progresses and newly tested drugs are useful. Mental illness is a disorder and lives are screwed up and personal pain is acute. Remember only seventy-five years ago Eugenics considered all mental illness hereditary and patients were sterilized and some killed. Our social practices are the slowly changing and still produce a percentage of failures. Those free of depression in our society don't want to lose their advantage in their groups. Historically different utopias have been tried and failed. We all collectively come back to this social system. The only real help ever has been from the christian concepts. Even that is constantly adapting to meet our institutional forms in society. Therefore analyzing the profession seems to be accurate from one view of life. But without a better solution being introduced the complaints hold only a small value.
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Good question. I am a Medical Scientist and so read alot of research papers but have never come across any papers about this! maybe the psychologists out there can help?!
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I don't know why someone would tell you to go get a book... that isn't in the spirit of this web site at all....\nPsychology is the study of the human mind,  it encompasses emotions, cognitive ability, structure, and chemistry. at the very least.  The word Psychology is derived from the Greek for study of the soul.  The science of Psychology began in the study of physiology.  People began to wonder about perception and why things seem the way they do to us.  It has since branched out into many different arenas and form.  These would include, but not be limited to... Abnormal, cognitive, developmental, experimental, behavioral, industrial and organizational psychology.
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Psychology is the study of how the mind works. The mind has a very basic method of coping with stress, collecting data, retrieving data, and forming plans and simulations. Everyone starts out in life with a very "generic" method of doing things as children. In normal circumstances the mind will continue to form in a manner that is predictable for psychologists and psychiatrists to study. This is the basis for psychology. However, sometimes events occur within a person's life that aren't normal or they have diseases or deformities of the brain that alter a person's development in semi-predictable to nearly random ways. This is called abnormal psychology. \n\nNow with that all aside, I can explain how all of that correlates to your issues at work. Once a psychologists understands how you think, feel, cope with stress, remember things, and try to form solutions to problems, they can then figure out how and why things at work are bothering you. Based upon how you think, they can help formulate a plan to help you cope and/or solve your problems at work. Whatever plan they come up with will be tailored to you especially and much more likely to work. This plan may involve solving a one-time problem, or it might be plan that you can use over and over again in many different scenarios.
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criminal psychology, criminal justice, or psychology
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A quotation by Harvey J Gold, Author of Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems,  may go towards assisting your analysis of the situation:\n\n" The result of a mathematical development should be continuously checked against one's own intuition about what constitutes reasonable biological behaviour. Whenever such a check reveals disagreement, the following possibilities must be considered:\n\na : A mistake has been made in the formal mathematical development\n\nb: The starting assumptions are incorrect and/or constitute a too drastic oversimplification\n\nc: One's own intuition about the biological field is inadequately developed.\n\nd: A penetrating new principle has been discovered. "\n\nDo let me know whether you found meaning in the above, and if you did analyse your model based on the checks recommended by him, what among a,b,c,d was the reason of the discrepancy. Of course this is assuming that you have already established the discrepancy beyond doubt.
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Your best bet may be to search for it (even better, ask a librarian) in the library of a university that has a psychology program or of a related field. Psychological testing materials are generally pretty expensive. The WRAT-3 forms are fairly cheap from what I remember, but I'm not sure about the manual.
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There are many fields of psychology. Here are some of the many types of psychologists:\n\n>Biological psycologists explore the links between brain and   mind.\n\n>Developmental psychologists study changing abilities from womb to tomb.\n\n>Cognitive psychologists experiment perception, thought, and problem-solving.\n\n>Personality psychologists investigate inner traits.\n\n>Social psychologists  explore how people affect one another.\n\n>Industrial/organizational psychologists study and advise on behavior in the workplace.\n\n>Clinical psychologists study, assess, and treat troubled people.\n\nFor you, criminal psychology could be an option to work at a police station. To work with children, you might conside developmental psychology or clinical psycholgy.
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In one of my psychology classes we had a girl ride in an elevator facing the back wall instead of the doors.  people get all weird, and end up facing the back wall too.  Think Bandura, Social learning theory/modeling.
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I don't know of any specific sites, but if you look inside, or on the back of your psych. textbook, there will probably be a website listed. These websites are good because they often have links to practice quizzes that tend to be similar to the ones professors give. \n\nGive it a try.
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Gotta take a class. It's more of a parapsychology I believe that you are referring to, can't expect to come up with a complete paper or even an essay here, gotta do your homework.
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This can mean different things, it may be insecurity, fear of loosing,and past expierence. Maybe just to justify the wrong doings as an excuse.
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Confusion\nDeception\nLying by Ommision
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Try electric fields, energy fields, bio-chemistry and genetics. Excellent research material, isn't it? If that doesn't satisfy, maybe, try out psychology and also positive uses of psychic energy.