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Environmental factors: SAD
The sociocultural approach investigates environmental explanations for social anxiety disorder. These factors include family environment, the role of peers, and adverse childhood events (ACEs). The sociocultural...
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Correlational studies
One of the confusing terms in psychology is the word "correlation." Many studies show a correlation between variables, but they are not correlational studies. How do we know the difference when discussing...
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Biological factors: SAD
Many parts of your brain are involved with fear and anxiety, so social anxiety disorder is a complex condition to study. Tilfors (2004) conducted a literature review and concluded that biopsychosocial...
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Attraction: Chemical messengers
The biological approach argues that human attraction is primarily a physiological response. These physiological responses include neurotransmitters and hormones. Much research on the biological origins...
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Sampling techniques
People who take part in a psychological study are called participants. Normally, psychologists define a target population - a specific group of people they are interested in for their study. For example,...
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Obesity: Differences in populations
Obesity prevalence rates differ between populations due to a complex interplay of biological, environmental, socioeconomic, and cultural factors. In addition to several factors that have contributed to...
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Data representation
The following presentation explains the different types of graphs that you will find on Paper 3: Box and whisker plot, line graph (scatterplot), bar graphs, and histograms. For each graph, you should...
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Surveys and questionnaires
The following presentation discusses surveys and questionnaires. It is broken into three sections: Types of questions, the use of scales, and interpreting surveys/questionnaires. This information is...
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Anorexia: Spettigue (2018)
Studying the treatment of disorders is complicated. Giving someone a treatment that is untested may actually worsen or maintain the current level of symptoms. Giving them a placebo, even with consent,...
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InThinking in your language
The DP Psychology community is a diverse group of students from around the world, representing many different cultures and speaking many languages. Sadly, Inthinking is only available in English. Or is...
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DIVER: Evaluating research
There are several ways to evaluate research. It is, however, always good to have an acronym to help you remember your strategies. The acronym below - DIVER - is only one strategy you could use. There...
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Prevalence of disorders
Prevalence rates are not simply statistical accounts of how many people suffer from a specific disorder. We sometimes see that there is a difference in the prevalence rates of a disorder in men and women....