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	<title>Understanding Psychology</title>
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	<description>A Liberty University graduate Psychology student discusses Psychology topics</description>
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		<title>Using Acronyms to Aid in Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forgetting assumes that information that was stored in the short term or long term memory is now not available or is not accessible. It is in terms of availability and accessibility that the importance of forgetting, with regard to demonstrating separate stages in memory is to be approached. Failures of availability and accessibility include encoding failure occurs when data is not stored in the short or long term memory. Trace decay involves the physical form of memory disappearing with time due to neural decay; it explains sensory memory, short term ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/using-acronyms-to-aid-in-memory/</link>
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		<title>The Nature of Memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The nature of memory can be explained as a set of stages that are necessary but not sufficient for memory to have taken place. These involve &#8220;input&#8221; -registering or encoding information, where a memory trace is formed from translating the sensory data, &#8220;storage&#8221; which is either temporary or permanent and &#8220;output&#8221; which involves retrieval - memories would be useless unless they could be retrieved. It is these stages that form the fundamental characteristics of the process of memory and in order for this to occur it is necessary for the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/the-nature-of-memory/</link>
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		<title>Coping With PTSD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After experiencing a traumatic event, the mind has been known to horde away the details and memories and then send them back at unexpected times and places, sometimes after years have passed. It does so in a haunting way that makes the recall just as disturbing as the original event. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is the name for the acquired mental condition that follows a psychologically distressing event &#8220;outside the range of usual human experience&#8221; Bernstein, et al . There are five diagnostic criteria for this disorder and there are ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/coping-with-ptsd/</link>
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		<title>LU Law School Announces High Bar Passage Rate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberty University School of Law now ranks No. 2 in the state for passage rates on the Virginia Bar Exam.  At 94.4 percent, Liberty is just behind the University of Virginia (96.8).
“That’s going to put us in the top 5 percent of all law schools in the country,” said Mat Staver, Dean of Liberty University School of Law.  Working out of his Orlando, Fla., office on Thursday, Staver was jubilant when he heard the news from Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., who had received the call from members of the Board ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/lu-law-school-announces-high-bar-passage-rate/</link>
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		<title>Operant Conditioning and Social Cognitive Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Definition/Role of learning
Learning is to gain knowledge or understanding of a skill by study, instruction, or experience. Social learning is a theory to explain how people learn behavior. People learn through observing others; imitating and adopting the behavior themselves
 
Increase in learning    
Learning situations in which the sequence responses of the subject are instrumental in producing reinforcement. When the correct response occurs, which involves the selection from among a repertoire of responses, the subject is immediately reinforced.
 
According to Social Cognitive Theory, we learn by observing the actions and consequences of others. ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/operant-conditioning-and-social-cognitive-theory/</link>
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		<title>Piagetian Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Definition/Role of learning
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development explains how human cognitive function differentiates as a child grows. From birth, a baby starts to interact with his surrounding through his sensory and motor activity. From 2 years, a child begins to represent the world through language. From around 7 years, he/she operates on objects. From 12 years, a child is able to think formally and logically without concrete objects. This developmental sequence doesn’t change. Each stage comes from the earlier stage and it is also basis of the next stage. For ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/piagetian-theory/</link>
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		<title>Vygotsky&#8217;s Sociocultural Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Definition/Role of learning
Sociocultural theory is a theory of human development that results from the dynamic interaction between a person and the surrounding social and cultural forces. Vygotsky’s s theories had three general claims: The claim that human social and psychological processes are fundamentally shaped by cultural tools; The claim that higher mental functioning in the individual emerges out of social processes; and the developmental method Zone of Proximal Development which is the concept that the potential of the child is limited to a specific time span.
Increase in learning 
Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/vygotskys-sociocultural-theory/</link>
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		<title>Behavioral And Humanistic Theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behavioral And Humanistic Theory These two theories have created debates between psychologists for many years. Hans j. Eysenck, Ph.D., D.Sc., is one of the world&#8217;s most cited psychologists. He is a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of London, where he started the discipline of clinical psychology in Great Britain. He is a pioneer in the use of behavior therapy as well as research in personality theory and measurements. 

The biological theory has to do with his findings that individual differences in personality are biology based. This ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/behavioral-and-humanistic-theory/</link>
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		<title>Classical Learning Vs. Operant Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many different fields of study in psychology. One field of study is the cognitive process of learning. Learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior or behavior potential resulting from experience Baron G-7 . The learning process helps us, all organisms, adapt to changing conditions in our environment and the world around us. Although the effects of learning are very diverse, many psychologists believe that learning occurs in several basic forms. Two of these forms are called classical learning or classical conditioning and operant learning or operant conditioning ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/11/classical-learning-vs-operant-learning/</link>
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		<title>Neurotic Jacob</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following was written as part of an assignment for class on Thursday night. 
&#8216;The precise definition of personality has been a point of discussion amongst many different theorists within many different disciplines since the beginning of civilization. Personality can be defined as &#8220;the distinctive and characteristic patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that define an individual&#8217;s personal style and influence his or her interactions with the environment&#8221; extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability and culture. I chose the factor model of Neuroticism, which, on the high scores includes a tendency ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nickroy.com/2008/09/neurotic-jacob/</link>
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