How to Navigate a National Convention
There are three simple rules to
remember when attending a national convention: Get organized. Get networking.
Get involved. Getting organized can be summed up in the three words: KNOW the
program-it is your "bible." Weeks before you get to the
convention you will make it much easier
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Applicant Characteristics Valued by
Graduate Programs in Psychology
This study is based on
the assumptions that graduate schools (a) are aware of the
characteristics of students who excel in their programs and (b) use the
information they gain from letters of recommendation to identify
applicants who possess these more...
The Matrix of Autism
Autistic children are doubly stigmatized.
On the one hand, they are often dismissed as "low functioning" or mentally
retarded, especially if they have poor speaking skills as many do. Yet when
autistics do show exceptional abilities-uncanny visual discrimination and
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Children see. Children do.
The influence of our role models on behavior is something
of particular interest to psychologists and we study it through the entire
psychology course. More specifically we look at the research conducted by
Bandura and his work into Social Learning Theory in the imitation of aggression.
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