Psychological+Perspectives

toc = Definition: = General points of view used for explaining people's behavior and thinking, whether normal or abnormal, p. 12 Gen Psych Chapter 1 pp. 12-14

= Examples: = When Ted Bundy killed his victims, and had no regrets someone must look at him from a psychological perspective. This will make them understand how he got that way and what psychologically went wrong.

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=In the News:= Online Dating: A Critical Analysis From the Perspective of Psychological Science Online dating sites frequently claim that they have fundamentally altered the dating landscape for the better. This article employs psychological science to examine (a) whether online dating is fundamentally different from conventional offline dating and (b) whether online dating promotes better romantic outcomes than conventional offline dating. The answer to the first question (uniqueness) is yes, and the answer to the second question (superiority) is yes and no. [] New Research on Aging and Cognition From Psychological Science Older people perform worse on memory tasks when they think they will be stereotypically judged. One theory about this says that stereotypes impair older adults’ working memory, while another theory suggests that stereotypes increase activation of their prepotent responses, which are often incorrect. Older and younger participants were or were not primed with a stereotype threat and then performed a working memory task and a cued-recall task. Older participants primed with stereotype threats performed worse on the working memory task and displayed greater use of automatic memory on the cued-recall task. These findings suggest that the two theories explaining stereotype threat may in fact be compatible. []

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