Confirmation bias

Occupational Psychology is the study of behaviour of people at work and it normally covers application of social psychology to mental health, safety, training of employees,etc…… It has different major theoretical approaches and this report is going to analyse three of them including Psychodynamic approach, cognitive approach and behaviour approach. For Psychodynamic Approach, it was founded by Sigmund Freud and it holds two major parts in terms of unconscious psychological processes and the past…

Research is a rigorous and systematic method of enquiry, which intends to define phenomena and expands new theories concepts (Polit and Beck, 2011). Moreover research process includes activities which consist of steps such as data collection, analysis, research question and conclusion (Maltby et al. 2010). Fundamentally in relation to nursing practice research process contributes to a systematic way of producing evidence to encourage good practice. Therefore, to use the research process to go…

The powerful effects paradigm suggests that the mass media has a direct causal effect on its audience member. In comparison with the other paradigms, powerful effects is considerably simplistic as it suggests that the effects of different media outlets are often unavoidable and that any consumer of this outlets will be affected to a large degree. CONTEXT – Wetham (95) This solidified the idea that the media were the responsible party for many of the ills of society. Many of the studies under…

The New Jim Crow was a very interesting point of view. In the book Michelle Alexander expresses to us her opinion that the war on drugs is the way to legally discriminate against African Americans and people of color. In the book she encourages us, as United States Citizens to discuss the criminal justice system and how it is not how it should be. In chapter one we are introduced on how the discrimination has made come back according to Michelle Alexander. She did acknowledge that some African…

Ford Pinto Paper #5403 In 1978, an attack came unto Ford from unhappy consumers. These consumers, or more telling, their next of kin, were unhappy with the safety offered by Ford’s subcompact model, the Pinto. The subcompact was a new addition to the American markets, but not new to markets. The markets overseas were run amok with much more favored subcompacts for years. The American market was just now, however, starting to lean away from the larger, more gas guzzling cars and going towards…

Believe it or not, climate change is here, real, and affecting the world around us with irreversible consequences caused by humans. At this point, there is a monumental amount of data and scientific agreement on climate change, every single person should be scared of climate change and the effects it is having on the world. The current level of abhorrence at the very thought that humans are causing the climate to change, that the climate even is changing, and that this change is having…

The treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD, is a controversial issue between healthcare professional, patients, and parents. As of today, the most common treatment is stimulants. When prescribing stimulants, doctors have to create a specific plan for each patient. They do this because every Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity case and every patient is different. One patient’s symptoms may be completely different than those experienced by another patient. Patients who have…

can be seen from the lack of an “ethics officer” position within Dow Corning’s corporate organizational infrastructure (Brooks & Dunn, 2015, p. 1-530). Furthermore, having a paid in house management team act as an auditing committee does not remove bias from the auditing process and points directly to “hubris” and/or the “principal-agent problem” as it concentrates on “profit” rather than “ethics” (Sherratt, 2016, p. 188). In other words, having management check the accuracy and ethicality of…

Contemporary Research In what is perhaps the most famous twin study, the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA), Bouchard, Lykken, McGue, Segal, and Tellegen (1990) studied more than 80 sets of MZ and DZ twins who were separated as infants and raised in separate environments in order to determine the heritability of psychological traits, including intelligence. The participants completed approximately 50 hours of assessment, including personality and occupational interest inventories,…

where one should be heading in a middle of the project. Group effort and diverse thinking is crucial in the process of creating the roadmap; narrow mindedness within a group will only facilitate thinking of one option, whether good or bad, as confirmation bias only encourages a decision to be made, rather than examining the consequences of such decisions. There have been numerous studies that suggest increased productivity is the product of rich diversity. Then there is a question to be asked…