Occupational science

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…

In Vannevar Bush 's article, Research Agency Planned, Bush urges for an increase in government funding toward the sciences to develop solutions to several problems the U.S. faces. Bush does this by focusing on three problems. The first is to fund basic research in medicine. Bush points out that currently seven million people are suffering from mental illnesses of which there is no cure and additional funding should aid the basic research in medicine so that progress can be made toward a solution…

INTRODUCTION: Laboratory activities and demonstrations represent an essential part of effective science teaching. Written materials and pictures can convey an enormous amount of information, but students more fully understand the concepts related to science when they participate in or observe learning activities involving laboratory experiments and demonstrations. Although many science activities present potential hazards, reasonable and prudent safety practices greatly reduce the likelihood of…

-additivity Consider the following assessment made by Keynes in the A Treatise on Probability in chapter 26 concerning the use of mathematics in the social sciences and liberal arts (Keynes’s terms these moral sciences) : “The hope, which sustained many investigators in the course of the Nineteenth century, of gradually bringing the moral sciences under the sway of mathematical reasoning, steadily recedes—if we mean, as they meant, by mathematics the introduction of precise numerical…

of the most fundamental precepts in attention science. It is know as the cocktail party problem. It states that if you you were at a cocktail party…

Genetic Engineering: Saving Lives or Designer Babies? The human body is not perfect, however genetic engineering has the potential to make this happen. Most bodies are built with flaws and others fail over time. Science has the ability to change the way that humans are made and alter the flaws that are known. This can be done through the process of human genetic engineering, which is discussed in the articles 5 Standout Pros and Cons of Human Genetic Engineering by David King and Pros…

These surprising and “wild” results still leave many questions unanswered, such as why the percentage of intelligence due to heritability is so high, as well as leaves many psychologists skeptical. “In social science, it's rare that we can explain even 10 percent of the variance of a trait,” explained Dr. Robert Plamin, a psychologist at the Pennsylvania State University whose own findings from a similar experiment conducted by himself provided completely different…

Be that as it may, there are still many career fields in which women are underrepresented. Evidence of the aforementioned disproportionate representation is clearly evident in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields. As a STEM woman, this confounded me. What factors contributed to the lack of strong female presence-- a phenomenon which I considered an anomaly. Were there any recognized biological differences which made…

establish and enforce stricter regulations for animal experimenting, or end it if possible, to protect these living beings from the torture and pain that is inflicted upon them. Animals are subject to treatments and experimented on “in the name of science.” However, a lot of these experiments are conducted under terrible conditions, and the results cannot even be applied to human medicine and health. Also, with all of the advancements in technology we have made in recent years, we have plenty of…

you have committed no crime. Animals in laboratories endure this treatment every day. These animals go through deprivation, isolation, and misery. Each year in the United States, an estimated seventy million animals hurt and killed in the name of science by private institutions, household products and cosmetics companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and scientific centers. Millions of mice,…