Validity

Eleven relevant studies were selected and assessed on the quality and internal validity resulting in a high level of evidence for this project. The key components of the guideline consist of recommendations to ensure adequate peripheral perfusion, contraindication and risk assessment, observation of staging of wound, wound vac setup…

Forensic Forensic psychology applies principles of psychology to legal questions and issues. Even though, psychologists were involved in providing expert testimonies since the early 1900’s but it was in 1962 that U.S District Court of Appeals clearly recognized the role of psychologists as experts in court and by 2001 council of representatives of the APA voted to recognize forensic psychology as a speciality in psychology. The main role of forensic psychologist is to evaluate and conduct…

Isaac Land suggests warns about the validity of the assumptions taken in previous studies. Much of the argumentation or justification provided is not in agreement with the context: naval officers were not willing to write down on the books the real number of imprisoned sailors. Such “white lies” was both beneficial to the men and the ranks, and thereby, questions the validity of the registers. Land also suggest that the statistics taken could be dubious validity and biased, as the number of…

SCENARIO B Fact Check There are a few errors that are present within the scientific information of scenario B. First, it falsely informs the readers by stating that one of the three colors that the human eye is sensitive to is the color yellow. However, according to Lilienfeld et al. (2014), the Trichromatic theory actually suggest that the human eye contains specific photoreceptor cells, specifically cones, that are responsible for colored vision and are sensitive to the colors red, green, and…

Grade Inflation and its Effects At my high school, most of the students in my class were very competitive when it came to grades. Everybody always asking how one another scored on a test and comparing their own grade to the other’s. If someone received a C they usually had one of the lower grades on the test/assignment. However, a C is technically considered average, but in our school high B’s and A’s were far more common. This clearly shows how grade inflation has risen and continues to rise…

V. Summary of The Article. In this 2014 article, “Interpersonal and Affective Traits of Psychopathy in Child Sexual Abusers: Evidence from a Pilot Study Sample of Italian Offenders”, by Adriano Schimmenti, Alessia Passanisi, and Vincenzo Caretti, analyzes evidence from a study of inmates in Italy, all of whom were convicted of violent crimes. They were interested in seeing if those inmates convicted of child sex abuse (CSA) has a higher rating of psychopathic behavior than those inmates not…

and majority white; the homogenous sample potentially undermines the conclusions’ generalization. (2) Mastery and expectation as two discrete dimensions Strength. Latent class analysis provides two important insights of construct validity and predictive validity (Bergkvist and Rossiter 2007; Cronbach and Meehl…

Trials, many avowed to being a witch to save their lives. Throughout the dramatic, trust-breaking and heart-wrenching scenes of The Crucible, Reverend Hale develops from a doctor who strongly believes in his work and witchcraft to questioning the validity of the court for believing the accusations to feeling guilty for perpetuating the hysteria to trying to save a few innocent lives of the town. To begin the play, in Act I, Hale is a strong believer in witchcraft and his books of magic. On page…

this significant number of individuals could be mistaken (Kreeft & Tacelli, 1994). One strength of the argument, is that the major component of the argument matches the belief itself. This specific strength derives a significant amount of its validity from the picture theory of meaning suggested by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Taliaferro, 2013). Many have also drawn as a strength of this argument, that the desire to identify and subsequently worship a higher authority which they equate to “maximum…

Families are incredible influence on the development of personality. This fact is widely undisputed throughout the field of psychology. But what aspects of family play into the formation of an individual’s personality? Aside from the more apparent factors, such as socioeconomic status, parenting style, number in parents in the household, arises an often overlooked factor of the family dynamic – birth order. Alfred Adler, an Austrian psychiatrist, first investigated the importance of birth order…