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  • Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance

    When an individual puts a lot of effort to achieve something towards which he/she has a favorable attitude, it becomes more important to their self-concept.

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  • Big Five Theory of Leadership

    Researches on the Big Five personality factors have found some relationships between these overall personality factors and leadership.

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  • About perceptual process

    Sensation involves a neurological activity. This physical energy which is a stimulus has to be changed into activity within the nervous system. Transduction occurs at the receptors converting physical energy into electrical potential. Each sense organ is connected to a particular part of the brain and that is why the sense-impression (sensation) results.

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  • Cognitive development of children

    Research suggests that Piaget’s ideas about Preoperational children were not entirely correct. When young children are tested using ideas and objects that are familiar to their everyday lives, they are better able to demonstrate their abilities.

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  • How children's body grow

    A third pattern is muscles develop from the center of the body first and then toward the outside of the body called proximodistal law. Muscles around the trunk of the body develop earlier and are stronger than muscles in the hands, feet, etc.

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  • Cluster A personality disorders

    Individuals in this cluster A tend to experience major disruptions in relationships.

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  • Causes of abnormal behavior

    Since the dawn of civilization, people have tried to understand the causes of abnormal behavior. In the middle ages, for example, people with unusual behavior were seen as controlled by evil beings. Now a day’s many researchers adopted the Biopsychosocial model of abnormal behavior.

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  • Social Loafing

    Social loafing is the manifestation of reduced motivation and effort that occur when individuals work collectively in a group compared to when they work individually as independent co-actors. Social psychologists refer to such effects as ‘social loafing’ .

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  • Theory of Correspondent Inference

    Theory of Correspondent Inference was developed by Jones and Davis (1965) It is concerned with how we decide based on others’ overt actions.

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  • Study of emotions

    Every aspect of human behavior passes through a pattern of development resulting in changes as the individual grows from childhood to adulthood. Emotions are not an exception. The basic developmental process is common in a general way for all individuals.

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