Sexual victimization occurs in all ages, sexes, ethnicities, educational fields, and socioeconomic groups. Sexual offending covers a range of criminal sexual acts, including sexual assaults of older adolescents or adults, sexual contact with children under the legally defined age of each jurisdiction, noncontact sexual offenses involving exhibitionism or voyeurism (e.g., this could include online offending […]
Gestalt psychology, school of psychology founded in the 20th century that provided the foundation for the modern study of perception. Gestalt theory emphasizes that the whole of anything is greater than its parts. That is, the attributes of the whole are not deducible from analysis of the parts in isolation. Gestalt psychology is a school
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Mood is the underlying feelings that an individual has while affect is the collection of outward expressions that help to interpret mood. A person’s affect is the collection of behaviors that describe their emotional state. Within the context of psychology, affect refers to the feelings that humans have. They are used to qualify and describe
Countertransference is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when a clinician lets their own feelings shape the way they interact with or react to their client in therapy. Often, countertransference is unconscious, and both the clinician nor the client realizes it is happening. Dysfunctional patterns, beliefs, and assumptions that affect a patient’s perception of other people
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Cognitive biases are unconscious and systematic errors in thinking that occur when people process and interpret information in their surroundings and influence their decisions and judgments (Kahneman et al., 1982). These biases can distort an individual’s perception of reality, resulting in inaccurate information interpretation and rationally bounded decision-making (Kahneman, 2011). Cognitive biases are often seen
On February 1, 2012, Israel Keyes, 34, decided that the Common Grounds, espresso coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska would be his target. He had already purchased tickets to board a cruise ship from New Orleans to Mexico the very next morning. Keyes waited in his car fairly close to the coffee stand, listening to a
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The halo effect refers to the tendency to allow one specific trait or our overall impression of a person, company or product to positively influence our judgment of their other related traits. A single positive quality of a person may induce a positive predisposition toward every aspect of that person while one negative attribute of
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Gary Ridgway was the most prolific serial in the history of the United States. His 19-year reign of terror left the area surrounding Seattle littered with corpses. All the girls were young. A lot of them grew up in abusive homes and they were running away, as a result of that, they were prostitutes. In
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Imagery is a mental performance improvement technique that involves “programming” body and mind with the purpose of responding optimally in a performance situation. The technique is based on the notion that an imagined action activates an internal cognitive representation that is the same as the cognitive representation underlying the “actual” action (see Holmes & Collins,
The history of hypnosis dates back to the late 18th century when Franz Mesmer, a German physician, whose system of therapeutics, known as mesmerism, was the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; this he called “animal