Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050305
Mike J. Berry
This paper explores the issue of deaf children in mainstream education and the implications this has for their health. Currently more than 48,000 children in the UK are classified as deaf with some 85% taught in mainstream schools although they are significantly educationally underachieving. The vulnerability of deaf children and some of the difficulties they face are highlighted. An outline is provided of the nature of deafness and the Deaf Community, together with a description of cochlear implants and of British Sign Language. Some of the issues relating to the need for assessment, treatment and support for deaf children are discussed, including increased risk of sexual and physical abuse. Possible professional roles for psychologists are identified.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050302
Li-Hao Yeh, A. Lu
Mindfulness-based interventions are known to increase false memory. However, high trait mindfulness is associated with an external encoding style and field independence, which in turn are associated with low false memory. The present study used a bilingual context to disentangle these contrasting findings. Sixty Chinese-English bilinguals completed a Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) false recognition task and were evaluated using the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS). Results showed negative and positive correlations between trait mindfulness and false recognition in Chinese-Chinese and Chinese-English conditions, respectively. The polar directions of the observed correlations suggest that trait mindfulness is associated with direct and analytical perception of objects and with cognitive flexibility in activating semantic information. The former improves source monitoring, whereas the latter increases the likelihood of generating false memories in the DRM paradigm.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2017.050307
Brad Bartholomew
This paper presents the theory of French neurophysiologist Michel Jouvet that REM dreaming sleep acts as a genetic programming mechanism for the brain in utero. In addition the French neurobiologist Jean-Didier Vincent in his book Biology of Passions provides a great deal of research material concerning the development of the fetus as a desiring subject. This material is presented in support of the general theory of desire principally developed by French psychoanalysts Francoise Dolto and Jacques Lacan. It is shown that at the time of birth the fetus has already developed a desiring attachment to the conditions in the womb and that the act of being born does represent a rupture to its established desiring patterns thus reinforcing and explaining all the theory that has emerged concerning the trauma of birth.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050204
Santiago de Ossorno Garcia, Javier Martín Babarro, M. Romero
Spirituality had been acknowledged as a key construct to observe in the treatment and recovery from addictions. Due to the individualistic nature of the construct and overlap with religion, it is still not clear how spirituality influence treatment and recovery of individuals. Different treatments and approaches like AA philosophy or spiritual practices embrace the whole construct to obtain better outcomes in recovery for addictions. The aim of this review was to examine the effects of this construct and its relationship with recovery. A search strategy was followed to retrieve 457 scientific papers related with the matter of study. A total of 14 studies were selected and assessed for quality. Experimental and observational studies were categorised by design, and reviewed through narrative synthesis. Results showed that due to the lack of experimental research, poor quality and diverse conceptions of the construct, spiritual treatments are not more effective than other treatments whereas high levels of spirituality and spiritual practices tend to reduce the substance use outcomes and improve in other areas of recovery. From the findings reviewed which need to be considered with caution, it was concluded that implementing this construct within the therapy or approach may improve, in many cases, to achieve a successful recovery. More research is needed to determine if spiritual-related treatments have better outcomes, and some recommendations were addressed for future research, in addition to an encouragement for the inclusion of spirituality with its diversity into different domains of clinical practice.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050203
G. Treviranus
Epistemiology requires trans-disciplinary logics for convergence. Here a logico-geometrically expanded cyclical version of the classical French temperamental and anxio-affective thought-action-mood-model, 'dyn4-TAM-cube', harboring Appropriation Waves (AWs), encounters an effort-related node of present neuro-economical debates: the cyclical relation between 'value' and 'worth'. Accordingly, as a fundamental of the brain, this essay's second part continues to explore the alternation between symbolic frontal 4-dimensional (Halford) processing ('4D-Thought'), and high-dimensional parietal (Rizzolatti) intel- lectual intuition ('5D+-Action'), as balanced according to Richard Sorrentino's prime motivator trait (Un-)Certainty Orientation ('UO-versus-CO') interacting with 'Mood'. The two mentally processed transitions between these low-and high-dimensional domains, '4D-T~' and '5D+-A~', are complexity-reductive Perception P{ } and -expan- sionist Intention (I{ }), from which two kinds of learning feed into '4D-T~' for decision. Specifically in early AW the not just predictive, but incentive among Pavlovian cues putatively promises discounts in effort which foster intentions for worth-appropriative moves: I{ }. As 'UO-versus-CO' to date seems homologous to the more sign- or more goal-tracking dimension ('ST-versus-GT') in rats. Since ST is controlled by the thalamic paraventricular nuclei and GT e.g. by the hippocampus, putative intruding mast cells might cause the depressive reversals in orientation, establishing mast cells as bio-economical agents.
认识论需要跨学科的逻辑趋同。在这里，经典的法国气质和焦虑-情感思维-行动-情绪模型“dyn4-TAM-cube”的逻辑几何扩展周期版本，包含了占用波(AWs)，遇到了当前神经经济学辩论中与努力相关的节点:“价值”和“价值”之间的周期关系。因此，作为大脑的基础，本文的第二部分继续探索符号额叶四维(Halford)处理('4D-Thought')和高维顶叶(Rizzolatti)智力直觉('5D+- action ')之间的交替，根据理查德·索伦蒂诺的主要动机特征(Un-)确定性取向(' o - vs - co ')与“情绪”的相互作用来平衡。“4D-T~”和“5D+- a ~”在这些低维和高维域之间的两个心理加工转换是复杂性还原感知P{}和扩展主义意图(I{})，两种学习从这两种学习输入到“4D-T~”中进行决策。特别是在早期的人工智能中，巴甫洛夫线索不仅是预测性的，而且是推定性的激励，承诺了努力的折扣，从而促进了价值占有行为的意图:I{}。到目前为止，“o - vs - co”似乎与大鼠的更多符号或更多目标跟踪维度(“st - vs - gt”)相似。由于ST是由丘脑室旁核控制的，而GT是由海马体控制的，因此假定的侵入肥大细胞可能会导致定向抑制性逆转，从而确立肥大细胞作为生物经济剂的地位。
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Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2017.050205
S. Levy
Since Euclid's development, the axiomatic method has appealed to a limited number of non-mathematicians. These include Newton’s laws of motion, Spinoza’s The Ethics, and the political philosophy represented in the United States Declaration of Independence. In psychology, the notable efforts have been those of Hull and more recently of Smedslund. However, none of these examples have stated the premises in symbolic logic notation. An illustrative set of postulates for human behavior is presented in which only the relationships---“not”, “and”, “or” and “implies”--are employed. These propositions include basic concepts such as anxiety, aggression, and identification and fundamental empirical results, for example, the basic law of effect of Thorndike. The model then capitalizes on Muncaster’s PropCalc which provides a computer analysis of a set of propositions expressed in symbolic notation for their consistency and redundancy. The procedure also provides a basic set of deductions implied by the propositions. Examples of conclusions derived from the model are presented and limitations of the prototypical model are discussed. The focus of the paper is on illustrating the utility of the axiomatic approach for theory development in psychology.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050202
G. Treviranus
Epistemiology requires trans-disciplinary logics for convergence. As a fundamental of the brain, this essay’s hypotheses revisit the Goethean alternation between “Newtonian” symbolic frontal 4-dimensional (Halford) processing (“4D-Thought”), and parietal intellectual intuition (“5D+-Action”) interpreting high-dimensional articulated motor-chains (Rizzolatti). SuchS a classical temperamental and anxio-affective triad of dimensions (“Thought”, “Action”, “Mood”) constitutes the “dyn4-TAM-cube”-model, reflecting segregated cortico-striato-thalamo-cortical circuits. “dyn4-TAM-cube” harbors cycling “Appropriation Waves” transiting from private “4DThought” to public “5+Action” and back. At “Intention” to act predictive Pavlovian cues, possibly tempting by discounted effort, incentivate, and at “Perception” Skinnerian learning relates “worth”-related outcome to effortful appropriations (see part2). Sorrentino’s prime motivating “orientation” when facing the unexplained unknown dictates this balance. Thereby uncertaintyversus certainty-oriented actors (“UOs” vs. “COs”) differ inversely and interactively in “Mood”: whilst reducing future effortful “known unknowns” by models or by doing. Rats show a arguably homologous signversus goal-tracking dimension, as controlled by the thalamic paraventricular nuclei, where mast cells might mediate the reversal in orientation observed in depression. Natural language terms denoting the 8 corners and 56 intercalated processes link “dyn4-TAM-cube” to psychotherapy and to thalamic (neuro-)linguistics, as “dyn4-TAM-cube” via syllogisms of a doubled Square of Oppositions maps language to logical terms, which speak through the former.
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Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.13189/ujp.2017.050102
G. Das, M. Priya
Infants' language development built upon a variety of experience. Language is commonly defined as an organized way of combining symbols in order to communicate. Parents and caretakers plays an important role in helping children learns to communicate, read and write. There is possibly no greater shift in development than the advancement of language abilities from birth to three. So in present study researcher had made an attempt to identify the language development from 0-2 years. The study was undertaken in Coimbatore district with the total sample of 100 infants selected randomly in the age group 0-2 years and the researcher also interviewed their caretakers like parents, grandparents/aya whose age range from 22-65 years. The researcher framed self-prepared questionnaire to interview care takers as well as had observation of each child. The researcher contacted the infant's care takers and also made direct observation and collected information on how infants respond to their environment, family health status, home environment, care takers role, family type, number of children they have and quality of child care given. Researcher made observation on infants' responses to language or speech and child's abilities in language. From this study it has been found that there was a significant difference observed in infants' language development with respect to gender, number of children present in family, type of family and type of care taker. Family history and health status were less affected on female infants' language development compared to male infants. Whereas, child's age did not predict much influences on language development. Joint family children performed better language and social skills compared to nuclear and extended families. Even though mother and child interactions were more important for language development, children did better when they were along with the grandparents and parents. However when children brought up with helper/aya were not able to think, respond and communicate properly and also discovered they were slower in language abilities.
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Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050104
Brad Bartholomew
This paper presents a general summary of psi experiments conducted with the DNA in the latter decades of the 20 Century particularly at the HeartMath Institute (HMI) in Boulder Creek, CA, by Dr. Glen Rein, relating to the ability of “healers” to affect the conformation of the DNA molecule simply by concentrating their mental and emotional powers of the brain and heart. In particular it was found that the intentional states of healers could change the molecular structure of water which in turn could alter the conformation of the DNA. Further to these findings about the relationship between water and DNA, this paper discusses a journal article by a team led by 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine recipient Dr. Luc Montagnier, which describes an electromagnetic field in the DNA that is capable of being projected into water and which contains all the information of its sequence of bases in memory, and is capable of reconstructing itself into the identical chemical molecule; provided the ambient electromagnetic environment in the water is maintained at a frequency of not less than 7Hz which is in the same frequency window as Alpha rhythm brainwaves and the natural Schumann resonance of the Earth. This paper goes on to discuss new research in optogenetics where human beings have been able to modify gene expression with their Alpha rhythm and Mu rhythm brainwaves in the same frequency window as the Schumann resonance, simply by adopting different mental states, and takes note of the fact that these same Alpha and mu rhythms are the main conduit frequency for Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs). The paper presents a general summary of earlier research relating to psi phenomena resulting from interference of brainwaves with the Schumann resonance, and proposes a novel explanation for the recently discovered “mirror neurons” phenomena where the Mu rhythm brainwaves emanating from the motor cortex are able to interfere constructively or destructively with the Schumann resonance of same frequency and thus bring about mental telepathic as well as psychokinesis happenings.
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Pub Date : 2017-02-01DOI: 10.13189/UJP.2017.050101
Renee Morrison, Aileen M Pidgeon
University Students report a range of demands such as academic responsibilities, financial pressures or developing new social networks to be major sources of stress. The literature demonstrates that university students report higher levels of psychological distress compared to the general population. Therefore, the cultivation of resilience and self-control among university students could result in many benefits. Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully to stress and adversity, while self-control is the ability to resist short-term desires in order to meet long-term goals. This experimental study examined the efficacy of using brief willpower strengthening exercises to enhance resilience, self-control, and reduce psychological distress in university students. Forty-six university students were randomised into one of two groups: Willpower Strengthening Group or the Control Group. A two-way repeated MANOVA revealed that university students in the Willpower Strengthening Group reported significantly higher levels of resilience and self-control, and significantly lower levels of psychological distress. The positive feedback and high rate of compliance reported by students to the exercises as per instructions (i.e. every hour, for six hours per day, over seven days) supports the feasibility of using willpower strengthening exercises in programs aimed at increasing resilience. Future research into the feasibility and effectiveness of willpower strengthening exercises has the potential to improve the psychological wellbeing of university students.
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