A Survey of Educational Psychologists’ Views on the Delivery of Behaviour Modification

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Coxhead ◽  
R. M. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
Educational Psychologists

The ‘Psychology’ of Polygraph’: Engendering Differential Salience - Concerns and Caveats

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedo Herbig
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Test Procedures ◽  
Behaviour Modification ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Governing Body ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Emotional Salience ◽  
Polygraph Examination

The ‘success’ of a polygraph examination is predicated on the establishment of differential or emotional salience (a ‘psychological set’) with an examinee. This, according to polygraph proponents, guarantees that an examinee will respond appropriately during the administration of the in-test (questioning) phase of the polygraph examination. However, polygraph procedure, as prescribed by its governing body, the American Polygraph Association (APA), is a static clinical Westernised process that does not make any provision for human multiplicity (culture/ethnicity, idiosyncrasies, level of education, language proficiency, ideologies, and so forth). Identical (one size fits all) test procedures are applied across the board – a highly controversial methodology. This article, instead of rigidly focusing on validity and reliability issues per se, explores the degree to which certain intentional and unintentional human behaviour modification strategies have the potential to counterbalance claimed polygraph rectitude from a metaphysical and discursive standpoint. The article exposes concerns (potential flaws) relating to polygraph theory in the context of the ‘psychological set’ and is intended to serve as a caveat regarding the unmitigated use thereof. 

Developing and sustaining provision for children with motor skills difficulties in schools: the role of educational psychologists

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Bond ◽  
Marilyn Cole ◽  
Judy Fletcher ◽  
Jennifer Noble ◽  
Maria O’Connell
Keyword(s):  
Motor Skills ◽  
Educational Psychologists
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