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• The modern day view on society and culture.

  In today society if you are not above average or what is conceived by others to be ‘normal’, based on dimensions such as culture, politic, social and economic, you are … Continue reading “The modern day view on society and culture.”

• Chapter I – Adolescence

  THE PROBLEM AND LITERATURE REVIEW Adolescence is a period of development that involves social transition that helps in shaping a new and more complex social environment. The rise of peer … Continue reading “Chapter I – Adolescence”

• Information seeking behaviour models

  According to Wilson (2000), information behavior is the totality of human behavior in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and passive information seeking, and information use … Continue reading “Information seeking behaviour models”

• Cultural differences in emotion recognition and expression

  Some societal factors could influence our ability to process faces, and facial recognition could in turn predict social intelligence. In 2010, Johnston et al conducted an experiment in which they … Continue reading “Cultural differences in emotion recognition and expression”

• Impact of Bullying on Today’s Youth

  Merely a week into the 2017 school year, Abel Cedeno, a twelfth-grade student from the Bronx, New York, fatally stabbed a classmate and caused serious injury to another in school. … Continue reading “Impact of Bullying on Today’s Youth”

• C-IQ Assessment

  A C-IQ Assessment measures a person’s criminal intelligence by looking at behavior such as predatory skills, ability to compartmentalize, narcissistic immunity, and an ability to pose as what they are … Continue reading “C-IQ Assessment”

• Psychological Studies That Give Insight into the Human Mind

  Study #1- The Milgrim Experiment What Sparked the Study? This experiment was initiated by Stanley Milgrim, a psychologist at Yale University. His goal was to focus on the conflict between … Continue reading “Psychological Studies That Give Insight into the Human Mind”

• Hyper-masculinity

  Hyper-masculinity is an extreme form of masculine gender ideology and is comprised of a cluster of beliefs that includes toughness, violence, dangerousness, and calloused attitudes towards women and sex (Zaitchik … Continue reading “Hyper-masculinity”

• LOCUS OF CONTROL 2

  Introduction Locus of control describes how a person views the world and their place in it. There are considered to be two types of locus of control. Internal – when … Continue reading “LOCUS OF CONTROL 2”

• COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSORS

  INTRODUCTION A child walks up to the field with her ball at her feet, water bottle in her hand, cleats on and her shin guards strapped to the outside of … Continue reading “COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSORS”

• Influences of daily weather on mood

    ‘I feel depressed because it is raining again’ or ‘I feel so happy because the sun is shining’. Does this sound familiar? Both are expressions, which indicate that people … Continue reading “Influences of daily weather on mood”

• Social Policy and Psychology: Points of collusion

  It takes little to realize that every social issue has a psychological dimension rooted to it. Social issues are controversial because they are associated with policies that regulate or influence … Continue reading “Social Policy and Psychology: Points of collusion”

• Cognitive Therapy

  Cognitive behaves as a system of psychotherapy, emerged in the 60’s, XX century. Aaron Beck, driven by theoretical concerns, and lending of academic psychology the scientific methodology, empirical studies conducted … Continue reading “Cognitive Therapy”

• GUIDANCE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS WITH BEHAVIORAL

    “The more I think about child development usually imagine a locomotive crossing uncharted territory and may at any time, derailed and go to tread new paths, many of them … Continue reading “GUIDANCE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS WITH BEHAVIORAL”

• Manipulation

  People have expectation to fulfill needs according to their wish but some people use dishonest methods to met needs and wishes. They are called Manipulators. Manipulation is like a hidden … Continue reading “Manipulation”

• New Aged Music and Memory Retention

  REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter presents previous studies on New Aged Music and Memory Retention. This review of related literature will provide a support on whether Steven Halpern on … Continue reading “New Aged Music and Memory Retention”

• Homosexual depressed adolescent boys – suicide

  Introduction The research proposal that I’m doing is homosexual depressed adolescent boys are more likely than homosexual depressed adolescent girls to commit suicide. Why is that? I believe going as … Continue reading “Homosexual depressed adolescent boys – suicide”

• ENHANCING INSTRUCTIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH GENERALIZATION AND INSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK

  A SINGLE-SUBJECT STUDY WITH CHILDREN WITH MENTAL RETARDATION Abstract The purpose of this study was to analyze (a) the acquisition and maintenance effects of the simultaneous prompting (SP) procedure on … Continue reading “ENHANCING INSTRUCTIONAL EFFICIENCY THROUGH GENERALIZATION AND INSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK”

• DISCUSSION ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR

  INTRODUCTION The function of the school as an institution forming and educating children according to the will of the people and mould the country’s vision is a task which is … Continue reading “DISCUSSION ON AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOUR”

• Zodiac Signs and Personality Characteristics

  Introduction The sky is the most mysterious part of our everyday experience. Familiarity may make the amazing events going on at ground level seem almost ordinary. Plants and animals grow … Continue reading “Zodiac Signs and Personality Characteristics”

• Freud’€™s theory – Psychoanalysis

  Psychoanalysis developed out of Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) beliefs as described in Myers (2014) that the mind is made up of the “ego”, “super ego”, and the “id”, and that these make … Continue reading “Freud’€™s theory – Psychoanalysis”

• Child development theories

  Theories of development are important as they help us to understand children’s behaviour and ways of learning. Below are some people who changed the way of teachers thinking and approaches … Continue reading “Child development theories”

• Development of psychology

  In this piece I will explain the development of psychology since the 19th century and the main schools of thought that have contributed to it. The science of psychology was … Continue reading “Development of psychology”

• Lifespan development

  The aim of this essay is to discuss and describe the five stages of lifespan development and included in this essay will be two psychological theories to support this which … Continue reading “Lifespan development”

• Mental wellness in adolescents

  During the adolescent years it is a time of growing in self-image, self-esteem, and risk taking. Development of self-awareness is important during the adolescent years this is when friendships develop, … Continue reading “Mental wellness in adolescents”

• Ethical Decision Making Process

  What is Ethics? Ethics incorporates the study of principles of good conduct and systems of moral values. It is known as standards of right and wrong that details what humans … Continue reading “Ethical Decision Making Process”

• What is the Meaning of Emotional Illiteracy?

  Emotional illiteracy is the inability of a person to recognize, understand, and respond to emotions in ourselves and others. Verbal Literacy is important for learning to read and write. In … Continue reading “What is the Meaning of Emotional Illiteracy?”

• What is Apathy?

  Doctors believe that apathy – is a reflex to protect the body from “burnout”, when the nervous system, and the emotional sphere are overloaded and cease to deal with a … Continue reading “What is Apathy?”

• Investigating the relationship between intertemporal decision-making and emotion regulation.

  Abstract. What role emotions and, similarly, emotion regulation play in intertemporal decision-making remains an unanswered question in the field of Neuroeconomics. The current study aimed to address this gap in … Continue reading “Investigating the relationship between intertemporal decision-making and emotion regulation.”

• Childrens’ predictions about future desires

  Abstract Children’s predictions about future desires parent are normative in the parent and adult child relationship, but there is little research on the topics that cause the most tension or … Continue reading “Childrens’ predictions about future desires”

• Pyschological distress in doctors

  In Malaysia, the Medical Act 1971 defines ‘Internship’ or ‘Housemanship’ as a period of structured supervised practical training for 2 years, in any Public health care institution, upon completing 5/6 … Continue reading “Pyschological distress in doctors”

• Essay: The relationship of differential treatment to children’s social and emotional development

  Chapter I Introduction Parents act differently with different children, being more positive with one child and more negative with another (Rauer & Brendal, 2007). These behavior have negatively affects not … Continue reading “Essay: The relationship of differential treatment to children’s social and emotional development”

• Essay: Co-variation among diverse behaviors can be adequately modeled by a single higher order factor.

  Explain the topic of the study. In other words explain what theory or idea the researchers were investigating. Include past research and theory if applicable In this article, the researchers … Continue reading “Essay: Co-variation among diverse behaviors can be adequately modeled by a single higher order factor.”

• Essay: Problem solving, pragmatics and play

  Problem solving is an essential tool at every stage of life. It is used in a variety of situations, from meditating a conflict over a toy to fixing a copier … Continue reading “Essay: Problem solving, pragmatics and play”

• Essay: Types of Perfectionism in Different Perspectives

  Definitions of perfectionism have many different descriptions depends on perspectives and viewpoints. (Flett&Hewitt, 2002) However, it mostly refers to a tendency to regard anything short of perfection as unacceptable (Merriam … Continue reading “Essay: Types of Perfectionism in Different Perspectives”

• Essay: Goffman

  Goffman (1999) has typically been renowned for exposing how we as social actors engineer our impressions, and the tools with which we do this through his famous dramaturgical analysis. However, … Continue reading “Essay: Goffman”

• Essay: Psychopathy

  Psychopathy is a disorder which frequently results in anti-social and violent behaviour due to the fact that they cannot feel guilt, remorse or empathy. Psychopaths make up around 1% of … Continue reading “Essay: Psychopathy”

• Essay: Pascal’s Wager

  Pascal’s Wager, written by Blaise Pascal, in essence states that it is prudent to believe in God’s existence because it is the best bet. Even if one assumes, that God’s … Continue reading “Essay: Pascal’s Wager”

• Essay: Opportunism

  In relation to opportunism, there are two main schools of thoughts, namely Transaction Cost Analysis theory (TCA) (Williamson, 1985: 47) and Social Exchange Theory (SET). TCA aims at the conceptualization … Continue reading “Essay: Opportunism”

• Essay: Memory

  Memory plays an important role in cognition. The knowledge that we have is based on memory. From the stimuli we see to the things we hear affects our memory (Radvansky … Continue reading “Essay: Memory”

• Essay: Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)

  Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is based on the theory that by changing by habitual and behaviors, one can be able to control and improve the symptoms of the condition. Cognitive-behavior therapy … Continue reading “Essay: Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT)”

• Essay: Grief models and theories

  The passing of a loved one is a universal experience and every person will experience loss or heartache, at some point in their life. Some people obviously appear upset, some … Continue reading “Essay: Grief models and theories”

• Essay: Controversy of Videogames and Attention

  Attention is a cognitive behavioral process in which people concentrate on a discrete aspect of sensory input selectively and ignore other perceivable information that is subjectively or objectively regarded as … Continue reading “Essay: Controversy of Videogames and Attention”

• Essay: COGNITIVE ELEMENTS

  “Change your thoughts and you will change your world.” These words are true and meaningful because after changing my thoughts about eating fast food for lunch I was able to … Continue reading “Essay: COGNITIVE ELEMENTS”

• Essay: Confidence and its role in the competence/arrogance taxonomy of decision-making and cognitive performance

  Background literature Decision-making is a crucial process in which one’s choices impact their quality of life. An important factor in making decisions is confidence, the subjective experience of being correct, … Continue reading “Essay: Confidence and its role in the competence/arrogance taxonomy of decision-making and cognitive performance”

• Essay: The correlation between video games and behavioral changes

  There is a correlation between video games and movies and behavioral changes, especially in young adults and teenagers. Interestingly, the majority of the young adults spend the largest proportion of … Continue reading “Essay: The correlation between video games and behavioral changes”

• Essay: Criminal psychology

  Have you ever wondered what causes Serial Killers and Psychopaths to do what they do? Here you may find reasons to explain the actions of these individuals as well as … Continue reading “Essay: Criminal psychology”

• Essay: The pros and cons of Person-Centred Therapy

  In this essay I will be discussing the pros and cons of Person-Centred Therapy as an exclusive method of therapy for clients. I will also give asn understanding of exacntly … Continue reading “Essay: The pros and cons of Person-Centred Therapy”

• Essay: Memory & Memory Improvement

  “Distributed vs. Massed Practice: which produces better learning” As the years progressed, cognitive neuroscientist performed miscellaneous trials bolstering valid principles on the effectiveness of distributed practice. “Spacing effects have been … Continue reading “Essay: Memory & Memory Improvement”

• Essay: Irony and sarcasm

  Ironic and sarcastic comments are used to decrease the perceived threat and to create an atmosphere filled with humor when we criticize someone or something. Thus, sarcasm and irony are … Continue reading “Essay: Irony and sarcasm”

• Essay: Gender roles and child development

  According to Webster’s Dictionary, ‘The gender binary is the classification of sex and gender into two distinct, opposite and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine.’ In western society, Gender is … Continue reading “Essay: Gender roles and child development”

• Essay: Music and spatial task performance

  In the October 14, 1993 issue of Nature magazine, UC Irvine researchers Frances Rauscher, Gordon Shaw, and Katherine Ky published a short, one-page article entitled ‘Music and spatial task performance,’ … Continue reading “Essay: Music and spatial task performance”

• Essay: Reasoning and perception

  Reasoning is done deliberately and effortful, but intuitive thoughts seem to come spontaneously to mind, without conscious search or computation, and without effort. People are not accustomed to thinking hard, … Continue reading “Essay: Reasoning and perception”

• Essay: Positive psychology

  Positive psychology is defined as the study of the circumstances and processes that add to the thriving or ideal functioning of individuals, groups, and organisations (Gable & Haidt, 2005). The … Continue reading “Essay: Positive psychology”

• Essay: Cognitive dissonance

  Cognitive dissonance is the mental anxiety or uneasiness experienced by a person who holds two or more conflicting convictions, thoughts, or values simultaneously, or is defied by new information that … Continue reading “Essay: Cognitive dissonance”

• Essay: Politeness

  Adopting the ‘cooperative principles’ formulated by Grice (1975), Leech (1983) posits that politeness concerns a relationship between two interactants called ‘self’ and ‘other’. In common conversation, ‘self’ will usually be … Continue reading “Essay: Politeness”

• Essay: Seneca’s conceptualisation and valuation of regret

  This thesis explores Seneca’s conceptualisation and valuation of the emotion we call ‘regret.’ Regret, as R. Jay Wallace points out in a recent wide-ranging philosophical analysis of the emotion, seems … Continue reading “Essay: Seneca’s conceptualisation and valuation of regret”

• Essay: Effects of media violence

  As a counselor, one must become familiar with the science of Statistics as a method for communicating information obtained from a study. Statistics involves the process of collecting, organizing, analyzing, … Continue reading “Essay: Effects of media violence”

• Essay: The link between violent media exposure and violence

  Violence is very involute and is caused by many factors, customarily acting together. Belligerent media exposure is not the only risk factor for violence, or even the most consequential factor, … Continue reading “Essay: The link between violent media exposure and violence”

• Essay: Apathy

  To measure the Apathy domain, four scales were created: Anxiety, Guilt, Intentionality, and Care. These scales were based on the concepts of Rollo May’s Theory of Personality. According to May … Continue reading “Essay: Apathy”

• Essay: The Amygdala

  Have you ever thought what happens when you make decisions? You might react emotionally, but the critical part of the brain that provides the necessary reaction is the Amygdala .The … Continue reading “Essay: The Amygdala”

• Essay: Bowlby’s attachment theory and Paiget’s cognitive theory

  Theories help us to comprehend situations, give us ideas about what is going on and why things are happening that way (Maclean and Harrison 2008). In this essay, I have … Continue reading “Essay: Bowlby’s attachment theory and Paiget’s cognitive theory”

• Essay: Cognitive development – Piaget, Vygotsky, and Information processing

  There are many theories that involve cognitive development. Although these theories are on the same subject, they vary depending on different factors. By carefully studying the textbook and watching the … Continue reading “Essay: Cognitive development – Piaget, Vygotsky, and Information processing”

• Essay: Contemporary research of emotion

  Nowadays researchers try to look deep in the brain structure to indicate how, where and what triggers emotional response. They found two main brain structures responsible for emotions, different types … Continue reading “Essay: Contemporary research of emotion”

• Essay: Moser et al on interpretation bias in high and low socially anxious individuals

  Moser et al (2008) conducted a study, investigating interpretation bias in high and low socially anxious individuals. Participants were assessed for their behavioral responses and brain activity (using Electroencephalogram) to … Continue reading “Essay: Moser et al on interpretation bias in high and low socially anxious individuals”

• Essay: Transactional Analysis

  Task 1 Communication and administration are nearly related. Pioneers who are acknowledged to be great ace the craft of communication. By definition a pioneer is one who has an emulating. … Continue reading “Essay: Transactional Analysis”

• Essay: Transaction analysis, ego state and strokes

  (i) TRANSACTION ANALYSIS Transaction analysis is a theory for analyzing human behavior and communication. It seeks to explain or find out how we (human beings) developed into who we become … Continue reading “Essay: Transaction analysis, ego state and strokes”

• Essay: Sensory perception – accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information

  The sensory information in my opinion, can provide an accurate view of the world. It is because people’s lives revolve around senses and thought. There are five senses in living … Continue reading “Essay: Sensory perception – accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information”

• Essay: Personality Theory and Assessment

  Personality is a set of behavior, cognitive, and emotional patterns than makes an individual different from others. Psychologists have proposed many theories to explain the different characteristics of personalities and … Continue reading “Essay: Personality Theory and Assessment”

• Essay: Erick Erickson’s eight stages of development

  Abstract: This paper will discuss the eight stages of development. these eight stages include trust vs untrust, autonomy versus shame and doubt, initiative versus guilt, industry versus inferiority, identity versus … Continue reading “Essay: Erick Erickson’s eight stages of development”

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