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Behaviors That Build Trust and Behaviors That Hurt Trust

To build trust and introduce good relations on an appropriate level, it is very important to understand that any relationship has two types of trust accounts: "the way you perceive the amount of trust in [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 576

Boosting a person’s Esteem

Esteem is a creation of the mind and thus if I can deal with negative pictures and attitude about my own life, then I can raise my self esteem.
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 663

Factors Related to Hypnotisability

The scope of the research is to measure people's levels of hypnotizability and whether it relates to empathy, absorption and imagery.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1637

Americans’ Workaholism as the Pursuit of “Happyness”

Today the statistics that characterize Americans' intensity of work and proportion between work and leisure have made researchers to talk about the phenomenon of "workaholism"; the title of this notion is so similar to those [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior Management
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 984

Cognitive or Moral Development

This is the second of the four Piagetian stages of development and the children begin to make use of words, pictures and diagrams to represent their sentiments.
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2561

William James’ Lectures

In 1901 and 1902, James did a series of lectures under the auspices of the Gifford Lecture Series at the University of Edinburgh on Natural Theology the knowledge of God.
  • Subjects: Psychologists
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 691

Full Moon Effect on Human Behavior

From another perspective the full moon and the increase in violence are just a coincidence such that the moon happens to be present when people behave strangely but that's not its intended purpose because the [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 619

Moral Intelligence Development

In the course of his day-to-day banking activities, I realized that the general manager used to work in line with the banking rules and regulations to the letter.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2223

The Fears Within: What Do You See in the Mirror?

Without thinking much of what she should take with her, or where the trip would take her, Cassie had bought the tickets and soon was flying away to the islands where the world would be [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2395

Discounting the Myth of the First Three Years

First coined by Bruer, the myth of the first three years presupposes that "...the first three years of life determine, in an all-or-none, once-in-a-lifetime manner, the success of a child's development across the lifespan".
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1943

Catatonic Depression: Etiology and Management

The major cause of catatonic depression is negativity of a person or in the way he or she perceives different aspects of life. However most disorders share most of the symptoms and characteristics and it [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1341

Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Also referred to as Manic Depression or Bipolar Affective Disorder, Bipolar disorder is categorized as one of the serious mood disorders.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 851

Defining Disabilities in Modern World

Defining disability has not been easy due to the various opinions related to the understanding of the concept. Disability has significant impact on the society due to the relationships that exists between the individual and [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 903

Psychology of Behavior: Anxiety Disorders

The subjects should be informed of their liberty to participate in the study. In view of the above, negative reinforcement occurred.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1143

Child Abuse and Neglect Children in Court

The objective of this paper was to determine the level of knowledge and nature of attitudes among maltreated children who appeared in court during their detention case hearings.
  • Subjects: Psychology of Abuse
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 801

Post Incarceration Syndrome

It is noteworthy that coping skills prior to the imprisonment of the inmate is also a factor that determines the severity of the syndrome in an inmate.
  • Subjects: Psychology of Abuse
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 442

Sleep Process Research

There are said to have five sleep stages, which are divided in to two: the rapid eye movement and the non rapid eye movement during which the dreams occur.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 869

Speak Softly, You May Be Heard: The Art of Leadership

A wealth of psychological literature have concentrated on not only the personality correlates of leadership, called the trait approach to leadership, but also on the leader's functions and styles in the light of task demands [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 740

Suffering Is Optional: Tragedy Perception

As if that was not irresponsible enough, she at some point surprised her family and friends when she cut herself on the wrist, making us wonder about how much she had gotten used to the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 961

Parapsychology – Science or Pseudoscience?

Proponents of the study of paranormal beliefs suggest a janusian peculiarities associated with specific beliefs that are useful in understanding the pathology of belief and their clarification of some of the cognitive bases of human [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 871

Motivation: Selfish Interests

Despite the fact that the theory set up by psychologists explaining the motivation to doing good makes some sense, there are a number of cases that are not in conformance with the stipulations of the [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 570

The Problem of Pedophilia in Modern Society

Cantor insists that the studies carried out are not meant to act as a scapegoat for pedophilia but it is meant to enhance the process of treating and even curing pedophilia.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1504

Mary Calkins Accomplishments for Psychology

Not only is she respected for being able to attain the position of presidency in the American Psychological Association but the fact that she was committed to her work and was able to overcome the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychologists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 924

How Stress Affects Your Physical Health?

Among other effects, stress can increase the rate of heart beat, paralyze the immune system, the risk of heart attack and stroke, affect a person's fertility, and raise the general levels of fatigue and aging [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1154

William Sheldon

Based on the research he conducted, he also believed that the stated personality traits were directly related to the body types of humans that he gave the names Endomorphy, Mesomorphy and Ectomorphy.
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  • Subjects: Psychologists
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 826

Informal Logic-Fallacies Definition

Syntactic ambiguity is the second type of ambiguity and is normally identified by the presence of ambiguous grammar usage or the general structure of the statement. Hence, the ambiguity of this sentence is in the [...]
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 738

Psychological Disorders: Bulimia Nervosa vs. Anorexia Nervosa

Although people with the condition are able to recover if the disorder is properly managed, Eysenck states that the near starvation state that most anorexics live with during the period of the disorder can be [...]
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  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1328

Introduction to System Thinking

Parsons Theory is known to stress the importance of the relationship between individual behavior in a social setting, and their ability to cope to their environment.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 542

Concept of Observational Learning

In comparison with observational learning, the Bobo doll experiment denotes that the introduction of new events and activities are imperative to set a foundation in the process of learning. The act of kicking the doll [...]
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 977

Experimental and Correlational Psychological Studies

Correlational studies is a statistical method used in psychological research to determine the relationship between a given variables of a study but cannot show cause-effect relationship.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 528

Motivation Evaluation: Martin Luther King Jr.

This enables us to understand the humanistic and diversity views of motivation in King. A diversity view of motivation points out the fact that King was a realist and pragmatic in his approaches.
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 760

Preschool Boys Are More Aggressive Than Their Female Peers

To collect the necessary data, the behavior of children playing in the park will be observed. Thus, it is possible to focus on the reasons for the development of aggressive behavior in children.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2220

How Christopher’s Autism Affect His Life

In spite of the fact that the issue of autism is not clearly explained in the story, the condition of the narrator is referred to as high-functioning autism or Aspersers Syndrome on the cover of [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 984

The Effects of PTSD on Families of Veterans

Drug abuse may result from the inadequacies in the coping abilities of family members as they try to come into terms with the suffering of their fellow family member.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1169

The Discipline of Organizational Psychology: Tools and Techniques

According to Jex and Britt, organizational psychology is a branch of psychology that employs scientific techniques to study individual and group behavior within organizational set up. Organizational Behavior Organization psychology is closely related to the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1419

Evaluating Job Performance of ABC Inc

The following are some of the issues that Bill ought to consider when evaluating the performance of an employee: One of the evaluation criteria in performance evaluation is task proficiency.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 763

Adolescent’s Drug Abuse and Therapy Success

When one accepts to put up with negative peer pressure, they end up giving up the personal trusts and values thus the pressure becomes a form of a negative force."Does peer pressure affect the decision [...]
  • Subjects: Psychology of Abuse
  • Pages: 8
  • Words: 2270

Depression: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

This research paper seeks to explore depression from a cross-cultural perspective with key focus on the conceptions of depression, its epidemiological aspects, different manifestations of depression, the evaluation of depression as a disorder, and the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1437

The Psychology Bipolar Disorders

The victims of the disorder most of the time get frustrated when people fail to appreciate their condition and provide them with help when necessary.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1089

Introduction to the Environmental Psychology

The nature of the learning process under this theory is explained as being a dynamic interaction between the task, the instructor and the learner. It is quite important that more research be done in the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1097

Procedure of Collecting Data in a Case Study

The structure of the research takes an extensive data collection procedure in the form of a problem, an issue, lesson or, context. In the last scenario, the correlation research is used due to the variables [...]
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 584

Depression Levels and Development

Hypothesis If the human depression state is as a result of the mind set and individuals can determine their state then an alteration of the mind frame can be established.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1246

Memory: Understanding Consciousness

The essay seeks to discuss memory in terms of the processes occurring in the brain as far as memory is concerned.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1107

Research Techniques as Solutions to Problems

If research can assist sections of health care provision appropriately and valuable outcomes attained then research in wellbeing provision must be promoted. The authors utilized illustrations in the article that demonstrated the unsuitability of research.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 801

Fundamentals of Research Methodology

This paper seeks to discuss the science of psychology which is one of the social sciences, explain the scientific method of research, differentiate between qualitative and quantitative data, and to describe the process of constructing [...]
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1422

The Consequences of Using Corporal Punishment

Corporal punishment as a kind of physical punishment cannot be discussed as the effective method to provide the discipline, but only as the violation of the children's rights which can lead to the unpredictable consequences [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior Management
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 838

Moral Development and Its Relation to Psychology

These stages reveal the individual's moral orientation expanding his/her experiences and perceptions of the world with regard to the cognitive development of a person admitting this expansion. The views of Piaget and Kohlberg differ in [...]
  • Subjects: Developmental Theories
  • Pages: 9
  • Words: 2458

Early Childhood Observation

This is why Jenny does not pay attention to the volume of water, compare the forms of the glasses, or concentrate on the level of water; all she does is make conclusion visually.
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1586

The Concept of Emotional Intelligence

We have learned what emotional intelligence is; it is the way that we deal with our emotions and relate to others.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 724

Gambling in Ohio

The purpose of this project is to investigate the history of gambling in Ohio, its development in the 1990s, and its impact on ordinary human lives in order to underline the significance of this process [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 816

The Principles of Operant Conditioning

To conduct the observation and examine the relations between parents and children according to the principles of operant conditioning, one of the McDonald's restaurants was chosen.
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  • Subjects: Major Schools of Thought
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 822

The Psychology of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

On the other hand, one is to keep in mind that the main purpose of the kind of communication is to aid in the formulation of thoughts or ideas, which are expressed through speech.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 1977

Running head: Behaviour analysis from an Interview

In order to ensure confidentiality to the source of the information, I chose to refer to the respondent as Jones. His gang hatched a plot to rob from the federal banks as a way of [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1765

Self Efficacy, Stress & Coping, and Headspace Program

This is, perhaps, because I have to juggle between the chores and my challenging studies, thus making me strain in balancing the activities within the time limited. This compels me to adhere to the schedule [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 658

Diagnosis of the Patient

The diagnosis of the patient in the case scenario is done based on the five different dimensions of the DSM-IV-TR. The justification for diagnosing the patient as having this syndrome is based on the fact [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1430

Personality Tests in the Field of Psychology

In addition to that, the test's questions touch on various aspects of a person's life thus analyzing their personality from different angles.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 569

Statistics as Evidence: Scaring Us Senseless

It is also worth noting that the human race, in an event of terrorism, the emotional facet of the brain is evoked and this in turn, impairs the thinking process due to emotional overtones.
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 539

Mental Health and American Society

Mental health refers to the ability of the brain to perform cognitive activities and to forge and maintain relationships with other members of the society.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 540

Educational Program on Child Abuse

The report "Initial reliability and validity of a new retrospective measure of child abuse and neglect" by Bernstein, Fink and Handelsman provides the findings of the consistency and validity of some of the conservative measures [...]
  • Subjects: Psychology of Abuse
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 627

Concept of Depression Disorder

Ethnographic approach seeks an in-depth understanding of a particular culture and uses it to examine the conceptions of that particular culture in relation to similar ones in other defined environments.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 556

The Benefits of Grief Support Groups

The essay critically examines the benefits associated with grief support groups and issues relating to interventions that may be helpful to the group.
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 598

Body Dysmorphic Disorder Etiology and Management

She confessed to have thought of committing suicide following her husband death in 1987 and after she realized that she suffered from bulimia nervosa. She is delusional; in her history, she has features of paranoid [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1367

Emotional behavior problems

In the event of a divorce or a separation, a parent should be allowed to pay visits to the child over the course of the week.
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 559

Media Violence and Altruism

Consistent presence of children in violent media avenues is a major factor that results to increased aggression even as they grow up. In this case, there is a close link of social aggressive behavior with [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 654

Shared Intentionality: Early Cognitive Development

The authors attempt to answer the question on whether shared intentionality is important to the cognitive development of children. Another answer to the significance of shared intentionality in children would focus on the fact that [...]
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 326

Psychological Impacts of Sexual Abuse on Ryan

With regards to the case at hand, Ryan is likely to suffer psychologically as a result of trauma and depression. Through family support, Ryan will therefore find it easier to accept and cope with the [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 591

Power of Group Influence

Coincidentally, the two were the only members of Hispanics origin in our group and were the only people who were late that day.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 610

Self-Regulation, Depletion, and Motivation

The proponents of this study wanted to add another factor to the self-regulation process and they asserted that motivation plays a vital role in helping the individual self-regulate.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1112

Sex Roles: Dating vs. Hooking Up

Dating is no exception, but the benefits and costs associated with dating and hooking up for women and men are poorly understood.
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 671

Contributions in Psychological Clinical Counseling

Owing to the fact that some of his ideas are beingconsidered in the current application of clinical counseling, Alfred can be considered as a significant contributor to the field of clinical counseling.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1385

Mate Selection: Sex Disparity Between Both Genders

Currently, men have started to concentrate on the resource availability in selection of mates because of the increasing need for a mate who will share their financial responsibilities.
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  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 1206

Video Games and Violence in Children

There have been arguments that such behavior is as a result of a pre-disposition to violence in the media as well as in video games.
  • Subjects: Child Psychology
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 583

The Divorce Effects on Children

After divorce the parents reside in different houses and have to settle with the other about the custody of children. The recovery from divorce of the children is depended on the pace of the parent [...]
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  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1347

Effects of divorce on young children

The effect of divorce on children depends on the age of the children at the time when the divorce is taking place, the gender of the child, and the characters of a child.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1799

History and Concept of the Psychoneuroimmunology

This is to say that, it is self dogmatic and occupation split and autonomous for the rest of the body. The theory by Dr Robert Ader gives the scientific field of study and the meaning [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Prescribing of Medication by Psychologists: For and Against

Robiner is of the opinion that the military psychologists were exposed to a specific group of patients and conditions. The knowledge and training discrepancy that exists between psychologists and psychiatrists is a matter of concern.
  • Subjects: Psychological Principles
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1370

Is Psychological Debriefing Harmful to Trauma Survivors?

Grant Devilly and Peter Cotton share the view that PD is harmful in the recovery process of trauma survivors. It is important to note that the use of PD has only persisted since no other [...]
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 6
  • Words: 1538

Behaviour across the Lifespan

The psychosocial crisis here is between the trust and mistrust that depends on the perceived quality of the maternal care by the infant. The psychosocial crisis is industry versus inferiority that occurs in the context [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1365

Troubled Adolescent due to Bullying

His lowered self-esteem would make him to observe the common behaviours of the older boys quietly and accept the situation as a cultural practice.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1515

Sexual Development and Orientation Paper

The testes and ovaries are the sex organs that are responsible for the productions of hormones that determine the secondary sexual characteristics in adolescence.
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1103

Subliminal perception and persuasion

Subliminal persuasion is more psychological and is focused on reasons why the use of subliminal messages work, unlike subliminal perception that is physical.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 561

Types of Learning Theories and Models

With regard to the case studying the problems of memorizing and rejecting the experience, it is purposeful to study Freud's regression theory of human behavior and Skinner's theory of behavior science, particularly the study of [...]
  • Subjects: Development
  • Pages: 5
  • Words: 1379

The Effects of the Media on Creativity and Self-Esteem

The controversy surrounding British sprinter Linford Christie and the British tabloid press in the mid nineties illustrates a crucial and heart breaking example of the media's might in the area of self esteem.
  • Subjects: Cognition and Perception
  • Pages: 4
  • Words: 1146

Borderline Personality Disorder

Better still, if a person is identified as being in the process of developing BPD, he/she should be advised accordingly and facilitated to avoid developing the disorder.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 836

Organizational Motivation and Leadership in the Workplace

Furthermore, the paper analyzes the role of organizational leadership in the identified situation in the organization as well as evaluates the role of power and influence in the selected situation.
  • Subjects: Psychological Issues
  • Pages: 3
  • Words: 933

Music Therapy: Where Words Cease

In spite of the fact that, as a rule, one indulges into art to find the shelter from the reality, the author of the book called The Soloist explores quite a different issue of the [...]
  • Subjects: Applications of Psychology
  • Pages: 7
  • Words: 2143

The Relevance of Evolutionary Psychology

Typical to right wing authoritarianism are the following three aspects: Authoritarian submission which defines a fanatical submission to legitimately installed authorities within the society. Accordingly, the optimism concerning authoritarian as posed by Altemeyer as a [...]
  • Subjects: Behavior
  • Pages: 2
  • Words: 571