Psychology Essay Examples and Topics. Page 39

I was the only family he had and he had to move in with me in my apartment. Ken had nothing and he was willing to try anything to put his life back together.

For one to articulately understand the concepts of working-memory, short-term-memory, and long-term-memory in present days, he or she has to streamline the three memory types to specifics of what constitutes or makes a difference or [...]

Finally, epiphany in sports can either change the lifestyle of a sports person or motivate an individual to win or take up sports as a career or profession.

There is a need to increase the number of transitional, supportive, and affordable ex-offender housing opportunities in Montgomery County for high-risk groups as well as for families and children.

I would say that if he were medicated and able to assist in his own defense, Wilson should be competent to stand trial.

Denial is the first stage and is the period during when the victims is described to be in complete denial of the problems affecting her; because Winkler had lived with her late husband for more [...]

The concept of self as applied to a person begins early in his/her life as the society socializes with the person because of gender segregation initiated by children themselves and the parents or rather the [...]

She is invited to ride with a race car driver and as a passenger she was taught the use of a seatbelt and instructed to sit back and enjoy the ride.

As much as there exists a positive relationship between extraversion and 'need for performance, it is important to note that this relationship is not as strong as the relationship between introversion and need for achievement.

The field of sleep and sleep disorders has been an integral part of psychological investigations: a number of scientists find it necessary to contribute sleep education and offer the ideas which help people improve their [...]

Modern personality theories diverge in their suppositions about the constitution and etiology of the interplay between nature and nurture characteristics on the one hand and the effect such characteristics have on personality development on the [...]

The author presents the story as a sequence of events that really existed, however, in this paper we will provide the argument that the reliability of the narrator can be argued and that ghost was [...]

She is the oldest among the four and is portrayed as the most confident about her sexual life. Infidelity is the order of the day in the show.

Anti-propaganda of sexual relations, however, did not contribute positively to the discovery of some questions about human behavior patterns and about the main principles of biological and psychological organization of people.

Grieving is the process of accepting and acknowledging the reality of death and the loss that has occurred due to death of a loved one in the society.

This article focuses on the causes of temper tantrums in children and shows the biological and medical links associated with temper tantrums.

Having gone through all six stages, I managed to understand the causes of my negative thinking and overcome this destructive habit.

Adler's theory differed with the Freudian theory in that when Freud stressed on pleasure and sexuality, Adler emphasized the complexity of individual motivation.

The importance of the research lies in the fact that it helps in deeper understanding of the overall brain activity and functional connectivity of the midbrain.

In Sawyer's mind the incubation stage represents "the least understood stage in the creative process". Stage Three of the creative process according to Sawyer is Insight.

In the book "psychology", fifth edition, Hockenbury & Hockenbury, observe that one has to understand the theory upon which the description of an individual's personality is based in order to understand and make sense of [...]

Human instincts are the innate characteristics that determine specific behaviors while instincts are innate abilities of human beings or animals, which enable them to adapt to diverse and changing environmental conditions for survival purposes.

The study concluded that the social economic status and family violence in the presence of community violence led to problematic childhood behaviors.

The ability of the eyes to sense colors and the mental capacity to perceive certain colors depends on the brightness of the colors on objects.

The term consciousness is defined as the state of mind in which one is aware of what he/she is doing. This is because of the use of subjective methods in the study of the structures [...]

Regardless of the size of an entity or the nature of activity which a group of individuals are involved in, teamwork is one of the primary determinant s of a group's level of success.

There are three major theories of motivation that explain the forms that motivation can take and the sources of different types of motivation.

The infantile sexual stage of a child is marked by tender curiosity and inquisitiveness about the uniqueness of their bodily physique, the wonder of noticing the sexual difference between males and females in the social [...]

During the conversations the counselor should look at the client in the eyes because this will build a sense of trust in the client.

The latter are characterized by a certain level of immunity and subjectivity in as far as the issue of measurements is concerned and as such, they are less likely to result in an objective science.

The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of sensory adaptation in human beings through a series of experiments.

This paper seeks to identify the negative aspects of positive psychology, explore the value of developing the same and suggest ways in which the principles of positive psychology can be applied by an individual to [...]

Only when people learn to challenge their intelligence and think critically, will they avoid many of the fatal mistakes they make, and in return save much time and resources.

The goal of the reader requires that the reader will get the relevant information from the document and finally the context is in relation to the situation that reader expects the document to address.

Moore's book is to a larger extent similar to the other pre-readings in that all of them are dealing with an aspect of spirituality and the mind.

The distance learners have been perceived to be enjoying a suitable environment of learning as opposed to the traditional classroom learners who experience high levels of stress.

Generally the results indicate that children with ADHD had a difficult time in evaluating time concepts and they seemed to be impaired in orientation of time.

On the other hand if it is for clinical purpose, it should be explained at the initial step to the client so that it can form the basis of understanding for both the subject and [...]

However, even though he was writing about his mood disorder which he described as maniac depression, it is clear that there are some differences between his description of the disorder and the DSM-IV-TR description of [...]

Sternberg, agreed with Gardner's theory but he claimed that the types of intelligence included; analytical intelligence, creative intelligence and practical intelligence.

Therefore, it is imperative for a psychotherapist to assess and evaluate different stages of psychological process in order to administer a customized psychotherapy to the patients. At this stage, individuals are working tirelessly to consolidate [...]

Due to the extreme differences in culture that people often encounter, it becomes quite hard to adjust to new culture and they are mentally affected hence experiencing stress because of alien traditions.

It is clear then, that feminists are found to be of negative stereotypes from the start. The stereotypes in this group are a complete revelation of both positive and negative image.

The effects of marijuana depend on the length of usage as well as the amount of THC in the drug type.

In order to determine if a person is emotionally and mentally happy, it is required to first ascertain if the person is able to mentally deal with circumstances and situations that confront him in life.

Facts presented by each side of the critical issue The yes side of the critical issue makes it clear that the drugs being used to control ADHD are harmful as they affect the normal growth [...]

It is imperative for this person to control the humanistic factors that influence the formation of these habits. It has been discussed that behavioral theory is pretty crucial in the formation of a habit.

Elizabeth leaves Italy a happy woman for fulfilling her achievements in pleasure and goes to India where she practices prayer and meditation in order to satisfy her spiritual needs as one of the psychological needs [...]

Everyone is however in agreement that the violent video games are in compromise of morals and expose the young kids to in appropriate content.

Usually the child is unaware of the abuse due to the na ve state of mind or innocence. Physical abuse also lowers the social-economic status and thus high chances of neglect or abuse due to [...]

A more elaborate look into understanding sleep take a look at the two aspects of sleep which is the behavior observed during sleeping periods as well as the scientific explanation of the physiological processes involved [...]

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 [...]

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.

The community and government were left with a major challenge of how to cope with the physical and psychological stress that was quite evident.

The scope of the research is to measure people's levels of hypnotizability and whether it relates to empathy, absorption and imagery.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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 [...]

I pertain to the second group which is the first peculiarity of my drawing abilities development. In conclusion, it is possible to point out that my drawing ability development proves the major theories of child's [...]

Up to this point, they think that the concept of self-knowledge is dangerous and difficult as it is not good to infer to other people's affairs or intentions.

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 [...]

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".

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 [...]

Also referred to as Manic Depression or Bipolar Affective Disorder, Bipolar disorder is categorized as one of the serious mood disorders.

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 [...]

The subjects should be informed of their liberty to participate in the study. In view of the above, negative reinforcement occurred.

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.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

However, in spite of the fact that there exist a wealth of clinical literature on treatment methodologies of victims of sexual abuse, the evidence base concerning the treatment of victims of childhood sexual abuse exhibiting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Early socialization of caregivers and their children and especially the use of the affective tone in these relationships have a very profound effect on the child's developmental process.

One of the factors that make video games especially prone to leading to violence in real life is the high level of engagement that video games have.

The author of the article on "Depression in Children: Children's Depression Inventory" has used both the classical test score and generalizability theories.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here the experiment will be introduced First, it is necessary to determine the methodology of the experiment, and, secondly, it is important to state that it has already been "a common clinical observation" that stress [...]

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.

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 [...]

Overt examinations are utilized specifically to envisage the proneness of a candidate to engage in theft and other abhorred behaviors at work.

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 [...]

With the ever changing social-economic, mental, political, and the general health status of the society, there is need for practitioners in the clinical psychology field to integrate in their practices measures that will ensure they [...]

The American Psychiatric Association task force report released in 1978 outlined the requisite standards for ECT and largely recommended the treatment amid a rapid decline of ECT due to negative representation of the treatment in [...]

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.

These are the features of critical thinking that we shall compare to the three commonly applied approaches of critical thinking to determine the approach that is most ideal.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Manson is one of the famous serial killers in the history of the United States. One afternoon in 1969, Manson and the members of the 'family' planned the Tate-LaBianca murders.

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.

Whereas semantic memory acts as a granary for stored words, symbols and their underlying meanings, it is during the process of language production that actual ideas and concepts are put to test.

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 [...]

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.

It is the purpose of this research paper to critically evaluate the popular culture of blogging among adolescents with the premise that it reinforces pro-social activities and self esteem among the teenagers.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Both qualitative and quantitative data shall be used with numbers being used to provide evidence of the occurrence and magnitude of the effects of the condition on the population.

Renaissance philosophers of the seventeenth century attempted to use graphical representations to demonstrate the structure and operations of the human brain.

Duffy and Artwater point out that various challenges face societies due to the rapid changes in technology, and particularly in this age of communications technology, which has made the world a global village.

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 [...]

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.

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.

The ailment makes the lateral ventricles to increase in size and impinges on the normal functions of the frontal regions of the brain.

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 [...]

The trust that the leader gives to the followers raises their morale in the task and as a result, they exhibit a spirit of teamwork and cooperation.

It is, therefore, the purpose of this paper to evaluate the behavioural outcome of failure or impairment of mylination of the prefrontal lobe during adolescence.

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 [...]

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.

We have learned what emotional intelligence is; it is the way that we deal with our emotions and relate to others.

The theory of cognitive behavior group therapy is based on the ability to conceptualize information for each member of the group and the group as one whole.

This chapter is a small research that helps to comprehend how important therapeutic relationship might to be and how influential this relationship may be to the outcomes of the chosen treatment.

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 [...]

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.

This article is discussing the trends of courtesy in different parts of the world, and the author examines how humans around the world are cultured.