Psychology Essay Examples and Topics. Page 40

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.

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.

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.

In the Grub, the unhealthy eating lifestyle of the author's community is the exigence. It may therefore be difficult for the rhetorical audience to think of the solution on their own and this may impede [...]

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.

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.

Approaching the people involved with the anger is a great move since it helps one understand the cause of the anger and gives the involved parties the opportunity to address the issue in a proper [...]

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.

The wife wanted to create a scene in the restaurant but due to the reactions of the husband, she was not able to accomplish her intentions.

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 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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

It is an essential source of collecting intelligence information regarding various aspects of the security of a country, such as the intentions and the strength of attackers.

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.

This overview expounds on the art therapy, highlighting some of the roles art therapists do as well as the problems they encounter in their work.

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 [...]

Dissociative Disorders Dissociative disorders are a class of disorders that affect the normal functioning of individuals' consciousness and acuity of their immediate environments, because of trauma.

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 [...]

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.

The research paper seeks to discuss the use of physical traces as one of the ethical considerations in any psychological research. The researcher should ensure the preservation of the physical and psychological dignity of the [...]

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 [...]

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.

The social references relate to the self-concepts of the system or to the individualism. On the other hand, the functionalism and structuralism indicates the importance of the manipulative pressure of the social arrangement on the [...]

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 [...]

Alcohol addicts are normally advised to know their cause of addiction to alcohol in order to fight the addiction in the most appropriate way.

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.

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 [...]

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.

Object recognition refers to an individual's ability to pick out physical properties of an object such as texture, color and shape, and apply to object attributes that are semantic in nature such as its relationship [...]

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 [...]

The difference between cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology emanates from the fact that psychologists in cross-cultural psychology commonly use cultural frameworks as a means of assessing the universality of psychological practices and processes, while psychologists [...]

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.

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 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 [...]

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.

The essay seeks to discuss memory in terms of the processes occurring in the brain as far as memory is concerned.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

In this theory, an individual has a single identity, which is assumed by people of the same gender, and with similar roles as the individual in the society.

Therefore, productive behavior stresses to the employee the need for an active cooperation between them and the roles assigned in the planning and execution of the set targets for the assigned roles.

As it would be observed, there has been a direct link between play and the development of language skills in children.

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 [...]

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 [...]

The objective of this study is to prove that Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is an effective method of treating depression among new college students.

Some of the issues and concepts in grief studies include the effects of grief and bereavement on people, as well as, the physical, spiritual, and developmental repercussions of grief and bereavement.

In addition to that, the test's questions touch on various aspects of a person's life thus analyzing their personality from different angles.

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.

Her mother did not like the fact that she followed her around everywhere and this led to feelings of anger in Amarika's part since she did not understand why her mother avoided her.

After assuming this, they should try to do thing as if they are blind, as this is one of the ways of experiencing the kind of difficulties that blind individuals go through as they try [...]

The method should be as natural and authentic as possible on order to capture the mood of the setting to the best.

The treatment is aimed at relieving the symptoms that the patient seems to be experiencing so that the individual can be able to deal with the traumatic experience.