Psychology for Health and Social Care

23 Mar 2015 20 Jul 2017

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Keywords: psychology in health and social care The aim of this essay is to explore my understanding of the psychological factors which influence human behaviours and the effects these factors may have on individuals who use health and social care services. I will focus on the basic approaches such as behavioural, cognitive, humanistic and psychodynamic to understand these behaviours. I will also use concepts from psychology and ...

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Factors that Impact Prenatal Development

23 Mar 2015 20 Jul 2017

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Keywords: stress prenatal development Today, it is well documented that there are many factors that could potentially harm or negatively influence the development of an unborn child during the prenatal period (1). These risk factors include a mother's age and her nutrition during pregnancy; if there was drug, alcohol, or cigarette use or abuse; as well, potential maternal diseases, such as AIDS or rubella, and environmental hazards, ...

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Psychology Theories of Emotion

23 Mar 2015 20 Jul 2017

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Keywords: james lange theory, schachter singer theory This topic is under the evolutionary, social as well as the cognitive perspectives of psychology. The evolutionary perspective seeks to understand the reason behind human emotions; the social area focuses on the emotions of the individual as a product of their environment whereas the cognitive field provides a description of the thought processes of the human brain when an emotional ...

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Singapore's Crisis Management Services

20 Jul 2017

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The general definition of a crisis in the context of a psychological standpoint is often presented as “an emotional or physical response to some precipitating event or series of events that disrupts our normal day-to-day functioning.”( “Crisis Management,” n.d. P1). In simpler terms, when we come across a incident that causes our daily lives to be in disarray because of the way we are reacting to ...

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Review of Eric Johnson's 'Psychology and Christianity'

20 Jul 2017

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Review of Eric Johnson's 'Psychology and Christianity: Five Views' TITLE: Psychology & Christianity: Five Views EDITOR: Eric L. Johnson EDITION: 2nd CONTRIBUTIONS BY: David G. Myers, Stanton L. Jones, Robert C. Roberts & Watson P.J., John H. Coe & Todd W. Hall, David Powlison PUBLISHERS: Intervarsity Press, Downers Grove, Illinois YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 2010 NUMBER OF PAGES: 319 PRICE: £14.37 Introduction This book discusses five views ...

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Principles of Scientific Thinking and Examples

20 Jul 2017

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Scientific thinking skills in people’s behavior Psychology is not a science. It is the scientific study which relates the behavior, brain and mind. It is based on the collecting data from evidences, ingests them, analyses them, then conclude that. Scientific thinking skill is all about the study which tells about the learning and thinking strategy of people. That how they took any kind of idea from ...

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Case Study: Clinical Diagnosis of ADHD

20 Jul 2017

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The rationale of this assignment was to precisely diagnose Marla and to discover causes and potential treatments for her disorder. Marla is a 42 year old Hispanic female who approach to the mental health clinic feeling “jumpy all the time,” complaining of having problem sleeping, and incidence an incapability to concentrate. (Joan Rachmel, syllabus description of final assignment) These symptoms are sourcing problems for her for ...

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Harlow and Ainsworth

23 Mar 2015 19 Jul 2017

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Keywords: harry harlow and mary ainsworth, compare harlow ainsworth Attachment refers to the early relationships of caregivers, usually mothers, to infants and the manner in which such early care giving relationships foster development in infants (Senior, 2009). In this sense, attachment can refer to the emotional or affective bond given by caregivers to infants and vice versa (Harlow, 1958; Ainsworth, 1969, 1979, 1982, 1989; Ainsworth et. al., ...

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Relationship between Theory And Research

23 Mar 2015 19 Jul 2017

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Keywords: best research methods, research design theory 2.0. Introduction Research methodology is a term used to define the overall systematic approach undertaken in the process of trying to solve a research problem(s). It is also understood as the science of studying how research is done scientifically (Kothari, 2004). Neuman (2006, pg. 60) stated that "methodology is what makes social science scientific". It is very important to distinguish ...

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Ability Job Fit

23 Mar 2015 19 Jul 2017

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Keywords: ability job fit organizational, ability job fit theory What is more likely to lead to high work performance a fit between ability-job or between personality-organisation? Introduction The aim of this assignment is to construct an argument to support the proposition, that Performance-Organization fit is more important over Ability-Job fit, for higher job performance. Scope and Definitions The scope of the assessment covers only the area of ...

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Authoritarian Parenting Theory

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: authoritarian parenting pros and cons The research question for this essay is 'How does authoritarian parenting impact children and adolescents in relation to their social skills.' The aim of this essay was to explore whether the authoritarian style of parenting enhances or undermines children and adolescent's social skills and how effective it is compared with other styles or parenting. In addition the essay will explore the ...

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Who Am I? Psychology Essay

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: why i am who i am essay, who i am essay The concept of self comes from the past and future; how an individual was, and who the individual want to be. The self attempts to maintain a constant relationship with its various elements and the external world by creating identities discerned and defined by connection with the external social environment. In addition to this, the ...

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Raven's Matrices Test

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Raven's Progressive Matrices or Raven's Matrices are multiple choice non-verbal intelligence tests of abstract reasoning, originally developed by Dr. John C. Raven in 1936 and firstly published in the United Kingdom in 1938. The purpose of these tests is to assess reasoning in the visual field. To perform these tests, participants have to identify the correct missing piece to complete a larger pattern, in each test item. ...

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Pattern Recognition Psychology

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: pattern recognition in cognitive psychology Pattern recognition is a skill of how people identify the objects in their environment which is what we do all the time in our daily life. For example, you can recognize your teachers, friends, and also which items can eat or cannot eat. Everything in the world has its own pattern. Our superiority over computers as pattern recognizers has the practical ...

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Role of Personality and Career Success

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: personality and career choice Choosing a career plays a crucial part in an individuals life .More often than not we come across people who are unsuccessful or unhappy in their work life in spite of working hard. They feel as if the work is a burden and they do it mechanically without any interest and thus they are not enjoying it at all. It seems that ...

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Evaluate Theories Of Cognitive Development

23 Mar 2015 18 Jul 2017

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Keywords: evaluate theories of cognitive development ib This essay will explore similarities and differences between Piaget's and Vygotsky's respective theories in explanation of childhood cognitive development. Specifically it will examine their stances on the importance of social interactions in influencing development. I will give a brief overview of the four "grand theories" which initiate perspectives, epistemology and methodology within debates on development. Piaget's and Vygotsky's particular theories ...

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Hot Cross Bun Formulation

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: hot cross bun cbt, padesky hot cross bun The purpose of this study is to reflect on the package of care offered to a client and to critically evaluate the evidence base for the model which might be considered 'best practice' for a specific client problem, or issue. This entails identifying a particular client's presenting issues while describing the evidence that is available for a suitable ...

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Are Offender Profiles Useful in Police Investigations?

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: offender profiling essay, offender profiling evaluation In recent years, there are more and more people have become increasingly fascinated by offender profiling because of the influence of media. An example of this is the well-known criminal profiling film The Silence of the Lambs, which is based on the Thomas Harris novel of the same name. Some television shows such as Millennium, Profiler and The X-Files are ...

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Self Esteem Case Study

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: rebt approach, dibs self help, self esteem therapy She has being in the same company for the past 15 years and was recently promoted to a managerial position, following the completion of her first degree. Since assuming her new position, she has become very anxious about her ability to function in her new capacity. She has been feeling lethargic and struggles to get up in the ...

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Bowlby Juvenile Study

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: bowlby thieves study, john bowlby juvenile thieves In the following essay I will be looking at the case study of John Bowlby and the 44 Juvenile thieves. I will be describing the original hypothesis of the study and what Bowlby aimed to find. I will then look at two other key psychological studies into human behaviour. Once I have looked at all three of the studies, ...

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Human Behaviour and Social Environment

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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This article is about the human behavior and the various factors which affects the human behavior. One of the factors that have a great impact on the behavior of human is the social environment and here all types of sociological effects are discussed. Various individual environmental factors and their impact on behavior are also discussed here. Inheritances also affects the human behavior and in this article two ...

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Carl Rogers' Theory of Person Centered Approach

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: bacp ethical framework, ethical framework in counselling This report will discuss and evaluate what the key issues are within the counselling profession and show a better understanding of Rogers theory of Person Centred Counselling. Explaining the issues that counsellors come across in the counselling profession as well as outlining the BACP Moral Qualities and Ethical Framework. There are many factors in the counselling profession that will ...

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Therapeutic Integration Strategy

23 Mar 2015 17 Jul 2017

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Keywords: egan skilled helper model, pluralistic framework Historically counsellors and psychotherapists were trained within a single theoretical orientation. In their practice, this initial theoretical orientation, would on the whole 'stick' with them throughout their career (McLeod, 2009). With several counselling and psychotherapy approaches being developed in the second half of 20th century, a substantial body of available literature to helping became available (Hollanders, 1999). The downside of ...

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Children and Personality Development

15 Jul 2017

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CHILDREN & PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT Factors shaping Child's Personality Development Personality could be defined as 'a dynamic organisation, inside the person, of psychosocial systems that create the person's characteristic patterns of behaviour, thoughts and feelings' (Allport, 1961, p.11). Personality is a comprehensive concept and yet there is not a universally accepted definition of personality. However, major assumptions are that personality is stable, consistent, internal and different (Hampson, ...

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Introduction to study on Psychology, Postmoderism & Pakistan

15 Jul 2017

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Abstract This study struggles to find out the postmodern themes that are related to psychology in Pakistan. For this purpose a novel Sifar Se Aik Tak is selected which is based on the themes of postmodernism and postmodernity and is analyzed with Foucaulidian discourse analysis. Different themes were extracted from the novel. Some of the major themes include Identity Construction and Identity Transcendence from Traditional to ...

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Personality and Counseling: A Case Analysis

15 Jul 2017

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Personality and Counseling Theories: Case Analysis Introduction It is an incredible, yet trying time in this day and age to live by one’s self. Even a productive member of society can have particular issues coping with the harsh realities of the world. This can bring about a tumultuous amount of feelings, emotions and trauma; sometimes it can result an individual in devolving to a more childlike ...

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Violence in Video Games Essay Outline

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: video game violence essay outline "Greater realism leads to greater immersion; greater immersion leads to greater effects. One of those effects can be increased aggression" (qtd. in Wake forest University). Violent video games have detrimental effects on children, and give them a distorted view on how the world works and how they should behave. Therefore, there should be restrictions placed on selling video games to minors, ...

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Prosocial Behaviour Essay

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: prosocial behaviour psychology, prosocial behaviour define We have all probably helped other people at some point in our lives and most of us help others many times each day. Our giving of help need not be complex; it may be nothing more than holding a door open for someone loaded with books or shopping or a parent carrying a child and may also help the proverbial ...

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Pros and Cons of Mixed Methods Research

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: mixed methods research advantages For every job or task there is a specific tool befitting such work. Similarly, every researcher after having identified the scope of their research needs to apply a particular method of research in order to attain the best results. Interestingly, there are some methods of research that when applied or used together the acquired results will be forthcoming. Hence the concept of ...

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Mind Body Problem Psychology

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: mind and body concept, mind and body philosophy Mind Body Argument Mind Body Influence How often are we consciously aware of what our mind communicates to create the responses from our bodies? A seemingly logical argument would be that the mind is like the “puppeteer” of the body, sending signals to create physical responses. But is this strictly a one-way street of interaction or could the ...

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Organismic Valuing Process

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: organismic valuing process carl rogers One of the most prominent concepts within psychoanalytic therapy is that of transference, as developed by Freud (1912), it is a process whereby the client unconsciously redirects their feelings and attitudes about a person in their past on to the therapist. Freud (1912) understood that these feelings can come in two forms either by the means of positive transferences, in which ...

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Self-Efficacy Theory in Nursing

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: limitations of self efficacy theory, self efficacy strengths Introduction Several studies have identified noncompliance as a major problem in health care, especially in the management of chronic diseases (Hailey and Moss, 2000; Hansen, 2001; Polaschek, 2003). About 20% of dialysis patients fail to comply with prescribed regimen because they doubt their ability to, continuously, endure the discomforts they experience while on dialysis (Martchev, 2008). The theory ...

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Career Counselling Psychometric Tests

23 Mar 2015 14 Jul 2017

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Keywords: career counselling report This book has explored career counselling and the use of psychometric tests in career counselling, as well as issues related to career development. In this chapter we discuss the written report. The focus will be on the traditional method of report writing. However, we also explore the post-modern career report. In this chapter we provide the basic components of a well written report, ...

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Behavior Therapy Concepts, Procedures and Applications

23 Mar 2015 13 Jul 2017

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Keywords: behavior therapy case study The key concepts of Behavior Therapy begin with view of human nature, which is a technical view of human behavior that entails a methodical and well thought-out tactic to counseling. Furthermore, this view does not depend on a deterministic hypothesis that a person is a consequence only of their sociocultural conditioning; the present view suggests a person is the manufacturer and the ...

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Working Memory Model

23 Mar 2015 13 Jul 2017

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Keywords: baddeley working memory model, working memory model analysis Memory has always been an interesting area of Psychology for researchers to investigate. As memory processes cannot be seen or measured, many theories have been put forward as to how and why information can be stored differently, and why some of this information can either be forgotten straight away or remembered for long periods of time. One memory ...

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Importance of Measurement in Research

23 Mar 2015 13 Jul 2017

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Keywords: validity and reliability in research Measure is important in research. Measure aims to ascertain the dimension, quantity, or capacity of the behaviors or events that researchers want to explore. According to Maxim (1999), measurement is a process of mapping empirical phenomena with using system of numbers. Basically, the events or phenomena that researchers interested can be existed as domain. Measurement links the events in domain to ...

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Individual Differences in Organisational Behaviour

03 Oct 2016 13 Jul 2017

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Keywords: individual differences impact on organizations The impact of individual differences on organisational behaviour is becoming more and more tremendous. Especially in organisation’s recruitment and selection process, individual differences are highly concerned by employers. Considering the development of organisational effectiveness, researchers spent more time on the study of individual differences to discover how they may affect individual performance so to influence organisation’s performance. Robbins (2003, p.103) ...

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Applying Piaget's Theory in Counselling

23 Mar 2015 11 Jul 2017

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Keywords: paiget theory application, jean piaget theory application Psychotherapists utilise diverse theoretical models within the counselling environment. With each approach, theory or method that is in use today there are a number of key supporting elements which allow the skilled psychotherapist to understand and contextualise the human condition, based on a foundation of knowledge of how human beings learn, grow and develop physically and psychologically. One such ...

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder Traits

23 Mar 2015 10 Jul 2017

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Keywords: schizotypal speech, schizotypal traits, schizotypal disorder To those who find themselves in contact with schizotypal individuals' they often range appearing eccentric and aberrant to outright bizarre in their actions. Their behavior is clearly erratic. School and employment histories of these individuals show marked deficits and irregularities. Not only are they frequent dropouts, but they drift from one source of employment to another. If married, they are ...

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Conformity and Obedience Research Studies

23 Mar 2015 10 Jul 2017

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Keywords: conformity theories, obedience theories Conformity has been defined in number of ways. Crutchfield (1955), defined conformity as "yielding to group pressure". Mann 1969 agrees with Crutchfield, however Mann (1969), argues that it may take different forms and be based on motives other than group pressure. (Gross p 479) Conformity is a change in belief or behaviour in response to real or imagined group pressure where there ...

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Difference between Structured and Unstructured Observation

23 Mar 2015 10 Jul 2017

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Keywords: structured observation analysis, unstructured observation At the first step of this assessment I need to outline what is involved in structured observation. The two main strategies that researchers can usually use to record their observations of events are the structured and unstructured observation. The former involves the recording of events of predefined types occurring at particular points in time, or within particular intervals. Structured observation typically ...

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Health Belief Model

23 Mar 2015 07 Jul 2017

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Keywords: social cognition models and health behaviour According to Colman (2009), social cognition is the cognitive activity that accompanies and mediates social behaviour, including the acquisition of information about the social environment, the organization and transformation of this information in memory, and its effects on social behaviour. Health belief model according to John (2007) is a conceptual model of health-related behavioural factors affecting health. The model emphasizes the role of cognition (understanding) and beliefs (values ) and explains how behavioural determinants influence ...

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Friendship between Men and Women Essay

23 Mar 2015 07 Jul 2017

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Keywords: cross sex relationships, cross sex friendships Abstract Friendship between men and women is diverse and complex in nature and is one of the most poorly understood human relationships. The present study sought to investigate the prevalence of challenges that cross-sex friends often encounter. A study is proposed to test whether O'Meara's (1989) four cross-sex friendship relationship challenges are still prevalent today and what effect gender and ...

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Child Development Stages and Milestones

23 Mar 2015 07 Jul 2017

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Keywords: developmental direction principle, reciprocal interweaving Ruffin (2009) defines development as change or growth that occurs in a child during the life span from birth to adolescence. He elaborated that this change occurs in an orderly sequence, involving physical, cognitive, and emotional development. These three main areas of child development involve developmental changes which take place in a predictable pattern (age related), orderly, but with differences in ...

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Psychological Concepts of Health - Theory Analysis

23 Mar 2015 06 Jul 2017

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Keywords: healthy psychology essay, psychological concept of health Health psychology deals with comprehending the way biology, behavior, and social contexts affect health and illness. Psychologists who study how biological, behavioral, and social factors affect health and illness are known as health psychologists. Fresh advances in psychological, medical, and physiological studies have led to a new way of thinking about health and disease. This school of thought , ...

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Discussion of Attitudes Towards Taliban, Terrorism and Death

06 Jul 2017

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Discussion of Student's Attitudes Towards Taliban, Terrorism and Death The present study was aimed to investigate the attitude toward Taliban, terrorism catastrophizing and death anxiety among university students. This was a cross sectional research which was conducted among students of Gandhara University Peshawar and Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. Results show that there were no significant difference among students of both universities regarding the attitude toward Taliban ...

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Should Knowledge Produce Meaning and Purpose?

06 Jul 2017

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“The whole point of knowledge is to produce both meaning and purpose in our personal lives.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly without fear for newer and richer experience” – Eleanor Roosevelt. To define the purpose of life in my opinion would be impossible; in ...

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Psychological Research Examples: Correlational & Qualitative

06 Jul 2017

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PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH METHODS Research Topic 1: What is the role of visual attention in dyslexia? Basic Research Approach: Correlational Background research Literature Search: I conducted a literature search on the “web of knowledge” database, which was chosen as it is a full text database allowing for easy access to any articles of interest. The initial search used only one keyword, “dyslexia” which returned over 18,000 ...

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Psychological Theories of Aggression

06 Jul 2017

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Discuss one or more social psychological theories of aggression. This essay will discuss two social psychological theories of aggression, which are social learning theory and deindividuation. It will briefly explain what is, pro-social behaviour, anti-social behaviour, aggression and social psychology. Lastly it will evaluate the findings before concluding. Pro-social behaviours are those intended to help other people, it is a behaviour that is characterised by a ...

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Should Marijuana be Legalised?

06 Jul 2017

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Should Marijuana be Legalised? Deriving from the Cannabis plant, marijuana has many names such as Mary Jane, grass, weed, pot, and many more. Judging by how many names it is given, one can only imagine or in UNODC’s case, estimate, just how popular it is. According to UNODC,” Cannabis remains the most widely used illicit substance.” The World Drug report stated that 180.6 million or 3.9% ...

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Impact on Mental Health: Personality & Adaptations

06 Jul 2017

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Impact on Mental Health: Personality Traits & Characteristic Adaptations The World Health Organization (2011) defines mental health as “a state of wellbeing in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community” (para. 1). Although psychological well-being can be defined as ...

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Body Language Essay Thesis

23 Mar 2015 06 Jul 2017

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Keywords: body language research, body language lie detection Communication is an important aspect of daily life, it helps us to connect with others as individuals or as groups. Without communication life would be non-existentent, we communicate to others verbally and non-verbally. it is the very basis that drives our development in relationships, education and work. But as important as communication is less than 10% of how we ...

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Investigation of the Effect of Disfluency upon Memory

06 Jul 2017

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Investigation upon the Effect of Disfluency upon Encoding and Retrieval Performance and Accuracy Abstract This paper and subsequent study aimed to replicate the experiment conducted by Oppenheimer (2010), and was found to have major discrepancies with the original study. It used disfluency/fluency typeface as the independent variable, and the encoding and retrieval performance as the dependent variable, tested by a memory quiz after 15 minutes of ...

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CBT and Depression Essay

23 Mar 2015 06 Jul 2017

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Keywords: cbt and panic attacks, cbt uses evaluation Cognitive-behaviour Therapy (henceforth CBT) is lead evidence based psychological treatment for psychological disorders which has achieved substantial support and acknowledgement by the British Government and health-care authorities even though there are many other evidence-based effective therapies. Scientific research has shown that CBT is the best researched and authenticated psychological treatment using evidenced-based practice that is available for treating numerous ...

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Counselling Case Study Essay

23 Mar 2015 06 Jul 2017

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Critically evaluate, your taped session within the context of a live case study, your professional practice and use of supervision. INTRODUCTION The rationale of this case study is for the Counsellor in training to closely examine a client's process throughout their counselling sessions. This process will be aided by the in-depth analysis and review of a taped client session, elements of which will support the assessment. Evaluation ...

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Language and Communication: An Indication of Mental Process

06 Jul 2017

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Language and Communication: An Indication of Mental Process Hayes (2001) discussed how language and the words we use are symbolic or ideas, a product of mental life, his description one which is reminiscent of that given by Murphy (2002). Accordingly, Hayes proposes that language emersion facilitates words to be mapped to mental units or events, these mental units or events exist previous to the acquisition of ...

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Cognitive Psychology: Introduction, Scope and Importance

06 Jul 2017

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Cognitive Psychology: Introduction,Scope and Importance WHAT IS COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY? Cognitive psychology alarms how people diagnose, realize, perceive, evaluate and consider/think. Cognitive psychologists discuss that the thoughts are a CPU of information - we receive info through how we sense, we attempt to realise that info and its connection to us, and we convey information to everyon else. The word cognition is used in numerous inaccurately connected ...

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Workplace Communication Strategies

06 Jul 2017

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Timothy P Davies Use Workplace Communication Strategies Assignment Question 1: When dealing with others it is important to ask ‘open questions’ which will encourage the other person to share more personal feelings and thoughts. Describe and explain the difference between ‘open’ and ‘closed’ questions. Provide three examples of an open question and one example of a ‘closed’ question The understanding I have of what ...

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Should Parents Take Charge of Their Children’s Crimes

06 Jul 2017

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Should Parents Take Charge of Their Children’s Crimes Abstract Children nowadays are becoming more and more dishonest and are eventually growing up to be criminals. The blame on children’s crimes nowadays is going onto the parents, mostly under the statement “failing to exercise reasonable care, supervision, protection, and control over children”. However, many of the crimes children are committing are almost unrelated to their parents and ...

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Understanding The Learning Process

06 Jul 2017

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Understanding The Learning Process Outline The learning process can be an effective one only when it is properly understood by the learners otherwise it will go in vain. That’s why, before selecting a learning process it is essential to identify the appropriate way of learning that matches the learner’s ability, skill and requirement. Learning can be done in different ways. Some are based on physical ability ...

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Balance between Work and Professional Life

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As the time changes continuously, it is very difficult to maintain the balance between the work and the personal life. A person is engaged with different relationships that influence a lot to balance between the working life and personal life. In early 1960's researchers found imbalance in personal life and work (kumari, 2012). There are many studies conducted on work life balance and it suggests the positive ...

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What Does Psychology Mean to Me?

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Keywords: what does psychology mean to you Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mind. Prior to that point, the study of the mind, as psychology was widely known, was conducted by many philosophers and psychologists. Today's definition of psychology is quite precise - it is not simply the study of the mind; rather, it is the scientific study of behaviour and mind. The emphasis on ...

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The Psychology of Problem Solving

05 Jul 2017

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The Psychology of Problem Solving Analyzing an individual’s problem solving ability independent from their knowledge of a specific subject matter is a difficult task. Likewise, teaching pure problem solving skills brings challenges of its own. Often the skills are too specific to one field, or too broad to be of any applicable use. Nonetheless, the pursuit of identifying and teaching effective problem solving strategies remains because of ...

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Whether a relationship exists between the mind and the brain

23 Mar 2015 05 Jul 2017

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For centuries, philosophers and scientist have been trying to solve the problem of the mind-body (brain). The most prolific of the minds has wandered sleeplessly, trying to solve the mind-brain problem, yet, the mysteries behind our skulls remain hidden. This paper is an attempt to address the causality problem of the mind and the brain. Firstly, an overview over the philosophical theories will be done. Subsequently, evaluation ...

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Psychological Impact of Video Games

05 Jul 2017

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Introduction One of the crucial issues that happening in this decade is that games become popular among all stages of people such as children, teenager and adult. Video games have become one of the favorite activities of children in America and school children have been affected significantly (Dewitt, 1993 cited in Gentile, Lynch, Linder, & Walsh, 2004). Games have been developed at the early of 1940s-1950. ...

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Psychology of Marginalization

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Psychology of Marginalization Marginalization or social exclusion is defined as “the process whereby something or someone is pushed to the edge of a group and accorded lesser importance”. It is a social phenomenon that has existed for centuries and has effected human interaction as well as how certain people view each other dramatically. Throughout history, it can be seen that marginalization has been utilized as a ...

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The Effects of Technology on a Child’s Development

05 Jul 2017

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The Effects of Technology on Child’s Development In today’s society, people are living in a "technologically civilized" society where every small work that people do is technology dependent. Technology is increasingly important in the modern world and has been developing fast. It is a tool that can provide an added option for young children to learn when they actively build an understanding of the world based ...

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Psychology and Education: Summary of Research

05 Jul 2017

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Psychology and Education Qualitative Research in Psychology Qualitative research has become a common phenomenon in the modern day psychology. The field is experiencing new directions, for instance, there has been much standardization of the various qualitative techniques. With the creation of new guidelines, a clearer understanding of qualitative research will be achieved while elaborating the effects that it has on the psychology. Research hypothesis The researcher ...

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Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality

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Introduction Psychoanalytic theory of personality is composed of three fragments. These three fragments of personality are knows the id, the ego and super ego (Freud, 1917). They works together to create complex human behavior (Corey, 2012, p.61). The id is the genetic part which is the inventive organism of behavior, at birth of a person. Administered by desire principle, id shortages of moral, illogical and never ...

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Case Study on Generalized Anxiety Disorder

23 Mar 2015 04 Jul 2017

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Keywords: generalized anxiety disorder case study, gad case study Alicia doesn't like giving to or accepting from strangers a drink or cup of tea or coffee. The first time this happened was when she was nineteen and was taken home by her boyfriend to meet his parents. Both this relationship and a succeeding one failed. She found her fears gradually spreading and affecting her work as a ...

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Ethical Dilemmas in Psychology

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: ethical code psychology, ethics in psychology Dealing with moral problems and judgements can traditionally be termed as ethics. The Committee of Scientific and Professional ethics was created in 1938 and sought on an informal basis to deal with and investigate any ethical issues that had been challenged (Hobbs, 1948). The American Psychological Association (APA) developed an Ethics Code in 1947 and the British Psychological Association (BPS) ...

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How Does Motivation Affect Performance?

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: work motivation and job satisfaction This literature study tries to examine how work motivation affects the job performance within an organization. Work motivation can be divided in two types of motivation called intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is motivation that comes from a person within and extrinsic motivation is motivation on materially goals. There are a lot of aspects which can influence / create the work ...

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Reliability and Validity in Research

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: essay on reliability, validity in social research The two most important and fundamental characteristics of any measurement procedure are reliability and validity. Reliability and validity tells us whether a research being carried out studies what it is meant to study, and whether the measures used are consistent. These two principles are discussed below. Reliability Joppe (2000) defines reliability as the extent to which results are consistent ...

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Eyewitness Testimony Essay

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: advantages of eyewitness testimony, eyewitness reliability The use of eyewitness testimony is infamously a primary source of evidence used within the judicial system around the world; however its use has raised various questions as to its reliability and validity especially within court cases. This essay explored first of all, the biological factors of memory and recollection of memories within the human brain. Memories are believed to ...

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Dollard and Miller Stimulus Response Theory of Personality

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: dollard and miller stimulus response theory One of the psychology theories that have helped me to assess my behavior and understand myself better is the Dollard and Miller's Stimulus-Response Theory, which stipulates that personality conflicts are learned and could therefore be unlearned (Personality: Theories). This theory has helped me to understand the role played by fear, conflict and repression in maladaptive learning which may result to ...

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Youth Drug Abuse - Hong Kong

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: youths and drugs essay, youth drug addiction Youth problem is a wide-ranged and intertwined one among the social problems. With the development of information technology and economics, the teenagers are faced with more temptations than the older generations of their age, in other words, they have more choices for fun, like online games, Japanese cartoon and animation books and magazines, everyday updated fashionable accessories, hi-tech products ...

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Minority Influence and Social Change

23 Mar 2015 03 Jul 2017

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Keywords: minority vs majority influence Research has shown that a person is more likely to conform to the majority when they are uncertain of their viewpoint, when they are quite similar to the majority group members, when the majority is unanimous in their views and when the majority portrays themselves as being certain, able and successful in what they do. Majority influence often results in compliance, where ...

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Attachment Theory and Juvenile Delinquency

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: delinquency attachment theory, delinquency psychology Juvenile Delinquency is a major crisis throughout the United States. In recent years attention has been focused on the apparent rise of juvenile delinquency. Most of this attention has been fueled by several high profile cases in the media like the Columbine shootings and the Virginia Tech youth massacre. The literature indicates that individual, family and societal factors contribute to juvenile ...

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Effects of Labelling in Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: mental health labelling impact, mental health stigma The term 'label' refers to individuals whose actions or behavior deviates from social norms and what is acceptable in society. These individuals are labeled and develop a stigma attached; this can have an overall impact on the individuals' behavior once the label has taken form. Being labeled as 'mentally ill' can have significant effects on different aspects of the ...

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Development of Peer Relationships in Adolescence

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: peer relationship development, relationships in adolescence As Winfrey once said, "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down" (n.d.). Relationships are essential in our daily lives as it provides us with companionship, stimulation, physical and emotional support, social comparison, and affection (Santrock, 2007b). Whether it ...

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Qualitative Critique of Psychology Paper

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: psychology research critique, critique of research paper The article Effective Interaction with Patients with Schizophrenia: Qualitative Evaluation of the Interaction Skills Training Programme is a mixed method study that focuses on the qualitative research results and the effects the ISTP had on relationships between caregivers and patients, in terms of the caregivers lived experience. This paper will be examining the study using the qualitative critiquing approach ...

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Effect of Fear on Heart Rate

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: heart rate and fear, fear heart rate experiment Pulse rate: a measurement of the heart rate, or the number of times the heart beats per minute (University of Virginia Health System, 2008). The normal pulse for healthy adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats per minute. The pulse rate may fluctuate and increase with exercise, illness, injury, and emotions (University of Virginia Health System, 2008). Brain ...

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Theoretical Perspectives in Child Development

23 Mar 2015 30 Jun 2017

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Keywords: freud child development, erikson psychosocial development There are five major perspectives that underlie much influential theory and research on child development: "(1) psychoanalytic, which focuses on unconscious emotions and drives; (2) learning, which studies observable behavior; (3) cognitive, which analyzes thought process; (4) contextual, which emphasizes the impact of historical, social, and cultural context; and (5) evolutionary/sociobiological, which considers evolutionary and biological underpinnings of behavior" (Papalia, ...

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Jungian Psychology Theory

23 Mar 2015 29 Jun 2017

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Keywords: jung psychology, jung theory analysis Carl Jung was a psychologist and scholar who pioneered the unique field of analytical psychology. The field is characterized by complex and obscure theories that cover various intricate concepts, such as spirituality and the symbolic dynamics of personality. Many of Jung's theories mirror the abstraction of the concepts that they try to explain. Despite its ambiguity, Jungian therapy nevertheless presents the ...

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Factors Affecting Self Esteem in Adolescence

23 Mar 2015 29 Jun 2017

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Keywords: factors affecting self esteem, self esteem teenagers Adolescence is an important stage for the development of the self-esteem, it is a stage from childhood to adulthood. Several longitudinal studies find out that early adolescence is a typical time when the self-esteem declines (Fredricks & Eccles, 2002; Robins et al., 2002; Jacobs et al., 2002). These research supports Erikson's opinion that young adolescents could experience more changes ...

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Observation Research on Adolescence

23 Mar 2015 28 Jun 2017

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Keywords: adolescent observation, research on adolescent Understanding life span and how one develops physically, psychology and cognitively is important. For the purpose of this assignment, the subject used for the observation was a 16 year old male named James. He is currently living with his parents and has one older sister who is attending college out of town. James is in the 11th grade and will be ...

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Positive Psychology Impact

23 Mar 2015 28 Jun 2017

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Keywords: positive psychology essay Positive psychology aims to bring about the best in a person so that person can live life to the fullest. Positive psychology can help individuals live a pleasant life, engaged life, meaningful life or an achieving life. Counseling and positive psychotherapy can be used to bring out the person's strengths. Positive psychology is not limited to the mentally ill but for everyone in ...

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16 Personality Factor Questionnaire Test Critique

23 Mar 2015 28 Jun 2017

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Keywords: pf test critique, personality factor critique General Descriptive Information The psychological test selected for critique is the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). It is an objective test of 16 multidimensional personalities attributes set up in omnibus form. The test serves normed references to each of identified attributes (Cattell & Mead, 2008). This psychological test Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire is an all-inclusive evaluation of normal personalities found ...

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Emotional Intelligence Essay

23 Mar 2015 28 Jun 2017

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Keywords: emotional intelligence theory An individual experiences varied emotions. Happiness, fear, anger, affection, shame, disgust, surprise, lust, sadness, elation, love, frustration, anxiety, failure, achievement, etc. are just e few emotions that affect our day to day activity. Satisfaction with the presentation of good work, exhilaration on achieving an accolade, the pride in helping a colleague, anger with not being recognized, frustration with the procrastination of recommendations suggested, ...

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Effectiveness of Reality Therapy

23 Mar 2015 27 Jun 2017

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Keywords: reality therapy interventions, reality therapy evaluation Initially, control theory was foisted as the theoretical basis for reality therapy (Glasser, 1989). Overtime, however, it evolved and was renamed choice theory to emphasize the personal freedom people had to choose their behaviours to lead healthy lives and maintain loving relationships (Nelson-Jones, 2001). The core concepts and assumptions that inform choice theory are basic needs, quality world, and total ...

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Factors Affecting Moral Development

23 Mar 2015 27 Jun 2017

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Keywords: education moral development, morality education Academic interest in the ethically worthed decision making capability of individuals has produced a stable stream of research addressing the responsibility of education in nurturing moral behavior. Studies relating to ethics education have principally focused on measuring students' capability for moral decision-making. The rationale of this study is to evaluate Pakistani under-graduate students' moral development and how that development is influenced ...

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Effects of Waterborne Diseases

23 Mar 2015 14 Jun 2017

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Keywords: waterborne diseases effects, waterbourne diseases causes, waterborne disease prevention Bacteria are a huge group of single cellular microorganisms known as prokaryotes. Prokaryotes are collection of organisms whose cell has no nucleus and are mainly unicellular. Bacteria are just a few micrometers long in size and on the basis of shape are classified in three basic groups: cocci, bacilli, and spirochetes. The cocci are rounded, bacilli are ...

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Working Memory Model Essay | An Analysis

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: working memory model evaluation, working memory model criticisms The model of working memory is a multi-component model, developed in 1974 by Baddeley Hitch. The model is based on an earlier model of memory called the multi-store model (MSM) (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968). The WM model was established in order to overcome the problems that arose due to the simplicity of the MSM. There is strong empirical ...

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Behavioral Economics and Standard Economic Model

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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The main question of this paper concerns the comparison of behavioral and mainstream economics. The concept follows a straight line from different approaches and ideas of various authors stating their opinion on behavioral economics as well as mainstream economics. Mainstream economics is defined as the maximization of an individual's utility function, whereby the utility is a function of quantity of goods or services (McDonald, 2008), the basis ...

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Communication and Personality in Organisational Psychology

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: communication organisational psychology For several years, psychologists have been trying to understand personality and communication styles within the workplace. Psychologists have concluded that the style of communication of different people depends on two factors- openness and directness. Personality styles are how people act or react when they are placed in any type of circumstances. Researchers have found that people will tend to change and even adapt ...

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The Effects of Athlete Self-Confidence

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: improving athlete confidence, sport confidence, sport psychology confidence 2.0 Introduction The purpose of this review is to provide a critical analysis of the available literature on sources, levels and importance of self confidence. It explores theories relating to self-confidence and the various measurements that have been used in recent years to assess this construct. The focus of the review will aim to analyse firstly self confidence ...

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Theories and Treatment

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: ocd essay, ocd treatment, ocd theories Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is regarded as a neurotic disorder that causes people to have unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and to repeat certain behaviors (compulsions) over and over again. When someone is having an OCD, the person will displays and complains of either obsession or compulsion or both, to a degree that affects his everyday functioning or causes him distress. He ...

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Womb to Tomb Psychology

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: womb to tomb development, stages of development, lifespan human development Development can be defined as systematic changes that occur in the individual between conception and death, or from womb to tomb. These depend on multiple factors. Life has been divided into number of stages. Prenatal period: conception to birth: This stage included the time from conception to birth. Though the child has not come to the ...

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Importance of Dreams Essay | The Role of Dreams in Our Life

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: dreams and psychosis, freud dream theory, jung dream theory Dreams are something that we all experience in our lives. My inspiration for writing an essay on this topic came from an article I read called "Dreaming - motivated or meaningless" by Mark Blagrove. The topic of dreams appealed to me immediately. Although I chose a slightly different approach to the topic it is also in the ...

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Minimal Group Paradigm

23 Mar 2015 13 Jun 2017

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Keywords: tajfel minimal group paradigm, tajfel minimal group paradigm The minimal group paradigm introduced by Tajfel et al (1971) is an experimental methodology to investigate the effects of social categorisation on behaviour. The paradigm was set up to challenge the notion of inter-group conflict or in-group favouritism and discover the minimal conditions for inter-group behaviour, that is, those conditions which are both necessary and sufficient for a ...

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