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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Sternbergs Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: sternberg theory of intelligence, triarchic intelligence theory Intelligence is one of the most important aspects of human life and what differentiates us from the rest of the species at great length. Intelligence can take various variables and can derive from everywhere. More specifically, in this paper we will discuss Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of Human Intelligence, (1986) who separated intelligence into three divisions, analytical, creative, and practical, ...

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Client Centred Interview - Interviewing Skills

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: patient centred interview, patient interview skills, client interview skills The purpose of this assignment is to acknowledge and critically analyse the key skills required to perform a patient-centred interview; where any discrepancies between theory and practice will be noted. Episodes of critical reflection will be integrated using the literature to offer evidence to question and/or support my clinical interview. Furthermore, I will explain what has been ...

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Drug Abuse in Malaysia Statistics

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: malaysia drug abuse, drug addiction malaysia The above chart is shown as different states of drug abusers in Malaysia for 2008. Based on the chart, Georgetown is the highest number of drug abusers in Malaysia which is 730, followed by Kuala Lumpur (669 drug abusers), Ipoh (280 drug abusers), Johor Bahru (267 drug abusers) and Alor Setar (221 drug abusers). From the chart, Georgetown, kuala lumpur, ...

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The Influence of Gender on Therapy Outcomes

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: gender effect therapy, gender in therapy, gender issues therapy The purpose of this study is to explore clients and therapists' experiences of gender within the therapeutic relationship and how they affect overall treatment effectiveness and duration. Because gender issues create obstacles or advance progress, this paper discusses how gender differences affect the formation of the therapeutic relationship and how these effects alter therapy outcome. Clients expect ...

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Reflective Essay: Grief and Bereavement

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: model of bereavement, bereavement theory analysis, bereavement reflective essay This essay is a reflective journey through the loss I have experienced in my life. The essay will discuss two models of bereavement, dual process and continuing bonds. Towards not only understanding self in the process of loss, but also to understand some of the theories used to assist those who are grieving. Relevant referenced literature will ...

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Beck Depression Inventory Test Analysis

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: depression scale analysis, scale of depression The revised Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), published in 1996 was authored by Aaron Beck, Robert A. Steer, and Gregory K. Brown. Similar to its predecessor, it consists of 21multiple choice questions that assist in determining the severity of depression. Each item consists of four statements arranged in order to ascertain the severity of a certain symptom of depression. BDI-II conforms ...

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Does Age Affect the Stroop Effect?

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: influences stroop effect, stroop effect gender, stroop effect age This paper considers the Stroop task and asks whether broad demographic characteristics like gender and age can influence interference. Previous studies have found that interference does increase with age because the cognitive capacities required to suppress the more automatic response begin to decline. However, the findings with regard to gender are more equivocal, with some studies finding ...

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Connectivism Theory | An Analysis

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: connectivism theory analysis, connectionist model analysis The connectionist models of cognitive science are a part of the movement that focuses on explaining the abilities of the human intellect using artificial neural networks, also known as the neural nets (Garson 1997). These nets are models of the brain, simplified and composed of numerous analog units (in place of neurons) coupled with certain weights (in place of synapses) ...

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Effects of Social Networking Sites on the Parent-Child Relationship

23 Mar 2015 12 Jun 2017

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Keywords: social network site effects, parent child relationship researching, social networking site relationship The wide use of the Internet especially on social networking sites (SNSs) amongst all individuals is now playing an essential role in their daily lives (Digital Life, n.d.). Nowadays, it is common to see that the majority of people owns desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones or tablets with Internet access allowing individuals to log ...

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Motivations of Counselling and Therapy Professions

23 Mar 2015 08 Jun 2017

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Keywords: counsellor job motivations, why become a counsellor, why work in therapy "A friend in need is a pain indeed." With bumper stickers like that, it is hardly surprising that people might wonder about the counselling and therapy professions: Why would anyone in their right mind want to spend their working days listening to other people's tales of woe, whether stranger, friend or foe? Is the desire ...

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Freud's Psychosexual Theory Stages

23 Mar 2015 08 Jun 2017

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Keywords: freud theory critique, freud psychosexual theory, freud psychosexual theory summary This literature review is about how well does Freud's psychoanalytic theory explain and predict the human development? In order to see it, this literature review will review the five psychosexual stages one by one. First it starts with the oral stage where the mouth is the centre for pleasure. The passage will also go through two ...

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Schizophrenia: Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

23 Mar 2015 08 Jun 2017

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Psychology can be defined as the study of the mind and/or soul of an individual in addition to his/her mental behaviors and functions (Jose, 2001). It is a diverse and wide field consisting of major areas of application within itself, for instance abnormal and biological psychology. Biological psychology or biopsychology is that part charged with studying the manner in which biological processes affect the behavior and mind ...

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Personality and Lifestyle in Consumer Behaviour

23 Mar 2015 07 Jun 2017

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Consumer behaviour is a central topic in marketing and consumer behaviour is totally depends on consumer's personality and life style. We can understand it better by understanding the whole concept of personality and life style. Person always try to blame on any of two traits for his behaviour. (1) Internal traits: In this traits if person believe that whatever he/she is doing only because he want to ...

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Frontal Lobe And Its Function Psychology

23 Mar 2015 07 Jun 2017

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Keywords: frontal lobe functions, functions frontal lobe, frontal lobe psychology The human brain is a very complex structure; it is the center of our nervous system. One of the most important parts is the frontal lobe. The frontal lobes are responsible for what is known as the executive functions which include things like motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgment, impulse control, and social and ...

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History Of The Blue Brain Technology

23 Mar 2015 07 Jun 2017

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Blue brain is basically a Virtual Brain It is the creation of synthetic brain by reverse engineering, the mammalian brains down to the molecular level. That means a machine can function as human brain. No one can ever understand the complexity of human brain.It is more complex than any circuitry in the world.Is it possible to create a virtual brain? Yes,the scientists today are in research to ...

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Cognitive Processing and The Stroop Effect

23 Mar 2015 06 Jun 2017

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Keywords: strop effect study, cognitive processing experiment The area of study was cognitive processing. The aim of the experiment was to determine if there was a positive cognitive skill difference when a participant was given a matching variable of colours and words compared with a non-matching variable of colours and words. This is related to the Stroop Test published in 1935. The experimental hypothesis of the study ...

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How does Social Media Effect Time Management?

23 Mar 2015 06 Jun 2017

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Keywords: social media problems, social media addition, time management social media The purpose of this paper is to better understand the relationship between time spent on social media and time management in students. After and extensive literature review, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of 54 participants. After analyzing the results it was evident that there is a relationship between time spent on social media and ...

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Hochschild's Emotional Labour Theory

23 Mar 2015 06 Jun 2017

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Keywords: hochschild emotional labour, emotional labour sociology Emotional labour was first put forward by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in 1983 in her classic book, The Managed Heart. Hochschild's (1983) thesis mostly focuses on the job of flight attendants and bill collectors where she described the work involved in being "nasty" or "nice" and have also been expressed as "toe and heel" of the growing service sector (Cited in ...

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Relationship between Stress and Suicide

23 Mar 2015 06 Jun 2017

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Keywords: stress and suicide, suicide prevention strategies, suicide causes In 2002-2004, more than 10% of HK people who died of suicide were 15-24 years old (fig. 1 in appendix). However, in 2002, nearly 80% of HK people who attempted suicide were 15-24 years old (fig. 2 in appendix). Suicide problem in adolescents in HK is serious. In this paper, I will firstly define some terms. Then I ...

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Drug Recovery Programme: Analysis

23 Mar 2015 06 Jun 2017

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Keywords: drug recovery pathways, drug addiction help, drug addiction strategies Substance abuse is when an individual "Overindulgences in an addictive substance" (New Oxford American Dictionary. According to the Neurobiological Causes of Addiction, substance abuse is a "Maladaptive pattern of drug use leading to impairment or distress presenting as one or more of the following in a 12 month period of time (Erickson & Wilcox 2001): Recurrent use ...

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Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Disorders

23 Mar 2015 05 Jun 2017

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Keywords: sleep disorders essay, sleep disorder effects, sleep deprivation effects Sleeping disorders negatively impact the person, their family, and society. The objective of this paper is to describe the importance and types of sleep, the link between sleep and certain diseases, the effect of sleep disorders on individuals, their families, and society, and how to treat these disorders. Sleep is a requirement needed by every individual. It ...

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Social Psychology Theories - The Impact of Attitudes in Society

23 Mar 2015 05 Jun 2017

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Keywords: behaviour imitation, attitudes in society, social psychology attitudes People usually have a more immediate influence on us when we are actually in their presence. However some psychologists claim that all psychology is social psychology as all our behaviour takes place in a social setting, even when alone our behaviour tends to influence others. Social psychology looks at interpersonal relationships of how people form different impressions and ...

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How Neurons Communicate

23 Mar 2015 05 Jun 2017

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The objective of this assignment is to provide detailed explanation of the way in which neurons communicate with each other. It explores the link between this specific communication and the behaviour exhibited by humans to consider whether human behaviour can be explained purely by biology. The nervous system consists of numerous cells named neurons. Neurons are located within the Central Nervous System constituting of the brain and ...

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Ego Defense Mechanisms | Analysis

23 Mar 2015 02 Jun 2017

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Keywords: frued defence mechanisms, defense mechanisms theory Defense mechanisms were first conceptualized by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and further developed, by his daughter Anna Freud. Sigmund Freud described personality as being made up of three components: the id, the ego and the superego. The id operates solely on the pleasure principle; it is comprised of basic instincts and animalistic drives. The superego is a person's ...

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The Client-Centred Model - An Analysis

23 Mar 2015 02 Jun 2017

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In this essay I shall be defining the Rogerian and Egan's 3-stage model of counselling and discussing how the counselling alliance is established in each. Boundary issues will also be examined with a focus on what needs to be considered within the therapeutic relationship. Particular attention will be paid to the similarities and differences between them and the situations in which they may be utilised. Humanistic approaches ...

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Issues In Adolescent Development

23 Mar 2015 02 Jun 2017

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Adolescent can be defined as developmental stage between childhood and adulthood where through this crucial period they will have rapid changes in physical, emotion, cognitive change and also behavior. The adolescent stages can be divided to early adolescence (10-12 years), middle adolescence (13-15 years) and late adolescent (16 above) (Feldman, 2005). According to Western psychologists, "adolescence primarily as preparation for adulthood and this period as a time ...

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Effect of Highlight on Memory Recall

23 Mar 2015 02 Jun 2017

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Keywords: highlighting effect on memory This experiment was designed to investigate the effect of highlighting on memory recall. 30 subjects of aged 20 were chosen randomly. All the subjects were given a list of 40 words, in which 20 of them in black colour ink and 20 of them in yellow colour ink. The subjects were given 2 minutes to look at the list and were given ...

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How Reliable is Eyewitness Testimony?

23 Mar 2015 02 Jun 2017

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Keywords: eyewitness testimony, eyewitness testimony reliability This essays attempts to reach a conclusion regarding eyewitness testimonies and the extent of its reliability. This was done by identifying factors in three different processes stages. The acquisition stage is the period where the witness experiences the event. The retention stage is the period between the time the event ends and the time the witness are asked for a recount ...

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Adolescent Development Case Study Example

23 Mar 2015 01 Jun 2017

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Keywords: adolescent case study examples, case study of adolescent development This is the life of Liang, a 16 year-old adolescent boy. Liang is a 16 year-old adolescent boy who suffers from anxiety, stress, depression and exhibit anti-social behavior. Being eccentric, he only has very few good friends. He is often fatigued and has poor concentration during class but yet able to do well for all his tests. ...

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Should Children Be Allowed To Play Video Games?

23 Mar 2015 31 May 2017

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Keywords: video game effects, children play video game, effects of video game on child There are several ways children can learn and grow and there are an equally large amount of ways to facilitate this growth. Knowledge and growth can be gained through the telling of stories, listening to music, viewing beautiful artwork, and simply through playing and having fun. Throughout history many media sources such as ...

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Religious Healing in Medicine

23 Mar 2015 31 May 2017

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Keywords: religious healing benefits, medicine religion Most religious or spiritual healers practice a specific ritual as a treatment method for different physical or mental illnesses. A few examples of spiritual or religious rituals that are frequently used are prayer, yoga, and meditation. However, this study directly examines how effective mediation is as a remedy for physical or mental impairments among Buddhist believers. The crux, of this study ...

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Rey Complex Figure Test Interpretation

23 Mar 2015 31 May 2017

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Keywords: rcft analysis Over 68 years the RCFT has been used with great success for measuring visuospatial, memory, problems solving and motor skills. It compares well with other similar tests. It also has generally good reliability and validity, although this should be verified through further studies. Superior effects lower its test-retest reliability. Furthermore, other limitations include that different test versions have various administration criteria. Also, RCFT scoring ...

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Weapon Focus and Inattentional Blindness

23 Mar 2015 31 May 2017

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Keywords: eyewitness memory accuracy, weapon focus effects The aim of this research is to investigate the effects of weapon focus and inattentional blindness on eyewitness memory. 91 participants were randomly assigned to one of six conditions. Participants performed one of three task; count the number of bags (consistent attentional set), count the number of people in white coloured tops (inconsistent attentional set), or count nothing (control), while ...

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Personality Assessment Inventory Critique

23 Mar 2015 31 May 2017

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Keywords: pai critique. pai psychology The Personality Assessment Inventory is mostly for psychologists whom test for psychopathology. This test is used in psychotherapy, crisis evaluation, employment selection, forensic, child custody, and pain/medical evaluation. This personality test is one of the best assessments available and is more reliable and valid than most others. A thorough description of the test including the structure and scales is given. By evaluating ...

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Is Criminal Behavior Innate or Shaped?

23 Mar 2015 30 May 2017

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Keywords: criminality nature v nurture, social learning theory crime The 'nature vs. nurture' debate is one of the oldest issues concerning psychologists and the extent to which both factor influences personality is an enigma that remains unresolved to this date. Many questions have been raised and one such question is: 'Is criminal behavior is innate or is it shaped by the environment' and this paper will attempt ...

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Frontal Lobe Damage: Case Study

23 Mar 2015 30 May 2017

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Keywords: frontal lobe damage effects The frontal lobes play a major role in the regulation of our emotions and behaviour as well as planning, decision making, social conduct, and executive functions. They are vulnerable to damage and many neuropsychological tests have been developed to assess subsequent impairment related to the frontal lobes. The study looks at the case of Mr A who has reported a drastic ...

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Theories Of Depression

23 Mar 2015 30 May 2017

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Keywords: depression theories, behavioural theory depression Depression is classified as a mood disorder. To meet the criteria for having depression the sufferer will of have to have felt low in mood for two weeks or more and display at least five of the symptoms that are laid out by the DMS-IV. These symptoms typically include: continuous low moods and sadness, changes in appetite and weight, morbid thinking ...

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Paradigm of Mental Health

23 Mar 2015 26 May 2017

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Keywords: mental health paradigm shift, mental health paradigm analysis "Mental health disorders are amongst the leading causes of ill health and disability worldwide" (Prentice & Beusenberg 2001). A paradigm is an unanimously recognized scientific accomplishment that provides a conceptual framework for seeing and making sense of the social world (Kuhn, Thomas S., 1970) For the researcher it is important to recognise their paradigm, it allows them to ...

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Relaxation Theory: Theory and Practices

23 Mar 2015 26 May 2017

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Keywords: muscle relaxation therapy, relaxation therapy types, stress relaxation therapy Relaxation Therapy is a program which emphasizes a wide variety of strategies and techniques for dealing with stress and health disorders. Relaxation techniques can benefit almost any person by reducing stress and tension in muscles, lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and creating internal coping skills to handle anxiety. Muscle relaxation therapy involves learning how stressful circumstances ...

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Major Depressive Order: Case Study

23 Mar 2015 26 May 2017

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Keywords: depression case study, case study depression Major depressive disorder (MDD, clinical depression) - in contrast to the usual depression, which refers to almost any bad or depressed, melancholy mood, major depressive disorder is a complex of symptoms. Moreover, MDD may not be accompanied by low mood, depression or grief - the so-called depression without depression, or masked depression. If the symptoms described below lasted more than ...

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Social Facilitation Theory Analysis

23 Mar 2015 25 May 2017

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Keywords: social facilitation drive theory, social facilitation critique During my school days, when I used to practice solving mathematical equations at home I do fine and if professor asked to solve the same equation in front of class on white board, I always solve it accurately and fastly. But if the equation given is different or little tough, many times my performance degrades even if I know ...

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Attribution Theory Analysis

23 Mar 2015 25 May 2017

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Keywords: attribution theory fritz heider, attribution theory example Attribution theory assumes that people try to determine why people do what they do. The theory deals with the information one uses in making casual inferences, and the way one deals with this information to answer a casual question. But how can this account to the usefulness of the theory? By knowing the reasons for various behaviours people can ...

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Theories of Depression Analysis

23 Mar 2015 25 May 2017

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Keywords: psychodynamic theory depression, behavioural theory depression, cognitive theory depression In this essay I will outline and explain at least 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses of the explanations of depression, via 3 different main forms of psychological explanations for depression. These approaches are Psychodynamic, Behavioural and Cognitive. Depression is something that will affect most people's lives at some point. This is when you feel down, sad, tearful ...

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Can the five factor model explain personality?

23 Mar 2015 24 May 2017

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Keywords: extroversion vs introversion, ffm analysis, five factor model personality Every person is unique. From being geniuses to serial killers, people and their personalities can vary in many ways. What makes a person the way he/she is, is a question that everyone would like to answered. What exactly is personality and is it the factor that makes everyone different? In an attempt to solve this dilemma, there ...

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Study on the A Not B Error

23 Mar 2015 24 May 2017

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Keywords: a not b error definition, a not b error analysis After being discovered by Jean Piaget in 1954 perseveration tasks became one of the main means of investigation in cognitive development psychology, initially in children and later also in non-human animals. The most known of these is the, so called, A-not-B task, which even after many years of research still elicits debates about its underlying mechanisms. ...

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Racial and Cultural Difference in the Classrooom

23 Mar 2015 24 May 2017

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Keywords: cultural differences in education, racial differences in education, race academic achievement Don't Judge a Book by Its Cover Abstract The main topic of this paper is the racial and cultural differences between kids in the classroom setting. It points out that this is a social issue in our society today. The three main points that are pointed out are academic achievement, classroom behavior, and teaching quality. ...

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How Environment affects Personality Essay

24 May 2017

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Keywords: environment affects personality, effect of environment on personality What makes individuals unique. Most would say a persons personality makes them who they are. Lets take a look at how personalities are affected by ones environment. In doing so we are going to see how personality is defined. Then we will examine the different types of personalities and how they can be determined. Next, we will see ...

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Effects of Violence In Sports

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Keywords: biological theory, psychological theory, social learning theory Introduction Violence in sports involves the execution of behaviors that cause harm and happen out of the rules and regulations of sports. Currie (2000) defines violence in sports as "physical assault that is intended to cause physical pain or injury to another player (or fan, coach, game official etc), where such harmful actions bear no direct relationship to the ...

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Qualitative Research in Healthcare

23 Mar 2015 22 May 2017

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It is acknowledged in health care that qualitative research offers an important means of gaining insight and understanding of the health and healthcare problems, issues, and processes. It is rooted in the understanding, from the viewpoint of understanding involved, how individual and groups interpret, experience, and make sense of social phenomena (Pop et al, 2002). Qualitative research deemed appropriate for this research allowing the development of theory ...

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Serial Position Effect in Memory Recall | Research Study

23 Mar 2015 22 May 2017

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Memory recall plays a very important role in the daily lives of humans, particularly for students whose exams require memorization and recall. Research has supported the idea that organization, isolation, and cues enhance memory recall. Isolation and cues presented varied between experiments but color was commonly used. The present experiment tested memory recall while manipulating a certain aspect of the stimulus. The present study also examined the ...

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Theories Of Childhood Amnesia

23 Mar 2015 22 May 2017

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Many people lack the ability to recall specific events from their childhood, such as episodic memories; the time, place and emotions felt during an experience (Tulving, 1984). The term childhood amnesia introduced by Sigmund Freud (1910) refers to the inability to recall memories from the first two years of life, Freud (1910) attributed the cause of CA to repression of traumatic events. Following Freud (1910) several investigators ...

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Psychodynamic Approach and Behaviourism

23 Mar 2015 19 May 2017

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Compare and contrast two approaches to psychology, highlighting the characteristic strengths and weaknesses of each approach Psychodynamic approach use concepts which are purely psychological and not physiological. This approach ignores the scientific method of observation and instead focuses on trying to get inside the mind of an individual, in order to understand their experiences and relationships. Sigmund Freud (1896) was the founder of the psychoanalytical approach, his ...

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Primacy And Recency Effect

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Serial learning is a process in which the learner is exposed to series of stimuli; later the learner is asked to recall his memory in the same sequence in which stimuli have been exposed to him. Serial leaning is part of our daily life; we are required to learn things in sequence and if we do not remember the sequence it will affect our desired goal (Jensen, ...

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The definition of sex addiction

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As sex addiction starts to gain more popularity from society and media, more and more college students have revealed their concerns about sex addiction. This research paper is aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of sex addiction which includes the definition of sex addiction, the potential causes of sex addiction, sex addiction symptoms, consequences of sex addition, and to present alternative treatments and the effectiveness of the ...

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Bullying In Schools And The Effects

23 Mar 2015 19 May 2017

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Bullying is a worldwide problem that can have both short and long term effects on its victims. It is described as aggressive behavior normally characterized by repetition and an imbalance of power. Hundreds of thousands of children are affected every day in the United States because of bullying. This behavior is damaging to all involved, and even those who are not, and should not be permitted anywhere ...

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Results Chapter: Memory Research

23 Mar 2015 19 May 2017

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First of all, we have to determine the appropriate measure of product involvement. Referring to our meta-analysis, involvement is considered as an endogenous variable moderating the effect of incidental advertising exposure and one of consumer characteristics. Researchers have strived a great effort to develop tools with which to measure involvement since the introduction of the concept to marketing by Krugman (1965) and although researchers agree that the ...

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Attitude Formation And Stereotypes

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'Stereotypes', according to Hogg and Vaughan(2002:46), are impressions of people that are strongly influenced by widely shared assumptions of personality, behaviour and attitudes based on group membership for example, sex, race, ethnicity and nationality. These assumptions are a simplified evaluative image of someone or a social group and its members, mental representations influence impressions we form of a person or group and are seen as a social ...

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Case study: OCD and paraphilia

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29 year old serving Nk/Clk self-reported on 15 Apr 10 with complaints of difficulty in completing his job, increasing irritability & marital disharmony of one and half years duration. However, detailed evaluation revealed significant difficulties since several years in his sexual behavior and ability to complete a task on time At 10 years of age he had started rubbing his genitalia on bed to get pleasurable effects ...

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Major Depressive Disorder Symptoms

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Major depressive disorder MDD, clinical depression - in contrast to the usual depression, which refers to almost any bad or depressed, melancholy mood, major depressive disorder is a complex of symptoms. Moreover, MDD may not be accompanied by low mood, depression or grief - the so-called depression without depression, or masked depression. If the symptoms described below lasted more than two weeks and begin to interfere with ...

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Understanding Consciousness in Psychology

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There is no one true definition of consciousness, however the consensus of neuropsychologists and philosophers alike is that consciousness is an awareness of our mental states; experiences, sensations and feelings. The study of consciousness is described as "the most important problem in the biological sciences" (Searle, 2005) and over the last fifteen years research and interest has grown, evident by more than 15,000 scientific articles on the ...

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The Determinants Of Self Esteem

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Self Esteem The term self-esteem can be defined as the level to which individuals view their worthiness as an individual. The roots of self-esteem are that, the appraisal is first developed from childhood and continues throughout someone's life. If it one has low self-worthiness. If anyone has low self-worth, then it means that these earlier experience is simply overshadowed the individual and have come to represent the ...

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Mary Ainsworth: Attachment theory

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Mary Ainsworth: Attachment theory John Bowlby was the original founder of attachment theory this began after World War II where he found many children became orphans at a very young age and concluded that attachment was crucial for development (Miler, 2011). In his studies he proposed that attachment came from the knowledge that infants needed protection and biologically infants know that separation could cause a child ...

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Erikson's Psychosocial Theory

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Erikson's psychosocial theory (Erikson, 1968), developed from Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory and his extensive practical field research, emphasizes on the growth and change within the individual. He incorporated cultural and social aspects into Freud's biological and sexually oriented theory, and focused on how experience and environment shaped behavior and personality. Erikson was the first to develop a life-span of human development, broken into eight stages. Each stage ...

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Analyse stages of drawing development

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Explain and critically analyse stages of drawing development as described by Luquet and Piaget. Children's drawings are studied and analysed to learn about the acquisition of drawing skills. The types of skills we can interpret from drawings include motor execution, planning strategies, spatio-geometric, part whole relations and artistic talent. There are several theories that can be discussed about the processes of drawings such as Perceptual theories ...

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Behavioral perspectives of psychology

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Behavioral psychology is thought to be a perspective that mainly focuses on behaviors that have been learned. While psychology was mainly dominated by behaviorism in the early 20th century, it quickly started to diminish in the 1950s. Now a days, the behavioral perspective still deals with how behaviors have been learned and reinforced. Behavioral principles have many a times been applied in settings of mental health where ...

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Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Theory

23 Mar 2015 18 May 2017

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Maslows hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, all of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert ...

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Treatment of and prevention of depression

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There are many different titles for depression, such as clinical depression, manic depression, major depression, and simply depression. Whatever, the title they are all depression and range from mild to severe furthermore, this condition attacks the rich, the poor, the young and the old it is truly a equal opportunity condition. Finally, for as many titles as depression has this condition also has just as many reasons ...

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Feminism in the Asian Culture

23 Mar 2015 18 May 2017

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Feminism in the Asian Culture: An Obstacle? As one of the largest continent on Earth, Asia boast approximately 4 billion people with 47 countries(Wikipedia, 2009). From India to China, the derivation of differences across borders creates a unique and perplexing culture of its own. Putting ethnicity, religion and borders aside, the Asian culture shares similar values such as filial piety, honor, and collectivism. On a more negative ...

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Adolescence is a period of Storm and Stress Essay

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Keywords: adolescence essay, essay on adolescence, storm and stress of adolescence Introduction Adolescence is a period in development between the onset of puberty and adulthood. It usually begins between 11 and 13 years of age with the appearance of secondary sex characteristics and spans the teenage years, terminating at 18 to 20 years of age with the completion of the development of the adult form. ...

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The Levels Of Stress In University Students

23 Mar 2015 18 May 2017

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Stress is the expressive and physical strain caused by our response to pressure from the outside world. Common stress reactions include anxiety, bad temper, inability to concentrate, and a variety of physical symptoms that include headache and a fast heartbeat. It's almost impossible to live without some stress. (Whitman, 1985) The ability to identify when we are under stress and what is stressing us can greatly improve ...

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Psychological Skills Training Programme

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Psychology is the scientific study of cognitive thoughts, feelings and behaviours. The aim of sports psychology is to understand the contribution that psychological components have on exercise performance, but also the effects that participation in physical exercise has on psychological development. Sports psychologists often talk about the significance of being in the "zone" and of creating an intimidating presence for your opponent on the field of play, ...

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The Beck Depression Inventory

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The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) Overview Depression is one of the most common psychological problems and it can take over the person’s emotions, bodily functions, behaviors, and thoughts. In fact, it is so prominent that 16 percent of Americans at some point in their lives experience an episode of major depression (Kessler et al. 2003 as cited in Nolen-Hoeksema, 2007). There are various theories of depression; one ...

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Is Intelligence Inherited?

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Is Intelligence Inherited? There are many different arguments relating to whether intelligence is inherited or whether it is something that is developed through the environment, which is otherwise known as the ‘Nature versus Nurture' debate. A little of this will be discussed later on, along with trying to define intelligence, heritability and how inheritance takes place. In additional to this; various studies will be discussed with ...

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Freudian Theory of Personality

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Freud was one of the most important scientists in the field of psychology in the past century. He formed the psychoanalytical approaches like no one else. He developed a topographical and structural model of personality. The first one, the topographical model, describes the detailed parts of the psyche. He said that one part of psyche is the unconscious which consists of thought and feelings that are crowded ...

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Cognitive developmental approach to children's drawings

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Children's drawings have been used in psychology as a tool to measure several things, including intelligence, emotion and self-esteem, social roles and social identity. The focus of this essay is to critically analyse the cognitive development approach towards children's drawings. As well as cognitive theories of drawing development, there are competing explanations for the development of drawing including Willats' (1977, 1997) perceptual theory. The theory was object ...

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Craik and Lockhart's Theory on Memory

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Abstract Craik and Lockhart (1972) proposed that it is the method and depth of processing affects how an experience is stored in memory, rather than rehearsal. To determine the level of processing between semantic and phonemic encoding, 26 word pairs was shown to 837 undergraduates and each participant has 30 seconds to determine whether it was a category association or rhyming relationship. The participants were then asked ...

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Mental health of children and adolescents

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Maintaining mental health and wellness is a rather complex task- and the possible problems associated with mental health can be rather debilitating depending on their severity. Mental health is described as including the emotional and behavioral areas of health and is crucial to a given child's well being1. More over, mental health can vastly impact various areas of life including, personal relationships, work and school and physical ...

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Impact Of Autistic Children On Family

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In recent study the attention has been drawn towards the impact of autistic children on the family. Autism refers to neurodevelopment disorder as identified at early age of 3 years old and characterized by considerable social interaction and communication impairment, unusual and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. Parents of autistic children face great and unending challenges due to slow mental development of the child. These challenges are in ...

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Developmental Milestones In Child Development

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Developmental milestones are physical or behavioural changes of development or the maturation of children and infants. They provide important information that relates to a child's development. These changes are different for each child. Cognitive development theory is about the development of human intelligence and is primarily known as development stage theory and concerns the nature of knowledge and how humans develop gradually to acquire and use. Piaget's ...

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Social interaction in child development

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In the first two years of an infant's life, they undergo many changes that allow them to develop into a fully functioning human being. Social interaction is an important contributing factor that influences that development. To see how important social interaction is for the development of a child in the first two years of its life, it is important to observe key areas of behaviour such as ...

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