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Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...

Anorexia: A Lifestyle Choice

as a whole. While these influences are most obvious in terms of teenage girls, they are present as well in regard to teenage boys...

Development of the Fetal Heart

the tip of a pen (Mayo Clinic Staff, 2009). As this indicates, the heart, which develops from the cardiogenic mesoderm, is one o...

Comparative Analysis of 3 Psychological Theories

someone ... we are not saying that he or she is in a particular internal state or condition. Instead, we are characterizing the pe...

Positive Psychology Burnout

This essay discusses different issues in psychology. It explains what positive psychology is and its strategies; it explains what ...

Issues in Psychology

This essay offers five questions with answers. Topics include using behavior modification to change one's own behavior, developmen...

Selection and Training in Organizational Psychology

fit with the organization in question. In the context of training, employees are better able to learn and master new skills when t...

Branches of Psychology

psychology is social psychology, which also includes sub-disciplines such as environmental psychology which have become quite prom...

A History Of Psychology

This paper examines the history of psychology from ancient times to the present. The author focuses on psychology's evolution fro...

Psychology and the Community

What is community psychology? This research report focuses on that very subject. Ecological psychology is referenced. This special...

The Contributions of Abraham Maslow

danger, job security, stability in life and even a degree of structure that one can depend on (Boeree, 2007). The next level inclu...

Psychology's Sub-Disciplines and Their Practical Import in Brief

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at psychology as a whole and its many different sub-disciplines. The paper examines beh...

Industrial Organizational Psychology

1921, James Cattell founded the Psychological Corporation for the purpose of advancing psychology and promoting its value in indus...

Behavior Therapy Article Reviews

In sixteen pages psychology articles related to the issue of behavior therapy are reviewed....

George A. Reker's Counseling Families

parents hold down full-time jobs are the rule rather than the exception, and as Rekers has observed, this creates problems among b...

Human Psychology in William Faulkner's Sanctuary and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

In three pages this paper examines the primary characters in these two stories in terms of society's treatment of them and human p...

Jean Piagot’s Contribution to Adolescent Psychology

The time of Piaget was a time when new awareness was also coming to the specific condition of children, as they were seen as separ...

Overview of a Doctoral Program Statement of Intent

to make an impact on society as a whole. My first goal is academic. My pursuit of an education extends from my belief that the ...

Communication and Psychology

world around them which in turn will impact on the way communication takes place (Coupland et al, 1991). The use of this then ext...

Depth Psychology/Early Childhood Educational Setting

conclusion that this behavior was associated with the subconscious factors posited by Freud. How the unconscious is conceptualized...

Why Psychology Is Considered A Science

"mental life contains no independent elements but different moments mutually implicating each other in the whole" (p. 42). ...

The Misuse of Psychology

1879, closely followed by the Johns Hopkins University in the US in 1883. in 1890 James Cattell developed psychological tests, dev...

Article Synopsis; L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology

social as well as individual. The to important elements in terms of modern though are the "zone of proximal development" which is...

Cognitive View of Psychology

involved "between stimulus/input and response/output" (McLeod, 2006). The principal areas of interest in cognitive psychology are ...

Issue in Social Psychology

with the group existed with two people, and compliance and conformity existed with the third one. On the one hand, two were confor...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

of performance measures that reflected a practical motivation, often creating a disconnect between learners and the educational fo...

Psychopharmacology and Other Topics

a stereotypical image they held in their own minds. We are not always aware of our own prejudices but some people are and take s...

Psychology and Philosophy

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

Medical Model and Psychology

in the 19th century. G. Stanley Hall was strongly influenced by Darwins theories of evolution. It was the catalyst for Halls scie...

Cogntive and Developmental Psychology

This paper has several sections beginning with an explanation two subfields-cognitive psychology and developmental psychology. The...