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The effect on health of cognitive appraisal

This paper looks at the way in which people's general health might be affected by cognitive appraisals: the writer also considers ...

Syllogistic Reasoning and Cognitive Development

In ten pages children's cognitive development is examined in terms of syllogistic reasoning through a structure of introduction, h...

Autistic Children and Cognitive Abilities

Autistic children are examined in a paper consisting of seven pages with the emphasis being their language skills and cognitive ca...

Issues of Human and Computer Interface

In twelve pages this paper considers human and computer interface in a discussion of cognitive problems that have yet to be addres...

Personality Theories

This paper consists of five pages and features a fictitious person in an application of Humanistic Approach, Social Cognitive Appr...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Sociological and Medical Impacts

results in the slow loss of memory, personality, and eventually all cognitive function (Lemonick and Park-Mankato, 2001). Scienti...

Emotional and Cognitive Child Development and Parental Support

In 6 pages this paper discusses a child's emotional and cognitive development in an assessment of parental support and the role it...

Cognitive Processes and Reading Disabilities

phonological skills would be stronger predictors than exception words (Griffiths and Snowling, 2003). They also hypothesized that ...

Betty's Case and Cognitive Therapy

individuals like Betty would not be able to properly function within their world. The practice of psychology has proven to be mor...

Category Formation, Causal Theories, and Cognitive Psychology

"because" they have wings and therefore prior knowledge cannot be ignored when dealing with category formation but instead is inco...

Examination of Personality and Psychological Disorders and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

make good decisions (Bush, 2002). In CBT, the therapist plays an active role in helping the individual to solve his or her probl...

Child Development and the Theories of Jean Piaget

is so obvious (Holme, 1972). As this Piaget experiment suggests a childs knowledge builds upon itself from experience and advances...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Case Study on Mental Health

that may aid the understanding are those of Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud. These can be applied to the development of a client to...

Cognitive Process of Writing

indeed a psychology that will greatly fail in understanding the human mind as it relates to writing. It is therefore critically i...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Overview of Constructivism

cognition and a good deal of the theory is related to child development research, with particular emphasis on Piaget ("Construct...

Middle Childhood Cognitive Development and Environmental Influences

of both these elements. In regards to environmental (nurture) elements which influence and increase cognitive development, ...

Play Therapy and Behavior

allowed for recognition of human thought as an "integral part of human behavior" (OConnor, 1991, p. 26). Prior to this point, beha...

Psychosis in Adolescents and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

the age of seven, the prevalence of the disorder does increase with age (2003). Childhood schizophrenia forms a continuum with the...

Racism and Cognitive Dissonance

into a state of psychological dissonance, which, in turn, produces an unpleasant tension (Rudolph, 2003). According to Festinger, ...

Psychological Counseling and the Cognitive Behavioral Method

occur on an everyday basis. Some errors are minor but others can have disastrous consequences. Some can even lead to increased l...

Essays on Psychology

different islands of the Galapagos based on what their needs are in the use of their beaks. If they eat soft fruits or insects th...

Infant Cognition, Habituation and Violation Of Expectation

combination of judgment and awareness; indeed, this aspect is most definitely associate with ecological concern, inasmuch as cogni...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Research Article Analysis

review, the authors of the study indicate that they came to the conclusions that comprehensive psychophysiological theories need t...

Jean Piaget, John Dewey, and Constructivism

way will these children be able to discriminate, to make distinctions that penetrate below the surface" (Campbell, 1995, p. 216). ...

Cognitive Stages of Jean Piaget and the Psychosexual Development Stages of Sigmund Freud

a great deal of his psychological theories of development upon psychosexual stages found in his 1915 publication "Three Essays on ...

Youthful Consumers

approximately $2.2 billion of their own money in 1968; that amount increased to $4.2 billion in 1984, which quadrupled to $17.1 bi...

4 Approaches to Counseling

In eight pages the pastoral counseling of Charles Gerkin, the cognitive counseling of Frances Egan, the affective counseling of Ca...