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Cognitive Psychology as a Neurological Framework

of cognitive neuropsychology finds its contemporary origins in the 1960s, there are famous cases in history that appear to substan...

Group Process/Nursing

(2003) gives the example of an nurse assigned to a busy intensive care unit (ICU) began experiencing clear signs of traumatic stre...

Psychology's Role in Health Research and Health Care/Johnson

This paper analyzes an article by Suzanne B. Johnson that discusses the paradigm shift in health care away from the biomedical mod...

Behaviorism and Organizational Psychology's History

In eight pages this paper examines behaviorism and the evolution of organizational psychology in an historical consideration that ...

Behaviorist Psychology v. Humanistic Psychology

a danger that is no longer present. The student researching this topic should understand that there are several disciplines that...

Social Psychology's Beneficial Aspects

twelve (2003). Standards of course have changed a great deal and while Twiggy only briefly became the new female icon in the 1970s...

History Of Educational Psychology - Emergence Of Cognitive Psychology

Both Plato and Aristotle discussed learning and education, the need for different types of education, the effects of the arts on l...

Psychology's Role in Managing Overall Health

of improved mental health, but it also often improves physical health as well. For example, at one time, any problems that a woma...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

Normal Sleep Pattern Cycles and Physiology

- also exist simultaneously. Of the three components, age is said to be "probably the single most crucial factor (apart from the ...

Does PMS Actually Exist?

and those that are will suffer in varying degrees (What is Premenstrual Syndrome? 2003). Among the many typical symptoms...

Overview of Men's Language and How it Differs

generally assumes an overall demeanor or front which it upholds. Usually, one person exemplifies the idealized goal. This goal is ...

Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...

Australian Plant Life and Adaptation

The Characteristics of Sclerophylls The word scleropohyll literally means, "hard leaves", and this name is derived from t...

Cardiac Patients and Propranolol Use

produce rennin. Renin is a protease that is released by the kidneys and have the effect of cleaving angiotensin I to angiotensin, ...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Law Enforcement Officials and Stress

The outcome of that stress can be phenomenal in terms of its impact on the officer and on the performance of their job. Those...

Regulation of Body Temperature

are capable of changing their rate of fire in reaction to changes in temperature. If the blood which passes through the hypothalam...

The Impacts of Acid Rain on Water and Soil

that deposition which is lower than seven on the pH scale and the alkaline classification being applied to those depositions which...

Streptococcus mutans and Acid Tolerance

inhabit. It is the home to a number of compounds which interact with living organisms such as S. mutans in both beneficial and de...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

Dreaming and its Purpose

to certain regions of the brain for example does produce definite and specific effects in respect to the subjective experience of...

Eating, Sleeping, Walking, and the Body's Role

joint. "Intact joint position sense is necessary for normal muscle coordination and timing" (Carpenter et al, 1998, p. 262). Add...

Critique of Article on Bathing Premature InfantsCRITIQUE: “BATHING PREMATURE INFANTS: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES”

Peters is concerned about, but rather, the fact that there has been little evidence that such bathing is beneficial; that the proc...

Social Role Played by Alcohol

period of time to over twenty years as seen in many of the cask matured whiskeys and ports. The production of alcoholic drinks has...