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Descartes' Psychology and the 'Conscious Mental State' Theory of William James

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

Scientific Psychology and the Negative Consequences of Dualism of Mind and Body

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

The 'Science' of Human Behavior According to B.F. Skinner

or punish it. If a given behavior results in an effect that the organism likes, this behavior will be repeated. If the effect is ...

Psychology and Its Philosophical Foundations

In five pages psychology and the foundations laid by philosophy are examined in a discussion of Herodotus, Socrates, Aquinas, Lock...

Overview of Childrearing

Childrearing is considered in terms of parenting psychology, parent and child relationship significance, problems and solutions in...

Importance of Psychology Study

the condition these people lived in fear and anxiety and confusion for their entire lives, feeling alone. Today we know a great ...

'Writing Superheroes' by Dyson

as the teaching and learning environment." Indeed, the book is more than just one about superheroes and the nature of these heroes...

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...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff and Characterization

him to the hospital. After a short while on the road they stop for coffee, then later, they stop for pancakes. All the while their...

Stress Resistance and a Conflict in a Women's Work and Family

included the authors need to modify the job stress portion of the study in order to separate the overlapping measures of "other ke...

Psychology Students and College Campus Linguistic Subcultures

my guide in understanding how he and his fellow students actually comprise a subculture in their use of such jargon. I, of course...

Young Golfer Training and Sports Psychology

well-aware of the fact that physical talent is never enough on its own. However, talent with hard work, ambition, and a winning at...

Critiquing the Research Approach of Measuring Children's Anger

the most common reasons for the referral of children to psychological and psychiatric services. Seventy-five percent of the child...

United Kingdom Education and the Effects of Psychology Development

have been confused by the new languages or an acronyms and initials that have been formed along with new ideas set within the educ...

Social Psychology Issues

as they are living in a world with others who also eat well. There is a sense that when there are great numbers, responsibility is...

Social Psychology and Application of Aggression Theories

et al, 1990). In the clinical setting, the two most commonly displayed behavior disorders are grouped under the heading of disr...

Case Study on Self Psychology

a part of a familial process. Recognizing his parents patterned alcohol consumption, Richard found the behavior normative and beg...

Freud, Rogers, and Counseling from a Client Centered Perspective

the realm of philosophy as opposed to science(2002). This is not surprising. When delving into the mind and into behavior, there a...

Independent Discipline of Psychology and the Impact of Sociocultural Forces

1997, p. 463), psychology eventually came to represent the very essence of mental performance. Throughout history, there have bee...

Freud and his Controversial Theories

or morality/values. Freud theorizes that inherent in every newborn child is the urge to engage in sexual acts with the pare...

Sales Management and Sales

their current circumstances; and their plans for the future. Helping the salespeople to meet their own personal goals benefits th...

Questions on Social Psychology Answered

(Conrad, 2003). From the actors point of view, we addressed this somewhat in the above - namely, do Kevin and Anna react in the sa...

Personal Probability and the Influences of Psychology

18 and 50, who have demonstrated a willingness to participate. The surveys will be collected over a two week period in order to g...

Psychology College Student Language Observations

interact and evolve. Such students take little convincing to become ready informants in our current quest to understand language ...

Topics on Music

In four term papers of three pages each musical topics such as music and brain function; anthropology and music; memory, learning ...

Bereavement, Death, and Senior Citizens

life requires a recognition that our bodies give to us both our lives and our deaths, so that social and cultural life can, in the...

Study of Groups, Psychodynamic and Experimental Methods

is also the case that such a social context can be implied, as well as explicit, in studies of individuals. It would be reasonable...

Group Work and Alderian Therapy

to move beyond only the routine approach to group work, she still provides an overview of group counseling theory as a foundation....

Concept of Human Relations

differences but rather to expose common ground (Wilbers, 1996). "...The power of rhetoric, Rogerian or not, to heal is as powerfu...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...