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An Overview of Abnormal Psychology

on the balancing of the "four humors" and the application of now-debunked practices such as blood-letting (Snitchler & Harris, 201...

Postmodern Research in Psychology

rather than something that is real (McNabb, 2010). Another premise in this paradigm is that there is no single best way to gain kn...

Cognitive Psychology and More

al., 2008). People tend to internalize the norms and values in their environments. They do so because they will be able to perfor...

Communnication, Technology, and Social Changes

and the society. The Planned Parenthood Federation could produce a short documentary that reports the services they provide that a...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

John Hinckley: Abnormal Psychology

of abnormal behavior was that, in 1981, he sought to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan (Meyer, 2008). ...

Early Perceptions of Mental Illness

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

Conent in Psychology

research, assessments and therapy. In any case, the purpose is to assure the clients/participants fully understand what is going t...

Gestalt Psychology - A Confluence of Influence

to refer to the integrative process of cognition that he and his colleagues supported; tellingly, one of his students was Max Wert...

Brain-Body

directly related to how strong that memory will be (Klein and Thorne, 2007). He offered a cell-assembly model for memory and propo...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Memory Processes

a memory lapse. The alternative method is more accurate. I saw this woman out of context. The only place I had ever seen and inter...

Integrating Theology and Psychology

by science is truth (Shepard, 2007). These are the extremes of the conflict; all points in between are represented in this conflic...

Cogntiive Psychology

serious issue that has been proven in the courts. Hockley (2010) said that memory is generally retrieved due to some kind of reinf...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

A New Kind of Psychology

disseminating positive psychology interventions to communities and organizations; and establishing schools and families who focus ...

Criminal Profiling and Other Issues

artists, ruthless manipulators, and petty criminals. Psychopaths usually commit crimes because they like to control, dominate, and...

Consumer Behavior

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

Statistics in Psychology: Descriptive and Inferential

10 anxiety" is higher than "level 6 anxiety", there is no exact quantifiable distance between the levels; we simply know that one ...

Ethical Evaluations in the Field of Psychology

application of principles and codes of conduct must be linked to the belief that these support an ethical and wise course of actio...

Psychological Hypothesis Testing

experimentation and inferential statistics (Jamison, 2012). The first of the five steps of hypothesis testing is to "state the re...

Developmental Psychology - Observations

I readily agreed. Right away, I began noticing that childhood development principles were playing out before my eyes. According t...

Helping Children Adjust to Divorce, Positive Psychology

characterized by hostility tended to exhibit decreased emotional wellbeing (Baxter, Weston and Qu, 2011). This study shows that th...

How Social Psychology Differs

counseling psychology and clinical practice. It differs from personality psychology because it focuses more on the influences of ...

The Theories of Carl Rogers

relationship (Capuzzi & Gross, 2006). Rogers defined a method for achieving an atmosphere that was conducive to healing ...

Milestones in Cognitiivism

through sensory experience. There are memories of those experiences. The third is transforming of those faint memories to thoughts...

Ideas From Two Books on Terrorism

met numerous times to discuss the possibility of attacking nuclear power plants and using chemical warfare in other venues, which ...

Levels of Language and Psychology

to make units, such as vowels and consonants, which are speech sounds in verbal language. The sounds are put together to make a wo...

The Issue of Space in Environmental Psychology

an innate need to specify some physical space as their territory and to exercise some degree of control over this territory. This ...