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Abraham Maslow's Psychological Theories

friend to anthropologist Ruth Benedict and Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer (Abraham Maslow: 1908-1970, 2002), as Gestalt was t...

Mexico's Psychological Theory and Practice

This paper examines how psychological theory and practice evolved in Mexico with the Spanish influence upon the culture of the Azt...

Utilizing the Id, Ego, and Superego

the superego drove the subconscious. According to Freud, it is these three forces that need to get along in order for us to functi...

Is It Possible to Be Born a Criminal?

strange and terrible" (Lanier and Henry, p. 94). Interestingly, this theory was supported by sociologist Richard Dugdale, who art...

B.F. Skinner's Contributions

Law of Effect. In the Law of Effect positive effects serve to strengthen the stimulus/response connection while negative effects ...

Mentally Ill Individuals, Dreams, and the Theories of Carl Jung

account but does not negate the deep dark crevices of the mind that dreams grow in. Everyone has had a horrific nightmare a...

Imprisoned Child Molesters and Theories of Psychology

response to how the person was treated when he was a child? Is their a deep psychological deviancy that sees a child as an appropr...

African American Community, Important Theories of Psychology, and the Causes and Effects of Neglect and Oppression

1998). What these factors are telling many within the mental health community it that the majority of African Americans are living...

Youth Work Value and Attributes

economic standing. All that began changing in the early 1990s, with the result that between 1995 and 1999 - years in which many o...

6 Studies on Criminal Behavior Personality and Psychological Theories

development as the unconscious development in early childhood influences behavior later in life (Flowe; Wood). Historicall...

Psychological Profile of Osama bin Laden

when the Taliban took control of the cities. Some would say that this is reminiscent of Stalins control of all literature and idea...

Advertising Analysis With Toulmin's Model

and well being, which it openly attributes to making the right decisions in life. The companys "Just Do It" marketing campaign wa...

Comparing Structuralism, Functionalism and Evolutionism

A 3 page research paper that briefly contrasts and compares these three early psychological theories, which were formulated soon ...

Intimate Relationships and Psychological Abuse

In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...

Structuralism, Functionalism and Behavioralism

this state functions, that is, "the role it plays," within the system to which the individual belongs (Levin, 2004). For example...

Criminal Theory and Crime's Psychological Correlates

in the future. While the early years of forensic psychology were characterized more by mistakes in psychological diagnose...

Comparison of Gestalt and Behaviorism

(1969 as Overskeid, 1995) states: "Behavior which is exclusively shaped by ... contingencies is perhaps the closest one can come t...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Unique Murderers and Criminological Explanations

an early incident sent Gacy to prison for molesting a teenager and then his wife divorced him (1997). After he served a short pris...

The Trajectories and Paths of Adolescent Development

In eight pages the psychological theory of trajectories and paths as they relate to adolescent development are presented along wit...

Erik Erikson's Identity Youth and Crisis

In six pages this paper examines Erikson's eight psychosocial developmental stages, explanations, and theories as they appear in t...

Grief, Mourning, and Psychology

In seven pages this paper examines grief and mourning processes of people in this overview of Carl Jung's psychological theories. ...

Relationship Between Adolescence and Horror Films

In five pages this paper considers Aristotle's genre definition and the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud in this examinatio...

A Tribe Apart by Patricia Hersch and Psychological Theory

In seven pages this research paper applies psychological theories on adolescent development in an analysis of the teens featured i...

Violence in Children and Psychosocial Theory

In six pages this paper examines violence and its subculture in a consideration of real life cases and discussion of various socio...

Creativity and Cognitive Psychology

Creativity is examines in seven pages within the context of cognitive psychological functionality with various topical theories su...

Children of Parents Who Are Incarcerated

In four pages this essay considers the more than 1.5 million children whose parents are presently incarcerated and examines statis...

Psychological Perspectives and Theories in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

PG). The novelist has a distinctive talent when it comes to writing about the similarities and differences between and among the ...

Personality and Psychological Theory

In twenty two pages this paper examines the psychological theories of Freud, Jung, Horney, Adler, Bandura, Rogers, May, and Skinne...

Theories of Child Development

what is good or bad for childrens development is riddled with methodological flaws and the results subject to many different, even...