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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 ...

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...

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...

Virginia Axline's Dibs in Search of Self

When he does venture out to join a playgroup, he is unresponsive. He is only capable of communicating in monosyllables and in stri...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Benefits of Reconciliation Among Warring Factions

for empathy, and the desire for reconciliation (Walker and Gorsuch, 2004). For example, Walker and Gorsuch (2004) contend that th...

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...

Intimate Relationships and Psychological Abuse

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

Crime and Substance Abuse

the increased propensity of our nations youth to use drugs can be traced back to the same root reasons as the other problems which...

Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy and the Film Radio

progressive needs of safety and security, love and belonging and the need for esteem (Boeree, 2004). If, at any time, individuals ...

Issues of Organizational Behavior

forth (Lambert, Edwards and Cable, 2003). The massive downsizing of organizations that was so prevalent in the 1980s and continu...

Van Gogh and the Theories of Jung Adler and Freud

This paper is a psychoanalysis of Vincent Van Gogh. Using the theories of prominent psychoanalyst, the author attempts to provide...

Parenting and Psychology

suggests that thoughts create a program in ones head and that self-talk can either be destructive or constructive. In Piagets mind...

Love Theories

to break up that civilization into smaller units. The point being, love is doomed because society requires multiple, sanitized re...

Major Pedagogical and Educational Psychology Theories

the use of rewards" (Seamons, 2002). Perennialism comes out of the struggle to reconcile Idealism and Realism; the middle positio...

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...

the theores behind hate crimes

that the victims group membership is the cause for prejudice or hate crime" (Sun, 2008). This puts the motive for the crime precis...

B.F. Skinner and William James

prominent philosopher, Carl Lange, was coining his own version of that theory. The resulting combination became known as the Jame...

Degeneration and Psychopathy and Their Points of Convergence

for something. Thus, even when they are proven to be utter rubbish, we still continue to support them because it seems that they s...

Why Violence IS So Prevalent In Sports

very heart of causal processes (Bandura, 1986). Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, this theory is closely associated...

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...

Psychology and the Place of Sigmund Freud

in psychology over the years. Freuds tradition envelopes the idea that childhood is very significant and that the mind is compris...

Parent and Child According to the Attachment Theory

how the child or infant would react to separation based on the initial strength of the attachment experienced with the mother. T...

A Psychological Profile of Madonna

This paper examines various aspects of the life, personality, and behaviors of the pop star Madonna. The author utilizes the psyc...

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...