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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...

Science Studies and Varied Topics

retelling of the ideas of another person, cited adequately, rather than simply changing a few words. Creating documents that refl...

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). ...

Professionals in Abnormal Psychology

recognizing psychological disorders, dealing with behaviors that might result from these disorders, and how to properly administer...

Personality Development - The Major Theories

observations of behavior in a subject of a chosen age group. This will allow one to explore a number of developmental theories in ...

Exploring Environmental Psychology

expectations imparted by the environment (Clayton & Myers, 2009). In addition to physical environment, the "environment" in enviro...

Issues in Social Psychology

women would respond to the financially independent and ambitious ad than they would to the other. In other words, more women would...

Organizational Crisis and Leadership

deeper than this, however, and impacted personnel at the most fundamental and intimate level. For example, when visiting the facil...

Diversity and Cultural Differences in Psychology

the most prominent are cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology. While the two share some similar influences and foci, it...

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...

Forensic Science and the Question of Validity

way to widespread use of valid science within the criminal justice system; however, the NAS report indicates that this has failed ...

Consumer Behavior

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

Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Psychology

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

forensic methodologies such as phrenology. While there is some basic variation in regards to terminology and other superficial fac...

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 ...

Structure Design, Architecture, and Environmental Psychology

spurious claim - surely humans have control over themselves? Nevertheless, upon deeper reflection, it becomes clear that physical ...

Advertising and Its Relation to Psychology, Sociology, and Mass Communications

or negatively (Bharadwaj, Tuli, & Bonfrer, 2011). Moreover, both systematic and idiosyncratic risks can be managed effectively thr...

Socrates, Rationalism, Behaviorism and Psychology

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

Traumatic Brain Injury - Job Coaching

negative emotions and maximize the positive emotions when faced with a task that is challenging. One of the issues with persons w...

Teaching : Art Or Science

what this person means by control. Teachers are never going to have complete control over their classrooms. There are just too man...

Kahneman's Contribution to the Field of Economics

winning Nobel," 2002). What the pair did was to examine decision-making and judgment ("Kahneman gets warm reception after winning...

Science And Religion, Galileo And Copernicus

between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based within a foundation of undeniable proof, while r...

Science Instruction and Safety Issues

and materials are stored properly and that any potentially hazardous materials were not inadvertently left out in the classroom (E...

Social Psychology As A Discipline

world to how a vulnerable person winds up on the other side. Cliques are composed of a specific - often superficial - element tha...