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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...

Obesity and the Development of Pharmaceuticals

airplanes. It is hard to live in America without seeing many obese people every day of their lives. What is obesity and how is it ...

Gender Stereotyping in Video Games

simply appealing to adolescent boys, as many adults, including women, also enjoy video gaming. One survey, conducted by the gaming...

Competing Views of Abnormal Behaviors

characteristics that clinicians would place within the scope of mental disorders would not necessarily be perceived as problematic...

Hypersexuality in Sexual Offenders

In a four page paper, the author considers the issue of hypersexuality in sexual offenders. Many sexual predators have been the v...

Efficacy of CBT with Bulimia

could impede progress in therapy (Martin, 2011). Beck coined the term cognitive therapy. As the theory evolved, it was soon appa...

Assessing Abnormal Behavior

even schizophrenia. While Hippocrates approached the issue with a scientific bent, seeking to use medicinal practices to relieve a...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

of performance measures that reflected a practical motivation, often creating a disconnect between learners and the educational fo...

A Girl with ADHD: A Case Study

sometimes problematic, and found that she can react physically to other children, sometimes grabbing and pushing them. In the scho...

Counseling: Exploring the Therapeutic Value

therapeutic value primarily because it is built upon a foundation of solid psychological premises and ideas. It is these ideas whi...

Piaget Affirmed Through Naturalistic Observations

Numerous theories have been formulated to explain a childs relationship with their world....

Dietary Changes

period of the program, I began to implement changes in my diet in stages, first by introducing portion control and later by introd...

Foundation of Cognitive Behavioral Theory

While she may think she is unique among a sea of other binge eaters, it comes as a great source of comfort and inspiration to lear...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Criminal Behavior and Influential Factors

resources on deterring individuals from crime. Socioeconomically disadvantaged and lesser educated individuals seem to be...

Hard Determinism and B.F. Skinner

process. The psychologist, categorized second behind Sigmund Freud as the worlds most profound figure in the field, was initially...

Security, Culture, and Organizational Behavior

through the use of information in the current literature and a view of variations in organizational culture that will demonstrate ...

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray

such social struggle stem from whether nature or nurture commands greater credit and why. Patriarchy has long prescribed the male...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Character Mrs. Joe

became blindly furious by regular stages" (Dickens 120). In other words, her behavior reflects o real emotion at all. Similarly, P...

Behavior and the Effects of Culture

community or society. A set of values, beliefs, and attitudes shared by most members of that community" (Crane, 2005). Crane (200...

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...

Milgram’s Shock Experiment and the Stanford Prison Experiment

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Effectiveness of CBT With Schizophrenia

that precedes the first episode of psychosis in schizophrenia is referred to as the "preprodromal period...and the prodrome" and i...

Are Genes Involved in Aggressive Behaviors

the links between genetics and environment in human behavior. This is why human behavioral genetics explores and analyzes the fami...

Antisocial Behavior in Children

behaviors. MAOA is the structural gene for production of this enzyme. Four other chemicals, epinephrine, norepinephrine, serotonin...

School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Diddle and Denham (2010)/An Article Summary

on Calvinism. The discussion describes and links the values of the people to their spiritual beliefs, which includes fatalism, tha...

"A Rose for Emily" - The Oedipal Complex

in the midst of an otherwise modern cityscape. In this manner, Emilys eventual psychological breakdown which leads to her murderin...

Case Study on Cognitive Behavior Therapy

I feel like everything is closing in on me. My palms get sweaty and I cant think straight. I am struggling to sleep at night and I...