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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Exploring Environmental Psychology

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

Consumer Behavior

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

The Psychological Contributions of Mary Whiton Calkins

College, where she majored in classics and philosophy, having been inspired in both fields by an earlier family trip to Greece (Fu...

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...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

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

Elements of Professional Psychology

the research or treatment process, the patient can refuse participation. On informed consent forms, for example, the psychologist...

Biological Psychology and Cognition

development occur at the same time in early childhood is a point that substantiates the connection between the two. Brain develo...

Positivism, Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology

greater focus on operant conditioning. Skinner furthered the concept of conditioning in relation to operant conditioning, which r...

Relational Psychology

maintained the importance of the foundations of the relational process and the ability to develop relational depth, or the method ...

Psychology and a View of Artificiality

paper properly! Generally, criticisms and misunderstandings in the discipline of psychology are often linked to the concern over ...

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...

Examining the Scientist-Practitioner Model of Psychological Training

models of training used in doctoral programs in professional psychology. However, the best-known of these models is the scientist-...

What is Psychology?

sensations, and thoughts (Cherry, 2010). As psychology grew and evolved, a various number of "schools of thought" have arisen to...

Humanistic Psychology

by psychological thinking that emphasizes logic and systematization over intuition and feeling. There are signs, though, that it i...

Psychology: Help or Hindrance?

the workings of the mind, and as such, can cause real harm if the work is not done carefully. This paper considers whether the fou...

Beginnings of Behaviorism

it is the dominant ideology of a given time. In the early history of psychology, the zeitgeist was first structuralism, then funct...

Rene Descartes, Philosophy and Psychology

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

The Novel - Everyone’s Favorite Literary Genre

novels are superior to plays, lets take a well-known play and consider how much more it could have done if it were a novel. Since ...

APA Code of Conduct

attitudes towards himself when others find out. Still, it is essential that the field is perceived as ethical. Students need to be...

Answers To Therapy Questions

decisions on her vulnerability to her sisters disorder may be negatively impacted by a number of thinking processes. First, her p...

The Origins of Emotion: A Theoretical Review

intriguing parts of the human experience. Second only to dreams, they are perhaps the singular fascination of psychology, but they...

A Personal Accounting of Human Growth and Development

personal life. At the core of the debate about human behavior is the question of whether behavior is predominately controlled by o...