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Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Memory Processes

a memory lapse. The alternative method is more accurate. I saw this woman out of context. The only place I had ever seen and inter...

Integrating Theology and Psychology

by science is truth (Shepard, 2007). These are the extremes of the conflict; all points in between are represented in this conflic...

Cogntiive Psychology

serious issue that has been proven in the courts. Hockley (2010) said that memory is generally retrieved due to some kind of reinf...

Issues in Psychology

to make sense. There is significant research that affirms people have different ways to represent knowledge. One question is how t...

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...

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...

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...

Psychology as an Independent Scientific Discipline

there are numerous disadvantages inherent in restricting psychological investigations to the hard and fast rules of science. Psyc...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

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-...

Humanistic Psychology

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

Personal Ethics and Their Importance in Psychology

code of ethics that the true professionals in that line of work will do their best to follow. Lawyers, for instance, have client c...

Abnormal Psychology: The Diverse Perspectives

understanding and explaining human behavior, then it stands to reason that the disciplines of that science would gravitate towards...

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...

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...

Relational Psychology

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

Psychology Scenarios

fact that these symptoms need to exist in the absence of a major life event that should cause sadness or grief....

Psychology and a View of Artificiality

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

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...

Response to Statements on Cognitive Psychology

your post. I suggest that if this information is to be included in your reflections, you should explain it further and give spec...

Topics in Social Psychology

people in New Zealand to those of people in Australia and the European Union. They found that New Zealanders had a more positive 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...

Elements of Professional Psychology

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

Research Methodology: Social Psychology

attitudes towards animals that can be linked to attitudes against fur wearing is based on the humanization of animals and the crea...

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...

The Personality Theories of Allport and Eysenck

the first psychologists to truly codify the concept of traits into a comprehensive theory of personality. Allport is famous for re...