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Psychopharmacology and Other Topics

a stereotypical image they held in their own minds. We are not always aware of our own prejudices but some people are and take s...

Insights about Teaching and Educational Psychology

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

Psychology and Philosophy

for the student of psychology to develop a well-rounded and complete understanding of the discipline, it is necessary to study bot...

Attention Control Theory

training techniques that support mental skills to assist the athletes when they go out and compete (de Dirac, 2009). At the crux o...

TV News Stories, Memory, and Attention

In seven pages this research paper on cognitive psychology considers the impact of retaining news stories through TV 'teasers' wit...

Category Formation, Causal Theories, and Cognitive Psychology

"because" they have wings and therefore prior knowledge cannot be ignored when dealing with category formation but instead is inco...

Psychology Course Candidate

Ms X is also particularly interested in womens self development within the industrial environment, especially as there are a numbe...

Psychology and its Historical Evolution

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

Concept of Human Relations

differences but rather to expose common ground (Wilbers, 1996). "...The power of rhetoric, Rogerian or not, to heal is as powerfu...

Cognition and Educational Psychology

In five pages this exploration of educational psychology ponders the learning differences between books and other media and the im...

Psychology and Personality Theory

eye, inasmuch as such representatives of the psychology field contend that man is an inherently negative entity rooted in aggressi...

Modern Psychology Thought

In one page this paper examines the schools of contemporary psychology with forensic psychology among the topics discussed. Two s...

Sigmund Freud: The Originator of Psychoanalysis

we are indicating that in life we are financially deprived. Dreams of sex, food, whatever, express what in reality are our wishes...

Cognitive View of Psychology

involved "between stimulus/input and response/output" (McLeod, 2006). The principal areas of interest in cognitive psychology are ...

Why Psychology Is Considered A Science

"mental life contains no independent elements but different moments mutually implicating each other in the whole" (p. 42). ...

Field of Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology is examined in this fifteen page overview that includes criminology theories, law, applications, and case stud...

Scientific Psychology and the Negative Consequences of Dualism of Mind and Body

In two pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes' theory on the dualism between the mind and body had negative consequences fo...

Kurt Lewin: Understanding How To Lead Change

throughout the entire process of change if that process was going to be effective. The notion of change at any level is notorious...

Infant Attachment: Theories

Piagets cognitive developmental theory is devised toward all stages of ones development, however, it is particular pertinent to ea...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

Various Theories, Techniques and Applications of Behavioral Psychology

In a paper consisting of twelve pages worth of essays on the subject of cognitive or behavioral therapy various applicable topics ...

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...

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...

Major Theories in Psychology

Though Freud focused a considerable amount of research on the way in which biological and psychological motivations determined spe...

L. Cosmides and J. Tooby's 'Cheater Theory' and Evolutionary Psychology

In twelve pages the 'cheater theory' is considered in terms of model parameters and competing perspectives are examined. Twelve s...

Theories in Psychology: Freud and Erikson

genetics and psychosocial stimuli (Boeree, 2002). In their normal progression stage one occurs between infancy and two years of a...

Personality Theories in Humanistic and Existential Psychology

of theoretical perspectives that attempt to explain a variety of psychological phenomena. Nevertheless, the root of all psychologi...

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...

X- AND Y-THEORY AND LOGISTICS

empowerment and the taking of responsibility. Though it might seem as though these two are at the opposite end of the spectrum, le...

Economists Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and Adam Smith

laissez faire held sway. In short, Smiths thought was that if the market and economy were basically left alone, that theyd functio...