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Ethical Evaluations in the Field of Psychology

application of principles and codes of conduct must be linked to the belief that these support an ethical and wise course of actio...

Psychological Hypothesis Testing

experimentation and inferential statistics (Jamison, 2012). The first of the five steps of hypothesis testing is to "state the re...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

Developmental Psychology - Observations

I readily agreed. Right away, I began noticing that childhood development principles were playing out before my eyes. According t...

Helping Children Adjust to Divorce, Positive Psychology

characterized by hostility tended to exhibit decreased emotional wellbeing (Baxter, Weston and Qu, 2011). This study shows that th...

How Social Psychology Differs

counseling psychology and clinical practice. It differs from personality psychology because it focuses more on the influences of ...

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...

Forensics and a Personal Code of Ethics

discusses a personal code of ethics that a student might adopt in regards to career in forensic science. Personal code of ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

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...

Stages of Psychosocial Development

was teased in school, initially, he was called a Nordic because he was tall and blond, later, he was teased because he was Jewish ...

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...

Humanistic Psychology

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

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...

Evidence and Knowledge: How Do We Know?

that it sometimes seems as if no possible argument could elicit even the consideration that those beliefs could possibly be wrong....

Forensic Science and the Scientific Method

nature of everything from human and animal biology to the farthest reaches of the cosmos. Because of this, what scientists "do" is...

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...