The advantages and disadvantages of the behaviorist approach to mental disorders
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
The behavioral approach to psychology emphasizes the effects that environmental stimuli can have on a person. Because of the importance of the environment, behavioral psychologists concentrate on the process of learning and any lasting change that occurs as a result of any experience. The origins...
The study on factors influencing people in purchasing prepaid cards
Case study - 33 pages - Psychology
Hutchison Telecom, one of the world's leading cellular service Providers, brings hutch to you. They are known for their innovative approach and world-class technology. Their goal is to provide you superior products and services, anytime and anywhere. Hutch values are stated simply. To be fair and...
Stereotypes are always inaccurate
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
Does a person's view of the qualities that members of particular groups have, reflect the reality of life, or are errors being made when groups and behaviours are observed? A definition of stereotypes with the fewest constraining assumptions is that they are qualities seen to be associated...
Can Gilligan's claim that women have a distinctive moral voice be justified?
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Women have traditionally been viewed as carers and nurturers. Is this fair today? Is the reality slightly different to that? Do women have a distinctive moral perspective at all? Is o, what does it amount too? Questions such as these will be answered in this essay. The concept of morality has...
Is perception based on unconscious inferences?
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Perception and awareness of our surroundings are things we continually take for granted and without these abilities it would be impossible to navigate our way safely round our environment. Roth (1986) described perception as, "The means by which information acquired `via the sense organs is...
To what extent is competition between social groups a necessary condition for inter-group discrimination?
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Discrimination is a highly contentious issue in our contemporary society, and is still not a thoroughly understood phenomenon, despite extensive and illuminating psychological research. The question acknowledges that there is a place for competition in the creation of inter-group discrimination,...
A qualitative study examining children's development of scientific thinking
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
This study compares Piaget's (in Oates et al, 2005) and Vygotsky's (ibid.) respective theories on processes involved in children's cognitive development. Specifically, scientific thinking is examined using children's explanations for why things float or sink obtained via adaptation of...
Exploring the effect of introducing olfactory triggers on recall ability in relation to levels of processing in memory
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Experiments by Craik and Tulving (1975) suggest recall is enhanced using deeper levels of processing by giving meaning to words, semantic processing, combined with requiring more attention resources at encoding. Based on this an experiment was designed to test if non-matching olfactory triggers...
Can psychological stress cause physical illness?
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Stress is a fundamental human coping mechanism for dealing with threats and adjusting to new (often sudden) changes in the demands of the environment. Fundamentally it can be described as an individual's perception of the balance between the demands placed on them and their ability to cope with...
Psychodynamic/psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approach to the understanding and treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Obsessive-Compulsive disorder is not yet fully understood, and thus is presently the subject of a number of possible theories regarding its origin and treatment. Despite this controversy however, a number of basic facts regarding the symptoms and diagnosis of the disorder remain consistent among...
Psychoanalytic and biogenic perspectives of psychopathy with respect to phobia etiology and treatment
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Psychopathy or abnormal psychology is the term used for the study of ‘illnesses related to the mind', and so includes the etiology and treatment of schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorders and phobias etc. In general it can be seen to encompass any mentally or behaviorally disordered...
A counseling case study adopting a client-centered approach
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The following intervention analysis will utilize a planned verbal interaction, which occurred as part of ongoing care, during a 15-week placement on a Psychiatric Acute ward catering for people aged 18-65. The client's informed consent was gained verbally, to use this conversation within my...
An outline of the feminist and post-modernist critique of criminology
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
In this assignment we will discuss liberal and radical feminism in particular and we will outline the concerns of feminist criminology and how it has criticized male stream criminology. I will then outline the main features of post modernism and its critique of the attempt to be scientific about...
The effects of disturbing distractions on short-term human memory
Tutorials/exercises - 4 pages - Psychology
The present study examines the effects of short-term memory forgetting under the delay of a distracting task. Eleven subjects were asked to remember three consonants while counting backwards by 3's for varying amounts of time (3-, 9-, 18-sec). An Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze...
Nursing/Health care: A critical incident report
Case study - 6 pages - Psychology
The aim of this report is look at a critical incident that occurred in practice and relate this to the theory and knowledge regarding communication and interpersonal skills, that is to say, what skills were and were not used at the time of the incident. Carl Roger's necessary conditions for...
A discussion concerning the neurosis of poor communication skills
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
It all starts at a young age when you get associated with the quiet kids. Often you are the shy one in the class, but no one really thinks much of it. Then you move on to middle school and have a handful of friends, still though, you are not the popular one. After middle school you preparing for...
A discussion concerning 'bullying' in everyday life
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
When one hears the term “bully”, one may begin to think of television characters like “Butch” from The Little Rascals, “Mad Dog” or “Sweet Daddy” from Good Times, or Mafia gangsters like “Scarface”. The aforementioned characters are very...
The impact of violence on the mental health of South African Children
Case study - 6 pages - Psychology
Violence as a national problem in South Africa needs little introduction. South African citizens are exposed to daily, sensationalised reports of violence in the media, emphasising this problem's national and international pervasiveness. However, little emphasis is laid on the negative...
Exploring the principles of constructivism and applying them to Technological Education
Tutorials/exercises - 8 pages - Psychology
The National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium states: “career studies should be taught in manners that are consistent with a constructivist view of learning” (NASDCTEC, 1999, p. 7). While this may sound good in theory, one underlying problem...
An investigation into positive behavior management strategies in the classroom
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
Behavior management strategies have been always seen by both theorists and practitioners as an essential part of educational process since they aim to establish pupils' self-discipline and promoting their achievement and positive behavior. This suggests that teacher efficiency, academic...
Social work essay: Observation and assessment of a child
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
I will offer a written assessment and evaluation of my observations of a six year old female child. Firstly, I will outline what observation is, why it is important to social work and how it is used. I will discuss how this child was chosen, who chose the child and how permission to observe the...
An analysis of two theories: Solution-focused therapy and ecological systems theory
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
In this assignment I will demonstrate my knowledge of two selected theories, discussing how they contrast, how they may overlap and possibly even work well together. I will begin by looking at what a theory is and the nature of the relationship between theory and practice. I have chosen to use...
Does television advertising have a negative effect on children?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Advertising is a collective term for public announcements designed to promote the sale of specific commodities or services. Advertising is a form of mass selling, employed when the use of direct, person-to-person selling is impractical, impossible, or simply inefficient. ‘It is to be...
A Discussion and analysis of three possible causes of Alzheimer's Disease
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
Read a newspaper, ANY newspaper, and you will come across medical technologies such as reduction in infant mortality, development of vaccines and antibodies, and advances in the treatment of heart disease and stroke that have contributed to the recent increase in life expectancy. In 1900 the...
A discussion and analysis concerning sexist language
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
One of the most important political and social movements of the twentieth century has been the drive towards achieving complete equality for all people regardless of race, color, class, gender identity, mental state or physical impairment. One area that has remained resistant to change is...
An analysis of the use of communication skills within a social practice setting
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay I will attempt to analyse the use of communication skills within a practice setting. I will briefly acknowledge the six areas of skill studied in the communication module and analyse, in more detail, two of these areas; empathy and working with difference. I will examine...
Why are Jungian studies rarely taught in the university and can Jungian orientated thinkers do anything to reverse the situation?
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
It is well-documented within the Jungian world that within academia, analytical psychology is frozen out. This is with regards to psychology. And it is as a psychologist that Jung made his name. Jung also failed to make a positive impression on philosophy. His legacy (so far) concerning impact on...
A discussion of the importance of dissociationism in Carl Jung's psychology
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Carl Jung's psychology is often regarded as having been some kind of Freudianism albeit Jung's more esoteric spin on it. The most important of Jung's theories is the archetypes hypothesis. Certainly Jung's influences can be tracked and they are numerous. But in this paper we will...
Children and the importance of a healthy diet
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The aim of this essay is to create a body of knowledge for a follow-on research on the subject of the nutritional health needs of children from 3 to 5. For this purpose, information was gathered through observations as well as through study and analysis of materials presented in books, research...
A discussion and practice of the psychological benefit of hard thinking
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is about psychology. In part 1 we discuss detached ego conscious thinking and unconscious attached feeling. We argue that when looking into phenomena (e.g. a conflict) one should firstly focus on conscious reasoning and only look into unconscious motivations when the focus on...
