Generalized anxiety disorder
Case study - 9 pages - Psychology
Anxiety disorders are one of the most complex psychological disorders in existence and also one of the least understood, etiologically. It is extremely important to understand anxiety disorders from an etiologically genetic standpoint, because it often explains why those people who experience the...
Gaps in research knowledge
Case study - 9 pages - Psychology
Finkelhor, D. (2004) discovered several gaps in the research knowledge associated with the history of childhood sexual abuse. The authors affirm that the plethora of research that is currently available on adult survivors of CSA is valuable; however, they cite some weaknesses in some of those...
Crohn's disease and its psychosocial implications
Case study - 24 pages - Psychology
Crohn's Disease is an autoimmune disorder that falls under a category of diseases known as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (sometimes referred to as Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome; Hanauer, S. B., 1996). An autoimmune disease is one in which a person's body determines its own cells and tissues to be...
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Case study - 16 pages - Psychology
Paranoid schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that encapsulates a myriad of symptoms, including various states of psychosis and disorganized thought, speech, and behavior. Its etiology has not been ascertained, but evidence suggests a genetic role in its development. Those afflicted with...
Relational aggression
Case study - 12 pages - Psychology
Among modern children and adolescent peer relationships lies a subtle, but sinister variety of bullying that is becoming more prominent, especially among girls. It is called relational aggression and it is defined by “behaviors that inflict harm on others by manipulating their peer...
Are company stress management programs effective?
Case study - 16 pages - Psychology
France has very specific characteristics on stress at work,problems such as suicide are much more frequent than elsewhere. Ironically, France is a country where firms are trying to reduce stress problems. The French case is a good example to study in the current context.The question is:what firms...
Our Unconscious Biases: The Implications of the IAT and Other Implicit Measures
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
“If you are unprepared to encounter interpretations [of your results] that you might find objectionable, please do not continue” (Project Implicit ® - Take a Test). Every visitor to Project Implicit, a self-described “hands-on science museum exhibit” involving researchers from...
Behavior across the Life Span
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The Home Environments of Children in the United States was a recent study that examined the home environments of children in the U.S. and how particular conditions related to the child's well-being. The following pages will provide additional commentary on this study while utilizing Piaget's...
Cognitive psychology: Language
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Language is a complex cognitive function that has fascinated scientists and cognitive psychologists for years. Language is a cognitive function that all humans acquire, use, and alter over the course of a lifetime. Language acquisition begins almost immediately following birth and appears to be a...
Overview of Cognitive Psychology
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
The Columbia Encyclopedia (2008) defines cognitive psychology as the “school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory and language.” (para. 1). Cognitive psychologists work to understand how people recognize, diagnose, and solve their...
Sources of motivation - published: 23/03/2011
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Motivation is a concept that all individuals are aware of in some way or form. Motivation is the root of many discussions and the cause of many behaviors in humans and animals. Society wonders what motivates individuals to commit criminal acts despite the obvious consequences and the educational...
Motivation and the brain - published: 23/03/2011
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Smoking is a destructive and largely popular vice. Smoking is linked to medical problems such as heart disease, major and minor cardiac problems, lung cancer, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis (eHealthMD, 2010) . Quit Smoking Support states “ Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals...
Karen Horney and her psychological thoughts
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Karen Horney occupys an important place in psychology and psychological thought. She was dedicated to psychology and the admirable thirst for knowledge. She followed the psychoanalyst school of thought and was instrumental in the creation of the psychological field as it stands today. As one of...
Perspectives of John B. Watson, B.F. Skinner and Edward C. Tolman
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
John B. Watson, B. F. Skinner and Edward C. Tolman were psychologists responsible for a large amount of innovative thought known as Behaviorism. Watson, Skinner and Tolman were important names in the psychology field and each of these men were forward thinkers with ideas that ultimately changed...
History of psychology - published: 22/03/2011
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and the working of the mind. It is a relatively new science when compared to the other sciences. Psychology was born from Philosophy and to understand the history of psychology one must also wish to seek and understand the history of philosophy. Goodwin (2008)...
Examining Brain Myths and Folk Psychology in Flowers for Algernon
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
In today's world, an individual's IQ (intelligence quotient) is a common measure of their cognitive ability. This cognitive ability can make them successful in education and in the workplace. In the United States, individuals in prestigious positions have a generally higher IQ (Sternberg, 1996)....
Confidence is Art
Thesis - 3 pages - Psychology
If you do not feel confident, do not let that get your spirits down for you can be confident. If you're already feeling confident, then you can become even more confident. Confidence is dynamic, it can go up or down, constantly change and evolve. What you need to do is keep it at optimal and...
Psychological profile of John Adams
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
John Adams' life and political career were mostly and profoundly shaped by his egrarian roots, the period in which he lived, and his founding father cohorts. His father's assertion that John must be a man of liberal education in the law, as well as a farming man of New England made him hard...
Civilization and its Discontents, Freud: the "death instinct" (chapter VI)
Book review - 1 pages - Psychology
To understand Freud's discussion of the death wish or « death instinct » in chapter VI of Civilization and its Discontents, suffice it to start with a paradox. The work of culture is placed under the authority of Eros, of a life force that aims at combining individuals into greater units and...
Evolution of Investment Strategies, and Case-Based Decision Theory
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Gilboa and Schmeidler's work demonstrates an important distinction between behavior as predicted by Expected Utility Theory and as predicted by Case Based Decision Theory: in the event of a posed similar, familiar decision, people will revert to their memories of past situations to determine...
Museums and heritage
Essay - 9 pages - Psychology
The interest of tourists in death, disaster and atrocity is undeniable (Lennon and Foley, 2000). Dark sites are fashionable: tourists rush to visit Père Lachaise, San Vicente, or Highgate cemeteries (The Guardian, 2005), in-flight magazines talk of the "joy of prison museums" (Strange and Kempa,...
Emotional Intelligence
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The study of intelligence within the scientific community is not a new development. Symbolically, the study of intelligence is related to research in the cognitive domain. The cognitive domain refers to the knowing domain. That is why when knowledge is imparted, the objective is to ensure that...
Fears and phobias
Thesis - 5 pages - Psychology
Fears and phobias are prevalent in human minds. Fears, phobias and anxieties are generally found hidden deep in our minds and constitute an essential part of our existence. A phobia is an excessive anxiety to face the reality of danger. A fear is an anxiety and becomes a phobia when it becomes...
Values in social psychology
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
Every culture is organized around values, that is to say, it is governed by organizing principles of behavior and perceptions. They are defined in the form of ideals, shared by the members of a community and determine a way of lifestyle. Different people may move to different focal objects of...
Psychologist's role in abortion
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
The objective of this document is to summarize the research information related to the professional practice of psychology. For this, we decided to work on the role of the psychologist in a hospital. As this is an area that interests us, we wanted to know the role of the psychologist during the...
Sigmund Freud's The psychopathology of everyday life
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
In this book, Freud tells us that the acts of daily life that we consider irrelevant (forgetting a name, an appointment, ring the bell to enter) actually have a meaning and are manifestations of the unconscious. For Freud, forgetting is a spontaneous phenomenon. It may be a word or a sequence of...
The role of the brain in cognitive functions
Thesis - 2 pages - Psychology
The human brain is an extremely multifaceted organ. It not only holds the mysterious entity referred to as the human consciousness, it additionally arbitrates particular behaviors. The configuration of the brain and its advanced cognitive operations are the creation of many centuries of evolution...
The sexuality of disabled people and related issues
Thesis - 8 pages - Psychology
I did my internship in a hostel, where there were twenty-one adults with intellectual disabilities and psychotic disorders, in the age group between twenty four and fifty nine. These adults were supported by an educational team consisting of three monitors or counselors, two educators, a...
Dreams and Sigmund Freud
Thesis - 7 pages - Psychology
Dreams are images, sounds or emotions experienced by the mind while in sleep. The specific purpose of dreams has not been understood completely, though there has been quite an interest in this field. The scientific study of dreams is called Oneirology. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, who...
The effect of religion on perceived sense of happiness
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
The idea of religion has been one that has existed since the invention of writing around 3,000 BC. The religious groups in the world with the most adherents in order are: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, and Confucianism. Only 11% of the worlds population consider...
