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Prejudice and Social Psychology

Allport developed what is known as the contact theory, which asserts that attitudes are established and develop through certain ty...

A Sample Psychology Experiment

times per week. In the study, exercise is the independent variable and cognition is the dependent variable. While it is relativ...

History, Human Nature, and Psychology

the other; and, the law of contrast which is opposite the law of similarity where one thing or event may trigger or associate itse...

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...

Viktor Frankl, William James, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud on Psychology and Religion

compelled to believe in them and that they cannot be proved or refuted. On the other hand, no one can be forced to disbelieve reli...

Group Counseling Techniques and Adolescent Psychology

they can change their lives by changing their way of thinking (1998). While there are many forms of cognitive therapy, REBT is wel...

Freudian Psychology in D.C. Thomas' The White Hotel and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

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...

Drug Abuse and the Influences of Psychology and Sociology

haven for crime, violence and poverty. The inner cities of one city are no different than the inner cities anywhere else around t...

Adolescent Psychology and Family Dysfunction

alcohol or substance abuse, and suicidal ideation, it is important to assess some of the views of maternal attachment, the impacts...

Robert Cialdini's Influence The Psychology of Persuasion

the society has done well with this product and everyone will need one. Another term, scarcity seems to indicate that it is an app...

Littering and Environmental Psychology

a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, Covarrubias (2004) reports that piles of cigarette butts commonly accumulate on Califor...

Psychiatry v. Psychology

and body have on one another. The psychiatrist is thus the mental health professional and physician best qualified to distinguish ...

Theoretical Perspectives on Psychology

an active processor of information, and deals with the interaction between perception, memory and thought. We perceive the world a...

An Examination of the Developmental Psychology of Piaget

from another in the same age group due to peer associations, family problems or biological variations. This is certainly a valid m...

Comparing Developmental Psychologies of Vygotsky and Piaget

opposed to psyching oneself up to exercise. According to Piaget, the theory of cognitive development includes concepts that sugges...

Articles on Memory, Consciousness, Pattern Recognition, Attention, Perception, and Cognitive Psychology Summarized

al, 1998, p. 1101). Cognition refers to the process of knowing, which applies to a combination of judgment and awareness; indeed,...

Controversial Psychology Pioneer Sigmund Freud

modern scientific discovery has all but disproved Freuds dream theory is quite apparent; that Hobson utilizes this technology to s...

Behavioral and Cognitive Schools of Psychology

of mind" (Wilder Dom, 2003). Boeree (2000) reports the roots of the cognitive movement began in the mid-1900s: "the advent of th...

Parenting and Psychology

suggests that thoughts create a program in ones head and that self-talk can either be destructive or constructive. In Piagets mind...

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...

Questions and Answers in Developmental Psychology

versus inferiority, and finally, in adolescence, there is a wrestling with identity and confusion in terms of roles (Leal, 1998). ...

Pharmacology and Psychology of Marijuana

THC, and it is "present in all parts of both the male and female plants but is most concentrated in the resin (cannabin) in the fl...

Educational Psychology - Case Study

is not an easy thing to accomplish (for your reference, p. 8). Children have different personalities, different levels of intellig...

Article Analysis: Psychology: "Stress, Motivation and Drug Addiction"

stress can be triggered by positives as well; in fact, stress has been defined as "the nonspecific response of the body to any dem...

Article Analysis: Psychology: Teaching about Madness

students may be tempted to "dismiss mental illness as nonexistent" (Connor-Greene, 2006, p. 6). This is particularly true when one...

Educational Psychology: Tracking

for inclusion into the program. Kean (1993) notes how these groupings are based on a "host of ill-defined criteria--everything fr...

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...

Overview of Personality Psychology

everyday life, as every situation, problem or relationship is influenced by the personalities of the people involved. The followin...

Analytical Psychology

information. Intuiting is like perception but it works outside the usual conscious process. Feeling is emotional and can be inaccu...