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A New Kind of Psychology

disseminating positive psychology interventions to communities and organizations; and establishing schools and families who focus ...

Gestalt Psychology - A Confluence of Influence

to refer to the integrative process of cognition that he and his colleagues supported; tellingly, one of his students was Max Wert...

Early Perceptions of Mental Illness

that if mental illness was caused by a weakened or weakening of the mind, then the stable environment and care that was provided i...

SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION: A CASE STUDY OF JOHN AND MARY

part, it makes people feel good. All of us are programmed with a sexual drive that helps perpetuate the species; it goes without s...

Cognitive Neuroscience

and think about each other. BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR DISCUSSION 1 Begley, S. (2007, January 19). The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself...

Integrating Theology and Psychology

by science is truth (Shepard, 2007). These are the extremes of the conflict; all points in between are represented in this conflic...

PAUSCH, LAST LECTURE AND TEACHING REQUIREMENTS

psychology: Rather than blaming situations over which you have no control (such as a control-freak mother or, in the case of Pausc...

The Personality Theories of Allport and Eysenck

the first psychologists to truly codify the concept of traits into a comprehensive theory of personality. Allport is famous for re...

Consciousness

in the field. Following along with one of Wundts ideas, Titchener thought that immediate consciousness was needed to understand t...

Exploring the Fundamental Attribution Error

by someone else, they would likely have an external explanation handy to excuse their behavior, rather than acknowledging any mora...

Memory Processes

a memory lapse. The alternative method is more accurate. I saw this woman out of context. The only place I had ever seen and inter...

Positivism, Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology

greater focus on operant conditioning. Skinner furthered the concept of conditioning in relation to operant conditioning, which r...

Psychology Scenarios

fact that these symptoms need to exist in the absence of a major life event that should cause sadness or grief....

Biological Psychology and Cognition

development occur at the same time in early childhood is a point that substantiates the connection between the two. Brain develo...

Psychology and a View of Artificiality

paper properly! Generally, criticisms and misunderstandings in the discipline of psychology are often linked to the concern over ...

Relational Psychology

maintained the importance of the foundations of the relational process and the ability to develop relational depth, or the method ...

John Hinckley: Abnormal Psychology

of abnormal behavior was that, in 1981, he sought to assassinate the President of the United States, Ronald Reagan (Meyer, 2008). ...

Professionals in Abnormal Psychology

recognizing psychological disorders, dealing with behaviors that might result from these disorders, and how to properly administer...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...

An Overview of Abnormal Psychology

on the balancing of the "four humors" and the application of now-debunked practices such as blood-letting (Snitchler & Harris, 201...

Postmodern Research in Psychology

rather than something that is real (McNabb, 2010). Another premise in this paradigm is that there is no single best way to gain kn...

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...

The Origins of Emotion: A Theoretical Review

intriguing parts of the human experience. Second only to dreams, they are perhaps the singular fascination of psychology, but they...

A Personal Accounting of Human Growth and Development

personal life. At the core of the debate about human behavior is the question of whether behavior is predominately controlled by o...

What is Psychology?

sensations, and thoughts (Cherry, 2010). As psychology grew and evolved, a various number of "schools of thought" have arisen to...

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...

Issues in Abnormal Pscyhology

illness. A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack o...

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-...

I/O Psychology

later, the university of Pennsylvania became the first school of professional management (McCarthy, 2001). Taylor began his experi...