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Continuing Education

the "5 As," the steps are: 1) ask the patient if he or she smokes, 2) advise him or her to quit, 3) assess the willingness to...

Biopsychology

infants learn the opposite lessons required for living within a civilized society, which ultimately causes him to display uncontro...

Major Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavior therapy is effective with a wide range of problems, including very complex and challenging life situations. Bu...

Psychology of Love v. Hate

a murderer sees the violence that he perpetrates as his only means of salvaging his sense of self, of maintaining his pride (Gilli...

The Importance Of Studying Psychology

the truly mentally imbalanced individuals with those who displayed antisocial behavior far different from their unstable counterpa...

Achieving Sense of Well-Being

A relatively new branch in psychology is positive psychology. Maslow coined the name for this branch. It is a field that looks at ...

"Everyman," Theme of Death

This essay asserts that "Everyman," the fifteenth century morality play, offer a perspective on death that is very analogous to th...

Director Chris Marker

This paper discusses the work of French film director Chris Marker. The writer address his cinematic style, his topics and his psy...

Festinger's Theory

There have been many important contributions to social psychology. Many scholars state that the most important theory in the field...

Lewin Contributes to Situationism

This paper has two sections. The first provides a brief synopsis of some of the contributors to social psychology. This includes c...

Self-Concept Maintenance

Self-esteem and self-concept have always been controversial in the fields of psychology and sociology but the self became an accep...

Early Moral Development Theories

One of the earliest moral development theory came from Kohlberg who offered a stage theory in three levels. This theory has been t...

What is the Effect of Training

Companies spend millions of dollars on training manages and employees every year but there have been very few methods offered that...

Are IQ Tests Useful

The most controversial construct in psychology is intelligence and is complementary practice, intelligence testing. This essay pro...

Main Points of Barberis' Article Concerning Psychological Influences on the Causes and Continuation of the Financial Crisis

The salient points from an article by Nicholas Barberis titled Psychology and the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 are summarized. Th...

Overview, Educational Psychology

This research paper presents a short overview of educational psychology, what is is and the role that it plays in understanding th...

Abnormal Psychology: The Diverse Perspectives

understanding and explaining human behavior, then it stands to reason that the disciplines of that science would gravitate towards...

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...

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...

What is Psychology?

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

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-...

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...

Psychology: Help or Hindrance?

the workings of the mind, and as such, can cause real harm if the work is not done carefully. This paper considers whether the fou...

Rene Descartes, Philosophy and Psychology

work on the dual nature of man, which puts him firmly in the camp of philosophers. But he also had a tremendous influence on psych...

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...

Culture in Psychology

There are different definitions and explanations for what 'culture' is. One constant is that culture is transmitted or passed on f...

Ethnocentrism and Multiculturalism

There are certain issues that must be considered when conducting multicultural psychology research. These are identified as are et...