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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...

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-...

What is Psychology?

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

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...

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...

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...

The Aftermath of September 11th in Respect to Hatred

after the trade center toppled. The Time magazine article talks about how the life of a muslim teen changed; the article focuses o...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

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...

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...

Psychology as an Independent Scientific Discipline

there are numerous disadvantages inherent in restricting psychological investigations to the hard and fast rules of science. Psyc...

Developmental Psychology - Observations

I readily agreed. Right away, I began noticing that childhood development principles were playing out before my eyes. According t...

Helping Children Adjust to Divorce, Positive Psychology

characterized by hostility tended to exhibit decreased emotional wellbeing (Baxter, Weston and Qu, 2011). This study shows that th...

Consumer Behavior

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

The Psychological Contributions of Mary Whiton Calkins

College, where she majored in classics and philosophy, having been inspired in both fields by an earlier family trip to Greece (Fu...

Statistics in Psychology: Descriptive and Inferential

10 anxiety" is higher than "level 6 anxiety", there is no exact quantifiable distance between the levels; we simply know that one ...

Ethical Evaluations in the Field of Psychology

application of principles and codes of conduct must be linked to the belief that these support an ethical and wise course of actio...

Psychological Hypothesis Testing

experimentation and inferential statistics (Jamison, 2012). The first of the five steps of hypothesis testing is to "state the re...

Advertising and Its Relation to Psychology, Sociology, and Mass Communications

or negatively (Bharadwaj, Tuli, & Bonfrer, 2011). Moreover, both systematic and idiosyncratic risks can be managed effectively thr...

Socrates, Rationalism, Behaviorism and Psychology

always do the good" and, therefore, is someone goes astray, it is because they lack the knowledge of how to "act rightly" (Shiraev...

Forensic Psychology and Juvenile Justice

Abstract This paper provides an overview of the multitude of roles forensic psychologist play...

A New Kind of Psychology

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

Criminal Profiling and Other Issues

artists, ruthless manipulators, and petty criminals. Psychopaths usually commit crimes because they like to control, dominate, and...

Disaster Preparedness and Environmental Psychology

certain cultural movements have made it such that the nature of risk management and disaster prevention in societies is now given ...

The Issue of Space in Environmental Psychology

an innate need to specify some physical space as their territory and to exercise some degree of control over this territory. This ...

Structure Design, Architecture, and Environmental Psychology

spurious claim - surely humans have control over themselves? Nevertheless, upon deeper reflection, it becomes clear that physical ...

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...

Positivism, Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology

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