This phenomenon is often explained by Social Identity Theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), a social identity is a person's knowledge that he or she belongs to a social category or group (Hogg & Abrams, 1998). ... Based on social identity theory, Ellemers et al (1999) proposed three components that contribute to one's social identity: A cognitive component, which refers to one's cognitive awareness of one's membership in a social group (self-categorization); An evaluative component, which refers to a positive or negative value connection attached to this group membership (group s...

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In the recent years, many disciplines have focused on understanding childhood. Researchers from psychology, sociology, human development, religious studies, and other disciplines have sought to analyze childhood. However, the fact that all these disciplines have held varying perspectives without the existence of a childhood studies as a core subject of study like feminism. This has limited the possibility of addressing research in childhood as a central subject of knowledge. Evidently, these disciplines have embarked on research, yielding interesting findings that have served to shed light on ...

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The third level, life stories, deals with the narratives that people construct to integrate their remembered past, experienced present, and anticipated future into a coherent whole and to develop an identity that provides meaning and purpose to their lives. ...

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) * Some people grow fond of the role of being sick because it allows them to avoid stress and gain sympathy * Dissociative disorders are a class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity * Dissociative amnesia is a sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting * Dissociative fugue is when people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity * Dissociative identity disorder involves the co...

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Wolfgang Kohler was born in Reval, Estonia in 1887. His parents were of German decent, and shortly after he was born, the Kohler family moved to Wolfenbuttell, Germany. The importance of a good education was introduced to Kohler early in life, for his father was a schoolmaster, his sisters were nurses and educators, and Wilhelm, his older brother, was a scholar. As a child, Kohler loved being outdoors and the beauty of classical music (Dahl, 2005). He even learned how to play the piano. ...

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Introduction Modern psychology has the following industry practice: Psychotherapy, psychological correction, psychoanalysis, psychological training, personal, family Production counseling hotline, vocational guidance centers, personnel service companies, psycho-diagnostic public services, forensics, conflict resolution, psychological services in the educational system, and so on.. In modern psychology emerged following main trends: 1. complicate the structure of psychology: there are new scientific sectors (both theoretical and applied) and new areas of practical application of psychology. Wha...

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It is a time-proven trend that a dominant culture will try to force its methods and what it deems as "normal" on the other cultures that live within its constraints. When the dominant or more mainstream culture expects the non-dominant culture to naturally assume its belief systems, thinking patterns and frames of reference this can lead to suppression and exclusion. If a minority culture does not submissively assimilate its ideas with those of the majority, the majority feels justified in excluding and minimizing this smaller subset of people. Those in the majority position remain u...

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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary states divorce as " an act of legally dissolving a marriage" (Merriam-Webster Dictionary 1998). Divorce is a very highly rated problem among married couples in the United States. " Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce and sixty-seven percent of all second marriages end in divorce" (Corcoran). While these figures are high, the divorce rate appears to be dropping. Studies from Dr. Kathleen O"Connell Corcoran Ph.D. show that "divorce is associated with an increase in depression: people experience loss of partner, hopes and dreams, and lifestyle". ...

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Abstract In most instances, positive psychology is attributed to the study of negative traits of the human self, such as mental disorder. However, through positive psychology, the field of psychology has managed to branch out in to the study of the elements that constituted to the 'good life', or rather, what adds the greatest value to an individual's life. This paper focuses entirely on the positive psychology learning course, with special emphasis on the core principles that define it. This paper also focuses on various elements, such as the emotional and cognitive changes ob...

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1. Defining Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of human and animal behaviour with the object of understanding why living beings behave as they do. As almost any science, its discoveries have practical applications. As it is a rather new science, applications are sometimes confused with the science itself. It is easier to distinguish what is 'pure' and 'applied' in older disciplines: everybody can separate physics and mathematics from engineering, or anatomy and physiology from medicine. ...

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