1. The Roots of Psychology
Education is the process of instruction aimed at the all round development of boys and girls. Education dispels ignorance. It is the only wealth that cannot be robbed. Learning includes the moral values and the improvement of character and the methods to increase the strength of mind. We are the rec...
In the infamous Kitty Genovese case in New York in 1964, 38 people had a chance to interrupt a murder in progress , but did not . Why such things happen has perplexed philosophers for centuries , and today psychologists have joined the search for answers. Ou...
Observational Learning is the learning by which we observe others. The process of observing and imitating a specific behavior is called modeling. We can glimpse the roots of observational learning in other species. After a fight, stumptail macaque monkeys reconcile with each other by approaching the...
"The modern roots of Cognitive therapy can said to have started with Alfred Adler with his notion of basic mistakes and their role on unhealthy emotions (Mosak, 2008). ... Another developmental theory has its roots with Erik Erikson. ...
Learner Strategy Training It has its early roots in studies of "good- and "bad- language learners. Relevant factors, believed to be contributing to their success, were extracted by using tests of psycolinguistic factors, interviews and other data analysis. Good learners... ... find th...
There have been many instances in my life where my perception of the situation was quite far from the actual reality that was around me. For instances when my family and I moved to a new city I thought that it would be the same thing as where we were from but it wasn't. The actual reality was that i...
How do you know? How did you learn what you know? Emerson portrays the American scholar as a person who learns from three sources. These sources by which a scholar is educated are nature, books and action. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American scholar is one whose character is split i...
Black Psychology Black psychology in itself is a rich existing area field. Although many argue that it does not exist, the reality is different. Black psychology is as defined by Karenga "...essentially the science that systematically studies behavior in its relationship to the complexity of men...
OCD was once thought to be rare. It is now estimated that up to 3 percent of the U.S. population may suffer from OCD at some point in their lives (about 5 million people). The disorder usually begins in adolescence or early adulthood, but it may also occur in childhood. OCD is characterized by recu...
SED There are so many needs of students with Serious Emotional Disturbance. How can one person teach them all and how can one person learn them all? It is almost impossible unless you decide to write your graduate thesis and then your master's dissertation on students with Serious Emotional ...
. Sidney Sheldon, a renowned, award winning, best-selling author departs from his usual fare for this delightful fast-paced story. His book, "TELL ME YOUR DREAMS,"" is based on a disputed subject of psychology, i.e. MPD - Multiple Personality Disorder. The story is about three young ladies, Ash...
In 1972 the American Psychological Association said 'by devising, practicing, evaluating and teaching a method of psychotherapy and counselling which reaches to the very roots of human potentiality and individuality, he has caused all psychotherapists to re-examine their procedures in a new light.' ...
As the level of knowledge on hand increases, our ability to create technology rises. Just in the past forty years, humans have created an almost infinite amount of programming languages. Using programming languages, we have been able to advance technology like never before. A relatively new concept ...
Heterosexism: A Psychological Disorder In today's society, it is common practice to make use of derogative slang when concerning the homosexual community. Slang terms such as "fag" and "homo" are often used to refer to odd or effeminate people. In fact, in a culture where racial slurs and bigotry are shunned, these indicators of prejudice are consistently used in mainstream media. The explanation for the permissibility of this stigmatization can be found in the fundamentals of psychology. The predisposition to heterosexuality is defined in psychological terms as homophobia. ...
Freud's Theory of Defence Mechanisms Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalysis is regarded as the earliest of those categorised as psychodynamic theories (Gray, 1999). J.P. Chaplin (1975, p.418) defines psychodynamic as "pertaining to the branch of psychology which inv...
Allport uses concept of functional autonomy to suggest that the motives of an adult may have their roots in the tension-reducing motives of the child, the adults grows out of them and becomes independent of these earlier tension-reduction efforts, therefore, genetic underlies personality. ...
About Cosima Niehaus Cosima Niehaus, in one term is, 324B21. In the series Orphan Black, Niehaus is a clone, a part of an experiment to study genetic identicals. Despite her genetics being a blueprint, Niehaus has developed her own life and own personality compared to that of her genetic sisters. She is on her way to complete her PhD in Experimental Evolutionary Developmental Biology, putting her at the far right curve in terms of intelligence. Niehaus, however, is eccentric and is often unconventional in her methods, but is still kind-hearted, incredibly ambitious, and can adapt to practicall...
In 1981 the Alberta Mental Health Board (AMHB) contracted with Wood's Homes, a comprehensive service organization with orphanage roots dating back to 1914, to provide mental health treatment services to children, adolescents and their families in the Calgary region. ...
Personality research has long been a fringe player in the study of consumer behavior. Little research is directly devoted to personality issues, and if consumer personality is investigated at all, it tends to be from the narrow perspective of developing yet another individual difference measure in an already crowded field of personality scales or considering the moderating effects of a given trait on some relationship of interest. Understanding the individual person in his or her role as a consumer should be a key issue in the study of consumer behavior, but in order to realize this vis...
