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21 Aug 2013
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Gender Identity

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Every person possesses a gender identity within their self's which nearly everyone match one's anatomic look. A person's gender indentify is either male or female or possibly something in between. This is a significant individual trait that adds to ones self-worth. It is the mode in which one...

21 Aug 2013
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Does sexual abuse at a young age lead to becoming a sex addict?

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Expansion and consequent worldwide increases of at no cost trade and internationalization makes way for numerous amounts of fresh benefits given to humanity. With that in mind the aged and fresh collective inequities have made their presence known. With this happening it has permitted a shocking...

20 Aug 2013
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Operant conditioning

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

B. F. Skinner is commonly the first person that is thought of when operant conditioning is the subject being spoke on. The reason behind this is that Skinner was the psychologist that developed the beginning theory behind this behavior. It was his experimentation with animals that lead him to...

20 Aug 2013
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Learning and cognition

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

Behaviors with the procedure of gaining knowledge are more resent areas under discussion within psychology. Behavior is primarily the subject that psychology focuses on yet it is known that not every behavior is learned. Reflexive behavior is an instinctive response caused by a certain...

20 Aug 2013
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Psychological testing at the workplace

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

The workplace is unique because the qualities and characteristics of people and abilities are combined to help an organization to function properly. Organizations work diligently to measure the performance and productivity of these employees. However, psychological testing is a provision that...

20 Aug 2013
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Research, Statistics, and Psychology

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Several uses of research methods and statistical reasoning are in attendance as is relevant to psychology. Statistics are a necessary utility to the comprehension of the facets of the ease of understanding completing personal research and grasping psychology articles or journals. The scientific...

16 Aug 2013
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Perspective Paper

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Consideration of human action means primarily discovering how one's life occurrences shape a human being for the rest of his or her life. Modern psychology has very much established an organization in behaviorism. B.F. Skinner, Edward C. Tolman, and John B. Watson are only a small number of...

16 Aug 2013
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History of psychology

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

Since the beginning of time there has been a superior obsession with the human mind and how it works. There are some people that believe that humans evolved and were not created. Whatever a human believes it or not it is very apparent that whatever you believe or don't believe the mind is still...

12 Aug 2013
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Sensation, Perception, and Attention

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

Team affiliates respond in a different way to diverse acoustic stimulus. We will carry out an open discussion about each individual team member's threshold for acoustic stimulation as well as compare experiences and comfort levels for each team member using the cocktail party phenomena. We will...

12 Aug 2013
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Howard Garner's Multiple Intelligence's

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Multiple Intelligence was introduced by a man named Howard Gardner. His suggestion of diverse intelligences is referred to as ‘The Theory of Multiple Intelligences', which does challenge the thought of contemporary intelligence. Gardner's theory see's current position of intellect as a...

08 Aug 2013
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Psychological article critique: 'Childhood Family Violence History and Women's Risk for Intimate Partner Violence and Poor Health' by Bensley, Van Eenwyk, & Simmons

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

This study investigated the association between a history of childhood family violence and subsequent adult physical health, mental distress, and intimate partner violence. The sample consisted of 3527 women living in Washington State. Data were obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor...

12 Jul 2013
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Discrimination in schools: Race and social change

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

Despite the 1954 ruling for desegregation following the landmark case of Brown v. the Board, American schools continue to be racially divided at alarmingly high rates. According to research conducted by the Civil Rights Project, levels of segregation for black and Latino students have been...

12 Jul 2013
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Gender differences in duration of sleep

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Studies investigating gender differences in nighttime hours spent asleep have generated mixed findings. Some research has shown insomnia to be more common in older women. This trend has also been exhibited in college female populations (Voderholzer, Al-Shajlawi, Weske, Feige, & Riemann, 2003;...

11 Jul 2013
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Coherence therapy

Case study - 6 pages - Psychology

Coherence Therapy, previously referred to as Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy, was developed by Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley during the 1980's and 1990's. As a type of psychotherapy borne out of the constructivist tradition, Coherence Therapy's major tenet revolves around the individual as an...

21 Jun 2013
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The teleological argument

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

William Paley was the creator of the teleological argument. He believed that an intelligent designer has had to create the universe for such a purposeful thing could not have just come to be. But how could one prove this? He validated his beliefs by using an analogy of a watch and a watchmaker....

21 Jun 2013
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Denialism

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

The use of term 'denialism' has proliferated and its academic explanatory power is used to examine and study the cause of false beliefs and misperceptions. The concept itself is devoid of concrete meaning it has been stretched in various academic and other directions to accommodate...

21 Jun 2013
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One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor: Differing Views on Criminology

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Crime has been studied, analyzed, thought about, talked about, and think tanked to death. Depending on the area of the world in which one lives, and the governing politics of the day, one can find a social theory that fits his or her own personal agenda. After studying Becarria and Rick Linden,...

21 Jun 2013
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Problem-solving: On the academic and the Mundane

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Problem solving is second nature to people. There are always challenges to be solved and solutions to be put forward. Daily life is certainly a collection of circumstances and instances that needs to be taken to be in consideration -- and that's even before a person leaves the house. What...

18 Jun 2013
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A critical analysis of mills utilitarianism

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

The most basic axiom of utilitarianism holds happiness as measure of the greatest good. As a moral theory, utilitarianism is considered a form of consequentialism and, thus, focuses on the results of actions to determine whether they are, or are not, moral. Utilitarianism aims to define “the...

17 Jun 2013
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Importance of psychology in nursing

Case study - 1 pages - Psychology

Walker, J., et al (2005), defines psychology as “the study of human behavior, thought process and emotion. It can contribute to our understanding of ourselves and our relationships with other people, if it is applied in an informed way.” Sharing the same sentiments is the definition of...

14 Jun 2013
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On ethics as emotivism according to David Hume and A.J. Ayer

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Many philosophers such as David Hume in the 18th century and Alfred Jules Ayer in the 20th century have argued that ethical judgments are, in one sense or another, dependent on emotion and do not express knowledge of any objective truths. Hume was a famous essayist, economist, historian and...

13 Jun 2013
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Feminist literary criticism

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

Female perspectives have long been overlooked in literature, as have female writers and protagonists of these works. Mirroring the cultural barometer of the times, females have been viewed, historically, as minor characters, present only to support their male counterparts. However, Kate Chopin...

13 Jun 2013
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Does rationality determine political behavior?

Case study - 3 pages - Psychology

The merits of rational choice theory have been debated in their relation to politics for generations. While rational choice theory has been applied with success to other fields, it has long been debated in political circles, often because of the dubious nature of politics and of the ambiguous...

13 Jun 2013
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Crime and forensic television dramas and their effect on individual psychology

Case study - 5 pages - Psychology

Advances in technology and communications provide increasing accurate tools for forensic science and are directly responsible for its development over recent decades. Communication has also provided the average citizen with forensic information, whether it is for the sake of fiction or actual...

13 Jun 2013
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Pop Culture in relation to Psychology

Case study - 23 pages - Psychology

In this paper we discuss pop culture. Predominately the focus is on pop culture in relation to psychology and that indeed, takes up the vast majority of the essay. But in part 1 we give the reader a brief social-historical overview of pop culture (i.e., its impact and connection to society...

13 Jun 2013
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Why is the biological explanation of gender so popular?

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

In a cover story published recently in The New York Times magazine, Daniel Berger, author of the book “What do Women Want? Adventure in the Science of Female Desire”, which is coming out soon, analyzes women's sex drive in the light of a new drug called Lybrido that is supposed to help...

11 Jun 2013
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Diagnoses and Treatment of Schizophrenia and Antisocial Personality Disorder , Expansions on Excerpts from: Mental Illness and Personality Disorders in the UK: A Prison Sentence?

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

“Diagnoses [of mental health disorders and illnesses], while expertly delineated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), rely heavily on the differential diagnoses method, in which clinicians systematically rule out other potential causes for present symptoms...

11 Jun 2013
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Case study: Korsakoff's syndrome, diagnosis, and treatment

Case study - 4 pages - Psychology

Korsakoff's syndrome is a disorder caused by a severe thiamine, or vitamin B1, deficiency. Recent reports suggest that in the UK alone, roughly 700,000 residents suffer from some sort of amnestic disorder or dementia, with 10 to 24 % of those cases caused by alcohol related brain damage...

07 May 2013
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Psychological issue of addiction

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

Humans are affected by multiple factors everyday. Psychological issues are prevalent in many people's everyday life. They vary between each person. Chris Herren is an example of someone dealing with psychological issues. It is illustrated in the documentary about him. The movie, Unguarded,...

11 Feb 2013
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Law of karma and reincarnation

Case study - 2 pages - Psychology

The Hindus believe in life after death. They also believe in the Law of Karma. In the Christian scriptures of the New Testament there is a saying, "What is sown by a man, that's what he sows." (Galatians 6:7). Sentence pronounced in modern science, the Hindus believe that every action...