The depressive state: eternal melancholia to deep despair
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Mental and emotional health is a factor that is often ignored and overlooked in our society. It is seen as unimportant, when it is in fact one of the most important components to achieving and living a healthy life. Many people consider mental and emotional health to be an optional part of caring...
The beholder - Erotica and pornography
Essay - 1 pages - Psychology
Erotica and pornography are terms that are often used interchangeably. Their definitions are certainly similar; they are both materials which depict erotic behavior and are meant to cause sexual excitement. However, while they're defined as similar, the way they carry out these definitions...
The rise of mental descent - A stressful era
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Happiness may be good for one's health, but seeking it may not be. There are many factors that people must consider before even considering whether they are happy or not. Typically, stress is a factor that is seem as a barrier to satisfaction. Since stress is part of everyone's life,...
Middle aged children development issues
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Conventionally, for individuals to succeed in life they ought to have achieved academically, flexibility and willingness both in college and in career and a positive behavior. Consequently, school counseling for the middle-aged aims at promoting and enhancing the success of pupils in future by...
Community health needs assessment
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) are a vital tool in identifying the most prioritized health needs of a community and aligning the required resources and partners to address this needs(Judith & Chere, 2013). A well-structured CHNAs will provide very valuable data to direct resources...
Observation of various life stages
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The field of growth and progressacrossthe humanlifethat include physical, cognitive, intellectual, social, perceptual, personality and emotional growth is developmental psychology.(In Fiske.2010).This is important in order to understand how humans learn, mature and adapt. Life has various stages...
Cognitive Development Perspectives of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Teacher preparation with regard to teaching students is a very sensitive issue and there is need to consider the cognitive development perspectives of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky. These two theorists provide different perspectives about young children's learning patterns, but they both have...
The diverse nature of psychology
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Psychology happens to be an area in science which concerns itself with people's minds as well as the behaviours which people exhibit. As a discipline, psychology is quite diverse. It implicates other areas of science widely as well as makes use of problems that are solvable to create knowledge to...
Motivation at the workplace
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Employees are the most important part of an organizational structure since they shape the performance levels of an organization. In order to perform to their level best employees need to be properly motivated towards achieving the goals and vision of an organization. Employees are motivated by...
Banning convertion therapy for the transgender youth
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Convertion therapy, which can also be expressed as convertion therapy tries to convert lesbians, gay, bisexual as well as transgender persons from same gender sex to heterosexuality by means of prayer as well as other efforts. The basis of reparative therapy is that the gender identity or sexual...
Early childhood learning guidelines
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
The United States is looking to streamline the different concepts in the learning environment with different States being encouraged to adopt practices that are in line with other states provided they are adoptable. The State of Minnesota is no different as it is looking to adopt the Division of...
The media and its effect on women's body image
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Every form of popular media presents a sociocultural standard for feminine beauty. No single outlet is without conviction in this instance. The female audience is contaminated with the portrayal of the ideal body. Often, the standards presented are not physically achievable by the...
Diverse sexual orientations
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
In the world of today there are the homosexuals and the heterosexuals who are forming a part of our society. Although met initially with resistance the society is gradually accepting that the homosexuals are a part of our society and are not going anywhere. Diversity in sexual orientation has...
Supporting Significant Life Events
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
It is very difficult to be able to understand how significant life events such as dying and bereavement impact on the lives of individuals and more so their social networks when one has never had prior experience with grief (McFarlane et. al 1994, p. 716). Life is a cycle with a lot of...
Psychology of the Individual
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Sonny was supposed to be the next in line to take over the Corleone's crime family business although due to his hot' headed temper, he lacks the restraints and self-possession that makes his father and brother, Michael so successful. He is rash and acts before thinking. He is the most...
Developmental stages matrix
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The brain triples in size and their stomachs digest more food and more kinds of food, transmitting sustenance for the body to facilitate extraordinary enlargements. An infant on average weighs about seven pounds at birth. Generally, at two years of age the child will weigh around 30 pounds. The...
Behavior across the Life Span
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
The Home Environments of Children in the United States was a recent study that examined the home environments of children in the U.S. and how particular conditions related to the child's well-being. The following pages will provide additional commentary on this study while utilizing Piaget's...
Cognitive psychology: Language
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Language is a complex cognitive function that has fascinated scientists and cognitive psychologists for years. Language is a cognitive function that all humans acquire, use, and alter over the course of a lifetime. Language acquisition begins almost immediately following birth and appears to be a...
Overview of Cognitive Psychology
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
The Columbia Encyclopedia (2008) defines cognitive psychology as the school of psychology that examines internal mental processes such as problem solving, memory and language. (para. 1). Cognitive psychologists work to understand how people recognize, diagnose, and solve their...
Sources of motivation - published: 23/03/2011
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Motivation is a concept that all individuals are aware of in some way or form. Motivation is the root of many discussions and the cause of many behaviors in humans and animals. Society wonders what motivates individuals to commit criminal acts despite the obvious consequences and the educational...
Motivation and the brain - published: 23/03/2011
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Smoking is a destructive and largely popular vice. Smoking is linked to medical problems such as heart disease, major and minor cardiac problems, lung cancer, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis (eHealthMD, 2010) . Quit Smoking Support states Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals...
Evolution of Investment Strategies, and Case-Based Decision Theory
Essay - 2 pages - Psychology
Gilboa and Schmeidler's work demonstrates an important distinction between behavior as predicted by Expected Utility Theory and as predicted by Case Based Decision Theory: in the event of a posed similar, familiar decision, people will revert to their memories of past situations to determine...
Museums and heritage
Essay - 9 pages - Psychology
The interest of tourists in death, disaster and atrocity is undeniable (Lennon and Foley, 2000). Dark sites are fashionable: tourists rush to visit Père Lachaise, San Vicente, or Highgate cemeteries (The Guardian, 2005), in-flight magazines talk of the "joy of prison museums" (Strange and Kempa,...
Emotional Intelligence
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The study of intelligence within the scientific community is not a new development. Symbolically, the study of intelligence is related to research in the cognitive domain. The cognitive domain refers to the knowing domain. That is why when knowledge is imparted, the objective is to ensure that...
Psychology: Child development
Essay - 1 pages - Psychology
Before reading this article, I had no idea what the majority of the U.S. population did in terms of co sleeping. After reading it, I learned that the majority of Americans look as co sleeping as a last resort for their newborn/infant because we, the Americans, believe that letting a child sleep...
A paper concerning culture: Applying the ideas of Gerog Simmel to football supporters in the United Kingdom
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Georg Simmel became one of the first sociologists to attempt to analyze street life' during the late part of the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century. Amongst his papers, he wrote The Metropolis and Mental Life' in which he outlined and tries to explain how a...
A counseling case study adopting a client-centered approach
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The following intervention analysis will utilize a planned verbal interaction, which occurred as part of ongoing care, during a 15-week placement on a Psychiatric Acute ward catering for people aged 18-65. The client's informed consent was gained verbally, to use this conversation within my...
An investigation into positive behavior management strategies in the classroom
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
Behavior management strategies have been always seen by both theorists and practitioners as an essential part of educational process since they aim to establish pupils' self-discipline and promoting their achievement and positive behavior. This suggests that teacher efficiency, academic...
Social work essay: Observation and assessment of a child
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
I will offer a written assessment and evaluation of my observations of a six year old female child. Firstly, I will outline what observation is, why it is important to social work and how it is used. I will discuss how this child was chosen, who chose the child and how permission to observe the...
An analysis of two theories: Solution-focused therapy and ecological systems theory
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
In this assignment I will demonstrate my knowledge of two selected theories, discussing how they contrast, how they may overlap and possibly even work well together. I will begin by looking at what a theory is and the nature of the relationship between theory and practice. I have chosen to use...