Constructivism vs. Direct instruction
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Childhood education is an issue of overwhelming importance, so it is no surprise that schools, governments, parents, and teachers have closely examined child psychology, social psychology, and even neurology in order to determine how school curricula should be best developed. Early theories of...
Identity development of the African American adolescent
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
One definition of identity is who you are, what you do, and how you respond to the world around you. One develops this sense of self, an identity, during adolescence. Many contributing factors and variables affect this process to mold how an individual views him or herself. In addition to...
An examination of second language acquisition
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Language acquisition is a complicated concept that many scientists have been trying to understand for years. It is known that humans are the only animals to develop a vocalized form of language. However chimpanzees have proved to be capable of not only learning a language but then teaching it...
Pornography and evolutionary psychology
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
How one judges an aspect of modern culture is really based upon their perspective. The perspective of an individual filters how the information received is understood. Pornography is an area of modern culture that is hotly debated; however, these debates can never be resolved because they are all...
Cultural differences in corporal punishment in children, comparing different countries with the United States
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Committing wrongdoings is tantamount to punishment, in these cases; adults tend to do corporal punishment as their way of disciplining their children. As long as children are perceived of doing something unacceptable, adults has the liberty to do corporal punishment, also known as physical...
Reducing prejudice through exchanges between equals
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
America prides itself on its immigrant culture and great progressive values that have been the key to political, economic, and technological superiority. Indeed, the United States is comprised of a diversity of cultures and ethnicities. Even with its progressive history and values, America is far...
Existential and person-centered therapy techniques
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
According to existentialism, human nature is best described as being in constant change. Humans are always evolving and recreating themselves through their projects. Through asking questions in an effort to make sense of their existence, humans develop in six dimensions: the capacity for...
Feminist therapy and postmodern therapy
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Feminist therapy is based on a gender-fair, flexible-multicultural, interactionist, and life-span-oriented view of human nature. The traditional androcentric, heterosexist, and deterministic theories are considered to be greatly limited, especially in relation to women and people of other...
Violence in media and its effects on adolescents
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
This paper will review several studies of violence in today's media of television and electronic gaming and how it significantly affects aggression levels in children. These studies have looked at the direct and indirect effects of violence in the media and how it produces more aggression in an...
Integrative counseling approach
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
As I have studied many theories of counseling, I have found characteristics within those theories that I agree with and would like to adopt, but there is no one established theory that I will adopt wholeheartedly. The model that would most closely describe my personal counseling style would be...
Cognitive behavior therapy and reality therapy
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Many types of therapy have been called cognitive behavior therapy. Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) deals with cognition and behavior, assuming that people contribute to their psychological symptoms and issues by the way they interpret events and situations. REBT also...
Forgiveness and marital infidelity
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
Forgiveness has become an important topic in the counseling profession in recent years, prompting research among many different populations, with many implications for further research and application in counseling settings (Hebl and Enright, 1993; Subkoviak et al., 1995). Models of forgiveness...
Theory of differing local and national voter choice
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
This paper aims to critique Downs's Economic Theory of Political Action in Democracy with experimental research that supports and refutes the assumptions and results of his model. First, I look at if legislators' policy making decisions are ideologically fixed or susceptible to constituent...
Social influence on sex roles: The role of the parent
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
In developmental psychology one of the most critical topics of debate is that of nature versus nurture and the ensuing balance of the two. Both the surrounding social environment and the child's predisposition must be taken into account when examining the development of the self. As emphasized by...
Intelligence: Nature versus nurture
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Similar to the “egg and chicken” argument, the long-standing “nature versus nurture” argument regarding behavioral traits has puzzled scientists and educators alike. The diverse viewpoints have spawned various expectations regarding the ability to manipulate intelligence....
The recovered memory controversy
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Some people who experience sexual abuse during childhood cannot recall the trauma in later years. Psychologists do not all agree as to why this occurs, reasons ranging from repression to age to natural forgetting, etc. Regardless as to how such memories are “hidden,” the real...
Is porn really biologically beneficial for human sexuality? A response to popular conception
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
I will present a critique of the conception of male sperm in contemporary popular science media; in particular my critique will address the idea that porn is somehow biologically beneficial for human sexuality. On one level, my motive in doing this is to demystify the systematic but almost...
Instinct vs Experience : Are there two separate hemispheres in the human brain ( With data and graphs )
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Scientists have long acknowledged the presence of two separate hemispheres in the human brain as well as the severe difference between the two. The significance of these differences however was not until recently properly understood. The scientific community formerly considered the right...
Psychological assessment
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Psychological assessment is the process of integrating information gathered from different sources. You can obtain valuable information from psychological testing. Interview with medical practitioners could also yield important information about the medical records of the individual. Another...
An analysis of the history, effects, and implications of the most common psychostimulants
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Attention Deficity Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) generally denotes a kind of deficit to selectively attend and (thereby) selectively inhibit certain stimuli. Evidently, the psychological community has much else to say about the disorder, frequently positing other cognitive and behavioral...
Category - Specific semantic deficits
Essay - 11 pages - Psychology
The task of explaining the organization of conceptual knowledge is both promising and difficult. It is promising because if conceptual knowledge is organized, then in principle it should be possible to form theories which would account for the nature of conceptual organization in normal brains...
Psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The state of consciousness defies definition, but it may involve an awareness of self, dreams, emotions, moods, perceptions, sensations, and thoughts, although not essentially all of these. The issue surrounding the definition consciousness, and in what sense and to what extent this state exists,...
The benefits of existentialist psychology
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
JD is a 26-year-old Hispanic male with quadriplegia who has been refereed to treatment by his primary care physician. Anxiety and depression appear to be the most prominent issues facing the client at the present time; however, the client both denies suicidal and homicidal ideation and is...
Gardens: Revealing the State of Our Minds
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
A garden is a simple place, a small escape from the home, where one can roam at leisure. But there is more, something about its sensuousness gives rise to deeper feelings. In the Decameron and in Augustine's Confessions gardens become representative of the consequences of beauty. But they also...
The Killing of Pain: How We See Ourselves?
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Thinking about the self is obviously quite different from thinking about something else because there is a degree of control and understanding that doesn't extend to other objects. Suppose the sun had a conscious, it might more easily perceive that objects orbit around it than would a person...
John Dollard and his work
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
Freud's introduction of psychotherapy in the early twentieth century spawned significant interest in the study of psychology and the practice of counseling. Over the course of the last century, notable progress has been made toward understanding the human psyche, the process of human development,...
The Impact of poverty on child development
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The impact of poverty on the development of the child has been well examined by scholars. Although poverty's impact on the child's development has been well examined, what is often not understood by the layman is the specific areas in which poverty impacts the child's development. In an effort to...
How conflict theory provides an insight to sociologist in to the process of criminal activity and behavior
Tutorials/exercises - 9 pages - Psychology
Conflict theory has developed throughout the course of the twentieth century as a principle theory for better understanding the development of criminal behavior. Although conflict theory directly links criminal behavior to the development of larger social inequities, research on this paradigm...
Personhood: Social psychology
Case study - 5 pages - Psychology
Social psychology is an interdisciplinary area of study on how social conditions affect human beings. The focus from the psychological perspective is explaining the influence of interaction (whether actual, imagined or implied) with others on an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviors. It...
Neural Representation of Semantic Knowledge
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
The human ability to look at and label objects, though taken for granted even in very young children, has long puzzled and fascinated scientists investigating the organization of knowledge systems in the brain. A central question in this investigation is the way knowledge of objects are...
