Psychology Essays

Psychological Theories on Relationship Between Socio-economic Status and Educational Outcomes
Example essay. Last modified: 8th Feb 2020
Introduction:  ‘how do psychological theories and processes offer explanations for the relationship between socio-economic status and educational outcomes, as reported by OECD (2017)?’.  ...

Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Psychoeducation in Secondary Schools
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Introduction: Title Exploring the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) psychoeducation in secondary schools: A Quasi-Experimental study.   Abstract With...

Negative Impacts of Procrastination on Well-being
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Introduction: Critically discuss the extent to which procrastination negatively impacts well-being. The condition of procrastination has left after effects on a persons physical and mental health as w...

States of Consciousness and Factors Affecting Them
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Introduction: State of Consciousness is something we are aware of but also something that needs to be learned more about throughout our education. The term of consciousness has been used to describe the experi...

Impact of Social Support on Psychological Well-being
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Introduction: The overall focus of this essay is to develop an understanding on the significant impact social support has on psychological well-being.  This will therefore help further researchers underst...

Behavior Therapy: History, Models and Applications
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Introduction:  Behavior therapy rose to prominence in the 1970’s after theorists were able to demonstrate its effectiveness (Spiegler, 2016). Instead of focusing on unconscious desires as the root of hu...

Reflective Essay on Psychosocial Helping Skills
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Introduction: This essay will look at my personal encounter during my psychosocial helping skills class and my experience with being a helper and client. We had to practices being the helper and the client, wh...

Annotated Bibliography: Domestic Violence in Children
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Introduction: Introduction The research study is based on domestic violence in children and also the effects of domestic violence is a point of research. The increasing number of domestic violence is ...

Factors Affecting Social Behaviour
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Introduction: Social Behavior Introduction Behavior defines people’s relationship towards others, themselves and the environment that surrounds them (Read & Miller, 2014). It is the rat...

Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument | Analysis
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Introduction: Introduction  Conflict is a natural part of life.  It is one’s reaction to it that can make it a positive or negative (B. Thomas, 2019).  The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mod...

Impact of Violent Video Games on Adolescent Aggression
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Introduction: Introduction The current research study looks at the impact of violent video games on adolescent aggression, with the assumption that higher consumption rates of violent video game media...

Mirror Neurons, Adolescents and Violent Video Games
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION  Our understanding of the function of mirror neurons and their influence on human behavior is quite rudimentary, but the implications of this recent discovery are far-r...

Encoding, Storage and Retrieval in Human Memory
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Introduction: Human beings have three types of memory: sensory, short term and long term. Sensory memories are formed through our senses of sight, taste, touch, sound and smell. There are two main types of sen...

Key Differences Between Short-term Memory and Long-term Memory
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Introduction: Memory is ‘the ability to retain information or representation of past experience, based on the mental processes of learning or encoding, retention across some interval of time, and retrieval o...

Psychosis: Causes and Treatments
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Introduction: Overview Psychosis is an episode when a person has a break or disconnect from reality, which can involve delusions and hallucinations. Delusions are strong beliefs that are very unlikely...

Comparison of Evolutionary Psychology and Sociobiology
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Introduction: How is Evolutionary Psychology similar to sociobiology, and in what ways are they different? Outline and critically examine the presuppositions, main claims, and implications of Evolutionary Psyc...

Impact of Personal Music Use on Cognition and Emotion: Music Psychology
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Introduction: Introduction:   Music plays an influential part in many individuals, eliciting positive and negative experiences depending on how music is associated in their lives. Music ...

Nonverbal Communication In Social Psychology Psychology Essay
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Nov 2019
Introduction: The most important thing in communication is hearing what isnt said.- Peter F. Drucker cited in Goman,2008 page 1. This states that spoken language and non verbal signals need to simultaneously exist ...

Michael Foucault's Concepts of Madness and Social Control
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction:  Section 51/50 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code authorizes a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine an individual “suspected to have a mental disorder” t...

Treatments for Depressive, Bipolar, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorder
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Introduction: Diagnose and Recommend Treatments for Depressive, Bipolar, Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Related Disorder Intake Interview and Background Samuel King is a 52-year-old ...

Integrative Approach to Counselling
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Introduction: INTEGRATIVE APPROACH INTRODUCTION This is a 3500 words analysing a 50 minutes recorded DVD discussion I had with a client called Jenny who authorised me to submit the recoded D...

Effect of Childhood Experience on Adult Personality and Behaviour
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Introduction: Effect of Childhood Experience on Adult Personality and Behaviour Title: To what extent is our adult personality shaped by childhood experiences by comparing the    behav...

Psychopathology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: Specify the diagnostic criteria of the clinical disorder you have selected. Identify two conditions that share similar signs and symptoms to this disorder.  Discuss the process...

The Psychology of Love
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Sep 2019
Introduction: The Psychology of Love  Love is vague, and objective, if I were to ask a few people what the definition of love is, they would most likely all have a different definition. Psycholo...

Applying Narrative Therapy to Case Study
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Introduction: Applying Narrative Therapy Clinical Practice with Individuals and Families III Client Information Client is a sixty-five-year-old cisgender Caucasian female utilizing ...