Psychology Essays

Family Life Cycle and Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Even though families can be developed in different ways, every household will pass through the family life cycle. This cycle is made up of emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from child...

Recycling Behavior Among University Students
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: The purpose of our study is to find the factors affecting multimedia students to recycle. We have four independent variables which are health consciousness, health consciousness, rewards convenience, ...

Television Advertisements and Their Effects on Body Image
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Media has an impact on children through the explicit messages sent by advertisements regarding body image. The media depicts body image by displaying thin models and emphasizes messages that are direc...

Effects of the Placebo Effect on the Brain
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: This research paper attempts to explore the mechanism of Placebo effect and how it affects the brain. Starting with a detailed introduction to the Placebo Effect, touching the background of Placebo te...

Health Belief Model and Protection Motivation Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Outline of Health Belief Model and Protection Motivation Theory and their Application to Screening Behaviour. Introduction The aim of this essay is to describe health belief model (HBM) and protection...

Communication Process of Neurons in the Brain
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Neurons are the specialized cells that control the electrical impulses of the brain. The responsibility of the neurons is to convey all of the information that is transmitted between the neurons and t...

Psychological Perspectives of Sleep and Sleep Deprivation
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Sleep deprivation has the potential to result in a range of problematic behaviour, from which serious adverse effects can result. In order to design a treatment it is critical to initially establish a...

Research into Phonological Mean Length of Utterance (pMLU)
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Specific language impairment (SLI) is a disorder defined by exclusion. Children with SLI exhibit language difficulties in the absence of other factors, such as hearing loss, mental impairment, physica...

Extraversion Personality and Achievement Relationship
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between extraversion personality and university academic achievement. There were 36 participants with age ranging from 18 to 27. The extrave...

Theories of Development: Overview and Analysis
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Human development is regarded as the scientific study of psychological changes that occur in human beings over their life stages. This is also termed as Developmental Psychology. There exist several c...

Impact of Internet Addiction on Social Skills
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: The world continues to progress all the time with the rapid development of new technologies. Inventions like telephone, television, computers, and Internet being one of the most recent in a series of...

Causes and Effects of Schizophrenia
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Introduction: The world shuns those that are labeled abnormal. When a person is diagnosed with any form of mental illness, their life and their loved one’s lives are forever changed. Someone that has schizoph...

Gender Differences in Stroop Effect
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Gender differences were examined in the speed of processing, in the context of a Stroop colour-word task. Overall, the Stroop interference effect was observed. Word-reading was faster than colour-nami...

Biopsychosocial Model Case Study: Depression
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: The client interviewed by my classmate was Stanley Miller, a fifty eight year old white divorced man, with four children, two boys and two girls. He attended catholic and vocational schools, and later...

Causes of OCD: Genetics or Environment?
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder that has been affecting about 1 – 2% of the population. Individuals with OCD tend to do repetitive behaviours such as washing an...

Causes of Stress Among School Teachers
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: The effects of stress upon a persons life can be profound. Different studies have shown that job related stress affects work satisfaction and over all happiness. Increasing stress is becoming recogniz...

Effects of Theatre Arts on Emotional Intelligence
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: This study has attempted to examine the impact that an individual’s involvement in Theatre Arts has on his or her Emotional Intelligence (EI). The hypothesis in the present research is thus, ...

Case Study: Lifespan Development and Personality
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: Describe and evaluate the notion that adolescence is a period of ‘storm and stress’Adolescence is a period in development between the onset of puberty and adulthood. It usually begins betw...

Overview of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Example essay. Last modified: 9th Jan 2018
Introduction: According to Beck, the cognitive approach to psychotherapy “is best viewed as the application of the cognitive model of a particular disorder with the use of a variety of techniques designed to ...

Difference Between Friendship and Romantic Relationships
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Introduction: How do friendships differ from romantic relationships? Is there overlap between the two types of intimate relationships? What aspects are the same? The Circle of Friends is a movie that involves three...

Conduct Disorder in Children
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Introduction: This paper will examine Conduct Disorder in children. A description of the disorder’s subtypes and various methods of diagnosis will be discussed. Specific attention will be given to the method ...

Trends in Psychology
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Nov 2017
Introduction: Psychology and current trends in psychology The study of thoughts and behaviours of mind is ideally called as psychology. The behaviours we do, feel, think and say everything is determined by the fun...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Child Mental Health
Example essay. Last modified: 23rd Nov 2017
Introduction: Chapter 1 Introduction Since the advent of HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 80’s, over 75 million persons have been infected with the deadly virus. Recent statistics shows that there were about 38.8 mill...

Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Oct 2017
Introduction: Cognitive dissonance theory was first developed by Festinger (1957; as cited in Baron & Byrne, 2003; Hogg & Vaughan, 2005; Sabini, 1995; Taylor, Peplau & Sears, 2006) and it can be defi...

Cognitive Dissonance Case Study
Example essay. Last modified: 16th Oct 2017
Introduction: Cognitive Dissonance is described as the theory that “assumes that to reduce discomfort, we justify our actions to ourselves” (Myers, 2008). Cognitive dissonance is experienced each time a...