Psychology Essays

Personal Reflection on Becoming a Innovative Entrepreneur
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Introduction: Entrepreneurial skills are not necessarily genetic and can be achieved by any driven individual (Jones, Macpherson and Jayawarna, 2014). In addition to class lectures and independent study, effectiv...

Pre-operational Stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development
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Introduction: In this essay, I will be describing the pre-operational stage of cognitive development brought to prominence by Swiss clinical psychologist Jean Piaget. “A central component of Piaget’s ...

Benefits of Pretend Play for Child Development
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Introduction: In what ways might engaging in pretend play in early childhood be beneficial for a child’s development? Use evidence from psychological research to support your answer. Pretend play is often d...

Presenting Problem of Severe Anxiety
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Introduction: A Presenting Problem of Severe Anxiety – Stage 2 Essay: Group 2; Essay Number 3 For the sake of conserving space I am going to assume that the examiner has access to the background information...

Social Identity Theory and Conformity
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Introduction: Apply Social Identity Theory to ONE contemporary topic in Social Psychology. “Self Identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings” Svendsen, A Philosophy of Bore...

Theories of Sexology |Development of Sexology
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Introduction: Per Weiner, L., and Avery-Clark, C. 2014, Masters and Johnson are remembered for detecting scientific data on the human sexual response. Masters and Johnson also came up with a short-term treatment ...

Book Review: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog
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Introduction: Book Review: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog During pregnancy there is an undeniable connection between a mother and her baby. From the moment fertilization takes place a tiny seed (human being) sta...

Analysis of Personality Tests
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Introduction: Personality Personality is the organized pattern of behavior and attitudes that makes a human being distinctive. Personality is formed by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and envir...

Impact of Nutrition on the Brain
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Introduction: The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all animals. The brain is in the head closest to the sensory organs such as vision and smell. It is responsible of controllin...

Positive Self-Affirmation on Self-Esteem
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Introduction: Abstract Identifying productive ways to interact with self-esteem levels through the use of behavioral activation, and using positive self-affirmation as a way strengthen self-esteem. This study in...

Comparison of Maslow and Rogers' Theories
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Introduction: "Critically compare and contrast Maslow and Rogers accounts of the Self-Actualised/Fully Functioning Person with Positive Psychological Theories of the......

Memory Disorders and Alzheimer's
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Introduction: Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information (Schacter). You can recall memories of anything that occurred in your life from the time you were able to start remember thin...

Improving Performance and Well-being in the Workplace
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Introduction: Psychological research to improve performance and well-being in the workplace   The field of Psychology has continuously had an invested attention towards the advancement of wellbeing within the wo...

Human Thinking and Problem Solving
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Introduction: The research on human problem solving has presented a number of strategies we can use in order to reach a solution. Present a detailed examination of these strategies alongside a critical exploratio...

Impact of and Treatments for Phobias
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Introduction: It is December 2nd 2005, Sophie Waller was just pronounced dead in her bed at the age of 8. Pathologist Marianne Brundle found she died of acute kidney failure because of starvation and dehydration ...

Impact of Suicide and Treatment
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Introduction: Suicide can be such a very touching subject. As a lot of suicide occurs around the world, it’s become a huge matter, and of course an impact to a whole lot of communities to prevent suicide. E...

Sexual Addiction and Paraphilias
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Introduction: Sexual Addiction and Paraphilias Abstract Sexual addictions are regarded by sex-addiction professionals as a real disorders with real problems for the addict if left untreated. Most sexual addic...

Bowlby and Ainsworth's Views on Attachment Theory
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Introduction: Attachment is an emotional bond to another person. Psychologist John Bowlby was the first attachment theorist, describing four characteristics of attachment observed in developing children between the...

A Batak Experiment to evaluate Goal Setting Theory
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Introduction: The purpose of this research was to demonstrate if there were any significant differences in performance between a goal setting group who were given a target and a control group that were told to do...

Theories of Discrimination and Workplace Bullying
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Introduction: There are several theories concerning colorism or discrimination based on skin color (Hannon & DeFina, 2014) in the workplace that has been coupled with social and structural theories of the Af...

LOP Effect on Memory Types
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Introduction: Memory and its complexity involve systematic processes intent on successfully accessing and retrieving information (Atkinson, & Shiffrin, 2016). The depth in which people process external infor...

Impact of Lack of Family Cohesion on Child Adjustment
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Introduction: Does a lack of family cohesion effect child adjustment depending on the level of threat the child faces in their local area? Abstract The effect of a lack of family cohesion on child adjustment was ...

Are Humans Responsible for their Own Actions?
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Introduction: The notion of human behaviour is a complex one, there are many factors that intertwine with human behaviour such as the conscious and the subconscious, the voluntary and the involuntary of our actio...

Theories of Dreams in Psychology
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Introduction: Dreaming, whether it be day-dreaming, pleasantly dreaming of something you love during the night, or nightmares, has raised questions amongst us humans for years; why do we have them? What could the...

Theories of Racism - Irish Travellers
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Introduction: It is the intention of this paper to give a detailed account of the theories which help explain the attitudes of the settled community and the state towards travellers in Irish society today. Furthe...