Psychology Essays

Common Myths of Psychology
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: Popular self-help gurus, daily television talk show hosts that are self-proclaimed mental health experts regularly distribute psychological advice that is often a mix of truths, half-truths, and false information....

Analysis of the field of Clinical Psychology
Example essay. Last modified: 6th Aug 2021
Introduction: In this project we are going to analyze the field of Clinical psychology. Clinical Psychology is a part of applied Psychology and it focuses on the treatment and understanding of behavioral and psychological problems...

Psychoanalytical Approach: The Lovely Bones and Lady Oracle
Example essay. Last modified: 5th Aug 2021
Introduction: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood both discuss about the real meaning of death from different views. People’s mind are influenced and sculpted by their surroundings and experiences thus the perception of death differs from one person to the other. ...

How Post Traumatic Stress Affects Child Development
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Post- traumatic stress is defined as a condition of persistent mental and emotional stress occurring as a result of injury or severe psychological shock, typically involving disturbance of sleep and constant vivid recall of the experience, with dulled responses to others and to the outside world & occurs in 20-30% of children...

To what extent do genes effect personality
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Personality is, traditionally, one of the most important objects of study for psychologists due to its major contribution to individual differences. Previous research explored the mystery of human personality to some extent, people gradually realize what determines their behaviours, why somebody feel excited in a certain situation while others do not. ...

Methods For Collecting Job Analysis Information
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Organizations consist of jobs that have to be staffed. Job analysis is the procedure through which you determine the duties of these position and the characteristics of the people to hire for them...

Market Research for Walkers Shortbreads
Example essay. Last modified: 4th Aug 2021
Introduction: Consumer trends in the biscuits and cakes segment in Scotland is changing towards healthy eating and diet. This is against the rich Scottish food and drink tradition that characterises Walkers Shortbreads. ...

Theoretical Perspectives in Child Development
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: In this paper, I will choose three theories of development to discuss and analyze their key concepts, their similarities, their major points of differences, how their domains of development influence each other, and how understanding development helps those who work with developing children....

Characteristics that Define Individual Differences
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: This essay describes the individual differences that make up the differences between people. It then continues to describe various workplace psychometric tests for determining an individual's character and behaviour....

Skinners ideas on Reinforcement, Behaviorism & Consciousness
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Reinforcement is a term in operant conditioning and behavior analysis for the process of increasing the rate or probability of a behavior (e.g. pulling a lever more frequently) by the delivery or emergence of a stimulus (e.g. a candy) immediately or shortly after the behavior, called a “response,” is performed....

Psychological Assessment of Tony Stark - Iron Man
Example essay. Last modified: 3rd Aug 2021
Introduction: Anthony Edward Tony Stark, also known as the famous “Iron Man.” This Super hero is also a great intelligent man that at 15 entered The Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study engineering and obtain a master’s degrees in engineering and physics....

Research proposal on classroom gender bias
Example essay. Last modified: 30th Jul 2021
Introduction: This paper is a research proposal that will offer an extensive examination of the sources and effects of gender bias that occurs in the classroom. After a literature review on the subject, this paper will outline a research task, which will suggest a future means for deepening the understanding of gender bias in classrooms. The hypothesis of the study is that having educator awareness alone will not be sufficient in eliminating bias....

Strengths And Weaknesses of Person Centred Therapy
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: The effectiveness of the person centred approach is that, the counselling is a personal communication between the client and the therapist. It aids in helping the client’s problems by increasing the client’s sense of well being. ...

The Relationship between Identity and Language
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: Language plays an important role in defining or describing the identity of a person. Listening to a dialogue by different individuals, our interpretation of their identities will most probably be influenced by their voices, accents and other features of how they speak...

How are Social Penetration Theory and Computer Mediated Communication used in relational development and relational maintenance
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: This paper will discuss how the Social Penetration Theory and Computer Mediated Communication are used in relational development and relational maintenance.  Topics that will be covered throughout this paper are self-disclosure through Computer Mediated Communication; how Computer Mediated Communication is used in relational development and how Computer Mediated Communication is used to maintain relationships....

Ghost In The Nursery And Compulsion To Repeat
Example essay. Last modified: 29th Jul 2021
Introduction: In this essay I will be referring to Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud and Selma Fraiberg to explain how psychoanalytic theory views the ghost in the nursery and the compulsion to repeat, and John Bowlby, Mary Ainsworth and Peter Fonagy to account for these concepts on behalf of the attachment theory. ...

Stages and Skills in a Counselling Session
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2021
Introduction: A coaching or counselling session, where the objective is to achieve lasting change or to empower clients to manage their own problems more effectively, can be measured in three stages; an exploration stage, a challenging stage and finally an action planning stage or, more simply, a beginning, a middle and an end....

What is Perception?
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Jul 2021
Introduction: There are two types of theories to perception, there is the self-perception theory, and the cognitive dissonance theory. There are many theories about different subjects in perception....

Causes and Consequences of Violence Against Women
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jul 2021
Introduction: Violence against women is still very much a problem in our society, there are increasing numbers of young girls living in abusive homes, involved in abusive relationships and who have experienced sexual assault and harassment throughout their lifetime....

Thematic Analysis of Child Sex Abusers Gender
Example essay. Last modified: 27th Jul 2021
Introduction: This dataset is analysed using the principal of thematic analysis. The dataset was extracted from media reports related to the case of a woman who abused her partner’s three-year-old daughter....

Is Personality based on Heritability or Environmental Factors
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: Personality can be divided into two categories, innate or acquired characteristics. Heritability is a statistical measure that expresses the proportion of the observed variability in a trait that is a direct result of genetic variability....

Relationship Between Interest and Learning
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: It is commonly accepted that within the instructional literature, affective variables have an indirect enhancing impact on learning through acting on the cognitive processes to control what people learn....

Case Study: Interview and Analysis of an Adult with Major Depressive Disorder
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: This paper is an interview and case study of an adult male with Major Depressive Disorder and mild Intellectual and Development Disability (IDD)....

Effects of Exercise and Sport on Impulse Control in Children with ADHD
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: The researcher for this study suggests that exercise and sports could improve impulse control in children from the ages of five to twelve that have been diagnosed with ADHD....

Use of Vignettes to Understand Perceptions of Stalking
Example essay. Last modified: 26th Jul 2021
Introduction: The idea of stalking is a behaviour which Meloy and Gothard classifies as obsessional following. Meloy and Gothard also considered stalking as a abnormal or long-term pattern of threat or harassment directed toward a specific individual. In this essay, I will be discussing such use of vignettes and its aid in understanding the perceptions of stalking....