Psychology Essays

Three ways psychologists have defined stress
Example essay. Last modified: 1st May 2017
Introduction: It is not easy to find a generally acceptable definition of stress. So many people have their own distinctive ways of defining stress. However, stress can be defined as the body’s response to si...

Comparison of Erikson's and Bandura's Theories
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Introduction: Albert Bandura was born on 4th December 1925 in Mundare which is a small town in Alberta, Canada. His parents were of polish descent. His theory was developed based on his belief that previous and ear...

The History Of Social Psychology
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Introduction: Social psychology is a subfield of psychology that studies the social interactions among people. The subject can trace back its roots to the Ancient Greeks. Charles Darwin made extensive contributions...

Case study: The Treatment of Depression
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Introduction: “Although depression has been recognized as a clinical syndrome for over 2000 years, as yet, no completely satisfactory explanation of its puzzling and paradoxical features has been found. There...

Levels Of Processing On Memory Recall
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Introduction: In 1890, William James made a clear distinction between short-term and long-term memory stores, based purely on introspection, which he called primary memory (PM) and secondary memory (SM) (James, 201...

What Social Factors Can Contribute To Mental Illness?
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Introduction: A mental illness is a psychological abnormality of an individual, and significantly affects the individuals emotional stability. There are different types of mental illnesses with different degrees of...

Research on nature versus nurture
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Introduction: The nature versus nurture debate has been a classic controversy among experts for centuries. Nature versus nurture is a debate about how children learn and develop. Throughout the history of the debat...

General Adaption Syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress
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Introduction: Hans Selye (1907-1982), an Austrian-born physician who emigrated to Canada in 1939, the general adaptation syndrome represents a three-stage reaction to stress. Selye explained his choice of terminolo...

Jane Elliot: Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes
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Introduction: Jane Elliot Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes Jane Elliot was a well liked third grade teacher from a small rural town in Iowa. In 1968 after the brutal assassination of Martin Luther King, the whole nation was i...

Physical Cleanliness Moral Purity
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Introduction: When we talk about physical cleanliness, what will be come up in our mind would be the medical benefits, which we may get rid of sick if we have a good condition of physical cleanliness. Physical clea...

Case study on dual diagnosis and complex needs
Example essay. Last modified: 28th Apr 2017
Introduction: The following assignment is formulated on partial information extracted from a case analysis; the client is a 26-year-old female who has extensive history of illicit substance use since her early teen...

What effect does the word superiority have?
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Introduction: This study analysed the nature of word superiority effects (WSE) which was first developed by James Cattell in 1886. WSE is the ability to recognise letters more successfully if the individual letters...

Case study: Facial Recognition
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Introduction: Facial Recognition is the process where the brain recognizes, understands and interprets the human face (Face Recognition, n.d.). The face is essential for the identification of others and expresses ...

Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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Introduction: Body Dysmorphic Disorder/ McMillan Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Rarely Talked about Somatoform Disorder. Each day people are faced with serious disorders in response to their weight, appearance, and bo...

The Role Of Peer Relationships
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Introduction: Childrens relationships with parents and peers are interactive and by the time they get older they form an increasingly varied array of interpersonal relationships (Pianta & Stuhlman, 2004). Rela...

The Importance Of Self Concept Clarity
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Introduction: It is widely acknowledged within psychology that the self is multi-faceted and composed of many different dimensions. Therefore, it seems inapt that the study of the self has, until recently, largely ...

The Measurement Process Variables Scales Of Measurement
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Introduction: INTRODUCTION In any kind of research undertaken, the measurement of the variables in the theoretical framework, is an important component of a research design (Sekaran, 2003). The measurement of the ...

The Experiment Of Hecht Shlaer And Pirenne
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Introduction: The following essay discusses two articles (Hecht, Schlaer, & Pirenne, 1942, and Cornsweet, 1970) based on a landmark experiment by Hecht, Shlaer, and Pirenne (1942), which set out to determine t...

Impressions of an Al-Anon Meeting
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Introduction: On Sunday April 19th, 2009, I visited Park Slope Serenity at St Francis Xavier School. Since this was my first time attending any meeting outside of a treatment setting I was first struck by the natur...

Ellis and Rogers' views on psychological health
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Introduction: In order to complete this assignment I have chosen to compare and contrast the works of two exceptional figures in the world of psychology, both of whom have been ranked as the two most influential cl...

How Fear Is Used To Manipulate Others
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Introduction: My paper will discuss how fear is used to manipulate others. I will support my topic using ideas taken from The Color Purple and Lord of the Flies. Fear is a natural emotion in humans that occurs when...

The History Of Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Introduction: Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is one of the major orientations of psychotherapy (Roth & Fonagy, 2005) and represents a unique category of psychological intervention because it derives from c...

Risk taking behaviours: Theories
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Introduction: Risk taking behaviours can enable one to be explorative and creative leading to benefits that were previously inaccessible, but they can also be detrimental to the safety, mental and physical health o...

Comparision between optic ataxia and apraxia conditions
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Introduction: Apraxia and optic ataxia are conditions that both derive from damage to different parts of the brain. The former can develop from damage to various parts of the brain, whereas optic ataxia derives fro...

Can an authority figures influence human behaviour?
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Introduction: Milgram (1963) stated that “obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual actions to political purposes.” His theoretical proposition for the study is that obedience is so...