I have always found my-self intrigued by human behaviours and tendencies, often asking the question of “why?” I would be greatly intrigued by the workings of the brain and how it is capable of contributing to factors such as mental health issues and disorders. To this day I am still fascinated by psychology and how …
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I want to further my studies by taking a course in psychology as this will allow me to gain in-depth knowledge about the complexity behind a humans mind and the way their thinking and behaviour has an effect on their daily life. Through the TED talk ‘How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime’ and …
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), is a disorder that consists of constant worrying and the inability to relax. GAD was first discovered in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association and the disorder is known to last a month or longer. There are more than 3 million cases per year, yet only 43.2% get the proper treatment …
Introduction The mental idea of the Stanford Prison investigation was that Zimbardo and his partners were keen on seeing whether the mercilessness among gatekeepers in America and penitentiaries was because of the twisted characters of the watchmen or had more to do with the jail condition. It can be seen that detainees and gatekeepers may …
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It’s often said that it’s better to give than receive but did you know that this is actually backed up by research? While many of us feel too stressed and busy to worry about helping others or say we’ll focus on doing good deeds when we have more ‘spare time’, evidence shows that helping others …
Introduction “We are disturbed not by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens”(Epictetus). It is normal for anyone suffering with anxiety alongside other mental health problems such as depression or even suicidal feelings. For instance, you may feel nervous when confront a difficult situation in life, before taking an examination or …
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In 1973, John Darley and Daniel Baston from Princeton University decided to research the effects of different time constraints on a person’s willingness to help someone in need. In their study “From Jerusalem to Jericho”: A study of situational and dispositional variables in helping behavior” they choose to study a group particularly known for caring …
The article started with an abstract introducing the topic, it says that for a while there has been issue of making psychology as a single, coherent, rigorous framework like other sciences such as Newton’s law in physics or Darwin’s theory of natural selections in biology has been a question on the minds of many psychologist …
A study done in England had four hundred and three children from 16 different classes in 16 different schools participating in a research study to determine how children who stutter are socially accepted. The age ranged from 8 to 14 years old with the mean being 11 years of age. In each of the 16 …
Patriarchal society is not only a framework of a social existence it’s a mindset. According to Sylvia Walby’s theory culture shapes the society and the mindset of its people. It is our culture that describes male as the bread winner and female as homemakers anything that contradicts this, drives us out of concept and understanding …
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Nutrition and depression are intricately and undeniably linked, as suggested by the mounting evidence by researchers in neuropsychiatry. According to a study reported in Neuropsychobiology, supplementation of nine vitamins, 10 times in excess of normal recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for 1-year improved mood in both men and women. The interesting part was that these changes …
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Psychological Distress Firstly, the key thoughts of this article incorporate the mental misery encounter beyond 50 years old or more established, for example, dejection, tension. This may prompt expanded hazard cardiovascular infections, proposes new research distributed in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Besides there are numerous new specialists who considered and inspected the information on …
Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, once said that “Monsters exist, but they are far too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” When people think of evil people or monsters, we typically think …
There is a famous lyric Paul Simon croons out with Art Garfunkel, bemoaning the stealthily infectious nature of suppression in society. “Silence like a cancer grows,” they warn, “…no one dared disturb the sound of silence.” It is this silence that represents the conscious restraint dutifully exercised by Swedish couple Marianne and Johan. We are …
Prozac Nation chronicles a bright 19-year-old woman’s struggle with depression. Elizabeth “Lizzie” Wurtzel is an aspiring writer and freshman at Harvard University. With a childhood plagued by divorce and abandonment, Lizzie has a history of depressive episodes and self-confidence issues. The book is set in the 1980s, when mental illness was very much a taboo …
According to Jack Halberstam in his book The Queer Art of Failure, “the queer art of failure turns on the impossible, the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable. It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life, for love, for art, and for being” (88). In The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff, …
In the post-modern time, due to the fragmented social structures and unstable psyche, there arose several themes in the literary texts. The devastating world wars made massive impacts upon the psychology of human beings. And to make an analysis of the human psychology and social conditions, several theories developed along with trauma theory. Along with …
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The type of travellers chosen are young adults, aged 24 to 29 years old. They are a group of friends from National University of Singapore majoring in Architect. Their reason to travel is for a reunion overseas trip with their group of friends that consists of 6 people. As they are Architect graduates, their monthly …
What would come to students mind when they hear the team work at class or at university? Students may think that it is a bit of annoying or, for new comers it may seem as a disaster. Team work usually teaches students many skills by sharing ideas and speaking and thinking in a loud voice; …
In the sense of the total Social Functioning, how family, grouped, organizations and community. Considering the following: Culture, Politics, Economic, Spiritual, Technology. Today our country is still in the process of addressing the social issues of our country. One of these is the Social Functioning of every individual, family, groups, and community. Social Functioning is …
Does bad influence impact humanity and good intentions? In the Stanford prison experiment, civilians were asked to play either an officer or prisoner role for research purposes. Being in an evil place, took a toll on the prisoners (civilians), being treated harsh by the officers caused them to rebel and act out. After some of …
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There were many academic experiments performed to try and get an understanding of human nature. The way humans act, and what they do is a very strange thing. Human nature really refers to the patterns of behavior that are typical of our species or our kind. A human undergoes changes as all humans grow up. …
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Psychology is something we can learn from the weather from history, current concerns or future considerations. However, by looking at it right now is insufficient to explain why modern psychology evolved as it did. In order to understand its interests and dealings with life, we need to learn about the history and philosophers’ theories which …
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There is definitely nothing incorrect in being anxious. When confronted with a circumstance or an issue, people experience stress and anxiety. Most people have the propensity to worry when trying to end up a due date that seems difficult to beat like cramming throughout last exams, or when preparing for a task interview. Much like …
The Ballet and Indlamu performance are forms of dance that have derived from decades of history with one representing a more Eurocentric view whilst the other is representative of the African Zulu people. These dance forms are respectfully both held in high regards in connection to their culture and share common themes such as originating …
In the context of Personnel Psychology, job performance may refer to actions or behaviors that can be measured and that are relevant to the goals of an organization. These actions or behaviors can further be separated into three separate categories; these include task performance, organizational citizenship behaviors and counterproductive work behaviors. Task performance refers to …
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Personality is thought to impact sport performance. There are several theories which help us believe that personalities have an effect on how sport performers handle sport. It is how we see if sports impact us is by doing different tests to see what categories we fall in to. This can allow us it tell if …
Abstract Attraction and exclusion were examined in affective processing, in the context of research of scholarly literature and popular culture. Attraction and exclusion are higher in high schools than any other environment. Attractive physical appearance has its downsides and upsides. Exclusion in homo sapiens can lead to mental and physical harm. Grade school children tend …
For a long time, the behavior of individuals had been explained by character, good or bad, but the 20th century saw the rise of Behaviourism, individuals’ behavior were the results not of their character but of environmental forces beyond the control of individuals. The notion of human nature had been cast aside, but all the …
Psychometrics – the science of psychological testing, is an essential aspect of assessment in the hiring process. Tests of such kind assess the personality of an individual by measuring a number of traits to predict an individual’s behaviour in a work environment. If you are a start-up or an evolving business that has just entered …
Solutions are all around us. They are the beverages we drink to the chemicals we mix in a common feed lab. The technical definition of a solution is a homogenous mixture of two or more substances. A solution can be a solid dissolved in a liquid, but it can also be a solution in cages …
CBT is a modern talk-based therapy that has grown in popularity in recent years, largely because there is a large evidence base from research and clinical practice to prove it is an effective therapy for a large range of mental health issues including, but not restricted to, depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive behaviour. This report …
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The future of social psychology is changing moving forward as it has been since the origin in the 1800s. In the 1970s, there was a revolution based around cognition and needing more diverse methods and better data analysis techniques. In the 1980s, the focus shifted to evolutionary psychology and those infamous topics of love and …
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“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world” – Dejan Stojanovic Shyness is the term, used to label the emotional state of feeling anxious and inhibited in social situations. From a social psychological perspective, situations differ in their power to elicit reactions of social anxiety. Shyness is the awkwardness or …
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I trust that disappointment prompts achievement. There is no doubt as far as I can tell that one can’t prevail without falling flat. Individuals see disappointment as a stage back or as an end in advance, yet I can’t differ more. Disappointment is really a stage forward or advance towards your objective. All through history …
The post modern era of psychology constitutes of the period in which the new theories and researches were developed and founded in psychology from 1960s onwards. Humanistic psychology Humanistic psychology relates to an approach which studies the whole person and the uniqueness of each individual. The movement grew in opposition of the two theories in …
Stress is simply the body’s response to changes that create taxing demands. Cao (2016) suggested that there is a difference between eustress, which is a term for positive stress, and distress, which refers to negative stress. In daily life, we often use the term “stress” to describe negative situations (Mills, Reiss, Dombeck, 2006). This leads …
If we refer to criticism we have to take in count that it practice the judging of something or someone. When a new major discover is released or an event of great magnitude occurs it is expected to be criticized in many aspects. We can see this on the social psychology experiment of Phillip Zimbardo …
So many literature has emerged over the past few decades with the question of how psychology” how unification can come to all or part of psychology under a single, coherent, rigorous, structure in a way which is similar to physical and biology under Newton’s laws and dawn’s theory of natural selection respectively the example of …
Implicit Bias Plan Prejudice is an ugly blemish on the face of humanity, and the ability of mankind to completely eradicate it is debatable. While it is generally known that prejudice or biases are in fact wrong and socially unacceptable, this social norm can tend to teach people to conceal any biases they may hold—what’s …
Observational Study When I was in high school, I wanted to observe will more students take the SAT or ACT. I believed this method was appropriate because observing individuals as a sample does not involve manipulation. This study focuses on the importance of everyone visually. During the time, I was a senior and I was …
During the history of women, they have been held back from obtaining their dreams. Inequality focused on “colored people” for centuries, but women also never had opportunities like men did, whether they are White, Black, Latina, Asian, etc. Women have fought for equality since the 19th century and finally were granted voting rights in 1869, …
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Substance abuse is a tough issue that affects the population. The effects of substance abuse are felt by the whole family, but to know how to reduce drug use we must first find out why people use drugs. The three major categories of perspective on substance abuse are Biological, Psychological and Sociological Theories. The biological …
Social Psychology began in the United States by the twentieth century and is considered to be a more modern creation correlated with psychology. Although considered as a branch of psychology its ideas and foundations were laid by Sociology. Social psychology is defined as the scientific study of subjects such as Social thinking, Social influence, and …
There is a serious ecological problem in the contemporary society that is mainly the fault of human beings. Therefore, it is important to encourage individuals to protect the environment through all means possible. I have used the packaging design of my product to pass the message of protecting our environment. Unlike other design firms which …
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Subliminal influence has been a recurrent topic of debate in both scientific and popular communities since Vicary (in a press conference held in 1957) claimed (even if he finally admitted it was a hoax) that subliminal exposure to short sentences, such as “Drink coke” or “Eat pop-corn”, could drastically influence people’s will to consume that …
The four main models to explain psychological abnormality are the biological, behavioral, cognitive, and psychodynamic models. We will also be discussing the humanistic-existential and the sociocultural model. They all attempt to explain what the causes and treatments for all psychological disorders are, and they’re all from a different approach. Biological psychology is a field in …
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As our daily lives become more and more dependent on Internet-based tools and services, and as those platforms accumulate more of our most sensitive data, the demand grows for experts in the field of cybersecurity. The core functionality of cybersecurity involves protecting information and systems from major cyberthreats. These cyberthreats take many forms (e.g., application …
My initial reaction to Sociology as a life or death issue by Robert Brym was a sense of uncertainty. When I started to read the book I was not sure what to expect, whether the book would be tedious and vague, or whether it would be informational and intriguing. Brym jumps straight into the underlying …
In showcasing, an item is anything that can be offered to a market that may fulfill a need or need. It is a thought, strategy, data, benefit or a question made because of a procedure and serves a need or fulfills a need. Customers from the earliest starting point have been extremely partial to new …
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