Sexuality is a concept that has been socially constructed. People live their lives judging others and themselves based on what society has taught them to believe is “normal” and “abnormal” to the extent that they begin to neglect their own thoughts and beliefs. While many sexologists believe that sexuality is purely based on reproduction and heterosexuality, Freud encourages the idea that a person’s sexual instincts revolve more around their feelings for contentment and gratification. Kelly James
until today, it is still being studied by psychologists all around the world in order to treat patients with disorders related to narcissism. In the book The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement, Jean M. Twenge a Professor of Psychology at the San Diego University carried out a research in quest of finding out whether people from recent generations are more narcissistic than people from the older generations. The results showed that people from recent generations scored
Does Bilingualism Improve Cognitive Functions? Kaining (Michael) Cui Bilingualism has long been an interesting topic in cognitive psychology research. The fact that bilinguals grew up in a unique and different language as well as social environment, potentially has a substantial effect on reading, language perception, ambiguity resolution, and many other language and cognitive process that are beyond language itself. Since the 1960s or even earlier, scientists have been studying the effects of
Psychoanalytic theory incorporates instinct and desire, and with that desire comes the behavior in which it can be satisfied and take actions into directions, into a singular concept of instinct. If satisfaction of an instinct threatens someone via their ego, repression in that individual comes into play. From this the idea of repression then is transformed to the persons sub-conscious. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story the “Fall of House of User” has many different examples of Psychoanalytic theory
Change affects people in many ways. Three stories that have examples of this are, Simplexity by Jeffrey Kulger, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, and Frostfire by Amanda Hocking. Change could be a good or bad thing but normally its negative followed by a negative reaction from others. The first story is Simplexity. People react to emergencies very differently but the outcome is normally the same. In the text, Kluger, talks about the attacks during 9/11. The text states that, “the people who stayed behind
The Importance of Flowers in Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf chronicles Harry Haller’s battle with the duality of his own soul. Harry believes that he is half man and half wolf because while a part of him is fascinated by those who find satisfaction in the routine bourgeois lifestyle and even sees some appeal in the comfort of it, the other part feels utter contempt for the mediocre and instead seeks to live for pleasure and transcending the human condition of boredom. I
"The average man is a comformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoticism of a cow standing in the rain." -Colin Wilson. Colin Wilson born in 1922 is an English writer of non-fiction exploring human potential, psychology, existentialism, criminality, literary criticism, and the occult. According to Wilderdom.com, Wilson often expressed the same ideas over and over again. This quote was taken from many sayings he has, and in this essay I will explain to you the message behind this quote
Phillip Zimbardo developed the ideology of the “Lucifer effect” by producing an experiment that tested individuals’ behavior patterns as they switched roles in Stanford County prison. In this study, Zimbardo proved the negative face of humanistic ways by showing how influencing someone’s outlook on a specific role that they were given, can alter the overall behavior that they produce as a result. Zimbardo’s comment correlates to Arendt’s “Banality of Evil” because it is relative to Arendt’s mindset
The rapid growth of technology over the past decade has lead to an increase in multitasking, especially with students. Effects of multitasking are discussed in the article “Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading”, by Bowman et al. The author discusses “performing certain tasks simultaneously” (Bowman et al. 927) and how they can affect a student’s memory. While this study suggests that the use of media along with “competing cognitive tasks” (Bowman
Transtheoretical model (TTM) is a comprehensive framework that has been used to understand behavior change. TTT emerged from a comparative analysis of leading psychotherapy and behavior change theories by Pochaska and colleagues. TTM was developed and introduced in 1983 by Pochaska and DiClemente. TTM is a model of intentional change that focuses of decision making of individuals. TTM consists of four constructs which are five (5) stages of change, (10) processes of change, decisional balance, and