Psychology

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  • Schizoaffective Disorder

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    According to this article, substantial amount of clash surrounds the presence of schizoaffective disorder in the psychology community. Schizoaffective disorder is a variation of schizophrenia in which affective mood disorders are unusually prominent. People with this illness may suffer from a severe variant of either major depressive or bipolar disorder. Schizoaffective

  • Primacy Effect Research Paper

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    today. We will also talk about the primacy effect and how first impressions are critical to any relationship. Relationships are different for everyone and they always have been and always will be an important part of our lives. The article “The Psychology of Oversharing Facebook Couples”, talked about how Facebook knows quite a bit about its users romantic lives and relationships. It talks about how introverts and extroverts carry themselves differently with their relationships on Facebook and in

  • Dialectical Theory: Autonomy Vs. Connectedness And Personal Information

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    Interpersonal Paper Jadia Lampton University of North Texas We learned that all relationships experience tension at some point in time, no matter if the relationship is a girlfriend/boyfriend, a sibling, or a parent through something called Dialectical Theory. Dialectical Theory is the analysis of relationships that pertains to the patterns of communication between partners. There are three main tensions that are involved with Dialectical Theory, which are Autonomy versus Connectedness, Novelty

  • Stress In Prisons

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    Maschi, T., Koskinen, L., Viola, D. (2015). Trauma, stress and coping among older adults in prison: Toward a human rights and intergenerational family justice action agenda. Traumatology, 21(3), p. 188-200. Researchers conducted a mixed method study focusing on the experiences of stress of older adults in the prison system and their methods of coping. For the researchers, the fact that there are over 250,000 adults over age 50 in the system (a vulnerable population), 40% of which are estimated

  • Steven Pinker The Blank Slate

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    lead to many behavourists including B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) creating studies and writing very influential books without consideration of the brain or the genetic makeup of organisms. At this point in time, behaviourism became the dominant field in psychology and permeated the public perception. Pinker puts significant attention on the fact that behavioural psychologists such as John B. Watson (1878-1958) and Skinner wrote books on childrearing and books arguing that harmful behaviour, such as aggression

  • The Pros And Cons Of The Insanity Defense

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    Insanity is difficult to thoroughly define, causing great controversy, especially when accusing a defendant of a crime. It needs to be known that this term is not a psychological term, but a legal term (Chiacchia 1). The Insanity Defense is a plea for convicted defendants that apparently lack the mental capacity to realize they committed a crime that was wrong, and could not tell right from wrong at the time of the crime. Dating back to the roman empire, it has been viewed as immoral to punish a

  • Personal Narrative: A Career As A Veterinarian Or Psychologist

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    Job prospects should be best for those who have a doctoral degree in an applied specialty and those with a specialist or doctoral degree in school psychology. Veterinarian - A veterinarian’s work space all depends on the type of animals that they treat, or mend to. Some vet’s work space vary from a farm to a private clinic or animal hospital

  • Michael Sandel Doing The Right Thing Analysis

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    In “Doing the Right Thing” by, Michael Sandel, he discusses a few different cases. Sandel first discussed the Price Gouging case. In Florida, after experiencing extreme devastation due to natural causes such as hurricanes, they were experiencing extremely high inflation rates. What really caused Floridians to go into an outrage was the fact that these rates inclined for things that were basic necessities like, ice, generators, water, hotels/motels, food, and other things of this nature. This then

  • Academic Self Concept

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    Brittany Lamb 20150507 FPS 221E 21ST September 2016 It is believed that there is a strong link between self-concept and ones academic performance. The impact of the relationships formed with learners’ during the School Experience period shall be considered as one critically analyzes whether this enhanced or reduced the learner’s self-esteem; and what impact this had on their academic performance. Further discussions shall link the analysis with various theories whilst providing concrete examples

  • Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational

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    The very content of the book often contradicts its theme. Ariely argues that we are “far less rational than standard economic theory assumes” (Ariely, 2008, p. xx) and that we should “modify standard economics, to move it away from naïve psychology” (Ariely, 2008, p. xx). Undoubtedly, the findings he presents indicate that humans are indeed irrational and that “these irrational behaviours…are systematic” (Ariely, 2008, p. 239). However, while reflecting upon his findings, Ariely consistently