Essays on Psychology

Interviewed person: I think adolescents today are often looking for trouble. Even when they are having fun, they are more extreme. Me: I think that adolescents today are using the best of what their generation has, even though it may seem that they are lonely, naïve and depressed. 2....

Some of the procedures learned by people consist of primarily overt behaviors. Other procedures, on the other hand, have high mental significance and examples include writing essays, solving mathematical equations (Ormrod, 2016). Most procedures, however, involve a mixture of physical behaviors and mental activities. Procedural acquisition of knowledge ranges from...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a collection of techniques and strategies proven to assist people with anxiety disorders. According to Cape, Whittington, Buszewicz, Wallace, and Underwood, (2010), when a person is suffering from panic attacks such as an incapacitating phobia, unrelenting worries, or obsessive thoughts, they might be having an...

Most of the psychological concepts are on the brain and how it affects the behavior of a person.  According to psychology, mental processes greatly affects the behavior of a person and this includes his learning process, emotions, and cognitive behavior. The physical and mental processes in the brain lead to...

When the word psychology appeared, the first thing in mind may be an area of study dedicated to solving the gloomy side of life characterized by anxieties, addictions, phobias, etc. In a world struck by a flux of natural, social, economic and financial challenges, the study and understanding of happiness...

People in the workplace often avoid stimuli that are anxiety-provoking. To explain this form of behavior, behaviorist and humanists concepts can be used. Escaping from the stimuli makes one remove the unpleasant emotions (Omrod, 2016). The avoidance, therefore, becomes a reward that increases or reinforces the behavior avoidance. Some employees...

The nature versus nurture theory in psychology has been a debate for the past years since it was found by psychologist Sir Francis Galton in 1869 (Capps, 2016). Various doctors, psychologists, scientists, and researchers are still arguing about this theory and how it works. According to Kong et al. (2018)...

In the society teachers, guardians and parents spend much time with children teaching them life skills and behaviors considered as appropriate. Consequently, it is vital for them to be aware of theories of human development applicable to behavior modification and management. This paper explores instrumental, classical and tow factor theories...

Scholars attempt to solve problems in the society by developing viable solutions that address issues that affect individuals in their immediate environment. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to identify the aspects that affect the relationship between parents and their children who have autism. From this observation,...

In the modern world, psychology has turned out to be an essential aspect in solving criminal cases. Psychology aids in understanding the behavior of a person and the reason why the behavior in a particular manner. Psychology tries to explain array of factors in human behavior and give a rational...

It has been studied that the developmental changes in communication between the parents and their children depend highly upon how close they are and how often they interact with each other. In the chosen it has been vividly portrayed that television plays an important role in debarring communication from entering...

After birth: A child's introduction to the world After birth, the child learns and begins to familiarize with the environment around him/her, gets acquainted with the sense of touch, feel, and hurt. Children cannot, however, talk about it but they have the very feeling as the adult. Piaget on his sequential...