Essays on Psychology

Evidence of the ineffectiveness of foreign aid is easily observed in the African Countries. The deliberation and research on the effectiveness of this foreign assistance is still and ongoing debate and perhaps it may still go on for a long period of time. Going back to the post second war...

Child Protection is a fundamental issue that has been addressed at various levels of governance. The United Kingdom is one of the many countries that are still grappling with how best to protect a child from any dangerous exposure. Prof Eileen Munro was tasked to come up with a report...

As people acquire more wealth, the consumption of luxury goods increases. Therefore, the situation makes the investigation of different aspects of luxury goods consumption interesting. The current study primarily focuses on the relationship between dark triad traits and snob consumption behaviour. The mediating effects of gender variation, consumer need for...

Are you aware of the Eileen Munro’s Recommendations? Any suspicion of child abuse in school or at home? Can you relate mood disorders you recently noticed in your child to child maltreatment? Can you relate poor academic performance you recently noticed in your child to child abuse? The Figure 1 below represents the data...

1.1.Introduction Consumption behavior is the study of people or groups in reference to their tastes and preferences associated with their purchase, consumption, and disposal of commodities and services. This brings in context their preceding and aftermath mental and emotional behavioral responses(Brodie, et al., 2016, p. 198). Over the years, it has...

Forty Studies by Roger Hock was a compilation of historical research that changed psychology. In the book, Hock unraveled the complex nature of human beings thoughtfully interpreting the results of the study by explaining why the study was important. He expounds on the story of an influential psychologist named Zimbardo...

Arguments for Caution in Using Personality Measurement Arguments for caution in using personality measurement to make inferences have been presented by Mischell (1977) in an evidence-based framework. In fact, Mischell (1977) is one of the ardent critiques of the social-cognitive hypothesis through the detailed discussion of personality traits. Mischell (1977) asserts...

Social skills allow effective communication good interactions of children with their parents through their life. It is, therefore, necessary for children to have key personal skills and qualities as they develop in the family system and interact with their parents. Objectives i. Identify...

In 2008 Lenore Skenazy, let her son find her way back home using the subway alone and, she later wrote the story in a newspaper column which dubbed her the title “America’s Worst Mom.” She had given her son some quarters and some money in case of emergencies, and she...

The little Albert experiment showed how classical conditioning works in people. Classical conditioning is the process of developing new behavior through the association of stimuli. In classical conditioning, two stimuli are linked to elicit a reaction. In this experiment, little Albert expressed fear for very loud sound. However, he also...

Some of the fundamental values and beliefs of positive psychology include: First, gratitude is one of the values which contributes to happiness in life. Positive psychology beliefs and focuses on enhancing happiness and therefore, the more one s cultivates gratitude, the more happily the people will be. Another belief is that happiness...

The psychoanalytic theory was developed by Sigmund Freud, a Vienna-based psychologist who lived between 1856 and 1939 (Guntrip, 2018).   The psychoanalytic theory holds that personality and human behavior are the outward display of the interactions of the mind’s three structures: the id, ego, and superego. The id is the most...