Essays on Psychology

Fear in Education Fear is an unpleasant emotion that is brought about by anticipations of change, pain, or harm. Anxiety brings undesirable experiences and feelings at school. Moreover, enrolling in the higher institute of learning poses a significant threat to many students. Sometimes, pursuing a technical course can lead to psychological...

According to psychologists, attitude is very important in the development of the behaviors of people (Bohner " Wanke, 2014). The psychologists define attitude as a tendency to examine things in particular ways. Attitude is learned and can include the examination of objects, different people, issues or occurrences, and events. The...

Social deprivation, a psychological term, is the reduction or prevention of socially normal interactions between an individual(s) and the society at large. Social deprivation, a common phenomenon, especially in first world countries has an innumerable number of effects. Based on data published by the UNICEF, more than 8 million children...

The primary aim of this essay is to identify two forms of social influence as well as explaining and evaluating the research methods used by psychologists to study them. Human beings are typically social beings who are continually seeking acceptance, cooperation, and cohesion from the groups they associate themselves with....

There has been an argument on whether psychology is a science or pseudoscience. Psychology is the defined by the American Psychology Association as the study of the behavior and mind (Carlson, 2014). It studies how the mind works, and how it affects the behavior. Pseudoscience consists of observations or beliefs...

The Detriment of Dwellin on the Positive in Psychology The statement “positive psychology is not good” for us according to psychology may mean that human being should not dwell on optimistic factors for mental well-being. Instead, a person should be in a position to demonstrate resiliency and survive during adversity. The...

Psychological problems affect both children and adults and make it difficult for them to have social interactions. There are different mental disorders and each one manifests itself in different ways. Asperger syndrome is one of the mental disorders that affect both children and adults. The DSM diagnostic criteria for Asperger...

In Freudian Dream Research In Freudian dream research, content is both latent and manifest in a dream that is, the hidden interpretation of the dream and the dream itself as it is recalled. Throughout different stages of sleep, dreams manifest the involuntary events within the mind. Sigmund Freud, a psychologist made...

My intended topic is attitudes about Learning Behaviors. The independent variable are students from (K-12) with a dependent variable of attitudes toward Learning Behaviors. (The cumulative best score is out of 39, a child scoring points depending on evaluation of their attitudes) 1. How does your child get organized for school? 1....

Everyone has been exposed to learning in one way or another, hence important to understand the basics of each type of learning based on the classical and operant conditioned as postulated by Ian Pavlov and B.F. Skinner. Classical conditioning was first described by Pavlov and entails an originally neutral stimulus...

Adolescence is the stage in life that lasts from puberty to full adult status. Adolescence largely describes the developmental change from childhood to adulthood, which is commonly perceived as the teenage years lasting between 13 and 19. However, the changes that do signal the beginning of the transition, both psychological...

Studies in sociology and psychology Studies in sociology and psychology, as well as a survey of consumer preferences, attitudes, or opinions, use samples which help obtain information on the population where the samples used can accurately represent the population of interest. The samples selected from a population are the research subjects...