Essays on Psychology

The reading is about an experiment conducted on a little child to explore certain disagreements amongst psychologists regarding emotional reactions.  The reading discusses two major concepts of human nature as perceived by Sigmund Freud and John Watson. According to Freud, thoughts, behavior, and emotions originate from the internal instinctual and...

This paper looks into the psychological impacts of online friendships specifically trying to establish whether they are of value to those involved. In order to do this, it first has to look into what constitutes a friend and friendship, what drives the need to have friends, the psychological and health...

Psychological disorders Psychological disorders are mental illnesses that affect how an individual's brain functions. Voices in the head affect the ability to distinguish between imaginary and actual experiences. Mental disorders affect individual's emotions, which results in moody and abnormal body behavior. Mental disorders damage emotional senses and eventually affect physical health....

Psychology is a very wide field and it entails studying the mind of an individual or animal and learning their behaviours. The emergence of psychology was a result of many philosophers putting together their research. Some of them include Aristotle and Plato who came up with theories of how having...

Both pro-social and antisocial behaviors are voluntary actions, but the former is intended to benefit another person or group of people, while the latter seeks to harm or disadvantage another individual or group (Hyde, Shaw, " Moilanen, 2010). This discussion describes prosocial and antisocial behaviors depicted in two advertisements and...

One of the puzzling topics handled by behaviorist is the element of motivation and the impact it has on the basic functioning of an individual. Over the years theorists have come up with numerous concepts which they maintain will aid in understanding the role of motivation and the factors involved(Gross,...

Leaders must understand what motivates people to do certain things. They must strive to understand why people behave the way they do, otherwise, they may not succeed in influencing them towards the preferred direction. As such, leaders must study human behavior since two people are bound to act or respond...

IntroductionPsychology is defined as study of the mental characteristics and processes of a person or a group seeking to understand how they affect behavior, cognition, decision making, reasoning, and feelings. In essence psychology is science of the mind (Gross, p13). Studies have shown that most of the world’s research and...

According to Bradberry (2009), emotional intelligence is the skill and capacity to construe other people’s emotions, as well as being able to read and understand them appropriately. The sole purpose of emotional intelligence is to enable people to acknowledge their emotions and those of other individuals. Furthermore, the four main...

Different crises continue to assail the global population, some caused by human beings themselves while others by nature. Regardless of causes and magnitudes of the outcomes, most of these crises have a detrimental impact on overall mental health of their victims (Silva, Siegmund " Bredemeier, 2015). This may be as...

There are various careers in psychology that one can pursue. However, this paper focuses on developmental psychology. According to Dittmann (2004), the profession entails the scientific study of why and how human beings change in their lifetime. Initially, the field was mainly concerned with children and infants. However, it has...

According to the Premack s principles of reinforcement and of punishment certain high probable behaviors or actions can reinforce other less probable behaviors while improbable behaviors on the other hand usually punish the more probable behaviors. It simply describes how activities can be used in reinforcing behaviors that are probable...