Essays on Psychology

“Can a Playground Be Too Safe?” is an essay written by John Tierney and published in the New York Times on 18/7/2011. The essays highlight the benefits associated with tall jungle gyms and tall slides like facilitating the emotional development, enabling children to overcome fears, being adventurous and thrilling especially...

Child Abuse: A Devastating Social Problem Child abuse has become a common social problem in our societies. Millions of children suffer maltreatment and neglect at a tender age before they reach the age of 18 years. Child abuse is the physical harm, emotional, or sexual maltreatment. It can be in form...

Project Alpha and "Who is America: Building a Mosque in Kingman Arizona" - A Comparison Project Alpha is termed as an elaborate hoax which lasted from 1979 to 1983 when it ended with a deliberate disclosure. Concerning this, the project was orchestrated by James Randi, and generally involved using two fake...

In our world today: The importance of conducting a gender analysis In our world today, an essential first step for ensuring gender equality in any project is to conduct a gender analysis of the issue being addressed by the project. The analysis may be described as an analysis of gender relations...

Introduction As a teenage girl, I was overwhelmed to join college so that I can proceed with my studies and achieve my dream career. Tara Parker-Pope and Lisa Belkin focus on children and adolescents, which are two groups of young people that require support from their parents for growth and development...

Angelica Pickles Angelica Pickles is an unkind, harsh and selfish kid. She is the eldest cousin to two siblings, Tommy and Dil Pickles. In most cases, Angelica is seen mistreating her cousins and others kids, as well as her friends. She displays the character of a person with low self-control. She...

The Role of Managing Children's Behavior The role of managing children’s behavior is one of the biggest dilemmas encountered by parents today. There are various ways of improving children’s behavior, including positive reinforcement, taking away privileges, time-out, and physical punishment. Physical punishment is a way of disciplining children by causing them...

Christie-Seely, Janet, and Yves Talbot. "Assessing The Single-Parent Family." Pubmed, 31 Sept. 1985, p. 1633–1639., www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21274172. Accessed 19 Oct. 2018.             The article critically reviews the single-parent family issues by ideally linking psychosocial problems and illness associated with stress to single parenthood. The authors have explained to us that divorces and...

Cenameri, Monika " Taci, Poleta. "The Impact of Technology on Adolescent Behavior." Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol.4, no.2 (2015): 288-294 Doi:10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n2s2p288. This article examines the effect of technology and internet use on adolescent behavior. The authors utilize a quantitative method of collecting data from eight hundred and ten high school...

Throughout history, one of the most important social issues is the movement for female rights. In most culture, there was unequal treatment between women and men. Women expect only to stay home and let the men support and provide them. The famous plays whose discussion revolve around female and male...

Analysis of Drama as a Social Commentary Over the recent years, there has been a wide approval of drama as a critical tool for social commentary. Drama contains elements that mirror the society and life in general thus, apart from entertainment, drama informs and educates. Many playwrights utilize this powerful feature...

Moral panic has been identified in the sociology of deviance as a prominent issue. In Australia, child abuse is one of the problems believed to be resulting to moral panic. Child abuse refers to the physical and psychological damage that a child faces as a result of the abusive tendencies...