Psychology

If today would be 05 December 5, 2009 I would be thinking of completing my education, getting a job, finding a beautiful and caring girl and finally settle down with her. I would spend my day and night for my wife and my children to earn bread for them and to make them happy. In the period around 1950’s, a typical family consisted of a wife and a husband having two or three children. The husband would go for work and earning and wife’s duty was to look after children and their nourishment. These...

What is Multisystemic Therapy? Multisystemic therapy refers to an intensive family and community based therapy program. It aims at controlling and altering the behaviour of teenagers and adolescents, who are at risk of being placed in a special institution for treatment in the form of hospitalization, foster care, correctional institutions or group homes. This form of therapy focuses on the parents’ or primary caregivers’ abilities to identify and change problematic behavior. Multisystemic therapy...

Employers and employees not only face issues such as, discrimination, glass ceiling, low skill level, and low productivity; but they also encounter one of the most serious problems of Substance Abuse at the workplace. The issue represents the usage of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs by the personnel during their working hours for some complex reasons; or for the purpose of mood-altering (Buddy, 2009). Substance abuse is become more and more common these days in the workplaces; especially in the...

Introduction Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a type of technology that uses magnetic resonance to aid in viewing/ imaging of objects found inside the body. It is a specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging, used to measure animal and human spinal cord or brain neural activity through changes in blood flow (hemodynamics). (Raichl and Mintun, 2006). This type of magnetic resonance is one among the many examples of this technology which include magnetic resonance spectroscopy, interventional...

The following paper is a closer look at the fictional role of Chandler Bing, (played by Mathew Perry), a character that is by far, the most popular and best loved, in the hugely successful TV series FRIENDS. The sitcom that was the brainchild of David Crane and Marta Kauffman, ran for ten, long years and was an uproarious depiction of the life of six friends in Manhattan, New York City. The show was an insightful view into their lives, loves, quirks and eccentricities, and managed to strike a chord...

Introduction Stress can be defined as a reaction to experiences that tend to make one become upset or an event that brings a threatening feeling to someone (Santrock, 2004). One can also define stress as anything that makes our well being feel challenged or endangered. Stress is a reality of nature involving external forces affecting our well being (Panzarino, 2009). This essay discusses stress with focus on how people adapt to stress. The work also looks into the various sources and mediators...

Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that deals with the dynamics of the mind. It aims to produce explanations as to how the mind performs processes like thinking, remembering, and learning. These processes are explored to enable man to understand and improve our mental abilities. Cognitive psychology is the product of the so-called cognitive revolution which occurred between the 1950s and 1960s. There are several fundamental components discussed in the study of cognitive psychology....

Roger Sperry is a psychobiologist, who discovered that human beings are of two minds. That is, the human brain has specialized functions on both its left and right hemispheres, and each of these regions can operate independently from each other (PBS). Born on August 20, 1913 in Hartford Connecticut, Sperry had his early education at Elmwood, Connecticut and William Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut. He spent his undergraduate education at Oberlin College on a 4 year Amos C. Miller...

There are as many theories explaining the process of learning as there are theorists. There are those theorists who view learning as a change in the learner’s behavior, others conceptualize it as a restructuring of the internal cognitive processes of the individual while a third school of thought views the process as a desire on the part of the learner to self-fulfillment. Out of these theories, two contradictory views are notable. There are theorists, for example David Hebb, who believe that...

Lifespan can be defined as the period that extends from conception to death. Thus, lifespan development is a process that begins at conception and continuous to death. Lifespan development can therefore be defined as a methodical, intra-individual transformation that is attributed to progressions corresponding to age. The development advances in a way that implicates the level of functioning. As a child grows he exhibits transformations that progresses with time. These may include physical growth,...

Each experience is an opportunity for learning and this course had greatly influenced how I think about the world around me. I have heard something about psychology and how it can help us understand ourselves better but I did not expect the depth of the lessons we had taken up and how it has opened my eyes to human behavior, thought and emotions. I have learned so much from this class that choosing one lesson to reflect upon is difficult but for me, the most important chapter was on stress and...