Psychology

The professional world is bombarded with the concept of ethics. Ethics, which in essence, is the battle between what is right and wrong, has been given several interpretations since rightness and wrongness, is far too subjective to be understood in a single context. The conflict in understanding ethics has been addressed by creating models that aims to explain ethical reasoning. For one, mental health professionals are guided by the need for ethical reasoning models such as that which covers philosophical...

This paper discusses the case of world renowned musician Clive Wearing. It includes a reflection on the significance of memory to the human person. It also explains the relevance of studying cases such as this to learning about memory. The Case of Clive Wearing The Importance of Memory One of the most essential parts of the human brain is the hippocampus. It is located near the temporal lobe and is the one responsible for storage of memory. It is the memory card of the human body. The absence...

The society that we live in today is composed of people of different ages, nationalities and body sizes, for some reason, the issue of body size is quite sensitive across all nations, majority of people do not like talking about it or even acknowledging that a problem exists, when your body has to be a certain size for you to be considered trendy. The sad fact in this case is that women are more affected by the negative body images as opposed to men who are not faced with pressure from the society...

There are beds full of dying men and children in hospitals, most of them dying because of the despondency associated with the way the society view them. Some children are coiled in a corner of a hut, lonely and rejected because they are termed as outcasts, as a result of being orphaned and living with HIVAIDS. Their neighbors believe they are cursed, and therefore subject the poor children to the leper treatment of the biblical days. A HIVAIDS infected woman is wailing, as the children watch helplessly,...

This article deals with the effects of loss on children of both a primary and secondary nature. Events such as the death of a parent or friend and the resulting consequences can be difficult for a child to deal with, depending on what stage they are at developmentally. Other losses such as personal possessions, those resulting from abuse or a sudden change in a childs life can also be difficult (Goldman, 2004). The author also discusses, according to Piagets developmental theory, how children deal...

The real etiology of schizophrenia is still a dream despite massive studies on the involvement of the brain. Studies of the brain through neuroimaging have revealed that frontal cortex, temporal lobe, and sub cortical structures are involved. Some of abnormalities in the brain of schizophrenic patients include enlarged ventricles, reduced volume of frontal cortex, temporal lobe cortex, and sub cortical structures like hippocampus and amygdala. These abnormalities have been persistently reported...

Women in their lifetime pass through many phases. Menopause is a transition phase that represents the end of a womans reproductive age and the onset of an age that is not reproductive. It generally represents the end of the menstruation.  However, this period does not happen abruptly since before the menstruation periods stops completely, irregularity of the same is first observed. The period before menopause is referred to as perimenopause and can be defined as a period when ovaries still...

This paper is going to look at lobotomies and most of its aspects, what the procedure is and what it entails, why the procedure is carried out and to which persons is the procedure carried out, the level of safety of the procedure and its origins as well as if the procedure is still in practice. These are some of the aspects of lobotomies that the paper is going to look at. The main aim of the paper is to discuss lobotomies and if they were actually good or they just did more harm than good. The...

This paper gives a reflection on the theory of associationism. According to this theory all mental activity is based on the relationship between basic mental events, for instance, sensations and feelings. The phenomenon of association had been looked into by many philosophers and psychologists before Hume. However, they did not regard the issue of association as virtually important. Hume, therefore, set out to analyze the phenomenon and even developed the laws of association. John Locke talked of...