Category: Psychology

  • Compulsive Hoarding

    As little as 15 years ago, people with extremely cluttered homes were known as pack rats or collectors. There has been a growing problem where homes become so extremely full of possessions that it makes it impossible to use the rooms in the house for the purpose in which they were originally intended. No cooking…

  • Psychic Powers

    Dictionary.com defines the word Psychic as “a person who is allegedly sensitive to psychic influences or forces.” This definition is very vague and therefore it is necessary to try and understand what psychic influences or forces mean. One of the biggest problems determining if psychics are real is that there is not a regulatory or…

  • Effects of Depression on Teenagers

    Depression, one of the world’s most prevalent psychological problems, affects nearly everyone through either personal experience or through depression in a family member or friend. Each year, over 17 million Americans experience a period of clinical depression. In a teenager’s life, they must confront peer pressure problems at school, problems at home, the deaths of…

  • Psychology Questions – 25 Points Each

    PSYC 103 Organizational Studies/Psychology 103 Take Home Exam 3 Answer Question 1-4 (25 Points Each) 1. Many researchers are concerned about the possible effects that violent video games might have on our society. Some believe that it may have a cathartic effect, while others believe just the opposite. Describe the possible effects as they relate…

  • How Memory Works in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome

    In the recent years Asperger’s syndrome has sparked the curiosity of many scientists studying Autism Spectrum Disorders. Multiple studies have been performed on patients with AS specifically focusing on their working memory. Working memory is a limited amount of information used over short periods of time to keep behavior continual and plan complex responses to…

  • Counseling Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Individuals

    Homosexuality is defined as sexual attraction to a person of the same sex (Sue & Sue, 2008). Because gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) individuals are reluctant to identify themselves it is difficult to get an accurate estimates of their numbers. Sue and Sue (2008) estimate that approximately 4-10 percent of the U.S. population is…

  • The Affects of Paranoid Schizophrenia In the Brain

    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that can cause people to lose touch with reality. Some people are convinced they hear or see things that are not there, which are hallucinations and these people become delusional. In Paranoid Schizophrenia, some people that become delusional develop persecution of person dignity. It is caused by a chemical reaction…

  • ‘Increased diversity has significantly increased individual and collective agency.’

    What we know as our social existence is determined by the overall structure of our society. Structure refers to the social norms and institutions that shape us human beings and society as a whole. Can limit or influence the choices and opportunities that we possess. Norms and institutions include class, religion and economic forces. Agency…

  • Psychological Impact of Stereotype

    Society is shared with a diverse group of people who express individuality in their own distinct way. Although we may experience and share much of our culture with other people, and transfer it from one generation to another, it impacts everyone differently. Our culture is primarily responsible for the characteristics that make us unique and…

  • Psychology of a Cult

    Jim Jones, Charlie Manson, David Koresh and Marshall Applewhite all were able to convince their followers to kill others and/or themselves. How were these men able to control full grown adults who had fully functioning minds? It wasn’t as hard as you might think.

  • A Psychological Perspective on Behaviorism

    John Watson was born in 1878 and at the age of 16, went to college. He attained a Masters degree at the age of 21, from where he went on to be a school principal. His job lasted a year and then he moved on to attend school once more at the University of Chicago.…

  • Dealing with Autism

    Of all of the childhood psychological disorders, Autism is perhaps the most overwhelming. Its sufferers are both the children afflicted with social impairment and the parents who struggle everyday to support them. Autism deprives its sufferers of the capability of having significant relationships and communication with other individuals, it causes them to become withdrawn and…

  • Character Analysis According to Freud: Blanche Devereaux

    This paper will be an analysis of the personality of Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux from the show titled “The Golden Girls.” In this paper Blanche will be analyzed from two points of view. The first analysis will be from the view of psychodynamics using Freud’s ideas on personality. For this analysis I will begin with the…

  • Pros and Cons of Ritalin (methylphenidate) as a treatment for ADHD

    Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is the most common behavioural disorder in children which is characterized by increased motor activity and reduced attention span (Levinthal, 2005: 104) , and is being diagnosed in about three out of five children ( Kidd, 2006;Levinthal, 2005: 104). It also occurs three times more in boys than girls and…

  • Psychological Evaluation of Peter Griffin

    Name: Peter Griffin Date of Birth: 12/25/1970 Sex: Male Date of Assessment: 6/29/2010 Age at testing: 39 Psychologist: Timothy Remmert

  • History of Psychology

    People are constantly questioning who they are and where they have come from, these questions can easily be classified as the most common psychological, and at the same time, philosophical ideas that people face each and every day. Psychology and philosophy have much in common, including the fact that they both study human mind that…

  • Hoarding: Syndrome or Symptom

    Until a few years ago, a person who was known to collect cats would have been called “the crazy cat person”, houses that were filled with stuff were referred to as “cluttered, filthy, or a pen sty.” Today, those expressions have been replaced with the terms: “hoarder or compulsive hoarding”. What is hoarding? Hoarding is…

  • Jack’s Multiple Personalities in Fight Club

    When we first meet the main character, only identified as “Jack”, he has a gun to his head battling his split personality, Tyler Durdan. He then takes you back many months so you can know how it is he came to that state. Jack is a 30 year old single white male complaining of insomnia…

  • John Gottman’s work

    There are many theories that we have discussed in class that I can see are applicable to my life. I believe the point of this class, in essence, is to help people see what normally goes unseen. Although I am completely and irrevocably in love with all the material that was introduced to me through…

  • Juvenile Delenquency

    There are numerous theories to why a person becomes who they are and how they got there, what makes it difficult to understand is which correct theory to follow and believe. Listed are a brief analysis of a few theories and two case studies of two troubled youths that will help to open a window…

  • The Lifespan Development and Personality of Diana, Princess of Wales

    This paper focuses on the life span development and personality of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana Frances Spencer, the third daughter of four children born into British aristocracy by her parents, Frances Shand Kydd and John Spencer was born on July 1, 1961. Her parents separated in 1967 and the children remained living with their…

  • Cultural Differences of Religion

    According to Encarta (2008) religion is defined as a consecrated commitment which is taken to be a religious truth. One should deem the implication of confidence in personality continuation with no creation declare relating to what it really is or should be. Religion is also considered one of the many freedoms that a person has…

  • Structuralism vs. Functionalism

    Structuralism was formed out of the necessity to distinguish psychology as a science separate of philosophy and/or biology. Functionalism came out of opposition to the basic premises of structuralism. Major differences among functionalism and structuralism are in the ideas of how the mind is organized. Functionalism viewed the mind by how it functioned rather than…

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

    Throughout the duration of this course we have touched on many different topics and disorders that all have been truly unique and very interesting. However, the chapter I found the most interesting was Anxiety Disorders and particularly Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Therefore, I will present a brief history of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder such as, its…

  • Probable cause of bipolar disorder

    In the last few years, doctors find the probable cause of bipolar disorder is an inherited lack of stability in nerve impulse transmission in the brain. This biochemical brain problem causes people with bipolar disorder to be more susceptible to physical and emotional stresses. Researchers have found several genes that could be linked to the…