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Juvenile Delinquency Is Associated With Parenting Factors Through Social Control Theory
Interventions that involve life-course unrelenting offenders should place emphasis on remedial social abilities, for them to have a chance to decrease their freq Continue Reading...
Psychology of Aging
Compare and contrast current research on alternative stage theories of adulthood and personality development.
Child developmentalists traditionally categorized adult personality development into stage theories (Kagan, 2001). Sig Continue Reading...
treating depression is cognitive therapy which was developed by American psychologists Martin Seligman (1991), Albert Ellis (1975) and Aaron Beck (1976) (an American psychiatrist). Several research studies have established that cognitive therapy is Continue Reading...
Human Learning and Cognition
Early vision is a key visual system component and is structured such that how it operates isn't affected by cognitive processes like those that inference gleaned from general knowledge. Early vision is however not passiv Continue Reading...
Human-Computer Interaction Issues and Solutions
This paper focuses on socio-technical challenges and solutions in Human Computer Interfaces (HCI). The analysis identifies the shortcomings related to HCI in real-life industrial settings and areas tha Continue Reading...
Theories
It is difficult to summarize psychodynamic theory without a brief discussion of Freud. Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, the father of psychodynamic theory, and in effect the father of modern psychotherapy. Freud's notions ret Continue Reading...
Legalizing "Soft Drugs": Marijuana's Effect on Cognitive Functioning
A continuing argument about the legalization of soft drugs such as marijuana, also known as cannabis is still much under debate. This work in writing intends to examine both the p Continue Reading...
public to scholars, the death penalty has come under severe criticism in contemporary epoch. The debate between the supporters and criticizers of capital punishment has been going on for decades. Is death penalty constitutional? What are the factors Continue Reading...
However the effects of style on performance are contingent on the nature of the task. For example visual learners are likely to perform better on pictorially-based tasks than on verbal-based tasks. There is no significant correlation between intelli Continue Reading...
Learning and Cognition
Definition of Learning
Merriam-Webster defines learning as "knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study; modification of a behavioral tendency by experience (as exposure to conditioning)" (Merriam-Webster, 2011). Othe Continue Reading...
Nature of Leadership
What are some guidelines for exercising authority? Reward Power? Coercive Power?
As a result of the various financial scandals over the last decade, like Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, leadership authority is under scrutiny. Gaini Continue Reading...
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois present opposing representations of the diametrically opposed philosophies that came to define African-American culture in the United States during the upheaval of Reconstruction. Washington, in his autobiograp Continue Reading...
Persons with generalized anxiety disorder often worry excessively about health, money, family, or work, and continually anticipate disaster." People with GAD are accustomed to approaching life as "worriers," and the disorder can be difficult to trea Continue Reading...
Cognitive Changes
Developmental cognitive occur starting age 50 moving end life.
Developmental and cognitive changes
The essay aims at exploring the developmental and cognitive changes that occur starting at the age of fifty years moving through Continue Reading...
Consumer Behavior and Countries of Origin (COO)
Countries of origin (COO) effects dominates other effects in influencing consumer buying patterns
Importance of COO
Consumers transfers imagined qualities of COO to product
COO is used as heuristic Continue Reading...
Environmental Psychology
The objective of this paper is to examine the discipline of environmental psychology with an additional goal of defining it and comparing and contrasting some underlying theoretical approaches to environmental psychology. "D Continue Reading...
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Stated to be indentified in this framework are three categories of knowledge that represent "key components in the process of cognitive appraisal" which are those of:
1) Person knowledge;
2) Task knowledge; and 3) Strategy knowledge.
Task knowl Continue Reading...
In this study, patients were adults suffering from PTSD that had been referred after three months of PTSD symptoms. These patients were not combat soldiers, and had been referred after either a non-sexual assault or a motor vehicle accident. The pat Continue Reading...
" Earlier, in Leary et. al.'s article, it was stated how thoughtless commitment of an activity is vital to the success of self-control, since at this stage, the individual loses his/her concept of self-awareness. However, in Hoyle's analysis, impulsi Continue Reading...
Just as clearly no individual who is logical would consider Charles Manson or Theodore Bundy as eligible profiles for the restorative justice program or even for rehabilitation program or indeed of any other than imprisonment or death by execution T Continue Reading...
, & Mitchell, D. (2001). Somatic Markers and Response Reversal: Is There Orbitofrontal Cortex Dysfunction in Boys with Psychopathic Tendencies?. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29(6), 499.
Bourne, G.H. (Ed.). (1960). The Structure and Func Continue Reading...
Dr. Levine also said that he had never met a child without strengths, but that he had met many children whose parents or teachers either did not recognize their strengths, or who did not consider them to be strengths, but instead, weaknesses. The j Continue Reading...
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The proficient nurses perceive situations as wholes rather than in terms of distinct aspects, and performance is determined by maxims. Perceive or perception is the main word: The perspective is not thought out but presents itself based on exp Continue Reading...
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural and Multicultural Communication
Countries are no longer confined by borders. Today's society is a global society, and intercultural issues and intercultural communication have become a part of daily life, w Continue Reading...
However, this does not happen always. An organization's structure is in reality an extremely powerful control technique, as the alternative to structure will automatically favor some groups and put others in trouble. In case managers are employing s Continue Reading...
Mental Retardation in Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, a cheerful and good-hearted, but mentally retarded young man with a low IQ, fights in and survives the Vietnam War, and also meets with a variety of important people of his time (between the 1950's an Continue Reading...
Mental Retardation in Film: Radio
Main Actors: Cuba Gooding Jr., Ed Harris, Debra Winger
Year released: 2004
A mentally retarded young man, nicknamed "Radio" due to his love of radios (real name James Robert Kennedy; played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) is Continue Reading...
Behaviorism in the 20th Century System of Psychology
Behaviorism
The purpose of this work is to provide an outline of Behaviorism, which, is a major system of psychology in the 20th Century. Further the work will provide a substantive treatment of Continue Reading...
Piaget’s Stages of Development
Few theorists have had as strong an impact on developmental psychology as Jean Piaget. While the theories of Lev Vygotsky have offered compelling counterpoints to Piaget’s theories, the stages of psychosocia Continue Reading...
deficits of students with mathematics disabilities?
Mathematical skills are definitely just as crucial as literacy and reading skills when it comes to succeeding at school and beyond. Of late, researchers and policymakers have focused considerably Continue Reading...
Sociology and Violent Behavior
The sociological theories of violent behavior focus in assessing the interaction of and individual their with social environment to yield violent behaviors. The key aspects considered in the theories are personality, t Continue Reading...
Sleep and Wakefulness
How Does Wakefulness Influence Sleep
Sleep is one of the most important components of good health, and successful night's sleep can be robbed in many ways. Because the sleep state is a fragile undertaking, events that happen d Continue Reading...
Psychology of Aging
Aging of whole organisms is a complex process that can be defined as a progressive deterioration of physiological function, an intrinsic age-related process of loss of viability and increase in vulnerability. Many psycholological Continue Reading...
learning disabilities in the light of teaching children with this disorder. It uses 4 sources in APA format.
It is not easy to say who is a learning disabled. A lot of arguments have taken place for a certain time in order to classify the learning Continue Reading...
Confirmation Bias and How it Can Affect People across Age GroupsIntroductionConfirmation bias is a cognitive bias where people tend to search for, interpret, and recall information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs or values, while ignoring or Continue Reading...
Assessing Research and Peer-Reviewed WorkIntroductionPeer-review is an important process in academic and research spaces that ensures the accuracy and validity of information being published. It is a process in which a group of experts, known as peer Continue Reading...
Adult and Organizational LearningSummaryThis paper describes the importance of leaders adopting an andragogical approach to the education of workers to facilitate organizational learning and organizational transformation. It also discusses the role t Continue Reading...
Developing, Managing and Operating a Retail BusinessIntroductionOne of the most overwhelming trends in the retailing business today is the shift from brick-and-mortar to ecommerce. Amazon has revolutionized the way consumers think about shopping, and Continue Reading...