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  • Psychology

    Psychology

    Running head: COLLEGIATE CHRISTIAN COUNSELING Collegiate Counseling In the Realm of Christian Psychology Justin Tippins North Greenville University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for PSY 2567 Mr. Bill McManus November 20, 2006 Abstract Collegiate counseling covers a wide variety of topics. From suicide to class changes, the collegiate Christian counselor needs to be ready to observe, listen and react in appropriate manners to students and faculty in a healthy and constructive manner. Christian counseling

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    Essay Length: 312 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • Psychology Cwork

    Psychology Cwork

    Background In the area of developmental psychology, Kohlberg (1976) carried out a study exploring obedience of people at different ‘stages’. The topic which interests me the most about this study is conventional morality, which according to Kohlberg, is where people are concerned about their actions and not being judged for behaving wrongly. Children believe it is important ‘to do one’s duty and to obey the laws or rules of authority’. (Stage 4 of the Kohlberg

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    Essay Length: 1,376 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Making a Good Impression: From “forty Studies That Changed Psychology”

    Making a Good Impression: From “forty Studies That Changed Psychology”

    Solomon Asch was a very significant social psychologist that influences social and cognitive research today, especially his Central Trait Theory and in the area of impression formation. According to the article, “Making a Good Impression” from “Forty Studies that Changed Psychology”, “Asch recognized that we usually have at least several characteristics from which to form an impression of a person.” He realized that one does not recognize another person as being composed of several distinct

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    Essay Length: 585 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Psychological Assesment of a Client

    Psychological Assesment of a Client

    Psychological Analysis 1) What are your initial observations of the patient? Include name, age, marital status, profession, behavior, etc. My client’s name is Arleen Mc Coy. Arleen is a thirty eight year old female. She has been married for 15 years and has two sons ages five and twelve. Arleen is a police officer and has been so for ten years. She is currently on paid medical leave and has three weeks left before

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    Essay Length: 1,954 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Victor
  • Human Behaviour and Psychology

    Human Behaviour and Psychology

    PSYCHOLOGICAL HUMAN BEHAVIOR Psychology is the very important perspective for human nature. It is very much important for the individual environment. “Psychology is very much a product of the Western tradition. Whereas a new psychology of the year 2000 contains both the eastern as well as the Western tradition”(Frey, 04/06). Psychologists call a person’s self concepts it includes what a person perceives from the person’s self-concept attitudes. It’s related to Psyche means the integrate part

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    Essay Length: 2,491 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Great Gatsby, Freud and Psychology in the 1920s

    The Great Gatsby, Freud and Psychology in the 1920s

    Starting in the 1920s, a rebellion against religion, the church and old sexual mores begun. This movement was called Modernism and this paper will address and explain one of the main factors of the movement: Psychology. The psychological ideas were new and embraced by especially the youth, and adults too, all sick of the strict norms and rules. Sigmund Freud was the symbol of psychology, and so he has been for decades now. Sigmund Freud

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    Essay Length: 1,066 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • Masters Degree in General Psychology

    Masters Degree in General Psychology

    Masters Degree in General Psychology My goal for the past 10 years is to become a psychologist. I feel this goal can be accomplished through a Masters Degree in General Psychology. Furthermore, for the past 10 years, I have worked hard to learn as much as I can about this industry. I have worked as a volunteer with the Department of Corrections. While with the Department of Corrections, it was our responsibility to ask

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    Essay Length: 776 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Stenly
  • A Knowledge Entry System for Subject Matter Experts

    A Knowledge Entry System for Subject Matter Experts

    The High Performance Knowledge Bases (HPKB) project demonstrated that the teams of knowledge engineers working together could create knowledge bases (KBs) roughly at the rate of 10K axioms/year for a pre-specified task and evaluation criteria. The HPKB effort showed that it is possible to create KBs by reusing the content of knowledge libraries, and it demonstrated reuse rates ranging from 25% to 100%, depending on the application and the knowledge engineer. It was acknowledged that

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    Essay Length: 510 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Psychology of Evil

    Psychology of Evil

    ORB 150 Psychology of Evil From my personal experiences, people will do about anything if they are influenced enough. Peer pressure has a stronger influence then people give it. Evil things, bad habits, and things that we really don’t need to be doing can be pushed upon us with almost little personal resistance. Take smoking for example. My whole life I have been Tobacco free until I started working at UPS. At break everybody and

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    Essay Length: 561 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Psychological Egoism/rachels

    Psychological Egoism/rachels

    In the Euthyphro, Socrates asks an important question concerning the nature of piety. Socrates is skeptical and asks, "Is conduct right because the gods command it, or do the gods command it because it is right?" This question is very significant and has become one of the most famous questions in philosophy. Antony Flew, the British philosopher, thinks that whether a person can grasp and force the point of this proposed question, is a good

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    Essay Length: 647 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Sports Psychology

    Sports Psychology

    I. Introduction Athletes are constantly under severe levels of stress and anxiety to perform well. They fight for every inch and often put their bodies through excruciating pain to secure a win. Yet how is it done? How does one get the subconscious mind and body to work together without consulting the conscious and rational mind---which surely would prevent such nonsense from continuing? As is the case with any competition, there are situations that require

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    Essay Length: 632 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Human Psychology

    Human Psychology

    Cancer is still seen by many as an incurable disease that slowly takes over healthy human tissue, and ultimately causes death. Through advances in medical science, different physical procedures have been developed to treat cancer – for example, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. In recent years however, there has been a growing perception by cancer specialists and patients that the onset and treatment of cancer may be affected by psychological factors. A new field of research

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    Essay Length: 2,097 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • How Your Perceptions of Psychology Have Changed Since Taking This Course?

    How Your Perceptions of Psychology Have Changed Since Taking This Course?

    How your perceptions of psychology have changed since taking this course? "Tell me Mr. Thomas, what seems to be troubling you today?" "Well you see doctor, I have been hearing voices. . ." Like many of those before me, I too, was uninformed about the true nature of psychology. Upon hearing the word psychology, I would immediately picture a shrink with a patient lying on a couch. To me, psychology meant the study of crazy

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    Essay Length: 1,069 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Psychology

    Psychology

    Anti-Social In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-Social Personality Disorder or in laymen’s terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure or drug to control it. The solution

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    Essay Length: 592 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Psychology of Homophobia

    Psychology of Homophobia

    Psychology of Homophobia/Sexual Prejudice Society began to rethink homosexuality in the 1960’s when heterosexual psychologist George Weinberg coined the term “homophobia.” Weinberg used the term to label heterosexuals’ fear of being in contact of homosexuals as well as the self-loathing of homosexuals, meaning that homosexuals hated themselves for being gay. As of the new millennium, there has been a new special term that has been born to define the fear, hate and disgust that

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    Essay Length: 1,362 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Varied History and Future of Psychology as Science and Philosophy

    The Varied History and Future of Psychology as Science and Philosophy

    The Varied History and Future of Psychology as Science and Philosophy As events in history unfold, they have ways of appearing to be part of one simultaneous thrust of coordinated progress. Perhaps as part of one view of evolution, individuals are inclined to regard those developments and occurrences which transpire during their lives as somehow interrelated, interdependent, and principally part of the same body of human thought and ideology. This is likely the philosophy which

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    Essay Length: 4,269 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Psychology

    Psychology

    There can be many factors for you to be attracted to someone else. One factor could be if someone who treats you how you want to be treated not someone that will walk all over you. Here are some more key factors that lead you to be attracted to someone else. The persons physically attractive, you share a common background with the person, you find the person has a sense of humor compatible with yours,

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    Essay Length: 399 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Research in Psychology

    Research in Psychology

    Fitness regimens for the sexes Researchers envision a day when workouts are tailored for men vs. women Researchers are finding that the differences between the sexes go beyond muscle mass and testosterone when it comes to physical activity. Men and women also differ in energy metabolism, lung function and other factors during exercise. Interestingly, women, who naturally have higher body fat, actually burn more fat during longer periods of exercise than men, says Tarnopolsky. "We

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    Essay Length: 798 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Blanche’s Psychological Breakdown

    Blanche’s Psychological Breakdown

    In Tennesse Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" the readers are introduced to a character named Blanche DuBois. In the plot, Blanche is Stella's younger sister who has come to visit Stella and her husband Stanley in New Orleans. After their first meeting Stanley develops a strong dislike for Blanche and everything associated with her. Among the things Stanley dislikes about Blanche are her "spoiled-girl" manners and her indirect and quizzical way of conversing. Stanley

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    Essay Length: 1,389 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Qualitative Psychology Research

    Qualitative Psychology Research

    Qualitative Research The researcher's qualitative research consisted of speaking with platonic friends of the opposite sex in casual random settings. The qualitative research was completely random using friends by chance that had no idea of the experiment. In doing so the researcher realizes that it is unethical, but figured it was the only way to find the real answers to his problem. During the conversation the researcher at one point or another came to ask

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    Essay Length: 1,052 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Monika
  • Psychology of Homer Simpson

    Psychology of Homer Simpson

    Homer Jay Simpson, the patriarch of the Simpson household on the Fox series “The Simpsons” is a childish, lazy man, whose hobbies include eating donuts, drinking Duff Beer, watching television, and sleeping. A victim of the “Simpsons gene” which allows for only Simpson women to possess the trait of intelligence, Homer is unfortunately as “dumb as a chimp” according to his father, Abe Simpson. However, it is mainly through the analysis of his simplistic thoughts

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    Essay Length: 566 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Jon
  • Health Psychology

    Health Psychology

    Discuss the evidence for the existence of social health inequalities in the UK and discuss why these inequalities may occur. Definition of health varies depending on people’s approaches to their well-being. Some would have mainly medical approach; to say that, health is lack of disease or illness, whereas the others would have broader the approach to health, like “State of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely absence of disease or infirmity” (WHO, 1946).

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    Essay Length: 3,259 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • Abortion - a Controversial Subject

    Abortion - a Controversial Subject

    Abortion Abortion has always been a controversial subject among everybody whether they are involved directly or indirectly, whether they are for it or against it. It is nearly impossible to find someone who doesn’t have an opinion about abortion. Both those who favor or oppose abortion make superior arguments to defend their beliefs and views. Personally, I think every last person is entitled to his or her own opinions, beliefs, thoughts, and rights. And yes,

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    Essay Length: 908 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Max
  • Types of Psychology - Cognitive Psychology

    Types of Psychology - Cognitive Psychology

    Cognitive Psychology Cognitive psychology is an area of psychology that focuses on the mental processes such as how humans remember, how they process information and store it within the mind. . There are many reasons for conducting cognitive research such as to find ways to improve memory, increase the ability to decide and, and work on learning skills. . Cognitive psychology was not recognized until the period between 1950 and 1970. Behaviorism was the main

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    Essay Length: 652 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Bullying Journal - Psychology Essay

    Bullying Journal - Psychology Essay

    This journal described the nature of bullying and the reason behind why it happens. As the paper describes the many differences of between those who are bullies, and those who are not. This report also has a lot of vital information that was able to show why things happen the way they do in school, and why bullying is so common is grades K – 12. The journal was able to show many percentages and

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    Essay Length: 1,039 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: David

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