Essays on Branches of Psychology

Science and psychology dominate how we approach children’s development, care and education as well as our general understanding of childhood. In this essay I will discuss how science and psychology have affected our views of childhood and explain the relationship between these understandings. Not only...

Domestic violence occurs in many families and it may lead children to have problems through their developments. Domestic violence which also triggers domestic stress that may affect the development of child psychology can be referred to as a relationship problem in which partners seek power...

I will be discussing the support for Positive Psychology and its influence on coping with cancer. As discussed in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, which shows a positive viewpoint of cancer by the patient, it is revealed that coping strategies were utilized to aid in...

Cognitive development, socio-emotional adjustment, behavioral adaptation and health status can all be influenced by family and other social factors. Understanding this and basic psychological needs plays a big part to the clinical child psychology world. Child psychology covers a wide variety of different factors that...

Child psychology deals with how children grow not only physically but encompasses their mental, emotional, and social development. Historically, children were often viewed simply as smaller versions of adults however Jean Piaget suggested that children actually think differently than adults. There is several school of thoughts as to...

The future is probably for people who see opportunities before they appear. It is for those travellers who break through the clouds of oblivion by the power of their determination. My primary motivation behind this application for admission to the Masters of Family Studies and...

Analysis of research surrounding gerontology is suggesting that nursing students are preferring not to work with the older population, prompting the need to review the educational needs of students (as cited in Flood & Clark, 2017, p. 588). Therefore, the question arises, “How do you...

The concept of hate, prejudice, and discrimination has, for several decades, plagued the societies. According to Tausch & Hewstone (2010), prejudice is the act of negative and unfavorable acts or attitudes towards a particular group of individuals based on less factual, incorrect, and insufficient information...

Introduction Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination remains of the three major problems in the world today. In an increasingly diverse society prejudice and discrimination become normalized and have synchronized into our daily lives, continue to make a difference based on race, sex, ethnicity or gender. Prejudice...

Social psychology is a field focusing on the exploration of theories on anthropology based on a collective group’s behaviour as a response to a particular situation, their surroundings or their individual responses to being part of a group. Evolutionary psychology theorises on the adaptation of...

The effects of being a bystander are very critical. You may be left with saving a persons life trying to intervene those seconds and minutes matter. Appose to you standing around watching. The reduction in helping behavior in the presence of other people, has been...

How do our daily interactions influence the decisions we make, and ultimately individual behavior, feeling, and thoughts? How does our society shape and build our identity? All of this sample questions come into our mind which leads us to think carefully of the social psychology....

To understand why psychology is a science we must first look at what science is. Science is observing natural events, then using those observations to develop laws and principles based on the results that’s occur. People have debated whether or not psychology should be classed...

Contentions in the psychological literature abound when it comes to intrapsychic phenomena, and self-deception is no exception. Self-deception is understandably difficult to measure, since it is difficult to discern whether a person is subconsciously aware of the truth or not. It is even further to...

Known as one of the most intensively studied theories, Cognitive Dissonance (CD) theory was developed by American social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957. He proposed individuals have a core belief system that affects attitude and actions. When conflict to this core arises, a person naturally...

Cognitive dissonance is an individual’s psychological discomfort caused by two inconsistent thoughts. It refers to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. This then produces a feeling of mental discomfort leading to a change in one of the attitudes, beliefs or behaviors to reduce...

Topic analysis In Australia, 15 per cent of children under 16 is affected by chronic illnesses with an average of 770 children under 15 years diagnosed with cancer each year. There are studies on the development of ill children, yet it is often forgotten that...

Introduction In the field of Psycholinguistics, language acquisition is a sensitive topic which distinguished scientists have argued upon. In (1957) in book B.F. Skinner – one of the pioneers of behaviorism- proposed one of the earliest scientific explanation concerning the language acquisition topic; his theory...

Introduction The Pursuit of Happiness is a truly inspirational movie that focuses on overcoming hardships in life to achieve happiness and success. The movie revolves around the life of Chris Gardener who invests all of his money on making portable density scanners. Although these scanners...