Essays on Developmental Psychology

Optimism is the attitude that good things will happen and that people’s wishes or aims will ultimately be fulfilled. Optimists are people who anticipate positive outcomes, whether serendipitously or through perseverance and effort, and who are confident of attaining desired goals. Most individuals lie somewhere...

Gerald Graff, an English and Education professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, questions the effectiveness of the education system in his narrative essay “Hidden Intellectualism”. Graff’s purpose is to convey the idea that intellectualism cannot be strictly defined by an individual’s ability to interact...

The following paper reviews two studies in the field of developmental psychology; more specifically, it focuses upon adolescent antisocial behaviour. The researchers of these two studies published their results in reputable psychology journals. The first study dealt with children who were in the sixth, seventh,...

In the realm of mental health there are still underserved populations not being provided with the needed mental health resources and care. One such population is adolescents dealing with complex trauma. One way that the needs of this population could be met is the implementation...

Developmental Psychology: It’s Importance There is a reason that psychology is a necessary class to meet the requirements of nearly every college major. Understanding people, how they grow and develop, how they learn, and how they are influenced are all very important things to be...

Attachment theory is a psychological model that attempts to describe the long-term and short-term relationships. However, attachment theory is not formulated as a general theory of relationships. It addresses how human beings respond within relationships when hurt, separated from loved ones, or perceiving a threat....

It has also been found that Piaget’s ideas towards developmental psychology have been helped to understand children and how they view the world as well as more beneficial ways to help children learn. There are many theorists who believe that sometimes an individual’s environment can...

As I have read the description for my personality type I felt as if it represented me and I found a few interesting things. INFJ’s are gentle, caring, complex, and highly intuitive individuals. They are usually right, and they usually know it. Their secondary mode...

Abstract This child observation paper was formed by observing a preschool child while she was in her natural environment. The observation was done without the child seeing or talking to me. It was required to observe the child in this way to not get attached...

Through the years the development of psychology has changed drastically. I wanted to look and see how through the years experiments had changed, with the add of technology, or just new scientific information. Now just from looking through the journals of the psychologist, we can...

According to Weinberg & Gould (2007), mental skills training refers to “the systematic and consistent practice of mental or psychological skills for the purpose of enhancing performance, increasing enjoyment and/or achieving greater self-satisfaction”. Within the realm of mental skills training, there is a plethora of...