Essays on Psychological Theories

Cognitive behavioral therapy relies on the notion that as humans, our thoughts, emotions and behaviors are linked to one another. The aim of cognitive behavioral therapy is to identify the linkages between emotions, thoughts and actions, and work with clients to determine what is helpful...

In our modern time, depression is strongly talked about when it comes to a mental health issue, also is the use of cognitive behavioral therapies (CBT). When mixing CBT and depression, it introduces a new way of dealing with the symptom of depression and how...

According to “Statistics of Addiction in America” there are 20.6 million people who are affected by addiction alone, starting from the age of 12, on 2011. Tobacco addiction is not even included in the statistics, imagine how many millions would the actual number be if...

Abstract Relationship Science has aided our understanding of human behaviour and is the foundation of human conditions. Many theorists have contributed to the field of Relationship Science (particularly Bowlby’s (1969) Attachment Theory). The attachment theory is fundamentally based on the idea that humans need intimacy...

Racism is discrimination against someone of a different race based on a belief that their own race is superior. Racism is further explained by the Attachment Theory due to children who are raised by their caregiver in early age to be racist, children grow with...

The topic I chose for my essay is attachment theory and romantic relationships. I will first start off with a story of a romantic relationship that will portray one of the attachment styles. Then, I will give a brief description of the attachment theory and...

Naturalist-to comprehends the characteristic world including plants, creatures, and logical investigations. To perceive, name, and characterize people, species, and environmental connections. To collaborate successfully with living animals and perceive examples of life and regular powers. Gardner (1996) included the three learning styles are visual, sound-related,...

H. Gardner explained intelligence as the capability to find a solution or invent products that can be valuable. However, there is still an argument about it. Some researcher said that it is a common potential while some researcher believes that it is a combination of...

Learning a second language (L2) is a long and complicated undertaking. “Your whole person is affected as you struggle to reach beyond the confines of your first language, a new culture, a new way of thinking, feeling, and acting” (Brown, 2007, p. 1). “Success in...

I vividly recall that feeling of inferiority when I scored lower than my peers on mathematical and linguistic tests. After all, math, grammar, and reading comprehension were the only acclaimed subjects among teachers and students alike; they constituted the criterion to distinguish an excellent student...

Intelligence is usually defined as our intellectual potential; something we are born with, something which will be measured, and a capacity that is strenuous to alter. Although recently other views have emanated. One of those is the theory of multiple intelligences proposed by psychologist Howard...

Through his work Interpretation of Dreams(1899), Sigmund Freud, the German psychologist and pioneer of psychoanalysis, presents the Oedipus complex. According to his psychosexual analytic theory, children go through a series of psychosexual stages and he draws five essential development stages that arrange in each person...

One of the key factors in psychology is learning why people behave the way that they do. Many perspectives help to explain the way people think and how they develop. When discussing cognitive development, which is the way “growth and change in intellectual capabilities influence...

Over the centuries, various thinkers have tried to solve the mysteries of human development, which succeeded in the last couple of centuries. Several theories have been developed that began to bear the names of their creators like Freud’s psychosexual theory, Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, Bandura’s...

The psychologist I received after taking the quiz was Lev Vygotsky. Vygotsky developed the sociocultural theory where he believes we all learn aspects of our lives through interaction. I will be discussing the history of this theory as well as the way it can be...

L.S. Vygotsky began his analysis by reading the work of researchers like Wolfgang Kohler and Buhler, who sought to establish similarities between a child and an ape. Buhler’s experiments indicated that the activity of a young child before speaking is identical to an ape. Other...

Erik Erikson (1902 – 1994) was a German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst. He was one of Freud’s followers who expanded the picture of development at each stage. In his psychosocial theory, Erikson emphasized that in addition to mediating between id impulses and superego demands, the...

Incest is defined as the act of sexual relations between close relatives. This includes parent, child, sibling, or grandchild relations. The specific behavior that classifies sexual relations as incest varies across different cultures and societies. However, nearly all societies consider incest a taboo. In the...

Most of the time when reading a theory in the midst of reading it you know that this theory probably isn’t true and it is rare when you can find a theory that is partly true or totally and completely true. When we went over...