Category: Psychology

Table of Contents Introduction Main Text Conclusion Reference Introduction Test bias remains one of the prevailing concerns for experts in the psychological assessments. In “Racial bias in personality assessment: Using the MMPI-2 to predict psychiatric diagnoses of African American and Caucasian chemical dependency inpatients”, Monnot, Quirk, Hoerger, and Brewer (2009) discuss in-depth the significance of…

Table of Contents Introduction Investigative Psychology Theories and Approaches Investigative Psychology and Criminal Justice System Weaknesses of Investigative Psychology Conclusion Reference List Introduction Investigative psychology is a criminal investigative process involving psychological principles and research to analyze an offender’s behavior or pattern. Investigative psychology was developed by a social psychologist, David Canter, in the 90s…

“Parapsychology involves the study of anomalous experiences, such as OBEs, (out-of-body experiences) that may be primarily due to quite normal psychological processes, as well as the study of what we might call the “core phenomena” of parapsychology: phenomena such as ESP, PK, and DMILS, which may suggest the operation of processes that are beyond what…

Table of Contents Introduction Hypothesis Literature review Research design Budget Conclusion Reference list Introduction This research will examine the effects of television watching on children. It intends to find out how television influences the behaviors of young children. Television has replaced the school as the key socializing agent apart from the family since a good…

There are two main goals of a research study into psychology. To start with, such a study aims at giving out a human description, along with “its underlying psychological processes” (Breakwell at al 2006). Secondly, psychological research attempts to give an explanation to such an observed behaviour. The activity of collecting enough evidence to warrant…

Table of Contents Introduction Burrhus Fredric Skinner Life How B.F Skinner’s experiences influenced his work How B.F Skinner influenced psychology Influences of B.F Skinner Work to psychology today Conclusion Reference List Introduction Psychology is both an applied and academic field which is concerned with the study of human and animal mental functions and behaviors scientifically.…

Jean Piaget made great contribution to child psychology and development of the new approaches and concepts in this sphere. The benefit of Piaget’s theory is that young children are far more able than the theorist gave them credit for. Though, it seems that there is also a hazard of overestimating the abilities of young children,…

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the effectiveness of Jung’s theory of personality types. Psychologist C.C Jung made the famous theory of the personality types and the purpose of the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator test (MBTI) is to ensure that people understand this theory and make it useful in their lives (Burt, 1992).…

Industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology is a subfield of psychology that studies all aspects of mental activity and behavior in organizations to increase organizational efficiency and create favorable work conditions and individual development. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the American Psychological Association is one of the leading communities of I-O psychologists. They note that…

Introduction Over the past decades, the number of publications on the problem of the regulation of emotions in norm and pathology in the psychological literature has increased many times every year (Anastasi, 2013). However, despite the fact that this topic is increasingly becoming the object of systematic research in both general and clinical psychology, the…