Category: Psychology

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Essay: Aldous Huxley’s composition

Sample Essay By being a psychologist and studying hypnopædia, (through which children from birth are indoctrinated in how to live in The World State), he is defying social norms. An encounter with people from the ‘Savage Reservation’ introduces him to John whom he brings back toLondon. As people find John different and interesting, he becomes Bernard’s ticket to acceptance in that society. (more…)

Essay: Homosexuality As A Form Of Gender Inversion

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The essentialists view homosexuality as a form of gender inversion that arising from pre-social forces like specific kinds of developmental psychodynamics, genes, instincts, and hormones. The implication of this view is that perceived behavioral pattern of gender nonconformity as a result of sexual desire for an individual reflects psychological or biological “inner sense”

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Essay: Holistic Personality

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An effective approach in this regard has been to help the patients be able to identify the connections and relationships that enhance the holistic functionality of their being. This approach was considered because of the fact that the patients insisted on having no relations with nature and the Supreme Being as well. The issues that were important in enabling the patient to change this perception were the recognition of, for instance, how the food they consume reaches their table as well as how the clothes they wear are made.

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Essay: General Perspective of Divorce

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Psychologists have found that children from divorced parents have mixed results. Girls raised by their mothers as well as boys raised by their fathers have been seen to do better than children who end up being raised by the opposite sex parent. In addition, these children have been seen to be less aggressive and mature than the others.

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Essay: Modern psychoanalysis

Sample Essay - Modern psychoanalysis

In light of modern psychoanalysis, a study conducted by Carveth (1994) affirms that it is important to forego the isolation that characterizes certain individuals to attain inter-subjectivity and enjoy its implications. The myth of isolation indicates that some individuals virtually exist independently, independent of the world and others. As such, they become vulnerable to life's different forces and challenges. This vulnerability then culminates in conditions of anxiety and anguish that, in some instances, become unbearable. It should be acknowledged that the state of anxiety highly inhibits the effective emotional functioning of an individual. (more…)

Essay: Process of Spatial Assimilation

Sample Essay - Spatial Assimilation

Skop, Emily, Li, Wei (2005), in an effort to examine the process of spatial assimilation more multifaceted and complexly, explore different ways of understanding racial/ethnic residential patterns. The authors examine patterns of modern Asian Indian and Chinese settlement in two urban areas: Austin and Phoenix. The two areas represent newly upcoming Asian centers. (more…)

Essay: The Model of Social Competence

Sample Essay - Social Competence

In recent years, several measures have been derived from diverse theoretical perspectives used in children’s social network functioning (Gresham and Macmillan,1997). Because of this, the domains that need to be measured, ways of measuring them, the relationship among various measures, and the constructs are continuing matters that are debatable in the research literature ion social competence in children(kaval and Forness,1996 Gresham and Macmillan, 1997 Vaughn and hanger,1994 Merrell and simple,1998). (more…)

Essay: Replacing damaged neurons

Sample Essay - Neurons 

It is possible to replace or repair damage neurons with implants and supplement biological neurons with synthetic neurons while the same human functions are retained.  The memory, processing power and new abilities can be added to human machinery. (Parthan, 2000). Mental processing of a living person along with personal identity is migrated through silicon which involves putting the mind into a machine. (more…)

Essay: Social Cognition in ASD status

Sample Essay - Social Cognition

A number of researchers have investigated social cognition in children with ASD. However, very few of these studies have examined both social cognition and social acceptance to demonstrate that impairments in social cognition are related to lowered social status. Only one such study, by Stiliadis and Wiener (1989), was found during the literature search for this review. Stiliadis and Wiener (1989) examined the social-perceptual abilities and sociometric status of 30 students with and 30 students without disabilities. (more…)

Essay: Study on Autism

Sample Essay - Autism 

In the study we use the social network methods in an inclusive setting to determine and explore the involvement of children with autism or aspargers syndrome. It has been hypothesized before that social-cognitive accuracy and other externalizing behavior in children would bring out the differences observed in social network of children with autism or those without. The school identified children's with this syndrome (N=60) in the grades 3 to grade 6and were compared to the children that have not been identified with this syndrome in the same settings (N=700) in terms of their social acceptance. (more…)