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Psychology
Here are the definitions: Infancy is usually the period of childhood before a baby learns to walk. Childhood is the time period from a person's birth to the beginning of adolescence, which begins...
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Psychology
Louis Wain (1860-1939) was a British artist known for his pictures of anthropomorphic cats. Some people believe that he suffered from schizophrenia, as he evinced erratic and violent behavior at...
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Psychology
Yes, talking does help to relieve stress. While it is one of a handful of measures typically prescribed to reduce levels of stress—others include meditation, immersion in pleasurable activities,...
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Psychology
There are several features of the context in which Eleanor Gibson worked that may have influenced her contributions. Born in 1910, she grew up and began her career in a period of substantial gender...
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Psychology
There are several reasons why parenting experts argue that an excessively authoritarian parenting style can be ineffective. Obviously, some authority is necessary in that one would not wish to let...
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Psychology
1. What objections did Mead have to behaviorism? George Herbert Mead objected to the behaviorist theories of John Watson, who held that only observable behavior could be studied. Watson held that...
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Psychology
The concept of shifting standards is defined as the idea that our judgements are based on something we hold to be standard, and these standards may shift depending on multiple factors. For example,...
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Psychology
You are probably familiar with the scientific method, in which one forms a hypothesis and tests it. In order to determine whether a hypothesis is correct, the outcome must be the same no matter how...
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Psychology
As there is no way an educator could know your individual feelings or circumstances, or what sort of information was being disclosed, the most helpful advice I can provide has to do with how you...
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Psychology
A positive mind, as long as it is a mind that is not in denial, is more likely to engage in some of the following: to attempt various enterprises more eagerly in life; to approach people more...
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Psychology
A physician with a degree in psychology, Spencer Johnson's book Who Moved My Cheese is subtitled "An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life." That subtitle pretty much...
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Psychology
The Magic of Thinking Big is a self-help book written by David J. Schwartz in 1959. It is meant to inspire the reader to achieve greater things and rise above being average. Chapter Five is titled...
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Psychology
A personality theory is an attempt at explaining behavior, including how different types of behavior arise and which patterns can be observed. Most, though not all, theories will fall into one of...
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Psychology
Introversion is part of a psychological theory developed by Carl Jung that attempts to describe people by positioning them along four axes and dividing them into 16 distinct personality types....
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Psychology
Erik Erikson, a developmental psychologist, identified eight stages that each person must go through at different times of life. If an individual does not face and master the challenges of each...
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Psychology
Intrinsic motivation is that within ourselves that motivates us, as opposed to motivation outside ourselves, for example, being motivated by the prospect of recognition or monetary reward. I happen...
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Psychology
The Bhutanese culture contains a very intricate view of happiness. One aspect of happiness for the people of Bhutan involves embracing unhappiness as a part of human consciousness. The Bhutanese...
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Psychology
The answer to this question depends on the field or context from which the respondent is answering. Given that breadth and depth, I'll provide several possible responses and links to more resources...
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Psychology
Beliefs about happiness have changed over the 5,000 years of written history and different beliefs have been common in different societies. Many philosophers have defined happiness as absence of...
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Psychology
Besides the individual personal response (which can only be supplied by the asker of this question and/or the answerer), a psychologically sound answer would address the issues that were causing...
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Psychology
Three elements of Freud that have seeped into the everyday consciousness are the Freudian slip, the Oedipal complex and the superego. In a Freudian slip a person secretly reveals a thought they...
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Psychology
Based on principles of learning and conditioning, the behavioral model has had an important and lasting impact on our understanding of psychopathology. The behavioral model focuses more on PRECISE...
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Psychology
The central function of Analysis of Variance is to determine if the means and distributions of data sets show a meaningful difference between groups, significant with a certain level of confidence....
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Psychology
Many trace the development of psychology to diverse philosophers that date back to over a thousand years before the common era and encompass traditions that stretch from Greek, to Persia, to China,...
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Psychology
Nobody would suggest that one needs to be a specialist in psychology to be a preschool teacher, but some background in psychology, especially developmental psychology, would be helpful. This is...
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Psychology
Behaviourism is an approach to studying animal and human psychology that focuses on observable characteristics or behaviour only. Behaviourism grew in response to 17th and 18th century Mentalism...
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Psychology
On one level, this is a question no one can answer for you. An educator on an internet site has no idea of who you are nor the identities of the people that you love nor of the way they relate to...
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Psychology
Sigmund Freud pioneered a theory of personality that is known as psychodynamics. His view on this subject was that the personality is made up of three parts and that our behaviors are affected by...
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Psychology
A critical thinker is an individual with the ability to think rationally and objectively about their actions and beliefs, those of others as well as the phenomena they encounter. A critical thinker...
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Psychology
Developmental psychologists can study the lifespan based on age normative characteristics or by examining the life course of an individual. If we were to study college entrance exams using this...
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Psychology
Orthogonality refers to the independence of objects/variables - i.e. they are completely independent - there is no part of one variable in the other. This is the same as the geometric meaning, if...
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Psychology
This is what is called a "theory-application" essay. What it does is test your understanding of a group of abstract psychological theories to show how they can help account for everyday, mundane...
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Psychology
You correctly identified the nature versus nurture debate that still exists, which aims to find the final and concrete answer to your initial question. In the meantime, the field of forensic...
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Psychology
The nature of the question is an individual one. Therapy is a reality that the individual must embrace on their own. The individual has to make decisions as to whether they are willing to commit...
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Psychology
Negative thinking can have a profound impact on how individuals address the issues of anxiety, fear, and/ or phobic behavior. On many levels, the ability for the mind to fixate on negative...
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Psychology
The development of balanced self- esteem is critical to minimizing the destructive impacts of specific psychological disorders. For example, low self- esteem is linked to eating disorders. Eating...
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Psychology
Thinkers like Freud will be helpful to enhance your ideas. Freud once said that "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise." This idea feeds into the three suppositions that are...
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Psychology
Different students in the field of psychology will consider different arenas more interesting than other areas. Any field in which individuals enter with a passionate desire to transform what is...
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Psychology
This is a very complicated question because it involves a whole course in introductory psychology plus the application of the science of psychology to human nature, including no doubt your own...
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Music and Song
Music has long had a known association with individual people’s mental state. The English playwright William Congreve famously wrote in 1697 that “Music has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To...
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Science
A phobia is an irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Specifically, cynophobia is the fear of dogs. It is thought that the more people develop cynophobia because of a negative...
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Social Sciences
The nature versus nurture debate has existed for decades aiming to determine what exactly it is that precludes, help predict, or create the nature of each individual. Is behavior caused by...
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Psychology
In a way this really is dealing with two separate issues. A doctor is participating in a clinical trial for a new drug that boosts the immune system. But your real question deals with links...
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Criminal Justice
While in theory the parole board is independent of prison administration, in practice the board pays careful attention to the written report of the warden, especially when considering whether the...
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Bipolar disorders
Once bipolar disorder has been diagnosed, and such a diagnosis can occur much later in an individual’s life than might be expected, it is commonly treated with a two-track approach involving...
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Law and Politics
This is a very complex question, and I can provide only a brief overview on eNotes. Freud's theory of criminality was based, in brief, on the subconscious processing of sexual instincts and how...
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Human Resource Management
This relatively new name (used to be “personnel”) implies, paradoxically, a non-human element to the way people are treated in the Free Enterprise System. Since human beings are not simply...
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Psychology
In literature, a main character is called a protagonist; this is the person who undergoes a crisis, an “agon” (battle), and who changes in character as the plot progresses through certain...
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Beowulf
Even though Grendel is at war with mankind, Grendel may have once been human: With fulsome monsters/This sorrowful man had stayed awhile,/Since the Shaper had condemned him/as Cain's kinsman. (ll....
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Social Sciences
The abstract is often the last part of a research paper to be written, as it exists for the purpose of briefly summarizing the contents of the rest of the paper, including the findings or...