Essays and Research Papers on Psychology Mixed

3 pages in length. The writer briefly addresses the difficulty of constructing an argument when emotions are involved; persuasive techniques; and stereotyping. No bibliography.

This 7 page report discusses implications of Freud's approach to the study of the self through his focus on the experiences and understandings that humans forget. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 pages research paper that discusses the personality theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers, relative to the part of personality that each theorist felt was "hidden," or suppressed. The writer argues that Freud sees human personality as a construct that is built atop basic instinctual behavior that has to be controlled, with personality ...

This 4-page paper is a tutorial that discusses personality and self-concept in light of childhood experiences, education, cultural mores and so on.

A 15 page overview of psychoanalytical theory and theorists. Included are brief recaps of the work of such psychoanalyst as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Carl Jung, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Alfred Adler, Donald Winicott, John Bowlby, Karen Horney, Erick Erickson, and Erich Fromm. Bibliography lists 16 sources.

4 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses how critical thinking improves life; how research skills apply to the work environment; and the Chicken Little Syndrome. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 5 page report briefly discusses the effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy in treating people with a panic disorder. It is structured as a literature review and offers suggestions for a study design to determine that measure of effectiveness. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 2 page research paper that focuses on presenting a hypothesis, which is do children who have been sexually abused become abusers themselves, in terms of what are the dependent and independent variable in this proposed study. These terms are defined giving several examples of what constitutes a dependent and independent variable. Bibliography ...

A 13 page paper reviewing short term memory loss and current research on the topic. One of the difficulties inherent in research into short term memory loss is that the condition can be caused by so many different factors, some of which are physiological in origin while others lie more in the psychological realm. ...

A 4 page overview of procrastination and its causes. Utilizing behavioral characteristics, the author divides procrastinators into two basic groups. The causal factors of procrastination can most often be traced to childhood experiences, particularly experiences involving either an overly authoritarian parent, an overly permissive parent or some type of trauma. Bibliography lists ...

A 24 page research paper that offers a literature review and compilation of findings on research studies addressing the relationship between dissociation and childhood trauma. For the many children who are victims of emotional, physical or sexual abuse, trauma and stress are the most prevailing characteristics of their lives, a fact that ...

A 3 page overview of this based-on-fact expose of the field of psychiatry during World War I. This book tells the story of English officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon and his interactions with psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh. Sassoon has refused to fight and been declared shell shocked. ...

This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issue of teen violence, and relates the changing social culture and television to the problem. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the White Hotel. D. M. Thomas’ The White Hotel focuses on Freud’s views of the significance of the past, the family, the body, the emotions and the use of the talking cure , all of which reveal Freud as the quintessential modern man. Bibliography lists ...

A 12 page paper discussing all general aspects of adjusting to retirement. Citizens of most developed nations are not saving enough of their incomes to provide them with the retirement years enjoyed by those who retired in the 1980s and 1990s, and the economic conditions that existed then likely will not return. Those ...

This 6-page paper is an analysis of the study, "Drawing Out Children's False Memories," which determined if encouraging children to prepare drawings to remmeber events actually creates false memories.

5 pages in length. There are myriad reasons for intervention and just as many ways to approach it. From drug and alcohol abuse to domestic and child violence, from school bullying to helping Emergency Medical Technicians deal with a particularly emotional situation, the fundamental basis of intervention is to help an individual out ...

A 6 page discussion of the various factors which enter into the determination of an individual’s likelihood to use illicit drugs. The author distinguishes between sociological and physiological/psychological vulnerability factors and concludes that while it is impossible to predict an individual’s propensity for drug use with one-hundred percent accuracy, impossible to assign a numeric ...

A 9 page paper that begins by identifying the three domains in human development. The writer then explains the ecological theory of human development, the systems theory and how they relate. Social and deep ecology are briefly defined. Gay and lesbian adoption is then discussed as an example of how the exosystem can negatively ...

A 7 page overview of the concept of vulnerability in relation to the propensity to use illicit drugs. This paper provides an overview of the concept, identifying dependent and independent variables. A distinction is made between sociological and physiological/psychological vulnerability factor. The need for additional research is emphasized. Bibliography lists 5 ...

An 8 page overview of the many factors which could translate into stress for a K-9 officer. The author asserts that these factors exist not only on the street but at the office. A working definition of stress is provided along with an overview of its symptoms. Bibliography lists 9 sources.

This 3 page paper gives an overview of several different behavioral disorders including definition, treatment, current research. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

A paper which describes the Stroop experiment in interference in serial verbal reactions, and the phi phenomenon of apparent movement. Bibliography lists 4 sources

A 4 page paper which examines Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’ “Death and Dying.” Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 4 page research paper that offers a comprehensive evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory. The writer draws on the Buros Mental Measurements Yearbook to offer reviews and discussions of this psychometric instrument's reliability and validity. Bibliography lists 3 sources.