Essays and Research Papers on Psychology Mixed

This 5 page report discusses Sigmund Freud’s influence throughout the past century and how it has served to shape a great deal of the attitudes and beliefs of Western society regarding public education. Freud clearly understood that work and a person’s contribution to society and its economy were crucial developmental factors for human beings. As a result, educational systems had to ...

The influence of popular culture is a double-edged sword when it comes to the ways in which it motivates social behavior; the ability to collectively rally people behind important causes is one of its more beneficial facets, while causing impressionable individuals – mostly adolescents – to severely modify caloric intake in order to become more ...

This 7 page paper discusses the role of mothers in socializing and educating their children, with particular emphasis on Japan. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of teachers' roles in character education. Developmental theories are used to show that such controversies might ultimately be moot because of natural behavior modeling. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

In this 5 page paper, the writer describes their own personal philosophy of adult education, which is a combination of three of the five primary philosophical orientations in the field. Each of the three are described. The writer then goes on to discuss Knowles' comments on andragogy as compared to pedagogy. Finally, a mission statement ...

A 3 page paper. The brief synopsis of each article is provided followed by comments about the usefulness of the article to counselors. One article addresses multicultural competency instruments, the other addresses the use of response-to-intervention assessments to diagnose disabilities. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of adult college enrollment. Possible reasons for the trend are examined in a review of literature. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 10 page paper discusses gender socialization and the way in which various factors contribute to the way in which we develop and decide what is and is not "suitable" for each gender. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 5 page overview of the manner race and gender can impact psychological diagnoses. This paper although there are specific criteria in place for psychological diagnoses, an individual’s race, ethnicity and even gender can result in inaccurate diagnoses in certain instances. That diagnoses can be impacted by the therapist’s understanding, or lack of ...

This 11 page paper considers why it is that there is a large gender gap between the incidence of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The writers examines why males are less prone than females to the condition using existing studies including consideration of influences such as self images, self esteem, confidence, depression, family ...

This 11 page paper provides an overview of the connection between cognitive development and language development. Further, this paper also relates the issue of gendered interpretations as they apply to an understanding of language development. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

A 6 page paper that provides an overview of the current research regarding helping behaviors and gender differences. Helping behaviors are interactions that result from the perceived need of another person and the directive towards assistance, either based on emotional or social determinants.Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 16 page examination of gender roles and how these roles are shaped during early childhood by parental and societal interaction. Includes an extensive bibliography with dozens of sources cited.

A 5 page exploration of the ways gender can impact the therapeutic goal. The emphasis is made that gender is not a biological issue but rather a sociological construct. Consequently, all types of considerations must be made in order to best design the therapeutic approach to be most effective for a specific client. ...

This 16 page paper takes a look at media's effect on gender roles. Video games are the focus as they tend to categorize women into two groups. The thesis of this paper is that messages provided by video games affect behavior of males and females and is especially dangerous for young women. Specific video games ...

This 8 page paper discusses adolescent violence in connection with race and gender. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

3 pages in length. Assumptions, created from stereotypical thinking, can be as misleading as they are incorrect. For the most part, assumptions are based upon incomplete information, embellishment of what little information there is and failure to confirm the information as being accurate before stating it as fact. One popular assumption is ...

3 pages in length. The fundamental principle in John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus is to illustrate the inherent difference between the male and female genders. Indeed, it is obvious how men and women are quite divergent in physiological composition, however, myriad people do not realize to what extent ...

This 14 page paper discusses how gender influences our understanding of desire, and suggests that it is our society that tells us what is acceptable and what’s not with regard to personal relationships, and that it does so by means of narratives and stories. The paper discusses gender roles and societal expectations and norms. Bibliography ...

17 pages in length. To impose circumstantial evidence upon the scientific community as a means by which to prove the existence of something is much the same as trying to convince a skeptic that ghosts are a reality: it only evokes immediate rejection. Such is the case with Distant Intentionality and its role ...

This 6 page paper discusses some of the issues facing transgendered persons. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

This paper uses Deirdre N. McCloskey’s book “Crossing: A Memoir” to explore the idea that gender can be learned. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 11 page paper provides a critical evaluation of a 1998 article by Franzwa & Lockhart on the subject. The article refers to Tannen's work as well as early works by Jung on personality theory. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

An 8 page paper. This essay will discuss how each gender reacts when they are jealous. It discusses the cause of jealousy and the objects or targets of jealousy. Man and women do not act they same when they are jealous and they do not equally acknowledge the fact that they are jealous or what ...

An eight page paper which looks at the way in which gender differences and cultural constraints influence individuals’ selection of their partners, and how much significance is attached in different societies to factors such as physical attractiveness, intelligence, social status and other salient elements. Bibliography lists 6 sources.