Social Science

The inside workings of children’s mind intrigued Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist is known for his pioneering studies of how children learn. He was fascinated by the workings of their mind, and not so much as when they gave right…
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HOW DID PSYCHOLOGY ORIGINATE? Psychology has been around for a long time but most of us think of it as a fairly new science being only a little over 100 years old; and regarding the scientific method of psychology, this…
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Although Max Wertheimer is considered to be Gestalt’s founder, it was his student, Kurt Koffka who wrote and published, “Principles of Gestalt Psychology” in 1935. It became the Bible’ for Gestalt psychologists. A number of people were instrumental in forming…
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The way we learn and behave throughout our lives is determined by many life experiences, the environment we live in, and an abundance of internal variables such as self-efficacy. Therefore, to raise a healthy new generation, it is beneficial for…
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Operant Conditioning is behavior alterations by means of conditioning or shaping a new behavior to take the place of another being overhauled.B.F. Skinner, who advocated operate conditioning to control aberrant behavior, developed reinforcements, or methods to help with the difficult…
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Color has a dual-personality: It is light and it is pigment. When we see a certain color object, we are actually seeing only that wavelength of light which is not absorbed by that object. The eye is is most sensitive…
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Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896-1980) is arguably the most influential individual in the field of developmental psychology. Piaget’s research undeniably laid the foundation for this scientific study of the psychological changes that are undergone by children as they mature into…
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The couch can state many different aspects of not only the client’s personality, but also the therapist’s as well. For instance, a client who walks into the office, plops on the couch, and pours out their soul, may happen to…
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Dreams have a unique significance to each branch of psychology; therefore, it is appropriate to evaluate the meaning of a snake from each psychological perspective. The perspectives of psychoanalytic, cognitive, biological, socio-cultural, and behavioral psychology are all included regardless of…
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To be conscious means to be aware. Understanding the state of consciousness is a bit tricky. Any intellectual understanding of it pulls you away from the actual experience and back into the unconscious illusions of the mind. So, to truly…
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