Social Science

Cognitive, which translates roughly as “thinking”, has two connotations in modern psychology.  One is “cognitive psychology” which studies mental functions such as sensation, perception and memory.  The other is “cognitive therapy” or “cognitive-behaviour therapy”,  a form of psychotherapy that looks…
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Depending on your religious persuasion, poverty has been with us since the Old Testament with the ejection of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden to struggle and toil in the soil to survive and with the first recorded…
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Thousands of people dissociate themselves from the bad things that happen to them. Whatever the thing is, it is only natural to want to wipe away the memory and pretend that it never even happened at all. While this may…
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A religious cult is described as a certain belief or practice that may be bizarre in the eyes of society. Some cults may even be considered a subculture. The idea of cults were introduced into psychology and sociology in 1932. Throughout…
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The reasons we do the things we do are as myriad as the people who do them. The thing that is the same, though, is that we all do them. We all make decisions every day of our life. Some…
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First he said Miguel fell off the toilet and hit his head.Then he changed the story, claiming that his wife beat the child.Finally, Rickey Haney admitted that he was the one who brutally beat his 2-year-old foster son, although he…
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To understand dissociation one must comprehend the meaning of the word, the definition is, dissociation: noun. a breaking up or disconnecting; separation.(Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada Ltd., Publishers).Although the definition is clear and a convolution of clinical analysis and…
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There is a dilemma in trying to appraise some one’s else’s success or failure. The most workable definition of success is “achieving what you set out to do”. But to assess that  you need to understand what someone wants and values. People…
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Each of us has an arsenal of words at the tip of our tongue. We can use them to encourage, heal, and lift up a family member or friend in need or we can use them to punish others by…
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Introduction Race has been one of the most influential issues in American society since its beginning. The purpose of this essay is to explore how race as a social construction came to be, my own experiences with race, and whether…
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