Social Science

Research and the Cognitive Psychologist To better understand the specific methods used by cognitive psychologists, one must first grasp the goals of research in cognitive psychology (Sternberg, 2006).  Briefly, the goals include data gathering, data analysis, theory development, hypothesis formulation,…
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Society these days is so fast. People seem to have forgotten values that families took for granted in days gone by. Technology has meant that the speed life is lived at imposes all kinds of stresses on lives at all…
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Humanistic psychology was introduced in the late 1950s in response to what proponents saw as inadequacies in the leading psychological theories of the day. Now known as the “3rd force” in psychology, humanist psychology attempts to place more of an…
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An Overview of Careers in Psychology By definition, psychology is the study of behavior. Compared to many other fields of study, the broad scope of a career in Psychology is easy to see. Behavior is a part of every human…
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Kohlberg’s theory of moral development is an adaptation of a psychological theory originally developed by Jean Piaget. It forms a theory of the development of moral reasoning.  Kohlberg expanded on Piaget’s original work, which described a simple, finite two-stage process…
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The key words in the title of the article are LOVED ONE. When you love a person, this can be anyone from child to friend, lover to husband, wife to parent. Love brings with it many joys, responsibilities and pains,…
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Psychology is a fairly young science with roots in many disciplines, ranging from philosophy to physiology. The founder of the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at Germany’s University in Leipzig was Wilhelm Wundt, both a physiologist and philosopher. A Russian…
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Do psychology students, or those who begin work in the field find themselves more vulnerable to mental illness? The idea is based on innate human vulnerability to suggestion.  However, for an illness to be truly diagnosed as a mental illness…
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Where do our dreams come from? “We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – Prospero in “The Tempest” Act 4, scene 1, William Shakespeare. Have you ever awakened from…
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Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis, developed his psychosexual stages of development basing his finding on observations of his patients suffering from varying degrees and types of mental illness. During Freud’s time, mental illnesses were not categorised as they…
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