Social Science

Psychometrics can be described as a science that looks in to the development of instruments and theories in relation to educational and psychological assessments aimed at assessing someone’s knowledge, attitude, practices and personality. The practices in relation to psychometrics are…
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According to the FBI’s guidelines, a serial killer is someone who has murdered at least 3 people, with a cooling off period in between kills. The killer is usually a stranger to the victims and the motivation for murder is…
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Pregnancy is joyful time for most expectant parents as they are anxiously await the birth of their new baby. It is such an exciting time that some women fake being pregnant.  Why would a woman pretend to be pregnant when…
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Psychodynamic psychology grew out of the work of Sigmund Freud. Freud’s theories, termed psychoanalysis, emphasized the role of the unconscious and conflicts between internal drives and impulses with social norms. Psychodynamic theory expanded on Freud’s perspectives on the inner world…
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Biological Psychology Biological psychology is defined as “the study of behavior and experience in terms of genetics, evolution, and physiology, especially the physiology of the nervous system.” (American Heritage Dictionary) Basically, biological psychology uses biology as an approach to understand…
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Transculturation is defined as “Cultural change induced by introduction of elements of a foreign culture or the introduction of foreign elements into an established culture.” It is similar to acculturation, but generally transculturation refers to a group rather then an individual…
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Reading and writing are in a bad way. For six decades television has been changing social habits by cutting into the leisure of reading. For the past three decades the computer has accelerated this change with the same predictable result….
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Political anthropology is the study of the social and political aspects of a society and their connections. It is concerned among other issues with the question of power and its origin and role in a society. It also looks at…
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Evolutionary Processes Rosemary and Peter Grant, along with their colleagues, conducted a study in the Galapagos Islands on finches. During this study, something incredible happened that demonstrates a modern day example of evolution through natural selection. The finches beaks had…
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Learned helplessness is primarily linked with the work of Martin E. P. Seligman’s theory of learned helplessness (LHT). Seligman identified LHT to occur when a person; or animal believes that outcomes are independent of their actions’. In other words, individuals…
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