Child Onset Bipolar Disorder Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder Childhood-Onset Bipolar Disorder Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder (COBPD) is one of the most debilitating mental disorders affecting children today. Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder usually affecting adults that causes sometimes severe changes in mood. Childhood Onset Bipolar disorder is just what it sounds like, a b

Depression Only in the past two decades has depression in adolescents been taken seriously. Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adoles

Group Dynamics The Wu Tang clan is a nine-member hip-hop group that formed in 1992. Since 1992 the group has gone on to find success as a group and as solo artist. The Wu Tang Clan is easily one of the most influential hip-hop groups of all time. The group has taken aspects from every area such as kung fu to religion and blended them into a unique brand of music that is many times imitat

Psychosomatics The word " psychosomatics " is new. It was first used in German medical literature in 1922 but it didn't come to America until the 1930's. Phychosomatics is a term that studies emotions and bodily change. Huang Ti, from China, observed that frustration can make people physically ill. Many people have believed that the body could not be cured without the mind, while oth

Psych Not one person in the world is exactly like the other. How someone perceives the world around them is very different for every person. What they think, feel and how they act in certain situations is never the same. The question is, what influences people to be who they are' Some people believe that the greatest influence is nature, predetermined characteristics that make someone wh

Psychoanalysis The main idea of Sigmund Freud’s infamous psychoanalysis is the interpretation of dreams. Freud called dream interpretation the “via-reggia,” or the “royal road” to the unconscious, and it is his theory of dreams that has best stood the test of time over a period of more than seventy years. We dream every single night whether it stays with us or not. It is a time when “o

Psychoanalytic Therapy Psychoanalytic Therapy Sigmund Freud’s view of human nature is deterministic. The underlying assumptions are that our behavior is determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivations, and biological and instinctual drives. All of these evolve through psychosexual stages in the first six years of life. The primary characteristic distinguished by this

Psychodynamic, Humanistic And Behavioral Theories: A Compare And Contrast Psychodynamic, Humanistic, and Behavioral Theories: A Compare and Contrast All three theories, psychodynamic, humanistic, and behavioral, add to the understanding of the entirety of human experience. Many psychologists use some impression from more than one of these theories. Each theory defines the causes an

Psychology The functionalist thoery can be traced to a movement in the late nineteenth-century under the influences of Darwinism on the biological and social sciences. It is an attempt to understand the world, and it tests the cause and effect of sociological behavior. Some of the more famous functionalists are Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, and Horace Kallen. Horace Kallen\'s article i

Psychology One thing that everyone has complained about at some point in their life is their memory. People are always worried about forgetting things and when they do forget things it is incredibly annoying. A lot of people claim that they just “have a bad memory.” In an effort to figure out exactly why it is that people forget things, scientists have performed countless studies. Many t

Psychology In section IV of Penées by Blaise Pascal. The belief of God is discussed. One usually tries to use acts of nature as a proof of the existence of God, whether or not these acts can be explained from a scientifically expressed definition. Pascal finds this somewhat amusing but not surprising. He goes on to say that if these arguments were explained to the faithful or even ones w

Psychology An oppressive system can work in different ways to achieve the same outcome, create inequalities of power. At the micro level, the media can play a huge role in how minorities are viewed. For example, for years the media influenced how people viewed slavery. While the abolitionists fought to destroy slavery, those for it used the media to promote slavery as a good thing. T

Psychology Psychology Psychology as a science has developed over a long period of time, literally centuries. During this period of time, many persons have had an influence on the development of Psychology. In this paper I am going to describe three persons and their contributions to Psychology. Also how their contributions affected Psychology as a science. The three people that I a

Race Effect Why Study Intelligence. Implicit studies of intelligence have been at the heart of psychology for the last two decades or so (Flugel, 1947; Shafer, 1999 in Furnham, 2001). The main concerns have been to look at the explicit theories on one hand and the implicit theories on the other. Sternberg (1990, in Furnham, 2001) differentiated between the two, defining the former as “c

Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical novel of James Joyce. The novel Stephen Hero was originally written as Joyce’s autobiography, which was reworked from the autobiographical piece entitled “Portrait of the Artist.” This piece was written for a journal, but was rejected due to sexual content. In each of these works it was

Psychology As A Discipline Description of Discipline: Psychology evolved from the more established fields of biology and philosophy. Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. Psychology has many activities ranging from recording nerve-cell activity to psychotherapy. Psychology began as the science of mental life. This was only until 1920. Then a man by the name of

Psychology Behind Piercing The Psychology behind Piercing Is body piercing a form of self mutilation, or is it a form of body art' Piercing is not an illness. Piercers are looking for a reaction from others. Peer pressure is definitely a factor for adolescents who pierce. Most young people believe it is the thing to do. It is a form of self-expression. Teens pierce to rebel and sh

Psychology Defined Psychology Defined Just what is exactly is Psychology' Is it the study of human behavior, the attempt to understand mental processes, or is it research conducted by scientists to benefit mankind' It is all of these and more, however in order to fully understand what psychology is and how it is defined, an attempt to understand humanity as a whole is beneficial. A d

Psychology Of Embarassment Initially, the trouble with my body being the wrong sex was just...troubling. My mother told me stories, before she died, of the difficulties toilet training me, of getting me to deal with plumbing I felt unhappy with. I remember how kindergarten gave me my first taste of the shame I would be indoctrinated with over my life, of ridicule by adults and my peers.

Psychology Report During Expedition One a range of psychological measures, informal observation, crew discussion and other means were used to collect information about crew psychological issues. The overall goal of the psychological studies was to gain insight into crew individual and group issues that may be relevant to a human mission to Mars or other prolonged human spaceflight. Anoth

Psychology Research Project When I began this research project I wasn’t sure how much information there would be on Childhood Behavioral Disorders, and I was afraid it would all be the same and I would already know most of it. I was surprised, then, to find a lot of new information on this topic. For my magazine article I chose a U.S. News article entitled “When Does A Child Need Help

Psychology: Drugs And Abuse Psychology: Drugs And Abuse Drugs and Abuse Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topic of drug abuse

Compliance Of Male And Female Drivers At Stop Signs Running Head: THE COMPLIANCE OF WOMEN AND MEN AT STOP SIGNS The Compliance of Women and Men at Stop Signs: Determining the Behavior of Compliance and Non-compliance Ilana Y. Goldstein Montclair State University Montclair, New Jersey Abstract The behavior of 220 subjects consisting of 103 fem

Race Effect Why Study Intelligence. Implicit studies of intelligence have been at the heart of psychology for the last two decades or so (Flugel, 1947; Shafer, 1999 in Furnham, 2001). The main concerns have been to look at the explicit theories on one hand and the implicit theories on the other. Sternberg (1990, in Furnham, 2001) differentiated between the two, defining the former as “c

O.C.D. Extra Credit Assignment O.C.D. The definition of ‘obsessive compulsive disorder’ is an anxiety disorder that is characterized by repetitive, irrational, intrusive thoughts, impulses or images and irresistible impulses to engage repeatedly in some acts (Schwartz). Individuals with an obsessive compulsive disorder do not want or enjoy the obsessive thoughts or ti

Psychonueroimmunology Psychoneuroimmunology Psychoneuroimmunology, or PNI, is the study of the connection between the brain and the immune system. Studies began in the 1970's connecting psychological experiences and immune function. To this day there is some debate on the validity and of the use of this science to promote alternative medicine. Robert Ader and Candice Pert, among o

PTSD Abstract The definition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an individual that has been exposed and diagnosed to any kind of threat of physical harm that encourages feelings of fear, helplessness, or horror (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Some researchers suggest that PTSD is a common outcome of head trauma, whereas others hold that it is a rare or nonexistent o

Pychanalytical Approach Case Study: Steven V. pg 1 Steven V. has been psychologically treated chronically since kindergarten. He had been previously diagnosed with schizoid personality, paranoid schizophrenia and manic depressive psychosis. All of his of his psychological treatment had been suggested by his parents due to his very intense childhood. Steven V. was the only child of

Random Throughout history, many different views have been taken by African American leaders on how to solve the racial injustice that has plagued the African American community ever since they became known as independent citizens in this country. This is shown best by the great differences in methods used by the African American leaders Booker T. Washington, with his more peaceful views

Emotional Development Emotional Development Just over the past few decades, the study of emotional development on children and infants has began to grow. This explores the way that infants and children develop emotionally, differing on the question of whether emotions are learned or biologically predetermined, as well as questioning the way infants and children manage their emotiona