If faced with a dire decision to be made within but a fraction of second, could this action be trusted to be rational and logical? The fallible brain, when faced with such situations, tends to take mental shortcuts to determine dire decisions and judgments based…
Essays on Developmental Psychology
“A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Mankind has always been hailed as the most intelligent species on this planet. We like to believe the fact that we are in “control” of all that is happening…
Experimental psychology: is a technique for examining mental phenomena and procedures. The experimental psychology attempts to represent the exercises of creatures (including humans) and the utilitarian association of mental procedures by controlling factors that may give rise to behavior; it is fundamentally concerned about finding…
Human intuition plays a significant role in the first impression a person or character makes. In this academic paper Grizzard et al. present the idea that “moral judgments of characters and disposition formation—facilitated by the activation of character-schema (e.g., hero/villain)—might occur prior to the observation…
Introduction Professional identification means a social identification and the degree to which an individual can define themselves as a professional member. Today’s world is very competitive and existing is this competitive world is very essential. Skills and ability is the only key for existing in…
Paper divides prenatal development and birth into 6 sections. Information from this text will be used in order to learn more about this subject. These sections are conception and genetics, genetic and chromosomal disorders, pregnancy and prenatal development, maternal influences and fetal health as well…
By looking at developmental theories and applying them to the childhoods of saints and sinners throughout history, we are able to contextualize the way they have turned out, and gain a better understanding of human development. By using these theories and looking at how they…
Human has an instinct to lie and that is probably one of the most common wrong act that we all have done. I cannot say that I have never lied before but I cannot also justified that it resulted into any good. There was this…
In 1921, Carl Jung introduced the terms introversion and extraversion to distinguish the way people interact with their surroundings. Whereas extraverts’ interests and energy are drawn towards the outer world of people and things, introverts tend to prefer the internal world of their internal thoughts…
Many may argue that the environment we live in and are surrounded by plays a big part in shaping and identifying behaviour. However others may argue that genes and nurture play a bigger part when it comes to determining behaviour and the influence it has…
If I asked you what your dreams are, what would you tell me? In the book Born A Crime by Trevor Noah, Noah writes about his life in South Africa as a young child. While he was a child, he struggled through poverty under Apartheid…
It is a fact that experts have also prove that it is not a good thing to say lie with others. However, in some circumstances, it becomes a necessity to say lie. A study shows that lying to somebody is always inadmissible and unacceptable (Maahs,…
Childhood represents the most important stage of people, when we are children every day we have a new adventure, we begin to discover new things that we had never seen, every new experience in magic, we see new things like animals, objects; we know new…
“I can’t do it.” These are four little words that carry immense weight with them. No parent wants to hear their child say these words. But, frustration in children is rampant, especially with the growing pressures to outperform their peers. Often, when kids are faced…
There have been many major events and actions people have taken in the past to create what we call history. However, what we hear and learn today may or may not be the whole truth. Many stories in history are absolutely inaccurate and incorrect. One…
I think childhood is the happiest and most unstressed of my life because when I was a child, I don’t have many responsibilities like now I can still remember some of my wonderful memories but most of them were what y mom tell me. She…
Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) is one of the main characters from the hit TV series “FRIENDS,” was born April 8, 1968. His parents Nora Tyler Bing, an erotic novelist, and Charles Bing, a crossdressing, homosexual burlesque star, provided an unstable home for young Chandler, they…
According to Clough & Nutbrown, (2002) ‘All research is about asking questions, finding problems and evaluating on what unfolds in order to form meaning from the information and convey the research story.’ (Chevron Notes 2020).According to MacNaughton et al.(2010) research is best described as a…
Over the years the importance of early childhood education has gained special attention due to its now learned advantages in the later stages of education. Scholars like Evans, Sanoff and Gur demonstrate the purpose of Early Childhood Education as a foundation for higher learning stages…
Manipulative skills, mostly, are those in which a person learns to handle objects with accuracy in accordance with speed and control. These skills mainly involve physical activities with the use of hand and body. Keep fit the body to carry out physical movements is needed…
Preschool education landscape in Singapore which comprises both kindergartens and childcare centres has seen many positive developments over the last few decades with help from the Early Childhood Development Agency, ECDA which provides quality assurance and oversees all aspects of children’s development from birth to…
Being a healthcare professional is not easy these days. There is a lot of challenges faced by healthcare professionals that stunts them from moving forward in their career. “The CareerBuilder survey also asked healthcare professionals if their current or most recent employer offered a number…
I have been studying about your theory, Psychodynamic theory and somehow I think that it is very interesting. Since I’m attracted to it, I want to use your theory as a guide for my counselling sessions in the future. As you have claimed, Psychodynamic theory…
What makes your children hard working, independent, and responsible? Chores can help reinforce all those qualities. Even though washing the dishes can be exhausting and children might bicker, doing household chores and tasks is very important because it is a critical part of their…
Childhood vs adulthood. These are two major times in our life from making our lifelong friends, to making the most memories possible, to starting up our own family. I will show you the many differences between the two of them. Childhood. What is it? Childhood…
“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you know, the more places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss. So, how I learned to read and write? Reading has always been important to me even though it has not always…
Sex education, a buzzword is playing a vital role in making the generation aware of their body in an effective way. “If children learn sex education as a relation between their parents to which they owe their existence, they will learn of it in its…
Reflect on the philosophy and theories of any one of the early thinkers; Plato, Frobel, Rousseau or Pestalozzi. What are the key concepts of the philosophy or theory? Plato is one of the early thinkers who I respect and look upon to. One of my…
To date, little research has been undertaken locally to understand the difficulties experienced by those wishing to become Early Years Educators, Teachers or Leaders when considering their training pathways. Research has long asserted that quality Early Years Educators play an important part in quality outcomes…
There are five major theoretical perspectives of psychology that can impact human memory. These perspectives include cognitive, psychodynamic, biological, behavioral, and humanistic. This essay will focus on the cognitive and psychodynamic perspective to analyse and evaluate the development and understanding of memory. The understanding of…
The movie ‘The Wild Child’ also depicts the social nature of human cognition, referring to the encounters we have with other people in our everyday lives. Our experiences help us improve and flourish, so we can gain knowledge and form our personalities through being social….
Arranging an insightful or individual target could be inconvenient around the start if you don’t have the foggiest thought what you’re looking for to complete in your goal. In this paper, I will be giving you systems for keeping up inspiration and progress towards your…
Just like family dynamics, neighborhoods can either positively or negatively impact a person’s health. With that, disadvantaged communities are considered high-risk due to the lack of resources, unemployment, inadequate schools, and high levels of crime and violence. When children are exposed to negative contexts within…
For the most part, when machismo happens in a conversation, individuals are more averse to ridicule or laud an individual’s conduct. Machismo regularly alludes to when men are frequently celebrating manliness in a predominant and compromising way. Men who tend to act such as this…
Whether the truth is twisted, or certain details are intentionally withheld; everybody lies at some point in their life. During early childhood, parents instill in their children that lying is wrong and that they should never lie, or no one will believe them when they…
Lying has various connotations and an almost unanimous judgment or opinion – that it is unjust, or sinful. This is thinking in a general sense. When digging deeper into an honest man’s reason for lying, it is much more than can be defined through an…
Dishonesty has become common and it’s destroying us and our relationship. People should avoid telling even “little white lies” because it will become a habit that is hard to break. Even telling the littlest lie can get you in the most trouble in the future, yes…
As a child blossoms into the adolescent stage, there is a process they will enter where they will begin to figure out who they are & pass through numerous stages along the way known as a life transition. During this time, it is described as…
The act of lying has been around since the beginning of society and has started to become the social normality. Almost everyone lies, whether it is a white lie to protect someone we love from the truth, it is still considered lying and and we…
Nowadays, lying has become a natural thing most people are doing, for example, breathing, we do it without even thinking about it. Lying has a lot of meanings; depending on the people it might mean something different from your definition. In the article “The Ways…
From a young age, we are taught that telling the truth is always the right thing to do no matter the consequences. We understand what this entails and even when we don’t tell the truth we understand that we should’ve. The concept seems simple, but…
A citizen is a person who has the country’s passport that they are staying in and can legally live in that country. Although Citizenship is the position or status of being a citizen of a particular country. Citizenship can be viewed in different ways. For…
No matter what others might say, we all have the right to the pursuit of happiness. Happiness and tranquility in life is the purpose and the basic right of a human being. Some individuals should not have married each other if they do not feel…
The Electra complex is the female counterpart of the more widely known Oedipus complex. The concept introduced by psychoanalysts has acquired a fairly large number of myths and stereotypes. In this article, we will try to figure out what is this complex, and how to…
Sigmund Freud was so thoroughly inspired and intrigued by this play that he came up with the “Oedipus Complex.” This complex was part of his psychoanalytic theory, which in basis is the desire or possessiveness of the parent of the opposite sex and the rivalry…
Sigmund Freud’s theory and his ideas provided interesting ways of thinking about human feelings and conduct. There are two theories very well known by Freud. One of them is the Oedipus Complex, defined as the liking and desire to sleep (physical relationship) with a mother…
It goes without saying that Sigmund Freud remains influential in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. He is the founding father of psychoanalysis and gave the world a critical understanding of how an individual’s childhood has an enormous influence on their adult life that in…
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic hypothesis of character contends that human conduct is the consequence of the associations among three-segment portions of the brain: the id, sense of self, and superego. This hypothesis, known as Freud’s basic hypothesis of character, places extraordinary accentuation on the job of…
For a child to meet the predetermined normalities of a society, an individual will go through certain stages of development throughout their life. Robert Dale Parker, the author of How to Interpret Literature, explains that: In Freud’s model, the child typically moves through a series…
Introduction Life-span developmental psychology focuses on individual development from conception to death. The main presumption of developmental psychology is that development does not complete at adulthood, but rather continues throughout life (Baltes et al., 1999). Development can be characterized into various stages which are defined…
In the 1900s, psychoanalysis was the most distinct theory in psychology literature. ‘‘Behaviorist Manifesto’’ which is found by J. B. Watson, neo-analytic approaches by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, and Karen Horney and also, Gestalt psychology was the influential and prominent theories in that era. However,…
Introduction Sigmund Freud was father of psychoanalysis who was first person to study unconscious mind shaping one’s personality. Our unconscious mind works like a store house to repressed feelings which is responsible for conflicts e.g., anxiety, neurosis, hysteria etc., during later stages. According to Freud’s…
The primary theories that support this case study are constructivism and andragogy. A constructivist paradigm is built on the premise of the social construction of reality (Searle, 1995). The diverse educators, within the targeted district that are participating in the Professional Development plan, can provide…
Childhood is the beginning of one’s life. Every child is pure-heated as well as innocent. Their heart is simple and all their heart longing for is the love from the family especially the concern from their parents. Love and care of family are the most…
The documentary Babies follows four children and their journey from newborns to one-year olds. These babies come from different cultures and distant countries, Ponijao from Opuwo, Namibia, Mari from Tokyo, Japan, Bayar from Bayanchandmani Mongolia, and Hattie from San Francisco, California. The film shows how…
Childhood. We say that this is the happiest time of life. But we begin to appreciate it only when it passes or has already gone away for good. Growing up, we begin to evaluate the world around us and people in a different way. We…
The motion picture Babies is a narrative that pursues four infants from various locations of the world. Each infant originates from an alternate culture, which shows how the different traditions of each culture can affect a kid’s advancement. There was no narration, which enabled the…
The process of understanding religion is a complex and diverse problem tackled by many of the theorists that we have talked about up to this point. After watching Jesus Camp and looking over the plethora of religious theories I have to choose from, I believe…
Bullying and sexual orientation are topics that have been broadcasted in homes of adolescents, in schools and as well as across the media. However, not much research has been broadcasted about the correlation between sexual orientation and bullying. Results from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior…
For thousands of years Christianity has been a mass movement worldwide. So why is it that a tradition so relevant in human history is seeing a decrease in it’s following? After years of consistency why, until just recently, has this tradition been flourishing? Research would…
Introductions I chose this topic because I did an essay about a belief system on a different topic and this question is stuck in my head. Now in modern families, having technology is a big factor in bonding and creating emotional relationship with our family….
Risk taking behavior is known as a adolescent’s behavior that risk their life, health, development and transition to subsequent developmental periods (Yılmaz Irmak, 2014). The reason I decide to study with adolescents is as Morningstar and his colleagues (2019) mentioned to compare adults, adolescent’s emotions…
Early childhood is an important stage in life, they start to grow fast and develop their fine motor abilities, cooperative play, moral development and intellectually. Children who are 3-4years old should be able to walk up the stairs by using two feet at a time…
The Hunger Games is a coming out of age novel about teenagers living in a complex society. The teenagers have to participate in dangerous games to please the public. They have to make life or death decisions and can see someone dying each minute. They…
Substance use is rapidly becoming one of the most prevalent issues in today’s society. According to a survey by the WHO, 164 million people had an alcohol or drug use disorder in 2016. A major part of the population dealing with these issues are the…
Unintended young pregnancy is an ever-present pestilence in America, despite the fact that the rates have diminished consistently since the ’90s. The effect of young pregnancy influences the physical, passionate, social and profound of the teenagers. Adolescent pregnancies are related to expanded paces of liquor…
This paper will discuss the equal roles both Nature and Nurture play in people who suffer from substance addiction. Addiction is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences. For the purposes of this…
Nature is your genes and what you inherited from your parents that influence who we are consisting of our physical appearance and characteristics. For example, I am short in height from my mother. As for nurture, it is based on all the environmental experiences that…
How many times have you heard that patience is a virtue? Probably a ton. Now how many times have you actually thought about the phrase and tried to be more patient with the things around you? Maybe you do this all the time, but if…
Have you ever had to stand on a queue for hours? Ah! It can be so frustrating especially when you are in a hurry. A friend once suggested that my characteristic uneasiness and disdain for standing in bank queu e is a sign of impatience….
The word childhood is influenced by various aspects that result in it having many different definitions depending on the person and the environment they are in. When someone tries to understand the aspect of childhood there is an aggressive need of the understanding for cultures…
You first start with the germinal stage; this is where conception is taking after the zygote reaches the uterus. After two weeks, this is when the embryo takes its place then becomes a fetus. A newborn baby can grow fast the first few years each…
Introduction Numeracy is evident in all facets of our day-to-day living; from shopping and cooking to paying the bills. It is the skill of using numbers and mathematical reasoning in all aspects of life. This stems from the ability to think and communicate quantitatively, solve…
What Is Listening Listening is an activity. It is an important activity, dominated by its widespread use in life. Accordingly, it is estimated that about 60% of the time will be spent simply listening. With so much time spent listening, listeners need to have effective…
Introduction Manipulative talents, generally, are those in which a person learns to grip things with accuracy in accordance with speed and control. These talents mainly contain physical events with the use of hand and body. Keep fit the figure to carry out physical activities is…
The transition from childhood to adulthood can often be of smooth nature with a period of adolescence to occupy the space in between the two life stages, though some cultures don’t recognize adolescence as a stage of life and have their children pass on from…
Introduction The American Psychological Association defined shyness as the tendency to feel awkward, worried or tense during social encounters, especially with unfamiliar people. Severely shy people may have physical symptoms like blushing, sweating, a pounding heart or upset stomach; negative feelings about themselves; worries about…
Liv and Maddie, Property Brothers, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Twitches, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Double Trouble, Twins, The Parent Trap. Have you watched of any of these media productions? The answer I’m assuming is probably yes! As a child, I remember religiously watching…
Bill Bryson lived in Des Moines, Iowa, during his youth in the 1950’s and early 1960’s. He was living in a country coming fresh off of the second world war, and, as a nation, the United States was experiencing economic prosperity. During this era, people…
The Serious Problem Children growing up in poverty is talked about more and more each day. “Levels of relative and absolute child poverty was expected to reach twenty-four percent and twenty three percent by the year 2020/2021.” (Peter Adamson, 2012) “In 2015, there was nearly…
