Essays Tagged: "psychological studies"

Common Causes of Poor Mathematics Achievement for Children and Adolescents and Strategies for Teaching.

IntroductionThere are many psychological studies about children and adolescents' problems with mathematics. For teachers to hel ...

(7 pages) 175 1 4.3 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

This describes the difference between the U.S. and the U.K's way of using offender profiling.

Consider psychological studies of offender profiling.A definition of offender profiling is often illusive, bu ... ing is often illusive, but a loose description of the term is to identify physical, personality and psychological characteristics of a person based on their offence. The term was coined by the FBI but ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

This research paper discusses the link between creativity and mood disorders.

have been common judgments of these professions for years. Despite the prevalence of these beliefs, psychological studies in this field have been sparse and often inadequate. To fill this investigativ ... y studies of this social stereotyping phenomenon were largely anecdotal, relying on the unconfirmed psychological diagnosis of creative individuals post-mortem. Examples of this include William Blake, ...

(5 pages) 155 0 3.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

"The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

es. Danny does not want to follow is father's footsteps and inherit his synagogue, instead favoring psychological studies. Reuven encounters problems after his father gives a pro-Zionist speech at the ...

(1 pages) 42 2 3.3 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Shirley jackson

ves are not new: evil cloaked in seeming good; prejudice and hypocrisy; loneliness and frustration; psychological studies of minds that have slipped the bonds of reality" (Friedman, 44) Literary criti ...

(2 pages) 18 0 1.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Ethics in Research

everity of the situation has caused much debate over the ethics concerning experimental research in psychological studies including weather the long-term scientific discoveries outweigh the intense ps ... at home) and were "charged" with either suspicion of burglary or armed robbery. (Haney, 1973). The psychological embarrassment that this detainment process could cause from the start of the experimen ...

(4 pages) 146 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Cartoon violence

a humorous way, it is obvious that this cannot be beneficial to America's youth (Kreig 32). Psychological studies consistently prove that cartoon violence is detrimental to children. One study ...

(4 pages) 17 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Euthanasia: ILLEGAL Stance

et that people who attempt suicide, or request suicide, are perfected healthily mentally. The years psychological studies that people who commit suicide most likely have a mental disorder, will be rev ... chronically ill individuals. It then evolved from euthanasia for physical illness to euthanasia for psychological distress. Finally, it evolved from voluntary euthanasia to the practice and conditiona ...

(2 pages) 22 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Television and Video Games Violence Increases Aggression in Youth in the Short Term and the Long

ere visually perpetuated into the American households from whoever bought the time. This posed many psychological and sociological issues. How was this mass medium going to effect our populous? Will i ... adult life? Never before had such a graphic medium been introduced into a society. Many reports by psychological studies have suggested, rather in unison, that violent television does correlate posit ...

(8 pages) 92 1 5.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Philosophical Assumptions are fundamentally important in Psychology.

atively young field, due to the fact that psychology, under the Scientific Method, came to dominate psychological studies beginning in the late nineteenth century. In his 1932 lecture on psychoanalysi ... ent admits the validity of other sources of knowledge, such as intuition'(Cooper et al, 1998). Many psychological theories derived from philosophical thoughts and ideas. This essay explores some of th ...

(10 pages) 74 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Historical and Psychological breakdown of Adolf Hitler according to Sebastian Haffner's Meaning of Hitler

historical fact of his life from the numerous historical theories accepted as fact, and the pseudo-psychological studies that attempt a look into the life and times of the man, but never fail to come ...

(9 pages) 2793 0 5.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History