1) For each of the studies, how did Golub, Gilbert, and Wilson (2009) operationally define the positive expectations? How did they operationally define affect? In the laboratory studies the positive expectation were operationally defined by presenting the personality classification A to the 13 participants in both 1a and 1b. The classification was shown by the computer.…
Psychology 101 Extra Credit Assignment Successful completion of this assignment will replace your lowest test grade with the grade you receive on the assignment. Write an APA formatted paper which answers the question, “Why study Psychology?” The paper is to follow the same APA formatting standards as your article reviews EXCEPT the references will be at the end of the paper on their own page. The paper should include a cover sheet with a proper header.…
In chapter 13 the key points of focus are stress, health and coping. As defined by the cognitive appraisal model, stress is a negative emotional state that is in occurrence to events that are seen as appraised as taxing or exceeding one's resources. Psychologists that study stress and other psychological factors that influence health, illness and treatment are health psychologist. Events or situations that produce stress are known as stressors. Significant sources of stress include daily hassles, work stress and burnout.…
Review Questions # 5 2. Distinguish between autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive disorders and provide a couple examples of each. When dealing with genetic disorders its important to understand how they are inherited. There are two ways a child can inherited a genetic disorder from their parents. Autosomal dominant disorder is where one parent has a genetic disorder in which it has already manifested such as familial hypercholesterolaemia, marfan’s syndrome, and achondroplasia(dwarfism) and this dominant gene is inherited by their child who will also develop the disorder.…
Inside Out A movie “inside out” by pete docter is about how five emotions grapple the control of an 11 year old girl. I realised after watching the movie it's much more than a kids movie. It demonstrates how our mines worked by different types of emotions in this movie, the girl mind was controlled by anger, disgust, fear, sadness and joy. This emotions and many more show how we act and what we show. It shows us that we tend to deal with our emotions that we have experienced by avoiding the bad feelings and the bad problems.…
A.Heredity-is a term that refers to traits and features that are inherited from one's parents and predecessors. At birth a person inherits 50% of each parent's genetic material (genes) that are passed along through the chromosomes found in the DNA . B.Nativists-is the view that certain skills or facilities are "native" or hard-wired into the encephalon at birth. C.Environmentalists-is an interdisciplinary field that fixates on the interplay between individuals and their circumventions.…
1. Why were the senses of such intense interest for the early science of psychology? What were Fechner’s insights and why were they important for scientific psychology? Early psychology was rooted in a combination of physics, physiology, and mental philosophy.…
Chapter 6: Transitions to the world of work In this chapter, the authors insist that the adolescent stage foundation determines and adolescents success in the job market. An adolescent who is used to a lazy life both at home and in school translates the same in the workplace and even if the adolescent finds their dream job opportunity, they end up underperforming and eventually lose the job. The authors insist that it is imperative that an adolescent dot let the fleeting pleasures of adolescence rob them of the diligence that is required in the latter stages of life. The author compares the life of the developing person both at home and in their places of work and concludes that truly there is a relation.…
A. Exploring the Unconscious i. Freud used free association, in which he told the patient to relax and say whatever came to mind. ii. Called his treatment techniques psychoanalysis iii. Beneath our awareness is the larger unconscious mind with its thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. 1.…
I have chosen the movie The Kings of Summer. It is because I can relate to the movie in many ways. It is the feeling when the kids just want to just walk out on there parents and control their own lives. They all get tired of there parents managing there lives. I know some days I can relate to that.…
In the beginning of second semester I was being introduced into Psychology 101 which I had no idea on what this course will be teaching. As I just know the word “PSY” it would be mentioning about physical or something to do with the body. Then, doing some research about what Psychology will be teaching about from YouTube. Also, reading some articles from this website on what they will be mentioning about what the body will reacts to some situations. In the past months as learning about the basic about Psychology 101 this would be an advantage in taking the next step of becoming a police officer which I could use it to think like a victim and mange an issue or situation into peace that everything could be resolved in a matter of a way.…
In case 5.1 we are presented with Maggie Weinzapfel, a 26-year-old Caucasian female. Approximately six weeks ago, she called off her engagement with her fiancé whom she had been dating for the past four years. Recently, she contacted the Family Guidance Center and stated that she desperately needed to talk with someone. According to the intake workers notes, Maggie “sounded panicky” when she called to schedule an appointment to see a counselor (Pomeroy, 2015). Based on the information that was provided in case 5.1, Maggie appears to meet the criteria of major depressive disorder (F32.2) single episodes, severe without psychotic features (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).…
The myth of Psyche and Eros has many variants and one cannot pick out the true form of the story. The myth begins with Psyche, the most beautiful woman in the Grecian kingdom. Many men were entranced by Psyche’s beauty and would do anything to see her. This made Aphrodite, goddess of beauty, jealous. Aphrodite sent her son Eros, also known as Cupid, down to Earth to ensure that all men would not desire Psyche.…
Table Of Contents Psychology: Eye Witness Accounts ---------------------------------------------------Pages 2-4 This is a paper I wrote for Psychology 100. The paper is based off a case study that we participated in as a class. Before being prompted with this paper, I was tasked with watching a video followed by a series of questions about the video. These questions were testing the memory of the study’s participants.…
The drama film Antwone Fisher is about a temperamental young man with a violent history who is serving in the United States Navy. After, getting into a fist fight with one of his leading officers, Fisher was sentenced to the captain’s mast where he was demoted, fined, and restricted from the ship for forty-five days. His commanding officer also ordered for him to get psychiatric treatment because of his continuous aggressive behavior displayed in recent months. Dr. Jerome Davenport was Navy’s psychologist, who Fisher was appointed to see. Fisher had to engage in three cooperative sessions before returning back to duty.…