Abnormal psychology

1. Who do you think is the most influential individual in the history of psychology and explain why? I believe that Jean Piaget was one of the most influential individuals in the history of Psychology. Piaget developed the cognitive development theory, and this theory is the theory stating that someone’s childhood plays an enormous role in how their brain develops. I believe that Piaget was the most influential individual because this theory has been proven in many cases. While reading through…

According to our book, Abnormal Psychology Clinical and Scientific Perspectives states, “The main features of histrionic personality disorder concern excessive emotionality and attention seeking.” I believe this case study of Ms. Fuentes provided evidence that one could infer that she desired attention with some type of motif. For instance, Ms. Fuentes expressed shallow emotions, saying she had felt abandon by her neurosurgeon and eventually broke down and cried after telling her story about her…

chose Psychiatrist as my career choice because it is interesting to read a person’s mind. I found it interesting to study about and I want to do research on this career to know more about psychiatrist. Career Description Psychiatrist studies psychology which is study of behavior and mind. Psychologist is life science because it is related to behavior and mind which is life science and also called bioscience. So, Psychiatrist is related to bioscience. Some recent research breakthroughs in…

Career counselors help college kids, adults, and unemployed people get a job. They help by going throughout the job application process with their clients. To become a career counselor, one should obtain a bachelor’s degree in Psychology or a related field. The next step after receiving a bachelor’s degree is to receive a master’s degree in counseling, targeting career counseling. After this step is completed, the next step is to get licensed in the preferred state…

Thus, it is very possible that the “short gene” underlies the maldevelopment and disfunction of area 25, which then correlates with depression. He next gave an example of OCD as evidence for his argument. Neuroimaging of the patients with OCD shows abnormal activity in an adjacent loop that includes the orbitalfrontal cortex, which is a vital place for decision making. Moreover, it was found in the OCD therapy that the patients’ symptom improvement goes along consistently with their decrease in…

Diversity in Psychology The arena of psychology is a detailed discipline based on motivation, feelings, reason, and behavior. The field of psychology can divided into various subcomponents with many variations on specialties such as abnormal psychology, the study of deviant behavior, to fields that deal with psychology in the workplace such as industrial and organizational psychology that are concerned with applying psychological techniques and methods in the workplace. Psychology has…

Psychology is a fast-growing and relatively new branch in modern medicine. It can be applied to almost every aspect of life. Psychology “is the scientific study of the mind and behavior. Psychology is a multifunctional discipline and includes many sub-fields of study.” One branch of Psychology that has grown extremely fast in the past few years is Neuropsychology; “Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with how the brain and the rest of the nervous system influence a…

empathetic to those that I work with in my career. I want to be the psychologist I needed when I was younger. To become a good child psychologist, I need to achieve a doctorate degree and certificate for additional training in child and adolescent psychology. In result of coming from a multicultural background,I aspire to have a multicultural approach to treatment by being non-judgmental of people who have ethnic, religious, or cultural backgrounds other than my own. For my practice, I will used…

Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S. A. (1963). Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 66(1), 3–11. doi: 10.1037/h0048687 Summary: This article aims to explore the magnitude to which film-mediated aggressive models might serve as significant sources of imitated behavior. The researchers also expected that male children would be more aggressive. Amid concerns of an incident in which a child stabbed another child as happened in a movie days…

(1981). Oral Dependence and Dependent Behavior. Journal of Personality Assessment, 45(2), 125-129. In this Psychology scientific article, Shilkret and Masling attempt to find out if there is a relationship between oral dependence and dependent behavior and whether the sex of the participants play any role in the results. They categorized the participants as high…