Case study in psychology

Harvard University. Edward Thorndike originally planned to get another degree in French and English literature. While attending the University of Harvard, he enrolled in a psychology class. While in his second trimester at Harvard, he switched his main study to Psychology. Thorndike would never end up obtaining his degree in Psychology at Harvard, he later transferred to the University of Columbia. The reasoning behind his transfer from Harvard to Columbia was a rather odd one. He transferred…

moderate to severe stress that can be difficult to deal with (Sax, 1997). In past studies, researchers believed that both men and women have differences in the way they deal with and experience stress - but it is important to take into account that there may be other elements involved, besides biological factors (Gadzella, 2006). In 1967 Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe created the Social Readjustment Rating Scale to study…

Psychology as a whole can be defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. One fascinating aspect of psychology is the subsection known as abnormal psychology. This essay will define what abnormal psychology is; outline the various criteria used to define abnormal behavior and discuss the differences between Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, and Social Workers. First we must define what abnormal psychology is. One of the more succinct definitions can be found in…

What is Psychology? Psychology cannot simply or easily be defined nor can it be easily characterised. This age long dilemma of the purpose of Psychology is what scientists and philosophers have tried to understand. An attempt to understand the minds and behaviours of man from the most primitive mind to the most complex one but for this paper, we will use the definition given by H. D. Hamm Ph.D., who authored and maintains a site for Northern Michigan University, defines psychology as the…

a popular idiom of an unknown source that states, “give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” When it comes to the field of psychology, acquiring knowledge of development is equal to learning how to fish. Development is the basis of every part of psychology and without an adequate understanding it would be difficult to discern what is psychologically correct and what is not. Development can best be described as a systematic, organized,…

After going over Readings 25,28,30,35 and 36 their importance in social psychology, psychopathology, and psychotherapy are unbelievably important and relevant to the studies in each field. With most, if not all readings hinting at social psychology 25 and 28 both revolve around personality as Reading 30 addresses Freud’s daughter study over her father’s theories of egos while Readings 35 and 36 go over studies dealing with psychotherapy. Nonetheless, as Rotter goes over internal and external…

contributors to psychology is the ancient Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E), who in his book, “Peri Psyches” (translates as, ‘About the Psyche’) argues that human behaviour, like the movements of stars and seas, is subject to rules and laws. Among many other related things, Aristotle also declared that people are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain. This view remains as current today as it was in ancient Greece. Behavioural Psychology is a branch of Psychology that focuses on…

The paper examines individual psychology also known as Adlerian theory in the case conceptualization of Olivia Gomez, a fictional character suffering from depression. The presenting problems demonstrate areas of the client’s life that require counseling and a deeper assessment into the underlying problems affecting her daily life. Most counseling theories focus merely on the person or the collective issues; Adlerian therapy does both. It contends that every person is goal-oriented and possess…

Specifically, it is thought to play a maintaining role, proposed to cause and maintain worry in Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and rumination in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) (Dugas et al., 2005; Hirsch et al., 2016). To investigate this, recent studies use paradigms that modify NIB to observe changes in anxiety and depression (Hirsch & Mathews, 2012; Joormann, Waught & Gotlib, 2015; Mathews et al., 2007). To elicit NIB in experimental sessions, computerized tasks are used, in which…

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease affecting around 347 million people word wide. It splits into 2 main types; Type 1 with 10% off all cases, affecting children and adults and it sally inherited and type 2 with approximately 90% of all cases, normally caused by a high fat, high sugar diet and a lack of exercise. It is the body’s inability to either produce enough insulin in the pancreas or to respond to the insulin produces, leading to unpredictably high or low glucose levels and…