Case study in psychology

researching whether what the bible says must be the only way of raising a child. The exact question is “Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?”, this causes the researcher to participate in a longitudinal study. The case study was done in the case of children who have been adopted. The study involved waves of checking on children in either the mother and father relationship and children in a Lesbian Gay family. There were two waves, first when the child was in preschool and then when they…

differences, to the academic journal, “Social anxiety disorder: Recent developments in psychological approaches to conceptualization and treatment’’ by Lisa Anne Lampe. Both articles focus on the definition and treatment of social anxiety disorder. Psychology Today’s article, “Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia),” relays information on social anxiety disorder, or social phobia, and the treatments given to subside it. The article gives a singular view on social anxiety, as it is characterized…

human, whether nature (i.e. genetic influence) or nurture (i.e., acquired learning or environmental factors). The debate allows psychologists to study various aspects of human development which include intelligence, personality, and mental illness. However, different field of psychology often takes one side of the approach. For example, biological psychology tends to flavor the nature factors since they are studying about genetics and the on influences. On the other hands, behaviorism would…

To begin, Greene’s study entitled “Integrative moral judgment: dissociating the roles of the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex” and the hypothesis claimed that the amygdala enables automatic emotional responses while the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is responsible for an all things considered response, also known as the rational response. This experiment operated in this manner, participants underwent a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan while responding to 48 “trolley”-type…

One of my best friends in high school wanted to major in psychology and I often mocked him and poked fun at the idea that psychology was a real study and something to be taken seriously. Only after taking this psychology course, which I am forced to do in order to in order to pursue nursing, I have come to realize how little I even knew about the subject. I have judged people for enjoying the study and even worse, I have not taken seriously mental illnesses that affect some of the dearest…

Researchers are tasked with choosing the most relevant method to study a particular phenomenon. In the planning stages of a study, the researcher must decide whether to collect data that is quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods. Quantitative research is defined by Creswell (2014) as “a means for testing objective theories by examining the relationship among variables” (p. 247). Quantitative data is typically collected in numerical form and analyzed using statistical analysis. Furthermore,…

are based on more than just facts. They are likely to be influenced by race, even though they don’t really notice that. The author firstly puts forward some public’s controversy about this kind of unfairness. The whole article is based on a study, in this study, we can see the jury bias does exist. Since we notice that situation, we need to try our best to improve racism through effective ways. When writing this article, the author takes many risks. A writer that takes a risk, is a writer that…

in the outcome of a Case. We all know that in certain cases a jury’s decision is needed and can lead to someone being not guilty or guilty. A jury is made up of 12 random strangers that are chosen to agree with each other and make a verdict to case they a specifically assigned to. It’s the lawyers on both sides to persuade a jury to ultimately win the case. Whether its clean cut evidence or a an excellent lawyer the decision of a jury weighs heavily on the case. I’ve seen cases when the jury had…

Positive psychology is a branch of psychology intended to complement and enhance the other theories of psychology in discovering what drives and motivates us as human beings. It is an evidence-based perspective that focuses on the strengths of an individual, therefore making it a useful model for social workers, as their practice should be a strengths-based approach. Positive psychology is a relatively new theory, which emerged as a reaction to the continual focus of research on the negative…

For this assignment, I will be doing the case study on myself. I, Sara, am a freshman at MSUM majoring in Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education. The content area I am choosing to focus on is psychology, specifically my grand round assignment. For this assignment we are expected to create a profile of a person who has an issue of some sort. We are then to relate the psychology theories to this person and explain how they fit into each. Prior Understandings My learning strengths…