Cognitive psychology

There is no doubt that reading about the theories of child cognitive development made me highlight certain characteristics and principles to consider when dealing with children. It definitely helped me to enhance and focus on certain aspects while teaching them. I teach children of age ranging from three to six years old. At this age, in the school, the children like to play and explore everything around them, it seems like they are playing with everything. When they are washing their hands…

Background Information: Destiny is an eighteen-year-old female who is a senior in high school. She is a very intelligent girl as she is on the B honor roll at her school currently. One of the many things she enjoys doing outside of school is spending time outdoors. Anything that has to do with the outdoors can be considered a favorite activity of hers. For example, hunting, fishing, and riding a four-wheeler are some of her favorite activities to do while outside. The activites she takes…

cervix abnormalities, mother's health condition during the pregnancy, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and bad habits. It is important to know that the low birth weight could cause troubles for the cognitive development of an infant later in life. To comprehend how the LBW is affecting cognitive development of children, five various articles regarding LBW were chosen for the literature review and analysis. Articles were dedicated to numerous studies in order to retrace an intellectual…

Psychology is significant to the world around us and it involves around everyone’s life. Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes (Ciccarcelli & White, 2013). There are subfield that are included in psychology and they are Developmental, Social, Educational, Clinical psychology and many more. There are theories behind these subfields and how they are used in everyday life. The knowledge of these subfield can develop our social beings. Subfield of psychology has…

Cognitive Ability and Prejudice Contrasts that foresee prejudice has intrigued social and personality psychologist since Allport 's time and research has set up the relationship between an assortment of individual differences and prejudice. One example of individual difference would be (low) cognitive ability. With the new theoretical models being developed, they help to account for social and psychological factors that merge its association with prejudice. “These theoretical perspectives…

Developed by psychologists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, humanistic psychology emphasizes human potential and takes a more positive view of the human nature. During the mid-1900s, an individual with an anger disorder would attend therapy sessions with a psychoanalyst. Instead of asking questions about the patient’s past…

In cognitive therapy, the therapist helps the client to understand and change how they view about the trauma and its after effect. A soldier may feel terrible about the killings during the war, by talking about the past events one after the other, the therapist…

I have of my fondness for psychology is sitting in my mother’s office, scanning a bookshelf filled with psychology books to find a book with a friendly title. As I was only around nine or ten years old, a friendly title to me was anything that I could reasonably understand, but slowly that changed, and I began choosing the books that interested me. In fact, because my mother was a psychologist, I was able to have long conversations with her about interesting psychology topics, and I would always…

Psychology is the study of the behavior and mind of all living organisms. Perspectives are made in psychology in order for us to be able to have a better understanding of human behavior. These “theories” help contribute to studying how people think, feel, and behave. Three of the main perspectives include behaviorism, which is the study of people’s behavior, humanistic, which is the study of the potential good in everyone, and cognitive, the study of mental processes. Behaviorism is one of the…

medication it’s not what I’m used to. The second most effective and common method of Psychological Treatment is Psychotherapy. Specifically, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy which is when you talk to a therapist or psychiatrist, depending on your disorder and learn specific skills used to overcome problems that are psychically and emotionally affecting you. Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors, which is beneficial to us because we can learn to…