Discursive psychology

After completing this week’s assignment “Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence”, found at the online source McGraw –Hill, I received a score of 67 out of 100. From these findings it is apparent that I am already practicing some form of Emotional Intelligence (EI) behaviors. This score doesn’t indicate either an above average score nor does it represent one that is below the average. My EI score represents one that is average and could be improved on. These qualities are not perfectly outlined,…

personally wanted to play with my brother’s toys at times and I never liked wearing dresses when I was young. Even though these confessions didn’t alarm me, I felt the need for more understanding. Egan, Susan K and Perry, David G, Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, argue in their article “Gender Identity: a multidimensional analysis with implications for psychosocial adjustment” from the American Psychological Association, that gender identity is “feelings of psychological…

In CSS101 I began the process of venturing through my mind and I discovered far more about myself than I knew prior, I learned how to exercise my learning style in terms of skill development throughout the course of everyday learning. Learning across the lifespan has created a way for me to understand things in order to gain a deeper knowledge as I take the time necessary to explore a subject. Learning new ways to inform myself through acknowledging and understanding the best order to process…

Slater, in her book “Opening Skinner’s Box,” explains the experiment done by Stanley Milgram. He had attempted to weed out obedience from the people in his experiments. His findings, although not equation-worthy, changed how people looked at social psychology. Some say the acts done in those simple rooms were horrific, but there was no doubt that they…

Loss and grief can turn to madness if you let yourself explore your thoughts. One can become insane just by thinking about a once gloomy past. The terrors from before can haunt and make you see things which were not there last. Imagination starts to work and you’ve dug your hopes real fast. That’s exactly what this grieving narrator of “The Raven” had to bore. This was through the unexpected loss of his beloved Lenore. The narrator of “The Raven,” creates this frightening yet sophisticated bird,…

The Lord Of the Flies is a novel by William Golding depicting the struggle of school boys living on an abandoned island. When they first crash onto the island, order is ensured; however, as the months wear on, their nature and psyches become more animalistic and regress drastically from their former purity. This darker, more “realistic... Coral Island “ (Cox) is twisted so the true natures of humans come out and stay for perusal. Golding uses the symbolic nature of atavism and evolution through…

The human memory is an inaccurate storage of our lives, memories are often revised, cut out, or replaced. Jim’s experience with incorrectly recalling the day his parents won the lottery can be due to many different ways the brain forgets information. Jim may know that his parents won the lottery but not have enough paid attention to the specific details of the day. This occurs often with exciting events, you focus so much on what is happening we do not remember particular details. This…

developing discipline, cultural psychology parades unsolidified characteristics and boundaries. The newness of the field presents certain challenges among researchers when attempting to clearly define the concepts, principles and practices within the field of study. As such, the theoretical approaches employed by cultural psychologist are abundant, and so too are the corresponding methodologies used to conduct research. According to Ratner (2008), “…cultural psychology consists of diverse…

Suicide in the Military Suicide in the Military will impact me as a military social worker because “over 8000 military veterans die by suicide every year; that’s nearly 22 suicides every day” (Castro & Kintzle, 2014) it is such a prevalent and high topic area in the military just the impact of PTSD being a marker for suicide has a huge prevalence on social workers. Those with low resilience and lack of support combined with PTSD have more significant chance of trying to commit suicide, as stated…

It has been said, and proven, that humans are social creatures. One’s humanity relies on companionship. The monster, in Frankenstein, shows that he has a need for companionship, even if he doesn’t receive it. He says: “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.” This quote not only displays the monster’s rejection from society but also his need for companionship, from any being. However, the monster was never…