Discursive psychology

Many people have the idea that during WW1 Nazis killed and tortured many Jews freely and even willingly. What Milgram is doing in his experiment is trying to figure out how easily people follow orders, orders that could harm and potentially kill someone. Milgram got participants through a newspaper article, and paying them $450 to complete the experiment (random sampling). The experiment was carried out in a lab at Yale, causing ecological validity to be good, as it 's a very trustworthy…

themselves. The researchers in Introducing Psychology (3rd ed.), Schacter, D. L., Gilbert, D. T., Wegner, D. M., & Nock M.K. (2015), discuss how six different perspectives in psychology can portray a behavior from a different angle. The behavior, love, will be explained among the six different perspectives. Looking at love from six different perspectives in psychology will provide researchers a broad understanding for the behavior. The first perspective in psychology is psychoanalytic…

With new drugs and substances being produced every year, Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is becoming more common in our society every day. SUD is a common comorbidity with many mental health disorders, which can, in turn, make the management of SUD challenging, however still treatable. Because of this, it is not uncommon for a mental health clinician to use multiple techniques during a consumer’s treatment to limit or cease the use of substances altogether (Jones, Barrowclough, Allott, Day,…

What is loneliness? According to the dictionary, the definition of loneliness is sadness due to having no friends or company or being in isolation. Loneliness is a complicated emotion; everyone is a little afraid of loneliness and everyone feels it. It is an emotion that everyone experiences during their life. A person can feel lonely if he/she is alone or in a crowded room. However, the dictionary definition of loneliness is partially correct. Feeling lonely is not the same as being alone.…

the art and the cultural aspect behind different types of music that we experience in everyday life. Interviewed on Steve Menche podcast, “Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes them Weep?” Professor David Huron talks about how his research in psychology helps him relate to the study of humanities, which could be connected to the understanding of how music affects the human mind. With this idea,…

Students can be actively and consistently engaged throughout a lesson; the key to this is selecting activities that will allow for them to be so engaged (Smith, 2013). Sessions that started with the Inquiry Approach allowed for effective questioning which in turn encouraged discussion among the students and with the teacher. The Inquiry Approach caused students to think about the subject matter and pursue their own line of questioning in the form of a Class Discussion. In constructivist…

Early Perspectives of Psychology Question 1: Compare and contrast two early perspectives of psychology. Be sure to include comparisons of founders, methods, and philosophers. Have you ever wondered why people do the things they do, or why people behave the in certain ways? Have you ever thought about how people process information to reach specific results? For hundreds of years, medical doctors, physiologists, and philosophers have always speculated and contemplated the psychological aspects…

Cognition can be defined as “the mental processes of perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, judging and reasoning” (44). Thus, the meaning of classic cognitive behaviour therapy refers to the practice of integrating theory and research on conscious processes. In other words, cognitive behaviour therapy refers to the direct manipulation of an individual’s conspicuous and inconspicuous behaviour with feelings and thoughts are interpreted as internal or covert behaviours. Namely, the…

a. Evaluate your personal and professional risk. Are you in danger of losing your job? Will your career path be affected? Will you strain interpersonal relationships at work? As a social worker at a neighborhood center I have a strong desire and an ethical reasonability to act ethically in all aspects of my work. So when I become aware that the executive director is possibly engaging in unethical and illegal things to keep the neighborhood center going, I feel that it is my responsibly to…

Specific health behaviours have been identified to be positively associated with heath such as eating a healthy diet and maintaining a healthy body weight, exercising regularly, and some have been identified to be health risk behaviours e.g. smoking and drinking excessively (Housman and Dorman, 2005). Health behaviour models examine why people participate in health behaviours. Odgen (2004) separates health behaviour models into two groups: 1. Social cognition models, which describe social…