Discursive psychology

A Life of Strengths Sometimes, I feel as if God has blessed me more the average person. I do not say this in an arrogant tone, but rather it is truly how I view the strengths that God has provided me. I never thought about the strengths that God has placed inside me until I took the Strengths Quest test. After I completed the test and received the results, I realized how truly blessed I am to own these unique strengths. My top five strengths, according to the results, are Ideation, Input,…

Some twenty plus years ago my twin sons, in the third grade at the time, were sitting at the kitchen table one evening doing homework. Having a question about his homework, one started to ask me for help when his brother interrupted him and said, “Don’t ask Dad; ask Mom, she is smart; she went to college.” At the time, I did not pay much attention to the comment, and I gladly took the opportunity of not having to help with homework to go back to whatever it was I was doing. Today, I would…

Studying psychology at A level has allowed me to study the science of human behaviour. I feel studying psychology at degree level will increase what I know about the mechanisms of a human mind. I study both sociology and psychology at A level which I believe go hand in hand in understanding and dealing with people. Psychology allows me to learn about the scientific theories on the conditions of mentally ill patients. Studying psychology will allow me to better my communication skills and…

A mandala is circular in structure and is unique to the individual who is using the mandala on their journey. The mandala is unique to the user because the user needs to pick out one that represents them and ensure that it is visually appealing to them as a person. For my mandala the attributes mental, spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing would be in different sizes on my mandala because I feel my mental wellbeing mean more to me then my physical and spiritual and emotional wellbeing…

over time, with more and more knowledge about what memory is and how it works, psychologists have discovered how we can improve it. But to understand how to improve our memory, we must first learn how it all works. In Laura King’s The Science of Psychology (3rd edition), memory is defined as “the retention of information or experience over time.” In memory, there are three different processes that occur to hold this information: encoding, storage, and retrieval. Encoding is however the…

The Journal article reviewed this week is located in the Journal of Happiness Studies with the title, “Association between Adolescent Eudaimonic Behaviors and Emotional Competence in Young Adulthood. In this study eudaimonic is used synonymous with moral values. The purpose of this study was to evaluate two hypotheses, “1) The eudaimonic behavior in late adolescence (19-20 years old) would predict greater emotional competence in young adulthood (23-24 years old); and 2) that emotional…

Divorce is a very common occurrence in the United States, because it affects multiple children and teens throughout their everyday life. Imagine one day your parents come to talk to you and they said that they were splinting up. Just imagine all the feelings you would be feeling at that very moment. At that very moment your life has changed forever and it will never go back to the same. This happens to many teens and children on a daily basis. Children with divorced parents usually have a more…

often can stimulate strong emotions, even anger” (Wirtz, Chew, & Lovelock, 2012). However, the wait time in certain situation does not affect always affect the person in a psychologically way. The psychology of waiting time are suggestions that can help the person be less stressful when waiting. The psychology of waiting time can involve in situations like in the supermarket, waiting in a ticket line for an event that could be sold out, and waiting at the bus stop on a rainy dark evening.…

Currently I’m a student at Highline College in Des Moines Washington. I’m currently pursuing a general education AA with the intent to transfuse UW and study in the psychology program. From young age I was my father’s care taker which forced me to graduate with a GED. After his death and my own period of morning I decided that I wanted to continue to help stoke victims and their families through their struggles by being emotional and psychological support during their times of recover or even…

As the seasons change, as the leaves change, as the styles and trends change¸ something as mundane as an opinion changes. As the winds change and the earth moves, as the people grow, as the moon waxes and wanes, the number of friends you make fluctuates. The constant stability of math is being able to get even answers and graphing them, getting a set point each time. These things are more stable than people are, even when people are the inventors of such reliability. Maybe probability and…