Gestalt psychology

Throughout the course of the semester we took various reports dealing with personality. Each report brought more and more insight to specific personality traits. However, when looking at reliability and validity, information gathered was either valid or invalid. These reports each played a significant part in coming closer into terms with my personality traits. Basing these reports off of myself helped me understand whether the reports were accurate or not. Tests such as the general…

Writing Life This sucks! That is what I would have said a couple of years ago. Writing has become more important to me in the last couple of years. When I was younger I would write here and there of just stories, but when it came to writing an assignment, I never wanted to do it. From when I was young to now I still have not written a lot. I tend to struggle to complete my own works, but when it came to school all I needed to do was research in order to write what I thought was a good paper. I…

In one TheHoustonChronicle.com article, titled Importance of Cognitive Skills in HR, author Ruth Mayhew discusses the abilities, skills, and attributes needed for individuals who are in the human resource field. Mayhew (2015) believes that there are several key skills/attributes that are important determinants for how successful an individual will be in the field of human resources and employee management. Several of the abilities Mayhew (2015) discusses are written and verbal communication,…

I remember the first time I read a book. I was perched alongside my mom listening to her read book after book, hanging on to every word. I picked up the last book off the pile and began flipping through the pages. The letters suddenly began to form words. The words began to form sentences. The sentences created a picture. The pictures came together to create a new world. And it clicked. I was reading. They weren’t just jumbled up symbols anymore; they were thoughts, feelings, and actions. I…

This study was about the role of parenting styles in the development behaviour problems focusing primarily on how parents handle conflict once it has occurred. It was an observational study that took place at home with 52 mothers. The study examined strategies to prevent conflict with three year olds. “It was predicted that mothers of children with behaviour problems would use fewer ‘‘positive’’ strategies to resolve conflict, and would use reactive rather than pre-emptive strategies (F. E. M.…

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…