Psychology

social psychology as emphasized by Emma Higgins is strangely so me. I have utterly been educated and reevaluated myself through Emma Higgins’s The Social Psychology of Ferguson. As accentuated by Higgins, “Let’s first look at some of the ways prejudices are perpetuated and affect our behavior.” A common misinterpretation in situations that we claim to find bias upon such as the events that Higgins address in the case of Ferguson, MO. Nonetheless, the social diagnoses of social psychology that…

Dante, Christianity, and Modern Psychology Dante, while writing about Hell, is wrestling with inner struggles that are testing him psychologically. He writes from the standpoint of an exiled Guelph who cannot return to his home in Florence by the consequence of execution. In Dante’s Inferno, his characters featured in Hell are among a community of which he is familiar in mind and by association. Here I examine Dante’s reasoning behind crime and punishment, in association with the behaviors…

has been the focus of many social psychology studies. It is a difficult to study and standardize because of the subjective nature of the phenomenon and the vast amount of factors which can affect it. Jessica Tracy and Alec Beall attempt to narrow down attraction in terms of gender-specific priorities of emotional expressions in the peer-reviewed article, Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction, published in 2011 in the psychology journal, Emotion. In 2008,…

Why is Psychology Hard? (Newer version) By Fox Rice Psychology can be very difficult to learn about whether people realize it or not. Mainly because the topics that are related to psychology can be broad and also relate to concepts that are both biological and social. In order for us to understand this subject, we must gain knowledge on it and the best way to do that is studying. There are a variety of ways that a person can study and some people have the same study habits. However, most study…

lab. Even though it was hectic sometimes, but I am still very happy because gaining more knowledge of something that really interests me will never bore me. I also think that my decision to choose social psychology lab is really a good idea because social psychology is really an area of psychology that I am really interested in and want to learn more about it. Plus, this lab really suits me because I am really interested in learning more about stereotype and…

In social psychology, prejudice is defined as an attitude toward a person on the basis of his or her group membership. Prejudice evolved in humans because at one time it helped us avoid real danger. A brain structure called the amygdala is a region every human has in the brain that helps the body determine emotions based on fear and aggression. This also helps out body decide what to do next, such as run or fight, without truly thinking of the outcomes. Joshua Correll at the University of…

Cognitive behavioral psychology is how we think, act, feel, and interact with one another. Cognitive behavior is shown in the movie Inside Out through the A.B.C technique. A (Activating Event), B (Belief), and C (Consequence). The first showing of this is at the very beginning of the movie when Riley’s dad tried to feed her broccoli, which was the initial action, her belief was that the broccoli would not taste good, and as a consequence she rejects the broccoli and throws a fit. This behavior…

necessary for personal growth. It has been fourteen years since I first became interested in Counseling Psychology. I started my undergraduate degree in Psychology immediately…

Both, the Contributions of Study Skills to Academic Competence (Gettinger & Seibert, 2002) article and Experience Psychology (King, 2016) textbook explain ways which to make studying more effective surrounding the use of memory. While the article is centered mainly around how different types of students carry out their study habits, there is an explanation for the article’s statement on ‘Who studies How’ and reasoning behind the actions described in the textbook. As an individual who seeks to…

Cognitive psychology utilises computer metaphors to explain human mental processes, and provides a model in order to investigate and predict human mental functions (Pennington et al., 2003). These cognitive models attempt to explain the interior human information process (McLeod, 2015) and can be separated in 3 different interlinking areas that investigate and develop theories. Included in this list is human experimental psychology which investigates and develops theories…