Psychology

Quantitative methods used in the field of educational psychology as a design in analyzing data collections in a systematic process to describe and test relationships, as well as, examine the cause and effect of the relationship. Throughout the literature review process, most articles using quantitative research study conducted quasi-experimental research, correlational research, survey research, and evaluation research. Researchers conducting correlational designs in educational research used…

Psychology has many fields and careers in which you could be able to choose from. However, when most people think of psychology the first career to come to mind is therapy. Even in that field, there are more sub-careers in which people divulge in. The most common of them being counseling, where relatively healthy people go and need help coping with a crisis they are currently going through. The career that this paper will focus on is psychotherapy. In order to become a licensed therapist, you…

advanced placement psychology class. That whim triggered something inside me. A passion, a need, a drive to want to help people with crippling mental illnesses, and this feeling hasn’t slowed down even after the class concluded. The psychology class in it’s entirety gave me the extra push I needed to ask myself if I wanted to pursue the fascinating world of psychology, but what really pushed me over the edge was the, almost too short, few weeks where we discussed abnormal psychology and the…

What is Abnormal Psychology? For the first subject of this assignment I interviewed Mr. Ray, our handy-man. Mr. Ray is approximately forty-five years old and has never been to college. He recently visited my home to fix a kitchen leak. I took this opportunity to ask him a few questions. I asked, “What do you initially think of when you hear someone is abnormal psychologically?” He looked surprised. “Well, I don’t think I have ever answered such a question before,” he chuckled. “When I hear…

client-centered approach to psychology (Hall, 1997). This paper look into the life, works, and beliefs of Carl Rogers. Rogers was born on January 8, 1902, in Oak Park, Illinois. One of six children born into the family of a contractor/engineer and his wife, he characterized his childhood environment as “anti-intellectual” and dominated by a religiosity of the fundamentalist type. Raised on a farm from the…

When looking at an individual and deciphering if he/she can be classified as a gifted person, there are several criteria that one needs to take into consideration. For identification purposes, educators and other professionals no longer solely look at one’s fixed intelligence but other aspects that when stimulated and nurtured can grow a person’s talents whether cognitive, intuitive/creative, or motor/sensory expressions. “Growth of intelligence depends on the interaction between our…

Cognitive psychology is a study of mental processes. This type of study is based on how people think, perceive, remember, and learn. The internal processes of cognitive psychology are attention, language, perception and memory. It also focuses on how people store and process information. Cognitive refers to knowing, which is how we understand and process the mind of a human being. Psychologists study the information that is in a person’s mind and calls that the stimuli. They study how the…

I have been diagnosed and counseled by psychologists when I was younger. My first psychologist that I visited was very distant and cold. His office felt too clinical and suffocating. The entire process was very overwhelming and terrifying. I did not feel safe or eager to open up to an adult stranger. I wanted to bury this experience deep inside my memory. But, now that I am looking for a career, this buried memory keeps arising. I realize that this bad experience inspires me to become a…

Psychology is the study of behavior and, embracing all aspects of human experience. Psychology is a science that works toward understanding an individual or group’s mindset. Learning the different aspects in psychology can help one to understand why an organism functions the way it does. Some of these aspects include human development, social behavior, health, and etc. Psychology relates to my everyday life because it involves negative reinforcement/negative punishment,…

Summary Mark McMinn the author of “Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling” goes into great depth in explaining the integration of psychology, theology, and spirituality in counseling. McMinn first published his book in 1996 and since then he has updated and revised it in 2011 with reliable information that can be used by the counselor (McMinn, 2011). McMinn starts in the first chapter stating, “this is a book for those wanting to investigate the frontier of…