School psychology

In the article Alcohol or Drug Use Can Rob Your Body of Nutrients, Carolyn Ross explains how supplement can help one’s body and mind. She starts off by using alcohol as an example of something that deprives the body of nutrients. It is explained that alcohol has plenty of calories, and gives multiple reasons as to why it is not good for the human body. The first steps towards better health is to nourish the body with supplements like Vitamin A, C, B, and D. Other supplements can help one’s body…

Throughout this semester, I learned a lot about myself, and I found a new passion, psychology. In high school I had the privilege to take a sociology course, and I really enjoyed it, so I was enrolling for my first semester in college and decided to take psychology 1101. This by far was one of the best decisions of my freshmen year. This class opened an entirely new world within my degree. As a Biological Sciences major, I was excited to explore different branches of biology but I never thought…

memories for longer, which may make them easier to remember in the future.” This sentence states a fact that Jackson took time to research which shows that she was serious about the argument. If she did not care, she would not have taken the time to do psychology research. Her research portrayed her overzealous knowledge and love for her argument. The main point is Jackson put her all into her argument. She gave multiple valid reasons for why she felt so strongly about her claim. She did not…

He was told in a little review school and optional school in one, with immaterial resources, yet a striking accomplishment rate. After auxiliary school, he worked for one summer filling openings on the Alaska Highway in the Yukon. (Boeree, G. C. ,2006). He got his solitary officers degree in Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1949. He proceeded to the University of Iowa, where he got his Ph.D. in…

M. (2015). Ungraded pop quizzes: Test-enhanced learning without all the anxiety. Teaching Of Psychology, 42(2), 174-178. doi:10.1177/0098628315573144 College teachers often times feel the need to give college students pop quizzes in order to force students to feel obligated to attend class regularly and keep up with the assigned readings. While this…

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it, which was given at Columbia University in 1913. Through his behaviorist approach, Watson researched on animal behavior, child rearing, and advertising. He also, conducted the controversial "Little Albert" experiment and the Kerplunk experiment. Watson became popular for the use of the…

National Association of School Psychology (NASP) standards and the International School Psychology Association (ISPA) goals, in contrast to the School Psychology program at New Jersey City University (NJCU). NASP is a professional organization that represents and supports school psychologist to support the learning and mental health of all children and youth (NASP: Standards for the Credentialing of School Psychologists, 2010, p.1). NASP was founded in 1969 to promote the work of school…

search for graduate programs in neuroscience ever began. From my youth (spent on the Caribbean isle of St. Lucia), I was captivated by the macabre, and this disquieting obsession progressed into a slightly less disturbing fascination with abnormal psychology. Many an afternoon…

I had just returned from a 4 hour flight from Texas. I was there to visit my uncle’s family. My two year old cousin was diagnosed with Autism. Raised to be a bilingual, he was able to speak both English and Urdu/Hindi by the time he was two. After talking to his parents I learned that he had demonstrated some signs of speech and language impediment. While this change alarmed his parents, everyone else thought he was craving for attention. However, over the next few months his behavior regressed.…

The word psychology is made up of by two greek words “Psyche” which is mind or the soul and “ logos” which means the study. The modern day definition of psychology is the scientific study of the mind and human behavior. Psychology is now recognized as a natural science but unlike other natural sciences such as chemistry, physics there is no one corrects theory or answer. Therefore we could state that psychology is a multi perspective science in which behavior and thinking patterns are…