School psychology

Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt is best known for being the father of experimental psychology and the founder of the first psychology laboratory. Wundt had a huge influence on the development of psychology as a discipline. Wundt was known to be a shy person but he dominated his areas of psychology. His scope was vast and his accomplishments outstanding. It is estimated that during his career he wrote around 53,000 pages. Some of his work includes articles on animal and human physiology, poisons,…

In my school career, I have met multiple sublime teachers. My math teacher of the eighth grade is who impacted me the most. She was a young lady with a passion for education. She was willing to review content that was not understood by the students during her lunch break or after school. She prepared lessons that were easily comprehensible. I admire her devotion to teaching young students for a living. By recognizing her effects, I decide I wanted to become a teacher. Education is an important…

Behavioral psychology is an interesting field, because it looks for the reasons why we act the ways we do. In this area of study are notable figures such as B.F Skinner, John Watson, and Ian Pavlov. Those figures alone, made grand advances in studying what controls our behavior, as well as methods of shaping – or reshaping – behavior through reinforcement. Behaviorism was influenced by previous schools of psychology including positivism, functionalism, and the evolutionary ideas of Darwin. With…

themselves. The researchers in Introducing Psychology (3rd ed.), Schacter, D. L., Gilbert, D. T., Wegner, D. M., & Nock M.K. (2015), discuss how six different perspectives in psychology can portray a behavior from a different angle. The behavior, love, will be explained among the six different perspectives. Looking at love from six different perspectives in psychology will provide researchers a broad understanding for the behavior. The first perspective in psychology is psychoanalytic…

evolutionary psychology, human behavioral psychology and cultural evolution. All these theories present an intersection of psychology, biology and anthropology respectively. Human behavior has been reflected differently by these three theories as human behavioral psychology projects that human behavior is a reflection of optimum capability of individuals, whereas evolutionary psychology reveals that there is a clear mismatch…

In modern societies, psychology is considered as the science of the mind or of the mental states and process. On the one hand, most psychologist agree with the fact that psychology is a real science and the research behind this discipline can be fully reliable using the appropriate scientific method. On the other hand, some people believe that psychology cannot be defined as a science because feelings, mental states and behaviours are not always defined with scientific evidences. It is my belief…

Psychology of Faith . Psychology, the study of mind and behavior (Merrian-Webster, 2011). Faith is the innate drive to search for meaning, purpose and significance (Popcak, 2014). “Faith I is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11: 1, Kings James Version). Will the field of psychology, with its secular beginnings, incorporate into its echelon of studies such a virtuous and what some consider to be a spiritual ideology like faith? The opposite of bad is…

Allyce Braddy, Marist College, Psychology Department. Abstract Study of human behavior has been fiercely debated and reviewed for centuries dating back to Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle. Behavioral Psychology flourished during the 1920’s as a leading theory of learning established upon the idea that all human behaviors develop through some sort of conditioning, lead by both positive and negative reinforcements. Behaviorism refers to the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson…

contributions to the world of social science, especially in the field of psychology. Prior to becoming a social scientist, Karen attended The University of Freiburg where she studied medicine. While attending university, Karen suffered the loss of both her parents which led her to meet with a psychoanalyst for therapy. It was during her treatment that she became interested in pursuing her education and career in psychology. She then went on to study at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute under…

Psychology is the basic scientific study of the human mind and how it adapts and functions, especially those affecting behaviorism. The mental characteristics of an individual and or group and how they adapt, act and or function within society are what has also helped define psychology. Psychology has many different areas, such as life span development. Life span development, a study of the entire life span, is the primary focus of developmental psychology. It allows us to study the different…