Systems psychology

Conception of human empowerment has been used across various fields such as community psychology, nursing, social work and management over the last two decades(). Traditionally, there are two theoretical perspectives when approaching empowerment: social-structural and psychological(). When presenting the social-structural perspective, you are…

cognitively equivalent. This is because the internality or externality of a mental process is not vital to the actual 'function' of a procedure or to any of its fundamental characteristics. Clark and Chalmers define extended cognition as a 'coupled system' (Andy Clarke and David Chalmers, The Extended Mind…

Do people have propositional attitudes? How does the form cognitive science should take depend on the answer to this question? “We have no idea of how to explain ourselves to ourselves except in a vocabulary which is saturated with belief/desire psychology. One is tempted to transcendental argument: What Kant said to Hume about physical objects holds, mutatis mutandis, for the propositional attitudes; we can't give them up because we don't know how to. ” (source, Fodor) Propositional attitudes…

spiritual speaker Teal Swan said “The reason we suffer from our emotion is not because of the emotion itself, but because of our resistance to that particular emotion”. There is so much truth to that sentiment because according to the Invitation to Psychology textbook, emotions are meant to “bind people together, motivate them to achieve their goals, and help them make decisions and plans” (434); however, to many, emotions are viewed as inconvenient and a form of weakness. Of the seven primary…

classification system of mental disorders can affect the study of mental illnesses because each mental disorder is categorized differently, leading patients to receive different diagnoses. Two widely enacted systems for classifying mental disorders are Chapter V of the International Classification of Disease (ICD-10) produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) produced by the American Psychiatric Association. These systems…

seen as controversial, Elizabeth Loftus is a strong leader in psychology, specifically in the field of memory. Her discoveries and experiments with false memories and eyewitness testimony have made her very prominent. She has written about her research on faulty memories, explaining the impact it can have on justice and society, as well as individuals. Loftus is most interested in the implications false memories have in the justice system. There have been many wrongful convictions due to…

Hanh Annie Vu PSYC 511 – Psychology Concepts Dr. David Perkins October 27, 2017 Mid-term exam Question 1 Since the beginning of time, philosophers and scientists have been investigating the composition of everything in the universe. While monists attempt to explain everything in terms of one reality – either physical matter or mental activity, dualists believe in the existence of both (Hergenhan & Henley, 2013). The mind-body question then came into existence to investigate the relationship…

There are several types of psychological disorder, but there is the most common type of eating disorder has in the younger generation. Most of the younger females are affected by the eating disorders. “In the psychology book, defined the eating disorder is one of the mental and nervous systems disorder category that characterized by severe disturbances in eating behavior” (1). There are two types of eating disorders; one is…

Journal Article Critique: Type D personality, stress, and symptoms of burnout: The influence of avoidance coping and social support DeAnne Owens UAB at Birmingham Introduction The objective of this article was to explore certain coping techniques termed as approach coping, avoidance coping, or observations of available social support for their role, if any, in the relationship between the Type D personality and perceived stress. The research also examined whether the distressed, also…

ages of 9 through 13. Not related to a significant event or trauma. Doctors are not sure what causes it. But they think it is related in part mental and physical, believed to be relevant to how the nervous system works and also thought to be applicable to hearing pathways of the central nervous system. This condition is still up in the air because they don’t know where to recognize it as or what to categorize it with. It has potential of moving it…