The Continuum

Poverty and homelessness are two very distinctive concepts that greatly affect society in multiple ways. More than 45 million people in the United States live below the poverty line and because of this most are often left struggling to make means meet. Did you know that minimum wage is not enough to afford the costs of daily living in any county throughout America? There is an ongoing issue dealing with poverty and many are too pervasive to realize it’s a serious problem at hand. Often times…

to see the ‘bigger picture’ (Benners etal, 1996). Finally, cognitive continuum model of decision-making represents a spectrum in which intuition decisions are at one end, while information process is at other end (Aston et al, 2010). This theory suggests that the major determinant of whether practitioners use a rational or intuitive approach to decision-making are primarily determined on how decision-making task on a continuum positioned. The appropriate cognitive mode to use for the task…

Cultural and Contextual Literacy In psychology, there are many personality theories, but the four most important ones includes psychoanalytic, humanistic, social cognitive, and behavioral. These four theories can be placed on a nature v. nurture continuum that will determine if a person is born with it or develops it over time due to the environment. There are many psychological disorders such as anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobias, etc. It is known that Schizophrenia is the worst one of…

One strength includes that HAPA is not exclusively a stage model or exclusively a continuum model. Continuum models of health behavior change are often criticized for what is known as the intention-behavior gap (Schwarzer & Luszczynska, 2008). Such models place people along a continuum in regards to readiness for action and these models assume that a person’s action-behavior is a result of their intention to perform that behavior (Schwarzer…

better than the other, individualism is definitely superior to collectivism. One reason individualism is better than collectivism is people have more freedom than someone of the same age and gender in a group. According to the article “PART III — Continuum of Individualistic and Collectivistic Values”, in individualism, “The ideal is for all people to be able to freely make their own decisions.” This is important because they can make decisions that are best for themselves and form ideas…

Being individualized to the extent that shame resilience is could potentially add to the benefit of becoming familiar with the workings of the theory in order to apply it to other life aspects, as mentioned above. By identifying the ends of the continuum – main concerns to components of shame resilience – the experience of shame can be transformed into the experience of empathy, which helps the individual as well…

of Crime and Justice, 2002) The traditional components of a modern correctional system include imprisonment, probation and parole. Interchangeably referred to as a ‘’continuum of correctional sanctions’’ and ‘’corrections continuum’’ as imposed by criminologists Norval Morris and Michael Tonry (1990). In their opinion, this continuum showed a spectrum where probation is the least restrictive form of punishment whereas incarceration is the most restrictive source of punishment. They also…

A Study of Neuroticism in Psychological Literature Every individual’s personality is composed of a variety of different traits each of different strengths. Neuroticism is one such trait that encompasses a large portion of my personality. Neuroticism as a personality trait can generally be defined as emotionality. Two perspectives of psychology will be mentioned in this essay regarding the trait of neuroticism: The biological perspective and the trait perspective. The goal of this paper is to…

According to Barkley (1997), the satisfactory development of inhibition is necessary for normal functioning in the following neuropsychological abilities: working memory, internalization of speech, self-regulation of affect—motivation—arousal, reconstitution, and motor control—fluency—syntax. As I understood it, the first four of these are are involved in self-regulation, and self-regulation gives rise to the direction and persistence of behavior towards future-oriented goals and the ability to…

Introduction. Motivation is an underlying factor in every aspect of an individual’s life. One aspect that is of interest to researchers is motivation’s involvement in romantic relationships. In a study conducted by Blais, Sabourin, Boucher, and Vallerand (1990), the concept of self-determination theory and a newly constructed motivational model approach were examined to determine couples’ relationship satisfaction. The basic assumption of the researchers was that motivation in relationships…