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How would you classically condition an adventuresome 2-year-old to be more fearful of running across a busy street near her house?
Involves the degree to which individuals feel secure or insecure in relying on others, opening up to them, and being intimate with them What are the types of love, and how do they differ?
You have just been asked to teach the concept of adaptation to a psychology class. You decide to conduct the following experiments to teach the concept of adaptation.
Determine the positive or negative impacts of the event on your overall health (including your reaction to stressors and your ability to cope).
Describe the subfield (e.g., cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, psychoanalytic psychology, etc.) you believe is best suited for providing psychological insight into your preference (the f
Describe the significance of your study's investigation of the research problem; include a statement of the study's particular significance to the field of psychology.
For this assignment you are asked to select a disorder, describe it, and explain which therapies might be helpful to those suffering from this disorder. Your paper should be a 3-5 page double-spaced e
Why is cognitive functioning crucial to everyday existence? How does cognitive functioning enhance diversity?
After reading the "adult moral reasoning" section of your text, compose a personal response to your study of "Fowler's stages of faith." Be sure to include information from the presentations in your r
Identify one approach (e.g., common-sense, psychodynamic, humanistic, etc.) that you feel is most accurate and useful in understanding this character's personality.
Identify a theory of motivation from this week's reading that you feel best helps us to understand the change in Dave's behavior.
Organizations are human systems. As such, each member of the system brings to bear the full range of psychological and emotional behavior while also applying themselves to their work which is highly p
A description of an actual work setting of your choice and a description of the types of job stressors that you would likely find in that setting.
Rosa, who is 13, wants to spend her babysitting money on something special, but she also wants to save some of the money to buy her brother a birthday gift. She is trying to decide the best way to spe
You have probably noticed in your educational career that some people are very good at remembering facts and therefore do well at tests that require memorization. Other students, on the other hand, st
Define each of the following mental shortcuts, and explain why each may be inaccurate: (1) the availability heuristic, (2) the representativeness heuristic, (3) the anchoring and adjustment heuristic.
What is different about how we interpret verbal behavior and how we interpret nonverbal behavior? What kinds of information do we get from each? Are we equally able to control each channel? Is each ki
Compare and contrast how cognitive dissonance theory and self-perception theory would explain the Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) $1/$20 experiment
Describe the community you have chosen to write about. What are the demographics of the people who live there? What types of health services are available? If you live in a very small community, expan
Provide a brief description of the religion you have chosen including available demographics, for example, size of the group and area of the country/world where members reside.
Explain how both normative and informational social influence worked to convince Stanley Milgram's (1974) participants to deliver powerful shocks to a hapless learner. How did replications of the orig
Despite the best efforts of psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical researchers, psychological disorders appear to be as prevalent today as they ever were—if not more so. What might be the cau
what drives emotion ?How do we respond to emotion?What causes emotion ?
Psychology is a science and based on scientific methodology to establish, support, and refute psychological theories and systems. For any student, whether he or she is a psychology major or not, it is
Your consulting group has been hired by an advertising firm that is developing a series of commercials family-oriented theme park. The commercials will target family members at various life stages.