Psychology

A subjective sensation of one sense being stimulated by another, synaesthesia is a non-debilitating perceptual disorder, which means literally joined sensation. Derived from the Greek words “syn” meaning join and…

The meaning of colour is very complex to describe. When people try to describe a colour, they usually link it with something of that colour and give an example to…

Each approach is based on certain assumptions about human nature and focuses on explaining a particular part of human experience. The cognitive approach was developed as a reaction against behaviourism…

Attention is the ability to focus on particular environmental features (Cardwell, 1996). Attention improves thinking procedures, through the process of concentration. The effort involved in maintaining concentration can be incredibly…

The information processing speed concerned with lots of external and internal factors. In this discussion, processing speed’s relation with age was examined in the contrast between young group (mean age…

Learning is concerned not so much with what learners do but what they know and how they come to acquire it. C. The learner Is viewed as a very active…

Attention is “the act of concentration on any one of a set of any subjects or thoughts”. (Collins dictionary). Selective attention is “the process by which a person can selectively…

The frontal lobes are considered out emotional control centre and home to out personality. There is no other part of the brain where lesions can cause such a wide variety…

The authors wanted to examine, through causal and noncausal events, if perception of cause and effect develops over time or is part of our innate endownment. They set about doing…

Define learning, and identify two forms of learning.Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism’s behavior due to experience. In associative learning, we learn to associate, we learn to…

This piece of writing will firstly draw upon two computational theories of visual perception and a number of neuropsychological studies in an attempt to evaluate the view that recognition is…

What are some things people can do to maximize or improve their memoryPay attention, create associations, a picture is worth a thousand words, practice makes perfect, use multiple senses, reduce…

Operant ConditioningLinks voluntary behaviors with consequences in an effort to alter the frequency of those behaviors.Operant Conditioning ChartPositive ReinforcersIncrease a behavior by adding a positive consequence or incentive following desired…

In a report of their findings published in Psychological Medicine, professor of psychiatry H. Pope and his co-authors concluded that the absence of repressed memories in any published works prior…

The question of whether media causes violence has attracted a lot of attention and has been much researched. It is however an exceptionally difficult theory to test as it is…

Prejudice, discrimination and stereotyping have been topics of interest for countless social psychologists for a while now. Many psychologists have theorized about the cause and nature of such behaviour, yet…

In the world today it is obvious that people to not like being alone. From a very young age, school children demonstrate the need to be in the company of…

Tebartz van Elst, Woermann, Leemiex, Thompsam, and Trimble (2000) suggest aggressive and violent or antisocial behaviours are ‘phenomenological and probably neurobiological heterogeneous’. Substantial research emphasizes two types of aggression; predatory…

Until the late 1960’s it was still the largely subscribed view that children’s language acquisition was, on the main part, innate and occurred independently from the social context and surroundings…

depressive disorder (bipolar)depression or mania becomes so severe it interferes with daily functioningmajor depressive episodeperson experiences sad or empty moods most of the day,nearly everyday; involves a period of time,…