ARELLANO UNIVERSITY Pasig City College of Arts and Science Psychology Department LECTURE NOTES ON GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY (No. 1) AY I. Nature of Psychology A. Psychology - the term psychology derives from the Greek roots psyche‚ meaning “soul” or “mind‚” and logos‚ meaning “word.” Psychology is literally the study of the mind or soul and people defined it that way until the early 1900s. Around 1920‚ psychologists became disenchanted with the idea of studying the mind. First‚ research deals
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Child Abuse Throughout the years‚ child abuse has been detrimental to our society. "Statewide‚ the number of deaths attributed to abuse or neglect rose from 95 in 2005 to 170 in 2006‚ according to the annual report from the Child Abuse Death Review Committee." [Chapman] "Child abuse is causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child ’s body; and‚ any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates‚ shames‚ or frightens the child. Some child
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The Different schools of psychology Structuralism- the first school of thought headed by Wilhelm Wundt‚ a German‚ and later by E.B. Titchener started in 1879 when experimental psychology was gaining more incentive. The structuralists‚ as they called themselves‚ thought of psychology as the study of conscious experience. They started components experience. They started that all complex substances could be analyzed through their component elements. They held that elementary mental states such as sensations
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Enduring Issues in Psychology Toni Blake • Which Type of Psychotherapy Is Most Useful? • Psychotherapy should focus on unconscious traumas • Psychotherapy should focus on irrational thought processes • Psychotherapy should focus on an individual’s potential • Psychotherapy should focus on changing • What Is Personality and How Is It Measured? • Unconscious instincts motivate personality • Social feeling motivates personality • A hierarchy of needs motivates personality • Personality
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PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is derived from the Greek words Psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To Greeks‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology as the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Scientific because it uses the steps in a scientific method in its quest to understand why a person behaves in a certain manner. It is systematic and empirical and it is dependent upon measurements. Psychologists - study human issues that begin before birth and continue
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Social Health Care: Connecting Toward a Healthier Future Social technologies are affecting the way our world operates as they become more and more established and interconnected. Individuals are using Facebook‚ Twitter‚ LinkedIn‚ and a wide variety of other forms of social media to communicate‚ connect‚ and share. The way many communicate with their family‚ friends‚ employers‚ and strangers has changed as social media has as well. Individuals can have closer contacts with those who live far away
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continuously striving to employ the use of technologies to enhance the quality of human health. Technologies has affected multiple aspects of the healthcare industry. Not only that it is used to create new medicines‚ ways of diagnosing‚ and treating diseases; but it has also drastically improved the efficiency of those processes. The aim of this essay is to further elaborate the advantages of technologies on human health. Firstly‚ technologies have allowed pharmacists to come up with new medicines. According
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Emerging Trends in Pakistan Online Shopping Keeping all other factors aside‚ I’d choose online shopping just to avoid the pain of having to visit shop after shop to find a decent item of clothing. Such is the case with hundreds of thousands of Pakistani’s who are shifting to the convenience of e-purchases over the traditional 4 odd hour shopping marathon. And then there is the variety‚ free home delivery‚ price comparisons‚ privacy‚ comfort and whatnot. In a nutshell‚ online shopping is the
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Ways That The Environment Affects Human Health? Air Pollution Air pollution is one obvious environmental health threat in OECD countries‚ contributing to a number of illnesses‚ such as asthma and in some cases leading to premature death. Of particular concern is the fact that children are more vulnerable to air pollution than adults‚ and increased rates of infant mortality have been recorded in highly polluted areas. Concerns about the impact of air pollution on health and the economy have resulted
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The University of the West Indies Open Campus Caribbean Civilisation Foun1101 Think Piece: Liar King Kellyander Morris #620049710 June 12th 2015 The Caribbean is beautiful place‚ with distinct culture‚ filled with many talented singers and songwriters.The song King liar was written and song by one of fellow “caribbeanites” Lord Nelson(aka Robert Nelson). He was born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago but seeked fame in the United States of America and found it in his own backyard as a calypso artist
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