changes across their life span. It is important to study psychological development to understand how and why people go through certain changes throughout their life. There are many different areas of psychological development. Two main areas are perceptual development and emotional development. They both have theories that can be related‚ but before you can understand the relations‚ you must first understand the two theories. The theory of perceptual development was created by an American Psychologist
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Trauma Theory Psychological trauma can have an everlasting effect on a person’s life. According to Armsworth and Holaday (1993)‚ Psychological trauma occurs when an individual is exposed to an overwhelming event that renders him or her helpless in the face of intolerable danger‚ anxiety‚ and instinctual arousal (p. 49). Anyone no matter what age‚ can experience a traumatic event. However‚ children are the ones mostly affected by a traumatic event. Trauma regardless if it is sexual abuse‚ physical
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MOODULE 2: THEORIES OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING THE BEHAVIOURIST THEORY OF COUNSELLING Introduction to Theories A theory can be defined as a systematic way of explaining a fact or an event. It refers to procedure that has been put forward empirically tested that explains a situation as a phenomena. Importance of Theory in Counselling Theories help a counselor to; • Explain the existence of a behaviour by understand if how it’s conceptualized‚ perpetuated and its manifestations
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MAJOR PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis is a comprehensive theory about human nature‚ motivation‚ behavior‚ development and experience. And it is a method of treatment for psychological problems and difficulties in living a successful life. As a general theory of individual human behavior and experience‚ psychoanalytic ideas enrich and are enriched by the study of the biological and social sciences‚ group behavior‚ history‚ philosophy‚ art‚ and literature. As a developmental
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Psychological Egoism Psychological egoism‚ as a doctrine‚ refers to the notion and ideology that people tend to act and behave in ways that are purposed to fulfill their needs and wishes (Fiester‚ 2012). Generally‚ this point of view endeavors to highlight that most‚ if not all‚ human actions are actuated by rather self-motivated desires that are not easily noticeable. As such‚ it is unequivocal to expound that the proponents of psychological egoism do not advocate or advance for the fact that some
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Introduction This study focuses on motivation on why people attend and participate in sporting events; the researcher will be reviewing it based on Psychological disciplinary theories. Sport tourism could be defined as’ leisure based travel that takes individuals temporarily outside of their home communities to participate in physical activities‚ to watch‚ or to venerate attractions associated with physical activities according to Gibson‚ (2006). Individuals seek to travel to either participate
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Behaviourism Psychological Theories Operant Conditioning Operant Conditioning is a type of learning which is modified due to the consequences of something that happens. This learning theory is based around a theory created by Skinner. Skinner invented a chamber where he kept pigeons and rats. In order for his theory to be successful the animals had to perform simple responses‚ Skinner recorded their responses by a graph monitor‚ the details that he recorded were how many times they responded correctly
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Throughout all of Dutton’s theories and tendencies‚ he puts forward the argument that society as a whole is more psychopathic than ever: “after all‚ psychopaths tend to be fearless‚ confident‚ charming‚ ruthless‚ and focused―qualities that are tailor-made for success in the twenty-first century.” Dutton’s main theory or finding was the fact that although there are already a lot of diagnosed psychopaths in this world‚ the percentage is rising everyday. It has gone from 2%-78% in the past 20 years
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Theories of Sleep The ’Restoration Theory’ is a psychological approach to sleep which claims that we need to sleep in order for our brain to restore energy resources depleted from biological processes throughout the day and remove any useless waste from the muscles. Oswald’s research in 1966 proposed that the brain and the body are restored through different stages of sleep‚ the former being restored during rapid eye movement sleep and the latter during slow-wave sleep‚ part of non-rapid eye movement
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Psychological Theories of Delinquent Causation Psychological Theories of Delinquent Causation Juvenile Justice Melissa Skinner Carl Sandburg College February 18‚ 2013 Psychological Theories of Delinquent Causation In choosing theories of causation to get a better understanding of why delinquent behavior occurs‚ one should approach the psychological theories. Within the psychological theories‚ are two theories we will to further explore. The first is the psychoanalytic theory
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