Introductory Psychology Study

Even though the learning theory of attachment provides an adequate explanation of attachment it is flawed. Research evidence,

School psychology is defined as the application and use of psychological principles, techniques and theories in the realm of childhood education. Its knowledge base being drawn from fields in its career family, to include clinical and educational psychology, school psychology keys in on the study of individual students’ learning capabilities and adjustment on an educational platform. With origins intimately related to those of special education, school psychology addresses the needs of typical children that attend typical schools. Practicing in this area of study would involve a wide spectrum of duties, to include the development and implementation of psychoeducational tests and special

“It takes a village to raise a child.” I never quite understood that saying when I was growing up, but my experiences teaching and working in school settings have showed me how true it really is. Obtaining a degree in school psychology will allow me to give the support that students, families and educators need to ensure that every student will thrive.

In Psychology 101, you learn about a personal fable; something that I have not lost. I have always wanted to change the world that I was destined for greatness and teaching elementary school students gives me that power. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

An intelligence test for which the scores are normally distributed has a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Use this information to describe how the scores are distributed.

Name: ___________________________________ Date: ______________ ____ 1. Low birth weight is a known risk factor for A) antisocial personality disorder. B) dissociative identity disorder. C) major depressive disorder. D) obsessive-compulsive disorder. E) schizophrenia. 2. A lack of conscience is most characteristic of those who have a(n) ________ disorder. A) dissociative B) antisocial personality C) dysthymic D) generalized anxiety E) obsessive-compulsive 3. A World Health Organization study of 20 countries estimated that ________ had the highest prevalence of mental disorders during the prior year. A) Japan B) Germany C) Mexico D) the United States E) the United Kingdom 4. Schizophrenia is most likely to be

Throughout the course of the first semester we as a Psychology class learned a whole variety of different and varying concepts of Psychology. Chapter one we went over all the different ways psychologists study behaviors and mental processes. Included were the contemporary perspectives, such as behavioral, which focuses on behavior that is observed. Psychodynamic focuses on our fantasies and our hidden motives. Humanistic is all about our free will and conscious choices. Physiological is the relationships between biological processes and behavior. Cognitive perspective is our acquired knowledge, and last but not least is sociocultural, which places great value on the role of cultural and social influences on our behavior.

The birth of Attachment theory began when Harlow realized that by studying the rhesus monkey you learn more about human behavior than by studying rats—Harlow believed that you could not test humans well because of the fact that it leads to ethical and scientific dilemmas. Therefore, with these notions in mind, he set out to find his hypothesis and disprove the dominating theories of his time—no easy task. Harlow poised his hypothesis on the fact that when you remove all social contact from the rhesus monkey they then start to develop psychopathology—as Harlow would say, “that this just goes to show that one can not have a psychosis unless there is a psychiatrist around to diagnose it” (Suomi, Horst, and Veer 359). Thus, his meaning was that social

Most studies utilized the The Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (Brennan, Clark, & Shaver, 1998) to assess attachment style. This scale rates the two dimensions of attachment, anxious and avoidant, using a Likert Scale of 1 (disagree strongly) to 7 (agree strongly) to respond to statements such as “I often worry about being abandoned” and “I don’t feel comfortable opening up to romantic partners.” It is common for descriptive statistics to reveal average scores of a sample for attachment style to be around a midpoint or less. Consequently, many of the participants in the studies are likely relatively neutral in terms of their attachment style. Whereas this may be representative of the population at large, it may fail to give further understanding of how attachment style and co-rumination interact. A solution to this dilemma could be to screen samples first for individuals who rank relatively high on insecure attachment to see how these individuals react to

The More I Learned, the More Interested I got in psychology. Module after module I was getting more and more interested. Unit 3,and especially Module 11 grabbed my attention the most. Module 11 discusses stages of memory and memory processes. This module answers the most important questions: “How our memory works?” and “How we are influenced by our memories?”.

* Predict: Offering predictions (or hypotheses) about how a given condition or set of conditions will affect

Taking this course has certainly enabled me to know and understand the scientific reasons for how and why we think and act the way we do in certain situations. Understanding that psychology is the study of the mind and behavior, I think the key to really understanding psychology begins with understanding how the mind works; then everything else starts to make sense.

The results I obtained from the questionnaire were classified into three different graphs; my results correspond to three attachment-related states which are security, anxiety, and avoidance. Those graphs contrasted my scores with scores of people who took the surveys before me, and those scores ranged from 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest. The questionnaire described my attachment style under the security state as 3.3, which is my highest score. A section below the result graphs mentioned that people with high scores under this state tend to feel that others are more available and responsible for them. This situation made me wonder, this is the reason why is relatively easy for me interact with people.

Our earliest relationships in life can be deeply formative in shaping our development. Created by John Bowlby, attachment theory relates the importance of attachment in regards to personal development. According to Bowlby, attachment is the leading factor in our ability to form and maintain relationships as adults (Levy 2012, pg. 157). As human beings, we need to feel as if we belong (Cherry, 2016). We find this belongingness in our relationships and attachments. However, we differ in our ability to form such relationships. Some people may find creating relationships with people to be a fairly simple while others find relationships to be difficult or even anxiety producing. Though we each feel a need to belong, we differ in this ability. Some people struggle in relationships and other find anything relating to relationships to be simple. These differences in how we maintain and create relationships may be due to our early life experiences. Research on attachment theory suggests that our early-life relationships may be responsible, at least in part, for these differences in adult relationships (Fraley, 2010). Data proves that these different attachment styles have different effects on how an individual deals with relationships. Previous research has dialed in on different attachment styles and their effect on how one views their self-worth. However, research has failed to investigate relationship

In Psychology 101 we learned that research methods are used in order to understand our mental and behavioral processes by making observations in a systematic way, following strict rules of evidence and thinking critically about that evidence. This scientific research is based on theories (tentative explanations of observations in science), hypotheses (predictions based on a theory) and replication (testing a hypothesis in more than one study). Some of the different research methods are firstly, descriptive studies. Descriptive studies are studies that use survey methods, naturalistic observation and clinical methods. Another research method is correlational studies. Correlational studies are studies that help one to determine if a relationship exists between two or more variables and if so it tells one how strongly those two variables relate to one another. With in correlational studies one can have positive correlation (as one variable increases or decreases so does the other), negative correlation (variables go in opposite directions) or zero correlation (no relationship between the variables). Another research method is formal experiments. Formal experiments are studies that allow us to draw conclusions about how one variable may cause or have an effect on another variable. With in formal experiments there are four elements, which are the independent variable (variable that is manipulated or controlled), the dependent variable (variable that is measured), the experimental