Importance of understanding different personality traits?

Q: 1. When describing "irreversible, pathological loss of brain functioning" (Berger, 517) in the DSM-5...

A: DSM 5 was a progressive attempt at using more humane terminology. In mental health, nomenclature of ...

Q: Describe nightmare disorder and what is known about it currently.

A: There are various psychological disorders that negatively affect the healthy functioning of individu...

Q: Jim wants to better understand how humans mentally represent concepts by using a model that is based...

A: The connectionist model is based on the principle that concepts are stored  the memory by establishi...

Q: What are the most important ways our understanding – and/or misinterpretation – of time affect the h...

A: The subjective sense of time has an important implication on the human development and motivation. A...

Q: What type  of therapy  is Conrad's therapist  using (ordinary people 1980)? Describe specific techni...

A: The type of therapy "Conrad's therapist" is using is the Humanistic therapy.  

Q: 3) Give a biographical sketch of Freud that includes how he came to interested in clinical psycholog...

A: Sigmund Freud was a an Austrian neurologist. Though not a psychologist from the beginning, his inter...

Q: Describe the racial, social class, and cultural differences found in research on internal versus ext...

A: Step 1: Locus of control is a process that is referred to the experience in which people think that ...

Q: Kim took a drink from a container marked “milk.” Surprised, she quickly spit out the liquid because ...

A: Answer:  C)  stimulus sensation.    

Q: The tone of voice and body language give us more information about what someone means than the words...

A: Tone of voice and body language are forms of nonverbal communication. This refers to communication o...

Q: ) What disorder does Frontotemporal dementia (FTD)manifest as at its earlier stage? Or in other word...

A: Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) or frontotemporal degenerations is the name given to a groups of disor...

Q: Give a biographical sketch of kohler, as well as the Law of Pragnanz. Make the case he and these ide...

A: Wolfgang Kohler was a German psychologist who was also a key figure in the development of the school...

Q: Suppose a friend tells you she has such a vivid memory of a personal event that it seems like a phot...

A: Flashbulb memories are a type of autobiographical memory proposed by Brown and Kulik in 1977. It is ...

Q: What is the key differentiation of psychology from the other social sciences?

A: Psychology can be best defined as a discipline that scientifically studies the mind and behavior. It...

Q: Carla (age 12) is an only child. Her parents would like to cultivate in her greater prosocial behavi...

A: Pro social behavior is the behavior which is performed with the intent of helping other individuals ...

Q: Nate has been bothered by anxiety for quite some time now, but he is not sure whether he should seek...

A: There are five major types of anxiety disorders which are as follows: Generalized Anxiety Disorder:...

Q: Psychological thought has evolved from philosophical inquiry to scientific research. In your own wor...

A: Psychology as field did not exist until 1879. Previously, the fields of philosophy and medicine were...

Q: 4) Discuss the contributions of Frederic Bartlett, Jean Piaget and Gestalt Psychology to psychology’...

A: Cognition is the mental process of acquiring knowledge, and interpreting sense, thoughts and experie...

Q: Jason  has been unemployed for three months. when his wife askeed him why he was not looking for a j...

A: Control defines how and why an individual is behaving in a certain manner. The locus of control theo...

Q: A research team is interested in the effect of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) in reducing c...

A: Research has helped clinicians to understand the effectiveness of various methods/interventions in t...

Q: For Kant, what makes someone human?     The government's recognition of personhood The abili...

A: Step: 1 (The ability to have emotions and pains). Kant defines that the human beings is the ground w...

Q: Why should brain scans (fMRI's) NOT be used as a lie detector test? List and describe at least TWO r...

A: The fMRI is the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, which is a brain imaging technique that analy...

Q: Suppose a social scientist has developed a questionnaire intended to measure the quality of romantic...

A: The term reliability in psychological research refers to the consistency of a research study or meas...

Q: Explain how the need to actualize promotes biological and psychological growth. What parental behavi...

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Q: Your dad keeps nagging you to take out the garbage. In order to get him to stop nagging, you take ou...

A: Behaviour is the manner in which one acts or conducts oneself. It is an action which differs from pe...

Q: Discuss the Bandura’s social cognitive theory. What are its key features? How does it explain human ...

A: Learning is the process through which an individual observes and accumulates new information that ca...

Q: Taking into account episodic and semantic memory, provide an example of an autobiographical memory.

A: When we talk about our memory, we talk about its different types. Memory is of two type, the explici...

Q: For several years, Giancarlo has experienced periodic mood swings and seemingly abrupt changes in be...

A: Previously known as manic-depressive disorder or manic depression, bipolar disorder is a mental diso...

Q: Define the term measures of central tendency and provide two examples of such measures.

A: In statistics, central tendency refers to a value that represents a central or typical value of a di...

Q: 5) Discuss the contributions of Noam Chomsky and George Miller to the “Cognitive Revolution.”

A: The cognitive revolution started in 1950s can be described as a movement that laid emphasis on the s...

Q: What is self- efficacy and why is this concept so important to the study of personality?

A: Self efficacy can be best described as the extend to which an individual believes in their ability t...

Q: Briefly explain how a participant characteristic, such as personality, could be a confounding variab...

A: Between-subjects experiment is the design in which  different people receive a treatment or are expo...

Q: Summarize the complementary roles of modeling, evaluating information from the model, and then apply...

A: Deciding on a course of action requires a person to consider several steps. In order for a person to...

Q: "Babies are thinking long before they talk." As you consider the readings for this week and the stat...

A: Infants undergo cognitive development since birth as their brain keeps maturing. In the early stages...

Q: Jacob is a junior in high school who started seeing Dr. Alvarez, the psychologist at his school, dur...

A: Persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia is a chronic form of depression. An individual with dyst...

Q: Baby B was born 6 weeks prematurely and was admitted in the neonatal ICU (NICU) at birth due to very...

A: There may be cases where parents may not be fit to take care of a baby. In such cases, the responsib...

Q: describe what nature and nurture refers to in more technical terms

A: The field of psychology flourished as a result of fruitful debates between theorists from different ...