Psychology paper samples

The Most Important Sense

Naturally, people have five senses, except those having damaged or disabled senses. All of them are necessary to perceive the full picture of the surrounding world, to enjoy its beauty and diversity. It is not hard for us to imagine ourselves having one of the senses disabled. We can close our eyes with a b... read more

Susan Folkman and Judith Tedlie Moskowtiz (2000) form the University of California, San Francisco, research positive affect and other side of coping. Despite the fact that the article, which has been written on the basis of this research covers many aspects of the topic, the researcher recognize that coping and its positive and negative effects have not been studied in great details and the... read more

This paper makes an attempt to give a reasonable critique of a peer-reviewed journal article. The article chosen for this purpose is the research dedicated to solving the problems which result from the process of adoption, to be more precise – to evaluation of an adoptive parenting programme. After criticizing each structural unit of the article, the... read more

The scenario discusses the issue of online-shopping preference among males females. We hypothesize that more women practice online-shopping than men, who, in turn, prefer conventional way of shopping. Therefore, we hypothesize that there is an association between gender as the variable, measured on a nominal scale and the preference for kind of shoppi... read more

The phenomenon of long-term potentiation (LTP) and its theoretical and practical significance could be well understood in the context of scientists’ centuries-long attempts to figure out how brain process determine man’s behaviour.

Presence of developed mind is the main reason of human race domination on the Earth. From the point of view of the evolution theory, the mind origina... read more

Ageing Phase of Life

Though ageing is an inevitable process, it is still surrounded by misconceptions (Cavanaugh & Blanchard-Fields, 2011) and, often, by the negative attitude (Lee, et. al., 2007). Age-related changes are, primarily, associated with biological changes, changes in intelligence (Stuart-Hamilton, 2007), and social changes. Gerontologists and psychologists pay m... read more

The question of norm has always been quite arbitrary. History makes it evident beyond doubt that cultural context of a certain epoch may shift the borders between acceptable and abnormal immensely. For example, in Ancient Greece, over two thousand years ago, the citizens of Athens condemned Socrates to death because he allegedly was causing the moral ... read more

From the evolutionary point of view, men are more likely to engage in sex with strangers than women. It can be explained by the following evolutionary idea: it takes more from a woman to grow a child in terms of physical investment; women need resources and protection which can be obtained from strong and high status spouse only. It is obvious that f... read more

Parent Involvement and Educational Outcomes

Parental acts of child orientation are a great contributing factor to children’s future behaviours and attitudes especially in areas such as social and educational interactions. Some of the parental mechanisms of child upbringing involve support and closeness, hostility and di... read more

The Life Style

Life is regarded to be not only a state of physical and biological existence, but also a platform for self-realization, which could be achieved by constant self-determination, self-improvement and socialization. That is why I always strive hard to view life from various perspectives. I know that my motivation would... read more