We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The manager should understand the causes creating conflict, the outcome of conflict, and various ethos by which conflict can be managed in the organization. With this understanding, the manager should evolve an approach for […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Instrumental conditioning is the behavior by which an individual modifies its surroundings. The specific illustrations of behaviors that create a consequence are known as a response. The classes of these responses which have a […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers are two of the founding fathers of modern day Humanistic Psychology. Their work into the self-actualisation principle paved the way for further insight into the holistic development of the […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Investigation of any physiological system is always an extremely complex task; the visual pathway is here no exception. However, in the past twenty years a lot of conclusive studies have been made in this […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The experiment aimed to determine whether extraversion could be related to low baseline levels of arousal in cerebral cortex. Hypothetically, bigger, more widely spread alpha waves- lower cortical arousal classifies a person as more […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Many experiments have been conducted similar to Sternberg’s Memory Search. Some of which supported his claims and others contradicting them. This experiment did both. Supported his claims that the process involved in memory searching […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy It commonly accepted that stress can lead to illness, both psychological and physical, and there are numerous studies into the causative links between the two situations. Psychologists continue to attempt to establish exactly what […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This small scale study replicates an earlier more detailed study ‘the cascade model’ by Humphreys, Riddoch & Quinlan, (1988), comparing recognition times with correct responses to structurally similar (SS) objects and structurally distinct (SD) […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy On the whole, psychology is more or less a new form of science. However, many psychological issues have been giving philosophers the world over something to think about for centuries. In this essay I […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Social psychologists have conducted research from many perspectives in order to produce knowledge about the self. In order to explore the self in relation to social psychoanalytic and phenomenological findings, it is necessary to […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The two key assumptions that I am going to describe and discuss are key assumptions one, the information processing approach, and assumption two, the brain functions like a computer. Key assumptions one and two […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy All human beings have the ability to process information without even thinking about it. Simple everyday tasks can be performed without necessarily focusing all your attention to complete it. Some information is processed automatically […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy This essay will look at the different variables and stimuli that are involved in respondent conditioning and how they can affect the effectiveness of respondent conditioning. Watson (1903) developed the law of exercise, which […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy The vast majority of people, if instructed, could claim to visualise an elephant. Its colour, its shape and size, even detailed features; but how? Our apparent ability to produce mental images is not easy […]

We use cookies to give you the best experience possible. By continuing we’ll assume you’re on board with our cookie policy Ivan Pavlov was originally a physiologist, in fact he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his research regarding digestive processes. During the late 1880’s psychology was just a fledgling field, in fact many doubted […]