Dissertation en Psychologie

Gender aspect of Autism spectrum disorders

Many researchers point out the impact that one’s social and cultural backgrounds can have on gender-appropriate behaviours for females which can mask the early differences in how girls with HFA present (Conlon, Volden, Smith, et al., 2019). Consequently, girls with HFA are under-diagnosed, especially when they are cognitively able. Unusual social behaviour can be attributed […]

Anxiety disorders: types, treatment, social aspect

Introduction Anxiety is a normal reaction that every human has it is the body’s response to danger or stress. While anxiety is needed to trigger a person’s fight or flight responses, sometimes anxiety can become regular and controlling. When anxiety starts to present itself constantly and interferes with day to day activities this is when […]

Shell Shock and Its Effect on Soldiers

There are many war stories that are celebrated by people as they celebrate a hard-earned victory or freedom from a particular rule, leadership, or situation. But there are also many untold war-stories which are left abandoned fearing that they would bring sorrow and anguish to those affected by and those listening to it. This essay […]

Applying symbolic interactionism and conflict theory in family relations

Symbolic interactionism and conflict theory are both useful to help aid in overcoming family challenges and difficulties. Conflict theory mainly focuses on the resources and power present within. Families, for example, include different individuals and roles which can eventually lead to competing for resources and power. Overall, conflict theory mainly states that we are constantly […]

The connection between working memory and visual selective attention

In the paper I focused on seeing the relationship between working memory and how it is able to reduce participants attention to distractors and prioritize relevant information in a given task by integrating a selective attention task while manipulating memory loads and noting down to what extent it altered participants ability to carry out the […]

C’est quoi un surdoué?

Être surdoué c’est quoi ? C’est avant tout une intelligence différente, hors norme caractérisée par une réceptivité émotionnelle très forte. Être surdoué, c’est avoir une hyper-intelligence imbriquée avec une hypersensibilité. Elle crée une relation au monde toute particulière qui vulnérabilise et fragilise. Cette réceptivité affective est tellement forte, qu’un surdoué peut souffrir d’une conscience douloureuse […]

Vaut-il mieux commettre ou subir l’injustice ?

Socrate affirme qu’il « vaut mieux subir l’injustice que de la commettre ». L’injustice est ce qui s’oppose à ce qui est juste et ce qui est conforme ou non aux lois. Or, tout ce qui est jugé comme non légitime prouve l’injustice. Cependant, un Etat est l’ensemble des instituions politiques, administratives qui a l’autorité […]

“Functional Stupidity” and its consequences for organizations

“Stupidity is a normal feature of organizational life”. It is widely believed that the success of a company is directly tied the intellectual and rational performance of the people who comprise it. This belief is well illustrated by the popular corporate saying “our people are our most important asset” The Authors of this paper published […]

The factors of job satisfaction

The design of a job has been studied and it has been discovered that identifying the various job magnitudes would improve efficiency of organizations and the job satisfaction of employees. The Job Characteristics Model is a theory by Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham who propose that the psychological states (meaningfulness, responsibly and knowledge) result in […]

Impact of parenting styles and stress on child’s self-control

A child’s development of self-control can be influenced by various factors, including the parenting style of their primary caregivers. Akers (1991) asserts that self-control is learnt through socialization – meaning children need to be socialized into controlling themselves by being rewarded for conformity but punished for deviance. Since self-control is socially learned, the environment and […]

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is triggered by a combination of biological and social factors. Behavioral genetic studies of NPD, like studies on twins who did not grow up together, show that genes markedly the personality disorders “emotional” cluster, including NPD (Torgersen, 2000). If this disorder is strongly linked with genetics, individuals are not likely to develop […]

Les inconvénients de la motivation extrinsèque

C’est le cas de l’opensource, grâce à cela Firefox a pu voir le jour, une enquête de Lakhani et Wolf montre que ces types de projets nous apportent le sentiment d’être créatif, et un état d’implication et de réussite optimal. Aussi, Daniel Pink nous montre que nos comportements sont parfois bizarres comme le fait par […]

The problem of depression among students

The increasing cases of mental health issues among students have raised a lot of concerns in today’s society. Some of the major mental health issues affecting college students include depression, bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In a study carried out by Mirón et al. (2019), it was established that 1 in every 5 […]

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Kathleen Roach – California Southern University – Psy87700 – Psychopharmacology – March, 2020 What is PTSD? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that is associated with the witnessing or experiencing of a traumatic event. That event may have occurred in the greater community, an event such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster, or […]