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Psychological conditioning and family habits in childhood obesity

Obesity is a significant public health problem. Due to negative nutritional habits, a lack of exercise and a greater proclivity toward lifestyle decisions which expose individuals to lesser physical activity, America is suffering an obesity epidemic with extensive implications to its national…

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Criteria for abnormality and the DSM-IV diagnostic system

Discuss the criteria for abnormality and the meanings of psychological disorders, psychological dysfunction and "culturally expected" behaviors.

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Social exchange theory and interpersonal attraction in High Fidelity

This work will consist of a social psychological analysis of the film High Fidelity (2000).

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Teaching social skills to children and adolescents in schools

As children often learn the majority of their prosocial behaviors from school it is important that there is an awareness of the processes of teaching and assessing these skills.

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Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of human needs and development

Maslow was a 20th century thinker based in New York. He developed his famous hierarchy of needs in order to try and encapsulate the underlying processes that drive human development.

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Gender differences in human behavior and evolutionary origins

Gender-based differentiation is nearly universal among all sexually-reproducing biological organisms.

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Mental imagery and self-talk techniques in athletic performance

Most forms of games require not only physical skills but also a very strong mental capacity and these include golf, tennis and skating. According to the view of most coaches, sports are 90% mental and 10% physical.

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Frank's adjustment to middle school and rural relocation: a case study

The transitional stages that "Frank" is experiencing at the beginning of middle school have reflected negatively into his life, as they have coincided with a move from a rather urban setting, with friends close by (Case Study: "Moving to the Country" 6) to a rather austere social environment in a…

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Fear of authority figures in East Asian versus Western cultures

Globalization is considered to be the phenomenon that owns a positive tendency to tame the behaviors of the individuals dwelling in all parts of the world in an accord of productivity and peace.

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Addiction as a disease of the brain: psychological theories and treatments

The over-all focus of this paper is to show how alcohol, drug addictions and abuse is fundamentally a disease of the brain.

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