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Freud's theory of dreams as expressions of the unconscious mind

Dreams have been a focus of much attention in psychology and philosophy throughout history with many experts sharing beliefs about the origin and meaning. One such expert, Sigmund Freud interpreted dreams through a psychoanalytical lens.

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Maslow's hierarchy of needs in criminal justice

Abraham Maslow helped establish the field of humanistic psychology in the middle of the 20th century (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2008).

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Statistical significance in perspective-taking across five experiments

The study I chose to examine is from the field of psychology: Todd, Hanko, Galinsky, and Mussweiler (2011), "When Focusing on Differences Leads to Similar Perspectives. This study was recently published in Psychological Science, a high-impact journal in the field.

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Treatment approaches to mental illness across psychological schools of thought

Each of the major schools of thought in psychology propose treatment interventions for mental disorders. The therapeutic interventions vary depending on the theory's model of mental illness such as perceptions of etiology and goals of treatment.

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Freud's theory of repression, sublimation, and neurosis

Freud conceived of and introduced entirely novel concepts to explain human psychology and the relationship of the individual to society.

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Media exposure and adolescent body image development

During the 20th century, psychology evolved into a field in which different theorists introduced several conceptual approaches to understanding the development of personality in the individual.

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Piaget and Erikson's theories of child cognitive and social development

When Sigmund Freud first introduced the concepts of psychology, it led other theorists to look at the development of children into adults.

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Pavlov's classical conditioning: from dog experiments to human behavior

Classical conditioning is a learning theory of behavioral psychology that recognizes a specific response to a specific occurrence. Dr. IRA Pavlov discovered it in his famous experiments with a dog, which heard the sound of a bell and learned to associate it with a treat.

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Seligman's learned helplessness theory in low-income families

Skinner's theory of behaviorism was a dominant theoretical model of psychology for many decades, but in the 1960s Martin Seligman and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments on dogs that seemed to question many of behaviorism's tenets (Shields 1997).

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Objective research methodology in psychological science

Nothing is more important to the advancement of psychology than objective research that leads to new ideas and discoveries about the human psyche and the workings of the mind.

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