Research Paper Undergraduate 3,089 words

Theories of Personality Development: Nature, Nurture & Maturation

Explores six theories of personality development—nature vs. nurture, the unconscious, self-concept, motivation, and maturation—with biblical integration.

Psychology

~16 min read

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Research Paper Graduate 2,502 words

Gestalt Therapy: Theory, Techniques, and Applications

Explore Gestalt therapy's origins, core concepts, counselor role, multicultural applicability, and strengths and weaknesses in this comprehensive overview.

Therapy

~13 min read

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1,422 words

Video games' cognitive and emotional benefits for children and teenagers

Despite a culture that video games are immoral, they assist in positive development in children and teenagers. Video games promote higher levels in thinking.

~8 min read

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2,636 words

Jungian archetypes and fairy tales in psychoanalytic therapy

How do we come to understand our own lives? This is a question that is surely as old as our species, and perhaps even older, for some level of insight and inquiry surely existed before humanity. Philosophy offers some answers to this question, as do the world's many religions.

~14 min read

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598 words

Daniel Levinson's theory of adult development and life stages

Daniel Levinson's (1920) theory (the Seasons of a Mans Life, 1978) on life development was an offshoot from that of Erickson who had developed his theory thirty years earlier.

~3 min read

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2,922 words

The relationship between cartoon violence and youth criminal behavior

Cartoons are in the mainly intended mainly to be innocuous and a source of humor and entertainment. This is the general perception of common cartoons that are seen in magazines, newspapers and on film.

~15 min read

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1,106 words

PETTLEP motor imagery effectiveness in athletic performance enhancement

Imagery as a means of assisting success has been used in a variety of applications. Specifically, the use of imagery in enhancing sports performance has been particularly researched, in recent years.

~6 min read

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760 words

The emotional appeal of serial killer suspense films

Movie-making has become such a pervasive art form that specific movie genres have developed to meet the emotional needs of the movie-going public. One subtype of movies that has a guaranteed dramatic impact is the serial-killer suspense movie.

~4 min read

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433 words

The classical and positivist schools of criminology

The history of crime in America and across the world has been one of very intriguing progression. Since the dawn of time, there has never been any lack of different aspects to the criminal mind.

~3 min read

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1,695 words

Robert Graysmith's Zodiac and the San Francisco serial killer

Zodiac killer in San Francisco terrorized the city for almost a decade, beginning in 1968, murdering people seemingly at random and remaining unidentified and uncaught.

~9 min read

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