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Introduction to TOT phenomenonTOT are the words that one feel that they are aware of the word but one normally gets it hard trying to gain the name from their memories. In the process a person attars different words which either have a similar meaning as the target word or a word with a similar pronunciation. These other words are referred to as interlopers (Lickley & Drevets, 2017, August). This has captured the attention of many and led ...

Factors Affecting Eyewitness TestimonyEyewitness testimony is a term used legally referring to the account that is usually given by the individuals that have witnessed a certain incidence. For instance, the individuals may describe an incidence of a road accident or a robbery at a trial and the process includes describing the crime scene details and identifying the perpetrators (Wells, 2006). Eyewitness testimony is a significant sector of res...

Attribution in Social PsychologyDaily, we encounter many social interactions. People interact in various ways corresponding to different scenarios. In social context, the impressions formed on our minds makes us attribute the behavior of other people to either internal or external causes. The way we perceive, or interpret, an individual’s behavior highly depends on the situation. Also, it depends on internal circumstances or external sit...

1. The title of the article is “Do Young Drivers Become Safer After Being Involved in a Collision?” The authors of the article are Fearghal O’Brien, Joe Bible, Danping Liu, and Bruce G. Simons-Morton. Journal- Psychological Science; year of publication- 2017; volume- 28; pages- 407-413. 2. The aim of the article is to investigate the trend of being involved in car collisions is due to drivers facing collision sin t...

DiscussionBehaviorism is a theory in psychology pertaining to the understanding of human and animal psychology. It is based on the principle that all human actions and responses are reflexes and occur as reactions to various stimuli present in the surrounding environment (Ertmer & Newby, 2013). In other words, this scientific approach asserts that a person acts in a certain way because of the surroundings or situation he or she is placed i...

Summary of the Disasters Psychological SymptomsFortunately, most people learn about disasters from books or movies and not through direct experiences. The books or films are dramatic snapshots of heroism, life and events that do not show the long-term impact of disasters on psychology. Natural or human-made hazards pose a level of threat to the environment, health, life and property (McMahon, 2011). Crashes are far from rare events. They usual...

Understanding the Psychology of Serial KillersCrimes have been a part of the society for a long time and there is constant conflict among the people from the different wakes of life to understand mitigate the issues related to it. Murders have been considered one of the worst kinds of crimes of all. One of the worst issues that are faced by the different people in today’s society are murders that take place in mass proportions. The seria...

Writing an Essay on a Psychoanalytic Interpretation of a DreamDreams can be referred to as series of images, emotions and ideas which comes come to the mind when a person as his/her dream involuntarily. A person might have a dream whiles sleeping but in certain stages (Sharpe 2018). The purpose and content of dream often are not fully comprehended because there lies great ambiguity what the mind perceives and gets manifested in the form of dre...

Background of Norman BatesThe character Norman Bates is fictional, and created by the Robert Bloch in the novel Psycho, published in 1959. This character was also shown in the American psychological thriller that was produced by Alfred Hitchock. Norman Bates has been portrayed as a quiet, smart, handsome, funny, and shy young man, who shares an intensely warm relationship with his mother, Norma Bates. Norman is depicted as a young ma...

Determining Right and WrongEthical autobiography  Determination of "Right" and "wrong" Many things takes place in the brain when we need to determine regarding what is right or wrong in our daily lives both personally as well as professionally. However, as per my thought process I always try to have a clear vision regarding which values are at play. There are times when I feel that there are no such opportunities when I can have the e...

The Empathy-Altruism Theory“It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.”  The above quoted lines of the famous British author Charlotte Brontë from her novel “Jane Eyre” gives a pertinent insight into the concept of altruism. The term altruism can be defined as the “principle ...

Policy ProposalDistracted driving has been an issue for so long and increasing rapidly along with the growth of mobile phones’ usage and other communication devices. Distracted driving mainly includes the activity which diverts the attention of the drivers from their primary task of driving. The usage of electronic devices like smart phones, tabs and others can be particularly dangerous as those devices require cognitive, auditory, visua...

What is self-actualization?“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” The above quoted lines of R. L. Stevenson speak volumes about the nature of the human beings and their ultimate goal. It is to be noted that all human beings seek to attain self actualization as well as wisdom in their lives in order to lead a more better and effective life (semanticscholar.org. 2018). However, t...

Task Description“Is information remembered better when presented in digital or paper learning environments? The research topic is related to memory which deals with impact of digital or paper learning environment in memorizing information in academic setting. The research addresses the question as “Is information remembered better when presented in digital or paper learning environments? The levels of processing theory des...

Part 1: Search for Formal Assessment ToolMental ability or memory is the ability and the capability of the human brain to store and retain the knowledge that it acquires throughout the life’s journey. It is the capacity to remember things and also the power to possess mental qualities. It can also be explained as the ability to encode and decode the information, store the knowledge and use the information later on, by recalling or remini...

Theoretical Approaches to Juvenile DelinquencyOffending can be described as the commitment towards and illegal activity for breaking any rule of law.  Juvenile delinquency is one of the most common forms of offending by the minor. It is the term that is used for describing illegal actions committed by the minor population. According to Turanovic & Pratt (2013), one of the most common forms of offending, the context of Juvenile delinqu...

Symptoms of Borderline Personality DisorderChloe Smith is a 25-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital after she tried to commit a suicide by trying to jump from a cliff. However, the visitors had reached there on time to save her and got her back to the apartment where she stays with her roommate. Her roommate revealed that Chloe been always like this with extreme mood swings where she conducted many impulsive actions. Last week, sh...

Relationship between Hina Hassani and Jane FultonScarborough is a written by the Canadian writer, Catherine Hernandez. The book was shortlisted in the Toronto book Awards in the year 2017 and Edmund White Award in the year 2018. She is well known for her other written plays as well including Singkil, Eating with Lola, The Femme playlist and Future Folk. The writer lived in Scarborough for the maximum period of her life and to her it is an in...

Benefits of Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide for CanadiansEuthanasia is the worldwide concern as it has been a debatable topic for many years (Keown, 2018). MAiD or medical assistance in dying is actually the medical act which is commenced by single individual with aim of putting a person to expiry or death either painlessly or failing to prevent the death form usual causes in the scenario of disease of incurable coma (Li, Watt, Escaf, ...

Uniqueness of Pastoral CounsellingPastoral Counselling refers to branch of the counselling with the help of which the psychologically trained ministers along with priests can help in providing the therapy services. It can help people to manage the problems that the individuals have so that it can help him in surviving within the stressful environment of the present age (Pembroke, 2016).  Pastoral Counselling refers to special area perta...

Understanding Memory and Engram ExplorationUnderstanding memory, the exploration of engram has been known as the sacred grail of psychology and neuroscience. Several researchers have been persistently seeking for explanations to varied aspects of the way memory functions for decades. Patihis, Lilienfeld, Ho and Loftus (2014) have noted that in the last decade psychologists have immersed themselves in one of the most highly contentious deb...

Introduction to Personality PsychologyPersonality may be defined as the numerous behavioral tendencies, cognitive patterns, traits, emotional patterns and thoughts that make up a person’s character. These traits of personality usually emanate from environmental and biological factors. Personality psychology may be explained as the branch of psychology which deals with the study of personality traits and behavioral patterns that shape hum...

The Selye's Theory of StressIn this theory they access the effect of stress on an individual on a longer duration of exposure.it can simply be split into three categories the initial alarm stage followed by the interim resistance stage and finally the exhaustion stage. The steps of growth in stress form start with the basic adrenaline rush that is quite helpful but with time this grows to depression as the high levels of adrenaline result to...

Background of Thrive ConsultancyThe process of experimentation has become a common part of the business world and it is seen that the various organizations experiment with different methods or strategies to find the right kind of strategy which can help them to improve the performance of the concerned organization (Howard, Turban and Hurley 2016). However, at the same time it is seen that the implementation of ineffective strategies or the one...

MethodologySleep is a natural process that results in a reduction in the responsiveness to both internal and external stimuli (Tamaki, Bang, Watanabe, & Sasaki, 2016). During the process of sleep, an individual loses consciousness and experiences a period of inactivity. Memory is a component of the central nervous system responsible for encoding, storage, and retrieval of information (Santoro, Bartunov, Botvinick, Wierstra, & Lillicrap...