I have chosen Amanda Bynes as the recently arrested celebrity on suspicion of driving under the influence of a controlled substance outside of LA. According to People.com‚ she ran a red light at an intersection only to make a complete stop in the middle of the same intersection. She was charged with a misdemeanor‚ held on $15‚000 bail and released later on Sunday. The actress was first arrested for DUI in 2012‚ but she avoided jail time by completing inpatient treatment in December. She was placed
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Both compulsive and pathological gambling are disorders related to obsession-compulsive disorder. The data supports the notion that gambling does affect with non-gambling health problems. The purpose of this article is to provide the information between gambling behaviors and substance use disorders‚ health associations‚ screening and treatment options for problem and pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is an addictive and stress proposing disorder. More research is needed to investigate directly
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few decades that it seems to be caused by either a nature or nurturing influence. As society expands its views to accept certain groups of people who were once viewed as maladapted‚ science has helped potentially discover scientific causes for the behavior. Looking at the articles presented it seems that there is much stronger evidence to support the nature or biological cause for homosexuality. One of the first psychological tests done on biological vs. environment was conducted by “Karen Hooker…to
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The seminar I would create would be called “Analysis of Psychological Perspectives.” It would cover how the seven perspectives— biological‚ learning‚ sociocultural‚ humanistic‚ cognitive‚ psychodynamic‚ and evolutionary— affect human psychology‚ and inversely explore how human psychology affects the perspectives. This could extend to analyzing how historical figures such as Hitler might have become what they were‚ or studying the different mental processes between genders. Though I have taken nearly
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him about. Throughout the movie Donnie is filled with unhappy thoughts and his head is consumed by troubled feelings caused by the prescription pills he takes‚ although these pills seem to be the only thing that Donnie has to give him a consistent behavior and focus in
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Running head: Psychological Perspectives on Culture and Gender Psychological Perspectives on Culture and Gender: Psychoanalytical‚ Freudian‚ and Humanistic Theories Dashunda Washington Regent University October 6‚ 2013 Running head: Psychological Perspectives on Culture and Gender Abstract Freud’s Psychoanalytical theory and approach‚ and the Humanistic theory involve countless hypotheses regarding the human personality and functions and processes
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Extended Essay is “What is the Extent of the Media’s Influence Regarding Eating Disorders?” To further investigate this question‚ I researched what the media is and what it does‚ how people are affected by the media and many different studies and experiments. Through the use of several sources‚ mostly online and experiments‚ I was able to learn exactly what the media does to possibly be considered an influence on the development of eating disorders. I was able to find a multitude of experiments and
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includes the amount of learned helplessness experienced after trying to solve the tasks given. The purpose of the study was to determine whether or not there is a correlation between deprived subjects being more likely to exhibit learned helplessness behavior more than the non-deprived or privileged subjects. The study is therefore‚ a correlational
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Psychological Testing Beatrix Bengtson PSY/475 June 9‚ 2014 Dr. Fred Previc Psychological Testing Psychological testing is the answer to many questions humans have about a manifold of issues. Testing will give a better view onto a problem‚ helps to solve issues‚ and reliably displays an array of information needed in everyday life. To dip a bit deeper into psychological testing the following text will attempt to graze upon some fundamental aspects of psychological testing‚ such as the major
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Too Thin: The Media’s Influence Recent studies paint a disturbing picture of girls as young as five taking drastic measure to achieve their ideal body image that are warped by the images of rail-thin models‚ underweight celebrities and photo shopped pictures of unattainable bodies in the media. Other studies have shown that the number of people with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa have risen in the past few years and this increase can be connected to the way the media
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