Psychology - November 2007

2007-11-07 15:51:47 · 3 answers · asked by Mai Linh 2

2007-11-07 15:28:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you have something that is 90% good and 10% bad, should you focus on the good and loving the situation you are in or the bad and improving the situation that you are in? Doesn't it make sense that people who focus on improving the bad get further in life and become more successful and people who focus on the good just become complacent? However, who wants to focus on negative all the time... that would be a sad.

2007-11-07 15:18:11 · 5 answers · asked by OuiOuiChica17 2

A close family member has always been more emotional, sensitive, and easily offended than the rest us. At age 23, she had a bizarre episode and basically became catatonic. Not sure what to do, we rushed her to the ER. She came out of her catatonia, but still acted very strange (uncooperative, inconsolable, frantic). The docs did a complete neurological exam but couldn't find anything. This person eventually goes back to being normal.

The same catatonic episode (with erratic behavior) recurs 18 months later, and again the docs don't know what is wrong.

The same thing happens 4 months later, and a month after that.

A year later, this person has an exremely disturbing episode where she is absolutely wild, cannot stop moving, cannot stop talking, talks about things that don't make sense, talks about how all her problems are other people's fault.

This behavior returns 3 weeks later.

Doctors have not been able to give a diagnosis, so what's wrong?

2007-11-07 15:10:04 · 11 answers · asked by Tres Leches 4

I need to develop a fake program I could implement in a school for my ed. research class that can help lower the achievement gap between these two races. How could I do this without singling out one particular group? Could I pick a class...give a test...see the difference btwn the two...give the test again after implementing my program...and then compare the scores to see if the gap has shifted?

2007-11-07 14:49:29 · 5 answers · asked by giorgioarmani1919 1

2007-11-07 14:48:41 · 3 answers · asked by sunflowers 4

If your boyfriend of 2 years left you while you were ill in the hospital and told you never to call him again , because he developed feelings for another girl? We are both 29 yrs old. ANd I helped him through so much with this threats of suicide when he was in depair.

I cant mentally get over this and I dont know how to help myself. He did not care if I was alive or dead....that was it. It was over.

2007-11-07 13:45:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Nearly every game has some kind of warning somewhere about doing this.

Why is that?

2007-11-07 13:41:06 · 4 answers · asked by chimerauk 3

are you born with it? or does it develop over time with bad things that you experience?

I might have a phobia of the devil and exorcism. No im not "scared" of it. I get the full on petrified feel.

2007-11-07 13:37:34 · 7 answers · asked by HabuBro 3

If you're in the middle of procrastinating and being too distracted, and you simply cant get to work, is it possible to do so?

2007-11-07 13:36:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please Help me

1) Which combination could NEVER produce a BROWN EYED child?
a) all of listed options could produce a brown eyed child.
b)blue eyed father, browneyed mother.
c)both parents have blue eyes.
d) brown-eyed father, blue eyed mother.
e) both parents have brown eyes.

2)A mother is a color blind and the father is NOT color blind, what is the probability of that these 2 parents could produce a colorblind son?

3) Erica is used to riding tricycle. She decided to try to ride her brother's bicycle. JEAN PIAGET would say that____ must occur in order for Erica to ride the bicylcle?
a) Assimilation
b)Accommodation
c)Transformation
d)Conservation

4)Which of the following is NOT present in the preoperational stage?
a)Ability to reverse thoughts or operations emerges.
b)Thinking is highly egocentric.
c)The child begins to think symbolically
d)Thinking is still very intuitive although becoming more abstract.

2007-11-07 13:29:39 · 4 answers · asked by ezkimo23 1

What would drive another to purposely try to make a person go crazy? Assuming you overheard it with your own ears. Assuming you know it to be true... Someone is trying to hurt you by making you go crazy, for instance doing something and pretending it never happened, playing mind games, trying to make you believe you are crazy.. what is the purpose of this?

2007-11-07 13:26:27 · 3 answers · asked by kf 3

2007-11-07 13:23:21 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear that getting into doctoral programs is a lot easier at private universities than public. At my current university, there is about a 94% rejection rate for all psychology doctoral programs and it is a public university. Would it be a similar situation at other public university or at private universities, such as Capella University or Argosy University?

2007-11-07 13:18:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

What happens when you wish you could redo something? What happens when you start to regret a decision you made?

I want nothing more than to go back just over a year ago and change every decision I made.

I'm miserable at work. I'm miserable at home. I don't even want to look at my husband anymore, and we've only been married 8 months. I sleep all the time because I don't want to wake up and face another day. I'm too chicken to end my life.

This is not at all what I wanted for my life. So what the **** do I do to make it better? What's wrong with me?

2007-11-07 12:59:22 · 4 answers · asked by GreenEyes 1

I'm obsessed with my ex-boyfriend, and I understand why. It's because I've never had a male figure in my life to understand me so well the way he did. I had an abusive father and because of it I grew up shy, depressive and antisocial. I now understand me thoroughly. But how do I help myself, I broke up with my boyfriend 3 years ago and I'm still dwelling over him. I didn't treat him well which is why he left me. I feel no one else is going to love me unconditionally the way he did, without judging me. Please how do I give myself counseling?

2007-11-07 12:58:21 · 5 answers · asked by Leo 3

13. Harry Harlow (1959) demonstrated that attachment in rhesus monkeys was related to
a. feeding only
b. contact comfort
c. learning experiences
d. insecure, clingy monkeys
14. According to the concept if imprinting
a. if it gives contact comfort, it must be mother
b. if it moves, it must be mother
c. if it feeds me, it must be mother
d. if it is a member of my own species, it must be mother
15. According to Piaget, not everyone reaches the stage of formal operations. However, most achieve formal operational thought by
a. age 11 or 12
b. adulthood
c. college
d. school
16. An adolescent’s need to be seen with the right hairdo and clothing is indicative of the cognitive development called
a. personal fable
b. personal fantasy
c. autobiography
d. imaginary audience
17. The viewpoint that some are adopting today rather that Piaget’s view of cognitive development is the
a. learning perspective
b. information processing view
c. computer view
d. none of the above

2007-11-07 12:52:57 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I need to know if math is involved in Forensic psychology? If math is not involved in forensic psychology could you give me a list of schools that do Forensic psychology in Canada. I am dyslexia. And I do really bad in math. Thanks !!!!

2007-11-07 12:29:51 · 6 answers · asked by Novel-addict 2

2007-11-07 12:26:43 · 13 answers · asked by ♥BEX♥ 7

I dont see how they can make money from a part time practice unless they work from home because if they have an office the rent must be expensive

2007-11-07 12:10:26 · 7 answers · asked by chuckbell 2

Do you believe that the dynamics of two personalities can cause stalking or violence within that relationship where as if that couple never met, neither would have elicited the negative behavior in other people?

2007-11-07 12:10:10 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am watching MTV (don't hate, sometimes they're very informative) True Life on stuttering. A couple of young people like myself have these stuttering problems and it's so heartbreaking! I couldn't help but get teary-eyed when I saw a beauty pageant contestant with that problem.

I am a psych major at UCLA and graduating in June and I have NEVER heard of a condition like this. I admit I do stutter once in a while when I am nervous, but it's just common for most people during nervous situations.

It's really sad that stuttering can be made as a joke sometimes, but people don't understand that it is a condition, not always a once in a while occurrence.

My question is this. Is this something neurological? Maybe some part of the lobe related to speech is damaged? Or is it in the chords? Maybe something in the brain that allows you to think of what you're going to say, but it doesn't come out right?

I just want to give these people a hug! I feel so motivated to do something about it.

2007-11-07 12:09:41 · 2 answers · asked by Sandy 2

my mother was a schizofrenic junky prostitute, is this why i would treat girls with disrespect?

2007-11-07 12:03:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can we have ideas that do not depend on language to exist?

2007-11-07 11:37:37 · 8 answers · asked by kamelåså 7

ok,its really getting bad, too. and she refuses to see a psychiatrist. whenever she gets mad she slams people into the wall hard enough to knock someone out. and she cuts off our air circulation, sometimes, too. im worried that shes really going to kill someone someday. what is wrong with her?? and also,what should i do?? she also is extremely dishonest, and always exaggerates the truth until its a completely different situation.

2007-11-07 11:04:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

im extremely self conscience and have super low self esteem when it comes to girls and just everyday life. i dont think anyone likes me and i dont think im attractive at all and everyone seems to think im a druggie. what can i do to prove to them i dont do drugs and feel good about myself?

2007-11-07 10:58:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

e.g. by an angry friend, parent, customer, supervisor, even if its just a minor mistake you have made.

2007-11-07 10:53:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-07 10:51:05 · 27 answers · asked by purple dove 5

what does it mean if someone asks you out jokingly? Are they making fun of you or are they just wanting a reaction?

2007-11-07 10:43:51 · 2 answers · asked by Ste 2

2007-11-07 10:28:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous