Psychology Essays and Term Papers

in situations from which escape might be difficult". Agoraphobia is different from other phobias because agoraphobiacs are afraid of loosing control in public. A phobia is defined as an irrational, persistent fear associated with a specific object…

modern day psychiatric term for sexual perversions. Paraphilias refer to intense, repetitive sexual urges, fantasies or behaviors where the sexual goal is an unusual situation, activity or object. They differ from what some people might consider…

to the DSM-IV, are: *<Tab/>Sexual urges or sexual fantasies with non-human objects and/or sexual behaviors with non-human objects *<Tab/>Sexual behaviors involving humiliation or suffering of oneself or another person *&lt…

arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors in which the individual touches or rubs against a non-consenting person in a sexual manner. This often occurs in somewhat conspicuous situations such as on a crowded bus or subway. The person generally disappears…

urges, or behaviors involving non-human objects (Fetishism, Transvestic Fetishism), suffering or humiliation (Sexual Sadism, Masochism), children (Pedophilia) or other non-consenting person (Voyeurism, Frotteurism, Exhibitionism). Rape is forced sexual…

we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow" -Ted Bundy "You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!" -Ted Bundy (on the joy of murder). <Tab…

a theory of cognitive development of children. He caused a new revolution in thinking about how thinking develops. In 1984, Piaget observed that children understand concepts and reason differently at different stages. Piaget stated children's…

are several factors, which have contributed immensely to the individual characteristics, which I possess. According to Haralambos and Holborn (1995), socialization is the process by which individuals learn the culture, the guidelines that direct…

his (or her) own welfare, and the object of every one of his voluntary actions is some good to himself.         Psychological egoism is a reflex that every person has to orient themselves toward their own welfare. Through this, it follows…

favor the killing of unborn babies in order to extract their stem cells for medical research? The word ethics is a theory or system of moral values; the discipline dealing with what is good or bad and with moral duty and obligation. We find that the…