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When a child is diagnosed with a chronic illness it is heartbreaking for everyone involved , especially the imediate family . Within this blog I’ am going to explore the common issues and psychological damage which can occur to siblings when trying … Continue reading →

 What is happiness ?According to (Diener 1984 , 1994 ), happiness is the cognitive and objective evaluation of ones life , it is described in terms of there being a presence of possitivity and an absence of negativity .Happiness is a complex … Continue reading →

According to the Global Burden of Disease Study , Moderate Major Depressive Dissorder is second in ranking for diseases which cause premature death or disability .The first on their list is Ischemic heart disease . There is no question that there is … Continue reading →

Psychology is a serious player in terms of its ability to identify social problems from observations and then predict what the consequences of this behavior will be from analysis .Then subsequently generalize this to the vast population . Admittedly this is done with the support of … Continue reading →

Ahhh let us all think back and reminisce nostalgically over our primary school days : recorder lessons (is that even a real instrument ?) ,long assemblies , teachers who rarely wore deodrant and playtime .The chances are ,that 30 percent of us do … Continue reading →

How humans experience, perceive and favouritise Colour is a widely debated topic in psychology, essentially because empirically researching it is problematic .Regardless of this problem there has been an abundance of research surrounding it ,such research which includes looking into a … Continue reading →

I think by now we will all be well acquainted with the work of David Rosenhan ,who is an expert in both law and psychology, with the majority of his work being published in prestigious science journals ,amongst these study’s include : ‘Power and Inter … Continue reading →

Mental health stigmas can be increasingly detrimental to the success of an indivdual who has a psychiatric dissorder.The term stigma derides from the greek concept of recognising characteristics in a person which are not favourable ,essentially stigmas are prejudice ,uniformed discriminatory schools … Continue reading →

Firstly we must identify what Inductive reasoning is so that we can answer the question.Inductive reasoning is where the human brain observes several plausible observations and then translates these observations into a general rule.Science moves forward using this method,it observes the known and uses … Continue reading →

Statistics are the foundations in which psychology stands on ,psychological research which lacks statistical backing is merely an uninformed assumption,entirely based on intuition and common sense . There are several reasons why we use statistics in psychological research : it helps to … Continue reading →