By admin on 31/05/2009
Psychological abuse, also referred to as emotional abuse, is a form of abuse characterized by a person subjecting or exposing another to behaviour that is psychologically harmful. As of 1996, there were “no consensus views about the definition of emotional abuse.”
Psychological abuse involves the willful infliction of mental or emotional anguish by threat, humiliation, or [...]
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By admin on 30/05/2009
Blended learning is the combination of the different style of learning using the technology and instructor. Instructor takes the face to face sessions for providing pertinent information to the learners and then motivates them to take the advantage of the different medium of learning like e-learning.
Technology has helped a lot in development of certain strategy [...]
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By admin on 30/05/2009
Behaviorism was the dominant paradigm in American psychology throughout the first half of the 20th century. However, the modern field of psychology largely came to be dominated by cognitive psychology. Noam Chomsky’s 1959 review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior challenged the behaviorist approaches to studies of behavior and language dominant at the time and [...]
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By admin on 30/05/2009
Humanistic psychology was developed in the 1950s in reaction to both behaviorism and psychoanalysis. By using phenomenology, intersubjectivity and first-person categories, the humanistic approach seeks to glimpse the whole person–not just the fragmented parts of the personality or cognitive functioning. Humanism focuses on uniquely human issues and fundamental issues of life, such as self-identity, death, [...]
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By admin on 01/05/2009
No one can truly know what goes on inside a marriage except the two people involved, but researchers are getting increasingly good glimpses at what makes couples tick, how relationships are stressed and what factors can keep the spark alive.
The goal: To find out what keeps love alive and couples together.
Putting marriage under a microscope [...]
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