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A common criticism of both the physiological method of stress management is that although they may be highly effective in treating the symptoms of anxiety this is greatly undermined by the fact that they do not recognise the significance of …

Just what are dreams? Scientists are still debating this question. Remember, they haven’t figured out what most of our brain capacity is used for, much less what dreams are or why we dream…so they’ll be busy on this one far …

Depression is one of the most common and treatable of all mental illnesses. The term ‘depression’ can be confusing and often referred to describe normal emotional reactions; however it is a widely studied psychological disorder that many people can suffer …

An important part of social cognition is Causality- the factors that cause events or behaviours to happen. Attribution is the process people use to work out what caused an event or behaviour. The conditions that affect how we attribute causes …

An attribution bias is a perception in distortion or judgement about our own or other peoples behaviour. The first type of bias is the Fundamental Attribution Error. This is defined as the tendency to underestimate the importance of situational causes and …

The placement is set in a primary school with a two story junior school and an infant’s school. Both of which have IT rooms, hall space for energetic activities, music rooms and access to equipment such as hula hoops bean …

Research is the process of finding information out in an organised, systematic and thoughtful way. It helps to ensure that information and knowledge is as acurate and useful as possible. It enables society to develop new idea’s based on enquiry. “Research …

My work experience placement was at Orchard day nursery in handforth and was really really good although we did the same thing everyday at the same time it was amazingly fun and the children were really energetic and friendly. Before my …

Expectancy theory explains how decisions may be made in different situations and can be applied to eating behaviour. The evaluation of any situation or object comprises of two factors: The perceived likelihood that the object has certain attributes or may lead …

When and how we eat is largely determined by our metabolism (the rate at which are body uses energy) and this is regulated by several physiological mechanisms: Set Point theory – biologically determined standard which our body weight is regulated. …