Essays on Psychologist

Learning is a word utilised recurrently in educational context, as well as a process presented in all aspects of lives. Gagné (1965) maintains that learning is “a change in human disposition or capability which persists over a period of time”, and it is not equivalent...

In this essay, I will discuss how Vygotsky’s theory of social construction account for the limitations of Piaget’s cognitive constructivist theory. I will refer to both Vygotsky and Piaget work, define terms and discuss the limitations. Lev Vygotsky was born 17th November 1896 was a...

Abraham Maslow’s gave a hierarchy of needs, that is a motivational theory comprising of human needs depicted as hierarchical levels through a pyramid. Needs at the bottom of the pyramid should be staisfuied first before going to upward needs. from down to up the needs...

This book comprises of a series of lectures on natural theology delivered by William James at the University of Edinburgh in 1901/1902. James sets out to analyze certain varieties of religious experience with an aim to discover their value for this life as an empirical...

Throughout one’s life, situations will arise where a person feels the need to protect themselves from uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud’s daughter, compiled her father’s research and classified the psychological methods of protection as defence mechanisms: subconscious coping habits that distance one’s...

Sigmund Freud, the great founder of psychoanalysis and the famously known father of psychology, made a big realization about the paradoxical deployment of the uncanny, stating that “The somewhat paradoxical result is that in the first place a great deal that is not uncanny in...

For Freud, uncanny is a word that describes the relationshp someone has with something that is both familiar and unfamiliar. “Uncanny” comes from the German word “unheimlich” whose etymology is unfamiliar and uncomfortable, something unknown. “Heimlich” now, mean the familiar, loving and warm but it...

The feeling of déjà vu is a strange and curious emotion. Sigmund Freud calls this ‘the uncanny’ and describes it as secret, native and familiar, and something that is ‘frightening because it is unknown, yet familiar’. Freud talks about the German equivalent if ‘the uncanny’,...

According to Sigmund Freud under every step that we take or any human behaviour there is always an underlying reason. Therefore, he divided the human mind into three stages in terms of the conscious mind, preconscious and the unconscious mind. The concscious mind refers to...

William Golding once said, “What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others”. In the quote, Golding states “What a man does defiles him” this creates the effect that their actions define them “not what is done by others”. Today, we see...