It is rather rare for terminal diagnoses to be easily met with peace and acceptance – as it usually leads the patient to question everything that he or she is being told, and is likely to undergo five stages of grief. During this time, grief counseling is very important not only for the family of the patient, but for the...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Cognitive theories of motivation seek to explain our behaviors as a product of the careful study and active processing and interpretation of information received.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Kurt Lewin was one of the first psychologists to propose that the development of an individual was the product of the interaction between inborn predispositions (nature) and life experiences (nurture).| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
The First Five Years A few months after it is born, an infant starts to babble and coo. These meaningless sounds signify the initial stage in the development of language, which proceeds at an unbelievably rapid rate during the first five years of a child’s life. Babbling increasingly starts to approximate the language spoken by the child’s caregivers, initially through...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Albert Bandura, an American psychologist, developed most of the principles of contemporary social learning theory / social-cognitive theory which is one of the more prominent and influential theories of development today. Bandura’s Social learning theory serves as a link that connects the behaviorist perspective and the cognitive perspective, supporting the behaviorist’s belief in the importance of reinforcement on maintaining behavior...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
The Social Proof Theory The Social Proof Theory, popularized by psychologist Robert Cialdini, maintains that a person who does not know what the proper behavior for a certain situation is, will look to other people to imitate what they are doing and to provide guidance for his actions. In other words, social proof is one way for us to discern...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters