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Lying Morality Question Is lying morally wrong? If you ask most people if they lie, the answer is answered quickly as “No” but is that a lie in itself. We like to think of ourselves as honest, righteous people, therefore, we lie to ourselves about lying. Well, the truth is “we all lie”, maybe not…

Although many arrests have been made, organized crime and the Mafia are still very active. Organized crime and its families, particularly the Italian mafia, have increased their illegal activities significantly over the past few decades. The Mafia and organized crime go hand and hand, one cannot be spoken without the other. Both of these forms…

  Substance abuse quickly became a way of life for many young adults. As a result, this inapt behavior still continues today. To first-time college students, acting in a way that parents would disapprove somehow exhibits breaking from the womb. This “Mom can’t control me now” attitude greatly contributes to substance abuse among undergraduates. These…

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a humanistic approach to therapy and it was created in the 1980’s. (ICEEFT, 2020) It was created with adult attachment in mind and the developmental theory of personality and intimate relationships. (ICEEFT, 2020) This therapy is used to mainly help couples work out their specific problems in a short amount…

Every year, approximately 50,000 to 750,000 teenage women in the United States experience pregnancy, many of which are unintended. Thirty-one percent of young american women become pregnant at one before they reach the age of 20 (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 2009), averaging approximately 75,000 pregnancies a year (U.S. Teenage Pregnancy Statistics, 2009). Unfortunately,…

Nature versus nurture remains one of the oldest philosophical debates within the field of psychology.  Nature refers directly to the genes and the hereditary factors that directly influence who we are, ranging from our individual physical appearance to our personality traits and characteristics.  What is interesting to note, is most branches of psychology tend to…

There has always been controversy, whether criminal behavior is tied with abnormalities in the brain and as we know diverse regions of the brain control human being actions, thoughts, emotions and senses. In fact it is through behavior how the brain begins to disentangle. There is many elements that can lead disruptive behavior in early…

Generally, we as individuals would define stress as the feeling that everything seems to have become too much all of a sudden. This is due to the fact that we all have a sense and question whether or not we can cope with the pressures placed upon us. Anything that poses a challenge or a…

9/11 will forever be scared in my memory as the most depressing, horrifying and traumatic day of my life, but not for the reasons you might assume. 9/11/2012 is the day I came home from school just like any other day, but on this day I see my father’s car is still in the garage,…

When we all bring up a memory in our head, we play it back like a videotape. This, however, is not how memory is stored. Memory, when stored, is actually broken up into sections and stored in schemas, the units of knowledge. Schemas can be changed or affected by the exact same categories as what…