Trend Article Analyses

Locate an article concerning a social and/or behavioral trend that impacts research in the field of psychology.

Prepare a minimum 700-word analysis of your selected article in which you address the following items:

? Summarize your selected article.
? Explain the impact of the trend discussed in your selected article on research in the field of psychology. © BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com March 21, 2019, 11:13 pm ad1c9bdddf
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Trend Article Analysis:

The selected article examines the empirical trends in the field of psychology. This is inclusive of the following: behaviorism, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and neuroscience. Through the elaborations that have been given in the article, these areas in the field of psychology are assessed to ascertain whether the diverse mentioned areas have been researched on and at what percentage. Psychoanalytical research emerged as an area that has been virtually ignored. The behavioral psychology sector in the field of psychology has declined in the area of research (Grobman, 2008).

The cognitive psychology sector has sustained a steady growth in the area of psychology causing a slow rate in the researches that have been conducted in the cognitive realm. This trend has caused the emerging of the diverse fields in psychology. This has led to the development of the perspectives of psychology. The neuroscience realm of psychology has registered an increase in the prominence of the mainstream psychology. The cognitive aspect of the psychological perspective has risen to dominate the field of psychology. This is based on the fact that is has dominated over the psychoanalysis and the behaviorism …