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The Literature Review, 2007.
This paper examines the function of the literature review in educational research.
876 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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The paper explains how the literature review is an important part of any study. The paper discusses how it offers a background of the issue and provides an understanding of what other researchers have found regarding that issue. The paper looks at the process followed to conduct a literature review and explores the difficulties in identifying sources. The paper relates that information collected by means of the literature review can generally be thought of as reliable and valid.
Outline:
Purpose of the Literature Review
Process Followed to Conduct a Literature Review
Identification of Sources
Evaluation of Reliability of Sources
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"New discoveries can lead to a re-examination of literature that has already been written on the topic and having the background knowledge of what others have found regarding the same issue can help steer the researcher toward the questions that should be asked and answered and/or the hypotheses that will be dealt with. Even if the researcher chooses to look at something new, there will undoubtedly be part of the literature review that will allow the researcher to have some background of at least part of the issue in question or similar issues that must be addressed, thus furthering the understanding of the researcher and the understanding of those that look at the subject in the future (Reed, 1998)."
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Literature Review: Five Articles on the Topic of the Determinants of Academic Success in Asian and other Visible Minority Children, 2002.
This literature review will examine five scholarly articles focusing on the topic of the determinants of academic success in Asian and other visible minority children.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 142.95
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This literature review will examine five scholarly articles focusing on the topic of the determinants of academic success in Asian and other visible minority children. The primary subjects in each studies are children of Asian ethnicity, with children of other ethnic backgrounds selected as controls or comparisons. The five articles were chosen from the existing body of literature on the basis of a brief review which noted points of similarity and contrast in each.
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Adolescent Drug Addiction Literature Review, 2008.
A literature review of articles on the subject of adolescent drug use.
1,700 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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This paper is a literature review of articles that investigate the question of whether there is a connection between the rising prevalence of drug addiction in adolescents and the increasingly young development of social problems such as poor academic performance, criminal tendency and maladjusted behavior. A close inspection of various journal studies on the topic indicate that the growing accessibility of drugs in school settings has contributed to all of these adverse consequences. The literature chosen for inclusion in the research was selected primarily for its application to the notion that drug use in adolescents is not just a problem unto itself but is indicative of much larger problems such as education and social construction, which fail to confront the problem head on. In concurrence with that topic, the studies that incorporate treatment methods tend to reflect this same impulse toward aggressive treatment and reduced penal imposition.
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"This study casts a fairly broad net on its subject sample, using information on over 4000 babies to assess the dangers to children born to addicted mothers. Beyond the risks which are clearly present to the child while an addicted mother is pregnant, this study asserts that there is a close association between addiction in mothers and a variety of emotional, psychological and psychosocial problems in the child. The information gathered for this study was accumulated at a clinic for mothers who suffer from addiction to illegal drugs or alcohol. The study confirmed the hypothetical assertion by illustrating the correlation between drug abuse in mothers and poverty, unemployment, homelessness, susceptibility to crime and a lack of proper parenting resources such as access to healthcare. The study offers a need for resolution by the provision of treatment centers which don't just focus on the addiction problems of the mother but also treat the affected child as a patient as well."
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Literature Review on Zero Tolerance, 2007.
A literature review of the zero tolerance policy in an educational setting and various views regarding its effectiveness.
12,690 words (approx. 50.8 pages), 41 sources, APA, $ 242.95
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This paper examines the use of zero tolerance policies as a preventative measure against school violence. It points out that studies reveal conflicting opinions about zero tolerance. It argues that the research available shows a clear need for a change in how zero tolerance policies are applied and a need for various alternatives. The paper includes tables and survey statistics to illustrate this. To conclude, the paper suggests that now is the time to make adjustments in policy, practice and research to implement policies that can keep schools safe and preserve the opportunity for all students to learn.
Outline:
Introduction
Statement of Purpose
Review of Literature
History of Zero Tolerance
Perceptions of Teachers, Administrators and Parents
Suspension and Expulsion
School Shootings
Negative Impact of Zero Tolerance
Alternatives to Zero Tolerance Policies
Conclusion
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"A particular strategy that has caught the attention of many school districts in the last two decades or so is the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy has become a one-size-fits all solution to all the problems facing schools. Skiba (2000) offers this definition for zero tolerance...it is "a method of sending a message that certain behaviors will not be tolerated, by punishing all offenses severely, no matter how minor". The said purpose of the zero tolerance policy is to create a safe and secure learning environment for all students, something that is in fact a right of all students and parents to expect from any educational institution. However, in practice, it has been used to direct students who misbehave intentionally, targets serious risk students who cause disturbances in schools, and applied to students who have an emotional problem or other disability (Noguera 2003)."
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Global Warming: Literature Review, 2005.
A brief literature review of the studies which have been performed about global warming.
1,021 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that much of the current existing literature on global warming is based on the same preliminary studies, focuses on the same or similar elements and in general demonstrates considerable shortcomings in forming a comprehensive understanding of the overall problem of climate change.
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"Global warming is a hot topic. Literature, publications, and opinion pieces on global warming appear almost daily in news sources and academic journals. The Internet is also replete with sources on the topic of global warming. Because global warming affects the Arctic at a far faster and more intense rate than it affects other parts of the globe, global warming in the arctic deserves far more media attention than it has received thus far. Nevertheless, many articles in trade publications can help researchers initiate a study of global warming in the arctic. Perhaps because the arctic is relatively uninhabited, the effects of global warming do not seem as severe there as they might in more populous regions of the globe. However, studies show that the Arctic exhibits the early warming signs of global warming before they reach the rest of the inhabited world. Based on a literature review conducted on the Internet, global warming in the Arctic deserves more attention and research."
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Literature Review and Analysis: Culture and Development, 2008.
A review of literature regarding childhood development in diverse cultural contexts.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 72.95
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The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of cultural variations on childhood development, by looking closer at the research that already exists on the topic. It holds that existing literature does not pay enough attention to the impact of culture, especially regarding the parent-child relationship, on developmental psychology. While the role of parenting has been long recognized as an important component in development, this recognition has existed mostly devoid of cultural context. The paper argues that culture does have an influence on development, and will consequently have an influence on any planned intervention strategy. The paper concludes that what is critically needed is further research into the subject to demonstrate statistically viable methods for conducting important therapies and interventions in different cultural settings that are backed by legitimate theory and research.
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Introduction
Literature Review and Analysis
Current Limitations of Family Therapy Theory
Importance of Cultural Context
Emerging Picture of Culture's Effects
Conclusion
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"On a theoretical level, developmental psychologists and theorists have been plagued by the same impulses that beset researchers in most disciplines: the desire to devise a single, all-encompassing theory. What dedicated researcher doesn't dream of a single theory that can provide all of the answers for all of the questions that have been (and will be) asked? This impulse has led to the creation of many theories, such as attachment theory, that strive toward a grand theory of development. But attachment theory has been exaggerated in its usefulness to explain actual instances of childhood development. Lamb (2005) concludes that development is much too complex, owing largely to the complicating effects of culture, to be easily reduced to a single theoretical approach. Contrary to the tenets of attachment theory, empirical data has consistently shown that there is more to development than just the parent-child relationship (though, admittedly, this is an important component)."
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Psychological Interrogation & False Confessions: A Literature Review, 2001.
A review of literature on psychological interrogation methods, false confessions and their implications.
4,738 words (approx. 19.0 pages), 28 sources, APA, $ 121.95
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The paper shows that while the use of psychological interrogation methods is currently permissible by the courts in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S.A., many researchers argue that psychological interrogation is, in essence, no different than blatant coercion. Confession Law has slowly evolved over time alongside the evolution of interrogation methods. The paper discusses how prior to the 18th Century, English Common Law accepted confessions without any restrictions, which allowed confessions extracted through torture to be accepted as viable representations of objective truth. Today, the bottom line on the admissibility of confessions is that they are "typically excluded if elicited by physical violence, by a threat of harm or punishment, by a promise of leniency or immunity from prosecution, or by failure to notify a suspect of his or her constitutional rights to counsel and silence" (Kassin & McNall, 1991). The paper shows that despite these seemingly stringent laws regarding the admissibility of confessions, psychological interrogation methods are adept at circumventing the law, and continue to employ methods that run the risk of eliciting false confessions. This paper reviews the literature on Psychological Interrogation methods, false confessions and the implications of both.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Psychological Interrogation Tactics
Inside the Interrogation Room
Custodial Legal Advice & The Right to Silence
Psychological Interrogation Functioning as Coercion
Police Interrogations and Confessions
Communicating Promises and Threats by Pragmatic Implication
False Confessions
Occurrence of False Confessions
Creation of False Confessions
An Empirical Study On Recall
Discourse Study
Interrogative Suggestibility & Delinquent Boys
Psychological Characteristics of False Confessors
Consequences of False Confessions
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"Interrogation, as defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is the act of "questioning; formally and systematically." Interrogations within criminal justice systems are used to gather information relevant to investigations, and more importantly, to elicit confessions from suspects. Methods of interrogation have changed drastically throughout history, but the ultimate goal of obtaining confessions has held constant. While the whips and chains of the past have now exited the western world's interrogation rooms, many scholars argue that today's suspects are still subjected to psychological tortures. Psychological Interrogation is the most recent approach used by law enforcement officials to extract information from suspects."
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Pregnant Women Abuse: Literature Review, 2005.
An examination of the literature regarding abuse of pregnant women.
2,874 words (approx. 11.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 85.95
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This paper provides a thorough literature review about the abuse of women during pregnancy. The paper brings in several sources and then offers a brief discussion and conclusion regarding the issue.
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"In conclusion, notwithstanding the need for better study methodology and more reliable research from which to draw empirical data about abused pregnant women, the Gazmararian article does make several points worth mentioning: 1) an estimated 4% to 5% of all pregnant women have violence visited upon them; 2) violence is associated with "unintended pregnancies"; 3) improved knowledge of risk factors for violence "is critical for effective intervention design and implementation.""
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IIP: Literature Review, 2004.
This paper discusses the Investors in People (I.I.P.) initiative in the United Kingdom.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 24 sources, $ 143.95
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This article contains a literature review of the Investors in People (I.I.P.) initiative in the United Kingdom. The writer looks at the goals of the I.I.P. initiative. The writer also examines the development of this initiative. After portraying the main principles of the I.I.P., the writer examines different perspectives.
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"The Investors in People (I.I.P.) initiative is sponsored by the government of the United Kingdom (U.K.). The initiative seeks to improve the management of human resources through a framework of best practices implemented by organizations The driving principle of Investors in People is that investment in the training and development of people is essential to business success. The I.I.P. initiative was developed in consultation with the Confederation of British Industry C.B.I. and the Trade Unions Congress T.U.C. ... "
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Literature Review of Business Intelligence, 2008.
A review of how information technology assists managers in dashboard or scorecard created businesses.
2,694 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 80.95
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The paper evaluates the competitive advantage of organizations that focus on dashboard and scorecard technologies, through the use of business intelligence (BI) processes. The paper states that companies from service industries rely on an analytics platform that unifies all their databases and systems into a single BI strategy. The paper highlights the fact that dashboards and scorecards are used for organizing the metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) within Web-based applications that are viewed in all organizations. The paper then concludes that, as a result of their pervasive reporting, functionality and increase in accountability over results, dashboards and scorecards are changing the culture of many organizations.
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Synopsis
The Return on Investment (ROI) of Dashboards and Scorecards
Competitive Advantages of Dashboards and Scorecards
More precise supply chain planning and management alleviating out-of-stock conditions and more optimal inventory management
Manufacturing performance transformed from being a cost center to a source of competitive advantage through the use of dashboards and scorecards
Measuring the impact and ROI of marketing and sales strategies in real-time for competitive advantage
Conclusion
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"The unmet needs that dashboards and scorecards are created to address often serve as the catalyst for line-of-business managers asking for them to be created in their organizations. Yet to get a dashboard or scorecard created, line-of-business managers nearly always must rely on their Information Technologies (IT) department to analyze the underlying processes that the dashboard will be used to provide information for, then a systems analysis and development plan must be created to integrate systems that may not be interlinked or integrated today (Hedgebeth, 2007). This second step is essential for getting the necessary data into a single system of record (Pestorius, 2007) so that the necessary metrics and KPIs can be calculated and then published into the dashboard or scorecard. Software companies that produce BI applications and tools have continually been adding to the feature set of integration utilities, beginning to offer Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) workflow tools that are used to streamline the underlying processes dashboards and scorecards are used for reporting from (Burns, 2005). As a result of these developments in integration functionality, feature sets, and the use of BI applications to streamline processes through BPM and BPR functions, the costs of BI applications that are used for creating dashboards and scorecards has dropped significantly in the last three years (Gantovich, 2007) and is now hovering in the $100,000 range for entire BI suites of applications that make it possible to create dashboards and scorecards relatively quickly. The integration of BPM, BPR and BI, including the ability to quantify the pay-off of redefining key processes that accounting, financial, operations, marketing, sales and service departments of an organization rely on is becoming the new standard by which companies measure their dashboard and scorecard projects (Floyd, 2003). The underlying platforms used for supporting BPM and BI integration also include portal-based technologies at the presentation layers of their architectures, which also minimizes the time required on the part of IT staffs to implement dashboards and scorecards on the part of line-of-business managers (Politiano, 2007). Examples of these platforms includes Microsoft's SharePoint Services platform, oracle's Fusion platform that incorporates that company's acquisition of Hyperion BI applications, and SAP's NetWeaver Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), all of which support analytics functionality as a foundational part of their architectures (Howson, 2007). Dashboards are proliferating throughout organizations globally due to the economies of BI applications and the opportunity IT departments see for being able to re-define processes that have been need in improvement (Williams, 2007). The impact of this proliferation of dashboards within many organizations is an accentuated level of accountability and performance measurement, in addition to urgency around tactics that increase the KPIs performance of interest in the short term (Dover, 2004). The competitive advantage that emanates from the rapid ROI which is attainable through the development, deployment and use of dashboards are discussed in the following section of this paper, yet the immediate gain is averting risks from making decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information versus the use of real-time data. "
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Literature Reviews, 2005.
A collection of short essays analyzing a variety of short stories.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper consists of five separate, two page, mini-assignments. Each paper deals with short stories and ranges across at least twenty different authors. The topics of the essays range but generally have to do with topics such as tone, plot structure, language and dialect, narrative form, and convention. The papers provide textual examples from many of the short stories.
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"Five Literature Assignments Study Guide 6: Conventional Versus Experimental Of the following five stories, two can be classified as realistic and conventional, while the three others should be considered experimental or surrealist. This study will examine some of the textual evidence from these stories to demonstrate why I have decided to classify each one as I did. The five stories in question include: "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, "Women from America" by Bessie Head, "Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe, "Night Woman" by Edwidge Danticat, and "The End of the Duel" by Borges. Four of the classifications will seem relatively self-evident, while my decision to call "Night Woman" experimental might seem a bit more questionable. To begin, consider the two stories that I feel are more traditional and realistic than the others. These are "Woman from America" by Head and "Civil Peace" by Achebe."
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Review of Storytelling as Literature, 2002.
Examines the value and impact of storytelling on society.
4,288 words (approx. 17.2 pages), 17 sources, APA, $ 113.95
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The first part of this paper studies the literature examining hidden meanings, cultural norms and morals that are embedded in myths and fairy tales. The second part of the paper looks at how these meanings and cultural norms get imbued and reproduced in the minds of their audience ? primarily children.. In the third part, this paper looks at how psychologists like Bruno Bettelheim maintain that storytelling can serve a therapeutic value for the individual. Finally, the paper studies literature concerning how myths also serve an ideological purpose and, through critical appropriation, how these stories could also have a subversive value.
Storytelling Review of Literature
Cultural Meanings
Transmission of Cultural Norms
Therapeutic Uses of Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales as Ideology
Critical Appropriations
Conclusion
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"One aspect common to all cultures is the aspect of mythology. In The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell (1988) defines a myth as ?stories about gods? (22). These stories, however, serve two distinct functions. Myths serve to explain natural phenomena and help people to locate their place within the natural order. Myths also serve a sociological purpose, by linking a person to a particular social group."
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A Review of Literature Concerning the War on Drugs, 2004.
Critical review of a book and an essay that concern the crime epidemic sweeping through an increasingly globalized economy.
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper presents a review of the book, "Wages of Crime: Black Markets, Illegal Finance and the Underworld Economy" by R.T. Naylor, and a review of an essay by Bruce Bagley entitled, "Globalization, Weak States and International Organized Crime". Both works discuss the increasing globalization of crime and how government offices are attempting to deal with the problem.
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"He later argues that two assumptions of the current war on drugs: (1) that cartels are ?goose-stepping? across the world stage, and (2) that globalization has been a godsend to international crime, are false. He argues throughout the book that organized crime has always been part of society, and that ?globalization? as a term means nothing more than the ?process that began as far back as Marco Polo; it is the process by which information about trade spreads across national and international frontiers, and goods and money soon follow? (Naylor, 2002; 5): under this definition, he argues, globalization has not eased the criminals? lot, rather, the organizations just continue as they ever did."
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?Literature; Ancient Greek Literature?, 2002.
A discussion of the relationship between ancient Greek burial and death rites and ancient Greek literature.
1,409 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper focuses upon illustrating the relevance of the obvious emphasis and taboo regarding Greek burial or death rites as it is portrayed in a significant amount of ancient Greek literature. It examines how literature has long been a relevant source that historians as well as other scholars can turn to so as to glean at least a marginal understanding regarding the societal norms of the era or culture in particular.
Outline
Introduction
Generalities Regarding Ancient Greek Burial Rites
Relevance of Literary Illustrations Regarding Ancient Greek Perspectives on Death
Burial Rites Within Ancient Greek literature
Conclusion
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"One of the first things that essentially needs to be taken into consideration is that, as a result of their significantly un-advanced and superstitiously primitive preconceptions and beliefs, that nearly all kinds of ancient literature is tinged, to some degree or another, with elements of the super natural or paranormal. The occult, witches, curses and ghosts, all are things that are mentioned, with varying degree of figurativeness and realism, within ancient British as well as Greek literature. Moreover, there appears to be a particular degree of emphasis upon the relevance and effectuality of such things as oaths and curses, especially in regard to the likes of such being implemented in concern to a particular person?s death or burial. This something that is quite strongly portrayed when Euripides? Hippolytus, the protagonist within the play, reasserts his confidence to his father in so much as taking an oath that in death may neither sea nor earth receive my flesh, if I have proved false (Lawson, 1964)."
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Psychological Theories, 2005.
This paper is a literature review focusing on the attachment theory and existential humanistic theories emphasizing play therapy theories.
4,380 words (approx. 17.5 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 115.95
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This paper explains that the attachment theory demonstrates that attachment is not a race or culturally specific phenomenon because it is an instinctive, biological motivated need, which all humans have and use to adapt to their environment during the earliest stages of development. The author points out that the combination of humanistic and existential psychotherapies offers a wide range of approaches in case conceptualization, therapeutic goals, intervention strategies and research methodologies. The paper relates that play therapy is a psychoanalytic tool, which is based on the assumption that a child's internal issues can be tied to various unconscious conflicts and deficits, which reveal themselves during play sessions.
Table of Contents
Overview of the Content of the Literature Review
Purpose of the Literature Review
Scope of the Literature Review
Parameters and Limitations of the Review
Attachment Theory
Existential Humanistic Theories
Existentialism
Humanistic Psychology
Play Therapy
Existential Therapy for Alice: A Case
Conclusion
Gaps in the Literature
Considerations for Alice
Final Comments and Reflections on the Literature from the Researchers
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"Attachment theory is one of the key theories associated to the study of developmental psychology and is considered an extension of psychoanalytic theory. It was Sigmund Freud who first understood by his observing children's attachment to their primary care givers which became the foundation for the model of a child's attachment throughout adult life. Later, John Bowlby's theories of attachment added to this original concept. Considered the major theorist on attachment theory, Bowlby (1939) began explaining and developing attachment theory based on his observations and conclusions. Bowlby took a radical departure from Freud's model of the pleasure principle and focused on the social interactive aspects of attachments with specific focus on the infants need for safety and security."
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