Essays on Scarlet Fever

History of Psychology in Autobiography by Robert Yerkes, was an interesting read filled with insight. Personally, I found much of the overall writing style to be dry and lacking in narrative quality. It was stale and difficult to get through. However, this was not the general point of the reading and, if one kept this in mind and focused on the material, it made the reading more enjoyable. I must say I agree that the author’s father sounds like a bad influence, but I cannot understand why an individual who chose psychobiology as a career and studied it ...

In children, the presentation of a rash and a fever as in the case with this 24-month old patient is not normally a cause for concern and the early arrival at the clinic helps limit the spread of these symptoms to serious cases (Jarvis, 2015). In such instances, there are three major classifications; on in which the patient presents with a serious illness and may require immediate treatment, second where the viral syndromes are easily recognizable and manageable and third where there occurs an undifferentiated rash. In this patient, the rash and fever can be classified within the second ...

Intuition is the inner power of an individual that helps to connect with the environment (Osho, 1). However, there are the biological, social and scientific explanations that drive humans to ignore their intuitions, even in instances where the intuition could be actually correct. It is therefore important for individuals to understand what intuition is, and have the ability to differentiate it from wishful thinking, as the two can be really confusing. At times intuition can be wrong, just as it is occasionally correct. It would therefore be an act of undermining the inborn roots of knowledge to just ignore ...