Maggie Ritten Monday‚ September 30‚ 2013 Prof.Carrier Psych 108 In the articles I read‚ the origin of art is highly contested. However‚ that is irrelevant to the question of the evolutionary advantage of art creation. In strict Darwinian terms‚ selective advantage is a characteristic of an organism that enables it to survive and reproduce better than other organisms.1 Under this definition‚ there is a selective advantage for creating art. Creating art requires advanced cognitive dexterity
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Discuss one or more evolutionary explanations of group display in humans. (25 marks) Group display in humans has been studied by a variety of psychologists both classic and contemporary. Psychologists such as Le Bon believe that crowd behaviour is explained through the individual taking on the ‘psychology’ of the crowd’. Essentially‚ the actions of a crowd can be explained through situational factors‚ such as convergence in one location‚ or the result of normless situations where people look to
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Describe an enjoyable weekend you have experienced Everyone in his life experiences some memorable incidents‚good or bad.These could be the happiest‚the saddest‚ the funniest or the most enjoyable. One Sunday morning‚ I received an invitation from my friend‚Sudhir as i had come back from the United Kingdom to my native land.I woke up early in the morning and started preparing myself.My sister gave me a cup of tea early in the morning‚Then Itook my bath and got ready.I was anxious in getting
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Leading a Diverse Workforce 1.0 Introduction This report is an introduction to the circumstances of the diverse workforce. It explains the causes of diverse workforce leads into past‚ present trends. Where focus has centred on the consequences‚ there are some advantageous and disadvantageous outcomes which lead to “pay-off” of the organization. Therefore‚ discussion moves forward to the difficulties that managers would face and the management solution. The report concludes with a discussion
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.......................................... 1 EXTERNAL ANALYSIS............................................................................................................... 2 General Environment ................................................................................................................................ 2 Industry Environment ............................................................................................................................... 3 Competitor Analysis ..
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The Relevance of Anthropology in Diverse Career Paths College students who are pursuing academic inquiry frequently run into the difficult issue of choosing a major‚ which is a process filled with introspection and career aspirations. Finding a good academic route is a journey that continues outside of the classroom as people’s interests and goals change. In this context‚ transferable talents become invaluable assets that cut over discipline boundaries and provide a guide for a variety of professional
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1. Describe a range of appropriate investigative methods that can be used to explore diversity in a community. There are a number of different ways to investigate and expolore diversity within the local community and on to a larger scale‚ your town‚ city and even nation or country. These can be done by simple observations by one or more observer‚ either direct observations such as standing in a busy place and observing at a specific place over a particular time scale or collating data through
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07/09/12 Bowlby’s Evolutionary Theory “Babies’ smiles are powerful things‚ leaving mothers spellbound and enslaved. Who can doubt that the baby who most readily rewards his mother with a smile is the one who is best loved and best cared for?” – Bowlby‚ 1957. John Bowlby was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood. Bowlby’s evolutionary theory of attachment suggests that children come into the world biologically
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of postwar poets and in this reference she says: “They may have common aims - but this is something very different from that deliberate practice and promulgation of shared views which a true literary movement implies.” (10) Further she argues that: “it is the journalists‚ not the poets themselves‚ who have created the poetic movements of the Movements” (10).Talking about the poetry of the fifties and the Movement in her book Let’s Have some Poetry (1960) Jennings herself says that: “What is certain
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Characteristics that uniquely identify plants: they are autotrophic‚ non-motile‚ they are photosynthetic‚ contain chloroplast‚ perform alternation of generations‚ plants are deciduous or evergreen‚ and the type of leaf and stem structure they have (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_characteristics_do_all_plants_share). Most plants are autotrophic‚ meaning they are capable of producing their own food and nutrients themselves‚ synthesizing their own food from inorganic substances‚ by using light or
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