Parallel Perspectives There are various practices that study the way different notions between nature‚ human‚ and technology are connected. In fact‚ Evolutionary epistemology emphasizes its study in cognitive mechanism in both humans and animals‚ as wells as evolutionary biology based on the role of natural selection. Two philosophers and epistemologist‚ Heidegger and Foucault‚ present their perspective of this practice in different ways: Heidegger based his studies on a term known as “dasein” or
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Cognitive Functioning PSY/475 April 22‚ 2013 Cognitive Functioning Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory *Componential *Metacomponents *Performance *Knowledge-acquisition Speaker Notes: Sternberg’s Triarchic theory was first introduced around 1985 and has been widely used since. Sternberg believed that that intelligence has three facets to help understand the human mind (Hogan‚ 2007). There are many different sub-divisions and then some of those have subparts to them as well. The first is componential
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A Critique of the Person-Centred Therapy Introduction In this essay I intend to give an insight primarily to who “Carl Rogers” was and what he stood for. I intend to explore the principles of Person-Centred Therapy and demonstrate various concepts within this approach. I shall touch on the seven stages one goes through whilst attending therapy and how this may benefit both the Client and the Therapist‚ followed by the three primary core conditions plus Spirituality- the fourth condition of
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Consider applications to education (16 marks) AO2 Piaget believed in the progress of a child’s cognitive development through schooling and has an individualist approach in the way in which the child is an active participant and is responsible for their own learning. According to Piaget‚ cognitive development occurs as the result of maturation. You cannot teach a child certain activities before they are biologically ready‚ for example trying to reach a pre-operationalized child to perform abstract
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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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Rogers (1977)‚ views human nature as phenomenological‚ meaning that humans structure themselves according to their own perceptions of reality. The humanistic approach to psychotherapy focuses on the client striving for self-actualisation. Person-centred therapy aims for the client to achieve independence and integration by concentrating on their own growth‚ allowing wider understanding of their own problems (Rogers‚ 1977). The promotion of a growth-focused environment is vital for a client as stated
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Humanistic is a term in psychology relating to an approach which studies the person as a whole and the uniqueness of each individual. The main goals of this counselling approach are to find out how individuals perceive themselves here and now and to recognise their strengths‚ growth‚ self-direction and responsibilities. This approach is optimistic and attempts to help individuals by offering a non-judgemental‚ understanding experience. Unlike other therapies the client is responsible for improving
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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 and communication through display. Both of these skills are important towards survival and
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four-card problem. Explain what the results of experiments that have used abstract and concrete versions of the problem illustrate about how solving this problem is influenced by concreteness‚ knowledge of regulations‚ permission schemas‚ and an evolutionary perspective on cognition. As research shows that people are often better at judging the validity of syllogisms whem real world example are substituted for abstract symbols. Thus using Wason four-card problem to explain why the real world problem
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Running head: BIOLOGICAL AND HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY Mileva Repasky PSYC 250 Jean M. Porter University of Phoenix Personality can be defined as “the complex of all the attributes-behavioral‚ temperamental‚ emotional and mental-that characterizes a unique individual.” (Princeton University‚ n.d.) Personality has been studied and explained for a long time and is linked directly to Maslow’s humanistic and biological theories. This paper seeks to describe the biological
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