Week Two Quiz – Biological Basis of Behavior Instructions: Each question is worth 2 points. Type your answers in the space adjacent to each question. Submit as an attachment in your assignment link. 1. The brain’s ability to adapt to new environmental conditions is called: Neural plasticity 2. Severe damage to the hippocampus will result in what effect on a person’s memory? People with severe damage to this area can still remember names‚ faces‚ and events that they recorded in memory
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Foundations of Psychology PSY300 January 14‚ 2013 Dan Erickson Ph.D. Foundations of Psychology Psychology represents a science that studies mental process as well as behaviors. To best understand mental processes and behaviors four major psychological schools of thoughts are applied; psychodynamic‚ behavioral‚ cognitive as well as evolutionary perspectives. Psychology has developed over years from having beginnings relating to philosophy to expanded studies of biopsychology. The four major
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Brittany Denza Professor Taylor Psych 1100 Exaptation: A variation of adaptation. An adaptation is a core construct in evolutionary psychology‚ which is a characteristic that a species has that promotes its survival. An exaptation is something that arises from a characteristic that you already have. A characteristic that you have is modified to promote your survival. It might not have been a primary future‚ but it is a characteristic that human beings have acquired over time that humans have
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professional career in baseball and football. Jackson’s biological father named A.D. Adams left him at a very young age and stopped by once a month to give the family twenty dollars (Hoffer). Jackson has a mother whose name is Florence Jackson (Jackson and Schaap 14). Jackson’s mother gave her everything for her kids working multiple jobs (49). Jackson never had a father figure in his life until he got to high school. Jackson blamed his biological father‚ A.D. Adams for all of the problems that Jackson
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"The Research workers investigating social problems are discovering that university graduates and school licentiates are not prepared for life ‚and‚ not only this but their capacity for engaging usefully in social work has been diminished" The Pr-school age " An interest in protecting the psychic life of babies‚ as a social problem ‚ does not exist.Besides‚ society proclaims that young children belong to the home and not to the state" "Various workers have made clear what
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Respectively‚ current theories of cognitive development need to recognize the significance of knowledge construction‚ emphasized by Piaget‚ along with the social world‚ mainly focused on by Vygotsky. Furthermore‚ modern theories have to be consistent with biological limitations regarding how the brain really learns. 3. How would Piaget explain the 30 month old child who sits in his/her high chair and repeatedly drops and watches Cheerios fall to the floor? Piaget would explain this as the third sensory-motor
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I believe that religion and spirituality play a major role in the understanding of human behavior. Religion and spirituality have been apart of human experience throughout the course of history‚ tapping into almost every aspect of life from cultural beliefs to the arts. Religion and spirituality encompass a world that goes beyond our general understanding of how and why by attaching a higher overall purpose and meaning that extends outside of our lives here on earth. I do not believe that an adequate
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South African Tertiary & Secondary Education Details Tertiary Education (Completed‚ 11/2009) : BA (Humanities) Degree University of Johannesburg Johannesburg‚ South Africa (Gauteng). Major Subjects : Psychology (III)‚ Development Studies (III) Other Subjects Passed : Anthropology (I&II) Sociology (I) Communication (I) Zulu (I) Secondary Education (Completed‚ 11/2004): St James College
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Career Development & Counseling: CNSL 665 BXA Assignment # 8 Due Date: Monday‚ November 7 or 14‚ 2011 Read Chapter 9: Career Counseling for Multicultural Groups Pages 210-234 Page 234: Supplementary Learning Exercises Do: # 2‚ 3‚ 7 2) How would you explain the difference between individualism and collectivism? A) In individualistic societies‚ the goals of individuals are valued more highly than the goals of the group. Individuals are rewarded for behaving
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Is homosexuality biological based? Homosexuality is biologically based. It’s not something someone gives a try and sees if they like it. Maybe the occurrences have something to do with the mother’s hormone levels when she is pregnant. I also think it is a little of both. Some cases it might be the X and Y thing and others it is probably just learned. I think most of the recent ones are probably learned because it is all over TV and everything. I just think it is ridiculous that they expect us
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