The Systematic Oppression of Jews in Nazi Germany The Holocaust will forever be remembered as the systematic genocide of the Jewish people‚ when approximately six million Jews in Europe were murdered under the Nazi regime. The question that comes to mind is why did nobody stop this event or speak against the horrors that occurred in the ghettoes or concentration camps? How could this happen in the 20th century‚ when the human race was thought to be evolved and modernized? It occurred because there
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Describe and evaluate evolutionary explanations of gender. [8 + 16] During the evolutionary adaptation time period‚ between 10-40 thousand years ago‚ our ancestors were hunter-gatherers. This created a division between men and women. The men would hunt for food and the women would be in charge of the domestic duties such as cleaning and cooking. Doing the domestic chores would have kept women more protected‚ as it is less strenuous and would have guarded the camp whilst the men were out hunting
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specific phobias are types of anxiety disorders caused by an excessive and persistent fear due to the presence or anticipation of a certain object or situation (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2013). Specific phobias are considered to fall under the category of anxiety disorders due to the severe anxiety and distress that one experiences from their extreme fear. Symptoms vary depending on the type of phobia that exists‚ but fears generally last 6 months before they are considered to be a phobia. Various
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Describe and evaluate any two theories in developmental psychology. By Aimee Kaur This paper will focus on two theories in moral development within developmental Psychology. There are three components to our morality; these are emotional‚ cognitive and behavioural. Shaffer (1993) described morals as a “set of principles or ideals that help the individual to distinguish right from wrong and to act on this decision” In his book ’The Moral Judgement of the Child’ (1932)‚ Piaget states that ’all
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Discuss the relationship between stress‚ anxiety‚ habits and phobias and describe how you would treat these issues with hypnotherapy. Introduction The above all form part of the human experience and are linked to one another by conditions that come down to what our minds are capable of doing to us‚ especially when it might involve losing our sense of reason. Our primal instinct provides us with a ‘fight or flight’ reaction‚ the outcome being dependent on the actual situation but nonetheless
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This essay will describe and evaluate Bowlby’s theory of attachment and maternal deprivation hypothesis. The essay will describe the two theories‚ weighing up the strengths and the weaknesses. It will include supporting research by Shaffer and Emerson‚ Ainsworth and Harlow‚ along with criticisms by Rutter. John Bowlby (1907-1990) was a child psychiatrist. He was psychoanalytically and medically trained. In 1945‚ after returning from serving in the armed forces medical service‚ he secured a position
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Classical Conditioning and Phobias Classical conditioning is a type of learning‚ discovered by Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov‚ which occurs between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus. The first stage of classical conditioning involves placing an unconditioned stimulus which produces an unconditioned response in an organism. In basic terms this means that a stimulus in the environment has produced an unlearned behaviour or response which is natural and has not been taught
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Describe and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia Research has shown that schizophrenia is heredity and can runs in families. This suggests that genes play a significant role. The closer the genetic relationship the more likely the people are to share the disorder. Evidence from family studies by Gottesman showed that when bothparent are schizophrenic then there is a 46% chance of the child getting it‚ however‚ if only one parent had it‚ it dropped to 17%. This suggests
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Describe and Evaluate two theories of the formation of romantic relationships In 1970 Byrne and Clore introduced the reward/ need satisfaction theory for the formation of relationships. They suggested that we are attracted to individuals whose presence is rewarding for us‚ and that naturally we find stimuli rewarding if it meets an unmet need; the more rewards someone provides for us‚ the more we should be attracted to them. They believed that the formation if relationships was linked with the
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INTRODUCTION Lawrence Kohlberg born in 1927 was an American Psychologist who led the movement in the study of moral development in the late 1950’s. He is an outstanding example of research in the Piagetian tradition. He set out to improve and extend the work of Piaget. His work focused on Moral Development and Moral reasoning and began to develop a stage theory of moral thinking. His theories were based on the way children‚ adolescents and adults develop moral reasoning. The first three of these
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