Outline and evaluate neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression. There are two main biological explanations to aggression‚ neural and hormonal. The neural explanation is the serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters and how they affect our aggression; the hormonal mechanisms are the testosterone and cortisol chemicals. Testosterone is a hormone that is more concentrated in men than in women as it is a male sex hormone‚ it is thought to influence aggression from a young age onwards‚ due to its actions
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Evaluate Freud’s psychodynamic theory. The godfather of psychology .as he has often been termed. Perhaps he was in his time. Sigmund Freud. Born in Freiberg‚ Morovia‚ to a poor family in the year 1856. His mother was 21 at the time of his birth‚ his father was 20 years her senior. Attitudes towards sex and women were very different at this time. Sex was very much taboo‚ women were treated as second class and children had no rights. Extreme double standards were normal‚ rich men would happily
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Outline & Evaluate one or more Explanations of Why People Obey. There are many reasons as to why people obey which have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the legal system in responding to changing community values in terms of achieving justice for family members. Although family law focuses on individual relationships and the achievement of just outcomes for the individual‚ the legal system also operates to provide a just outcome for society as a whole. In order to secure a just outcome for society‚ the legal system needs to operate as efficiently as possible; the law needs to remain contemporary‚ the law must be enforceable
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Evaluate Augustus’ relations with the Senate. After a century of civil wars and wide-spread fear and chaos‚ a new and promising leader arose‚ who‚ despite his comparably humble origins was soon to be called Augustus‚ the revered one‚ by the Senators. This once‚ dominant body placed hope in this single man and bestowed numerable honours upon him‚ concentrating the power of patronage and promotion through which he eventually outranked all the other Senators in the state. By general consent of the
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Critically evaluate the design argument The design argument‚ also known as the teleological argument essentially means that the universe and everything within it has a specific design and purpose. (Perry‚ Bratman‚ Fischer 57) The Greek term; ‘telos’ is the derivative form of teleology which means end or purpose. This argument is entirely a posteriori and we learn about the existence of God through experience and empirical knowledge. This argument was developed by Thomas Aquinas and his fifth version
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Evaluate the consequences of modernization for Japan The modernisation of Japan was an all or none matter. Either every aspect of the country had to be modernized to some extent‚ or no single aspect could be modernized. The four main aspects of Japan’s modernisation were industrialisation‚ political modernisation‚ education reform and military development. These four aspects had severe political‚ economic and social consequences on Japan. Some of the main political‚ economic and social consequences
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Evaluate Atheism as a philosophical perspective Atheism‚ meaning ’a belief without God’ is a belief that is becoming increasingly popular in the Western society. Essentially‚ some atheists claim to be anti-religion and reject religious dogmas; however‚ I should first establish that there are two different types of atheists. The first is known as positive atheism where the individual not only refute the arguments for the existence of God but also goes a step further to develop arguments. The second
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Evaluate possible economic policies‚ other than increasing the age limit‚ that a government might use to reduce significantly the consumption of alcoholic drinks. The market mechanism should allocate scarce resources to maximise consumer welfare. Alcohol is an example of a demerit good. A demerit good is one which is overprovided by the market mechanism. Apart from alcohol‚ drugs and prostitution are also examples of demerit goods. Consumption of these goods produces large negative externalities
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