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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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    To provide an opportunity for young people with special needs to interact and cooperate with other children their own age. I-PLAY also provides pre-service Physical Education teachers the opportunity to work with and gain experience from children with special needs‚ through planning and assisting throughout special designed Physical Education lessons. I-PLAY also encourages the families of the children with special needs to network and gain support from one another. (Tindall‚ 2014) 3. Client

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    PHYSICAL ABILITY Physical ability is the capacity to do tasks or perform any work that requires stamina‚ dexterity‚ strength‚ and similar characteristics. There are nine basic physical abilities that one should have. They are as follows: ▪ Strength Factors: • Dynamic strength • Trunk strength • Static strength • Explosive strength ▪ Flexibility Factors: • Extent flexibility • Dynamic flexibility

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    Evolutionary psychologists believe that aggression is linked through genes and has been maintained biologically as people have adapted to the changing physical and social demands of the environment. In the past‚ males that found other mates desirable found it necessary to compete with other males. The most successful male was the most aggressive. This aggressive behaviour made sure that the fittest males survived and were more successful in securing mates and passing on their genetic fitness to their

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    Outline and evaluate the evolutionary theory of human attachment 12 marks Bowlby put forward a theory of attachment based on the adaptive advantage we get through an innate tendency to form attachments with our caregiver. Bowlby adopted the idea of a critical period from ethologists like Lorenz and applied this to his explanation of how human infants form an attachment. The critical period hypothesis states that if you fail to attach between two and a half years‚ the child will suffer irreversible

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    Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory and Social-Shaping Theory: Suggesting Drivers of Technology Change Introduction Technologies has been intertwined with our lives since the early days of mankind (MacKenzie and Wajcman‚ 1999)‚ when stones where used as a cutting tool. Over time this ‘cutting tool’ was improved‚ substitutes were developed and the usage of some substitutes stopped; the technology changed. This is just one minor example of a technology change‚ many have taken place and will

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    todays society one can argue that people with disabilities are incapable of physical activity. They could also argue that there is a rational justification as to why people with disabilities cannot do such a thing. Adapted Physical Activity is a cross-disciplinary profession which advocated the benefits of exercise and sport for personal growth amongst a person with a health‚ as well to improve social acceptance and opportunity. Having a physical disability is no different. There have been social

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    Adapted physical activity is a cross-disciplinary field of study that is still relatively new promotes an active‚ healthy lifestyle by remediating psychomotor problem that interfere with goal achievement and self-actualization (Sherrill (1998)‚ Haegele‚ J.‚ Jihyun Lee‚ J.‚ & Porretta‚ D.‚ (2015)). Adapted physical education is a key factor of physical activity for many children. “Physical Education is potentially the main source of physical activity and development of physical skills for many children

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    Introduction There are many theories given by different group of researchers about the existence of multinational enterprises or MNE’s. According to John Cantwell‚ it was in the 1970’s and 1980’s that many theories on MNE’s were proposed. These theories were either general theories of MNE’s which were called the main institution for international production or the theories on foreign direct investment‚ the means by which international production is done ( Pitelis‚ Christos N. and Sugden‚ Roger

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    The Role of Primate Sociality in Evolutionary Theory Introduction Some animals‚ and more specifically primates‚ have been noted for having brains of an uncommonly large size. One explanation for this phenomenon is the ‘social brain’ or ‘social intelligence’ hypothesis‚ which states that brain sizes have increased in order to handle the demands of sociality (Lindenfors 2005; Pérez-Barbería et al. 2007). The increase in brain size can be attributed to the computational power needed to track

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