Selina Gunsauls Hasten Anthropology 1 17 March 2017 Natural Selection Explanation A species is a group of individuals that produces fertile offspring. A population is a group of the same organisms or species. The main source of genetic variation is meiosis. Within meiosis‚ fertilization occurs and creates variation. Within meiosis‚ although it is rare‚ mutations happen which can be also a source of variation. Gene flow‚ the movement of genes within multiple populations is another source of variation
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How do the four biological explanations fit together to explain schizophrenia or are they mutually exclusive? The biological explanation can be divided into subcategories to explain schizophrenia; genetic‚ biochemistry (dopamine hypothesis)‚ brain structure and season of birth explanation. Firstly there’s genetics. This view says some people posses certain genes that predispose them to schizophrenia. However‚ if schizophrenia was totally and always inherited then concordance rates between MZ
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Outline and assess Marxist explanations of the causes of crime (50 marks) It is to a large extent that Marxism is a useful theory in explaining the causes of crime. This is because it highlights the inequalities in society and how the ruling class owns the means of production. This fails to show reasons why not everyone is facing status frustration and lower income turn to crime. One way in which Marxism is a useful theory for explaining the causes of crime is the concept of capitalism‚ criminogenic
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like they could come from different people‚ staying very central and positive on their own thoughts. In this essay‚ an explanation will be done on the main points of Milton’s joyous poem‚ “L’Allegro”. Firstly‚ the introduction of “L’Allegro” talks about the underworld‚ which suggests that depression will send you to the underworld prematurely. To counteract this fate‚ Milton gives examples of Greek Gods who represent joy and fertility‚ which would suggest these same characteristics in life. In
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and is based on physiological responses. It has been suggested that there is a possible interaction between cognitive and biological processes that influence emotions. Le Doux’s theory of the biological pathways focuses solely on the biological explanation of emotion‚ whilst Lazarus’s theory focuses on the cognitive aspect by suggesting the idea of cognitive appraisals. It has been suggested that there are three components that includes physiological changes‚ which includes the arousal of the autonomic
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Explanations of forgetting Forgetting has multiple meanings in psychology‚ in general it refers to a person’s loss of the ability to recall or a thing they have already learned. This essay will examine the different explanations of forgetting – specifically trace decay‚ displacement‚ interference and/or cue dependent forgetting. Forgetting from STM is usually explained in terms of the information being removed from a limited capacity store. This is due to a lack of availability. The capacity and
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THEA Explanation: THEA‚ the Texas Higher Education Assessment‚ is a score-reporting program for Texas students to measure their readiness for college courses by testing their reading‚ mathematics‚ and writing skills that incoming freshman students should obtain before entering a college-level course in public Texas colleges. I was exempted from taking the THEA test because I passed and obtained higher scores of 2200 for my English and Math TAKS scores in my sophomore year. What does the
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to the Best Explanation is a type of abductive reasoning. In making this inference one infers‚ from the fact that a certain hypothesis would explain the evidence‚ to the truth of that hypothesis. In general‚ there will be multiple different hypotheses that might explain the evidence‚ so one must be able to decide which one is the correct hypothesis. One of the classic examples is how to explain wet grass. If the grass is wet‚ it probably rained. The Inference of the Best Explanation‚ one does not
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There are many sociological explanations for female inequality in society. Inequality is where something/ someone is seen as not equal compared to something else. For example men have more opportunities than women in life‚ suggesting females suffer huge inequality in many factors of life. Firstly‚ Anne Oakley speaks about how women suffer inequalities in the work place. Oakley notes that after the industrial revolution in Britain acts were passed to limit women working; in 1851 one in four married
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Explanations of conformity Why do we conform? Deutsch and Gerrard 1955 decided that there were 2 possible reasons why you would conform. They suggested that it was either due to Normative social influence or due to informational social influence. Normative social influence Need: - Humans have basic need to we want to feel accepted‚ approved and liked and as a member of a group How it leads to conformity: - in order to gain acceptance by others‚ we often conform to the
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