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    Learning

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    reflexes and instincts Learnt behaviour = classical conditioning ( conditioned stimuli) & instrumental learning ( discriminative stimuli) Stimulus Control - Habit Learning Motivation = Why individuals initiate choose or persist in specific actions in specific circumstance Motivation is transient / temporary fluctuation of state ( learning is enduring ) and it is energizing Motivation vs Learning: Car analogy - motivation translates learning into action 4 Theories on Motivation:

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    Camille Eastburn Professor Small Humanity and Nature in Literature 16 September 2014 The Instincts of Man An Analysis of “The Blue Hotel” Man has always thought of himself as a civilized and societal creature‚ that upholds wisdom‚ rationality‚ and virtuosity‚ and nothing like beastly nature. He has continuously thought of himself as not giving in to beastly “sins” and as advertising control over nature‚ and/or himself. In Steven Crane’s 1898 short story “The Blue Hotel”‚ man’s instinctual

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    The Anatomy of Decision

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    Ana Veras 1/30/2013 BUS 3302 Professor Ed Jaye Chapter 1 Summary The Anatomy of Decisions • In the real world managers are paid to make decisions on a daily basis‚ on how your firm’s resources are controlled to meet goals that have been set by higher managers or by yourself. • There are some essential characteristics that manager’s share when making a decision; they are usually made with someone else’s money and need to be justified‚ they build on one another‚ the outcome is important

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    Unit 1: Instinct and Culture Find examples to illustrate instinctive behaviour in animals. Dolphins swimming instantly after being born. Birds knowing where to migrate to. Bears knowing when to hibernate. Adult female mammals nurturing newborn offspring. Spider spindling its web. Dog shaking after it gets wet. Sea turtle seeking the ocean after hatching. Instincts are patterns of behaviour that are not the result of learning or experience. Reproduction‚ migration and hibernation

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    Lord of the Flies

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    In Lord of the Flies by William Golding‚ conflict between two instincts of civilization and savagery is the driving force of the novel‚ explored through the dissolution of the young English boys’ civilized moral behavior as they accustom themselves to a brutal barbaric life in the jungle.  As conflict rises between the groups of boys‚ a theme of polar opposites such as good vs. evil‚ order vs. chaos can be seen through the young men’s transparent demeanor. The central concern of Lord of the Flies

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    Why Women Smile

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    persistent smiling of women. Women smile “promiscuously” and often insincerely and the tradition of this behavior is heavily influence by the combination of social pressures in society and human biology. Women need to speak up and start fighting their instinct to smile constantly and say what’s really on their mind. “Why Woman Smile” discusses a woman’s smile and examines the natural and nurtured causes for the behavior. Cunningham approaches this topic from a logical‚ feminist’s perspective. Her stance

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    A Human Instinct

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    A human instinct The first thing we do when we meet someone new is‚ judge them. Judging others is almost an instinct to humans‚ we just can‘t help it. Observation is what “helps” us pass judgment on a person. Our observations play a big roll in the way we react to others. When we react to others we observe the way they interact‚ their physical appearance‚ and the way they dress. An introvert is a shy person‚ one who is concerned with his/her own thoughts and feelings. I am an introvert and I am

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    Western Front Youth

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    “lost generation”. Youth can be defined as the early period of existence and growth. These important years of development in Paul’s life have been replaced with roag animal instincts‚ loss sense of home‚ and the brutality of combat. For a soldier to survive battle he must turn off his mind full of fear and operate only on instinct‚ becoming less like a

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    The Large Ant

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    flying around simply trying to do its job. We do not see these as acts of violence but in there essence they are. Why is it that our first instinct is to kill them when they are not causing us any harm? Howard Fast builds on this idea within the theme of his short story The Large Ant‚ where the narrator kills a creature that resembles an ant‚ purely out of instinct. “‘This is to no purpose‚’ Fitzgerald put in. ‘We know why he killed it…The answer is very simple‚ Mr. Morgan. You killed it because

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    Call of the Wild

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    The Call of the Wild In the novel‚ The Call of the Wild‚ the author‚ Jack London‚ uses power in order to convey his theme of ancestral memory and primitive instinct to the reader. Throughout the novel‚ the protagonist‚ a large Saint Bernard named Buck‚ tries to find his place at the top of his community. London uses The Call of the Wild to display how people‚ or animals‚ want to dominate. From the beginning of the story when Buck is put into a group of mail running dogs‚ he is trying to come out

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