the differences of legal and ethical decisions as "morally ordinary" and "extraordinary" treatment related to the provision of assisted nutrition and hydration‚ particularly for patients in a "permanent vegetative state" (p.894). Metaethics is a nonnormative ethic that attempts to describe the implication
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PYC2602 - Summary of A child’s world - Papalia et al Cpts 1‚2‚3 THE STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: BASIC CONCEPTS THE STUDY OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT: THEN AND NOW • Child Development: Scientific study of processes of change & stability in human children. • Quantative change Change in number/amount eg height‚ size of vocabulary‚ frequency of communication tends to be continuous • Qualitative change Change in kind‚ structure & organization Discontinuous Marked by the emergence of new phenomena that cannot
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Concepts of Age and Demographics: The _____________ perspective views people as if they are machines. Mechanistic. From the mechanistic perspective‚ people are viewed as reacting automatically to physical forces‚ as behaving in predictable ways‚ and as being a sum of their parts. The ____________ perspective views people as developing‚ maturing‚ and changing over time. Organismic. From the organismic perspective‚ people are seen as maturing and changing as they progress through set development
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adulthood Throughout the entire life cycle 2. By age 50‚ many people need reading glasses or bifocals to improve their vision. This physiological change is a good example of a: A B C D Nonnormative life event Multidirectional influence on development Normative age-graded influence on development Nonnormative age-graded influence on development 3. If people today decide to marry and raise children‚ they do so later in life. In the 1950s‚ it was common for people to marry and have children
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it. 4. What is meant by: age-graded influence‚ history-graded influence‚ non-normative influence? Events that are strongly related to age and therefore fairly predictable in when they occur and how long they last are called age-graded influences. History-graded influences explain why people born around the same time-called a cohort- tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times. Nonnormative influences are events that are irregular: They happen to just one person or
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PSY402: Adult Development Week 1‚ Fall 2012 Themes and Issues in Adult Reading: Chapter 1 Introduction: à Aging affects every individual (from the time we are born to the day we die) à In order to have a healthier and better aging process‚ we should incorporate behaviours and activities designed to maintain high levels of functioning well into the later decades of life For ex. smoking and drinking alcohol can/may decrease your lifespan Another ex. exercising and having a healthy diet may
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PART ONE Social and Historical Constructions of Gender Why start an introduction to women ’s studies textbook with a discussion of science and medicine? If we begin our study of women ’s lives by considering what makes women and men distinct in different cultures and time periods‚ we first have to ask what counts as difference. Many people think that biology answers such a question once and for all. But science (including biology) has a history. People produce ideas and methods for science based
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Journal of Experimental Psychology‚ 3‚ 159-182. Cialdini‚ R. B.‚ & Goldstein‚ N. J. (2002). The science and practice of persuasion. Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly‚43(2)‚ 40-50. Deutsch‚ M. & Gerard‚ H. B. (1955). A study of normative and informational social influences upon individual judgment. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology‚ 51‚ 629-636 Festinger‚ L Festinger‚ L. (1954). A theory of social comparison processes. Human Relations‚ 7‚ 337-360. Griffith‚ T. L.‚ Fichman
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What are the developmental stresses (age-related) and contextual stresses (nonnormative) in Lupe’s life at the present time? Consider her age‚ family role‚ and cultural context. The developmental stresses Lupe is dealing with now is age-related. Lupe is a 45-year-old women who has been taking care of all her love ones her whole life up to this point while at the same time raising her two children on her own. Lupe recently started to think about all the things she missed out on throughout her life
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Question 1: What is Baxter’s Conclusion? Baxter’s conclusion is that the needs of man should dictate the state of nature. (People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution‚ William F. Baxter‚ 1974. Columbia University Press‚ New York. Page 383 All page citations below are from this source) Question 2: What are Baxter’s Premises? Baxter’s first premise is that there is no morally correct state of nature to which we should return (383). Baxter’s second premise is that present controversy over
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