Institutional Racism After reading the article on the Huffington Post titled Institutional Racism I see that this type of Racism is still running rampant in our American society. The article notes that “The old definition of institutional racism is simply put as racism that is done by habit‚ rather than one that is done by intent.” (Slayton‚ 2009‚ para. 3) This form of Institutional Racism is found within our political system‚ watched daily by the way that the right-wing conservatives speak
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Outline and evaluate research into the duration of memory (12 marks) Peterson and Peterson researched into the duration of the STM. They used trigrams and asked their participants to recall them after a retention interval‚ the retention interval was different every time. They found that after 3 seconds participants could recall about 90% correctly but after 18 seconds only 2% could be recalled correctly. Peterson and Peterson concluded that the STM has a limited duration and when rehearsal is
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Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic approach to abnormality The psychodynamic approach to abnormality assumes that unconscious desires and memories influence behaviour and may lead to abnormality. It claims that personality develops in the childhood through a number of psychosexual stages and that too much or too little pleasure at one of these can lead to fixation and abnormal behaviour. For example‚ between the ages of two and four‚ children are in the anal stage- too much focus on holding in
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Outline and evaluate sociological views on the role of the family in society (33 marks) There are three main different sociological view points on how sociologists view the family these are Functionalist‚ Marxist and Feminist Views. The functionalists think the role of the family is extremely important and that the nuclear family is the best form‚ they think the nuclear family runs more smoothly as they learn the correct norms and values so our society can live in a consensus
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appeared to be according to adults. This was still true when the quality of the day-care and the family background etc. was taken into account. Yet NICHD also found that kids who spent ten to thirty hours in day-care did not show any higher levels of aggression. Another of NICHD’s findings was that a mother’s sensitivity was more important that the time a child spends in day-care. A more sensitive mother linked to fewer behavioural problems as was higher family income
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Outline and evaluate the biological model of abnormality (12 marks) The biological model of abnormality is the idea that all behaviour is rooted in underlying physical processes. The biological model of abnormality assumes that there is a physiological reason for psychological disorders. The disorders are considered an illness and supposedly make a person with these ’disorders’ abnormal. The model indicates that mental illnesses resemble physical illnesses and are thought to be treated in a similar
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Freud believed that aggression was a normal but unconscious impulse that is repressed in well-adjusted people. However‚ if the aggressive impulse is particularly strong or repressed to an unusual degree‚ then some aggression can ‘leak’ out of the unconscious and the person may be aggressively against a random‚ innocent victim. Freud called this displaced aggression‚ and this theory might explain an attack of ‘senseless’ violence‚ labeling it as aggression that was too repressed and has broken through
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blindfolded to the “prison”‚ stripped and sprayed with disinfectant‚ given smocks to wear and their prison number to memorize. There were guards on duty and they wore green khaki uniforms and aviators and carried wooden batons. There was no physical aggression allowed. The guards then ended up harassing and humiliating the prisoners and each conformed to their perceived roles‚ this caused the experiment to be discontinued after six days‚ out of the original two-weeks. The prisoners rebelled against the
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Describe and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia Research has shown that schizophrenia is heredity and can runs in families. This suggests that genes play a significant role. The closer the genetic relationship the more likely the people are to share the disorder. Evidence from family studies by Gottesman showed that when bothparent are schizophrenic then there is a 46% chance of the child getting it‚ however‚ if only one parent had it‚ it dropped to 17%. This suggests
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OUTLINE AND EVALUATE TWO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOICAL THEORIES OF AGGRESSION The first psychological theory of aggression is the social learning theory. This uses the principles of Bandura’s Bobo Dolls experiment which involved children observing aggressive and non-aggressive adults and then acting themselves. Those in the aggressive condition displayed aggression whilst the other children showed virtually no aggression. The four conditions which have been found to be effective for social learning are: attention;
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