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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Essay: a) Outline explanations of group display in humans (15 marks) b) Criticially evaluate one or more of your explanations of group display in humans (10 marks) Part A Group display of aggression (behaviour with intent to harm) in ancestors has been seen as an adaptive response‚ promoting inter-group harmony and mutual defence. Lynch mobs have been explained by social transition and the need for conformity‚ for example‚ Myrdal (1944) found that black lynchings in the USA were due to fear
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Zack Period 5 Sports psych November 19th 2013 Aggression Essay Aggression is a natural human behavior‚ that is shown in many different ways depending on the people. Most are able to control it‚ but there will always be outliers in every situation. A big topic of discussion on aggression is if sports make us more aggressive than we should be‚ and if violent sports should be discouraged. A good example of aggressive and violent activity by an athlete is Michael Vick and his dog fighting
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To extend Gerbner’s definition of violence‚ I selected 4 television programs to count verbal as well as physical aggression in these TV shows. One of the many educational television programs that I selected was Barney. To my opinion Barney did not contain any verbal or physical aggressive behavior. This show taught children how to live with one another and how to avoid aggression. I also chose one child’s cartoon which is an all-time favorite Tom and Jerry. Tom and Jerry contained at least 10
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Problem of Institutional Virtue Philosopher Miranda Fricker attempts to make a connection between epistemic justice and the ideal of political freedom in her essay‚ Epistemic Justice as a Condition of Political Freedom? She demonstrates that individuals must not face epistemic injustice when an institution interferes on its citizens’ liberty. She proposes a solution that consists of a collective ethos within institutions. In the essay titled‚ Generic Liberal Ideals and the Problem of Institutional Virtue
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Anger and Aggression Everyone feels anger or aggression many times in the day. This happens all of the time. We all face the same challenge of trying to control our temper. It may be easier for some people than it is for others. Holding anger in is bad and unhealthy for your body. If you let the anger build up it could go from just being a verbal argument to a point in which someone or something is hurt or destroyed. When you look into a problem more closely you can control you anger better. You
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Outline and assess Functionalist explanations of crime and deviance. This question includes assessment of your understanding of the connections between crime and deviance and sociological theory. Functionalist explanations of deviance begin with society as a whole looking for the origins of deviance in the nature of society‚ not the biological or psychological make up of an individual. Functionalists favour quantative methods to look at society‚ using statistics to see society as a whole‚ rather
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In 1974 the researchers Baddeley and Hitch argued that the picture of short-term memory (STM) provided by the Multi-Store Model was far too simple. Following the Multi-Store Model‚ it is believed that STM holds limited amounts of information for short periods of time with relatively little processing‚ it is believed to be a unitary store. This means that due to its single store it has no subsystems‚ unlike the Working Memory Model which has many subsystems. This proves that the Working Memory is
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Asch carried out an experiment in 1951 to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. Asch used a lab experiment‚ where 50 male students from a college in the USA participated in a ‘vision test’. Using a line judgement test‚ one of the more naïve participants was put in a room with 7 confederates. The confederates had agreed in advance what their responses would be involving the line task. The real participant didn’t know this‚ and was led
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In this essay I will be evaluating the claim that Person-Centred therapy offers the therapist all that they will need to treat clients. I will examine both sides of the theory‚ to include looking at the weaknesses and criticisms of person-centred therapy by other writers and weigh these up‚ along with the strengths of using person-centre therapy and when it will be most suited to treat certain disorders. I will also look at Carl Rogers in more depth with his views‚ responses and
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