Health David Sweet Edition No: Social Trends 41 Editor: Jen Beaumont Office for National Statistics Social Trends 41 Health ISSN 2040–1620 ST41 Copyright and reproduction A National Statistics publication © Crown copyright 2011 National Statistics are produced to high professional You may re-use this information (not including logos) standards set out in the Code of Practice for Official free of charge in any format or medium‚ under the terms Statistics
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The restoration theory of sleep function is carried out by Oswald‚ who argues that the purpose of sleep is to restore depleted energy reserves‚ eliminate waste products from muscles‚ repair cells and recover physical abilities that have been lost during the day. Evidence for this theory is firstly by Shapiro‚ who found that people who ran an ultra marathon slept 1.5 hours longer then they did two nights following the race. In addition‚ stage four occupied a much greater proportion of the total sleep
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Explain the principle psychological perspectives – Social Learning The influence of individuals The key principals of the learning theory is when a child sees certain displays or acts of behaviour‚ that they are more likely to copy it. He argued that we learn through a process of imitating role models‚ but that we also imitate the actions that are seen that could be a possible interest. (Bandura‚ 1961) conducted a study to investigate if social behaviours such as aggression can be acquired by imitation
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Narcissism: Psychological Theories and Therapeutic Interventions in the Narcissistic Disorders Introduction Understanding the Narcissistic Phenomenon The so called "narcissistic personality disorder" is a complex and often misunderstood disorder. The cardinal feature of the narcissistic personality is the grandiose sense of self importance‚ but paradoxically underneath this grandiosity the narcissist suffers from a chronically fragile low self esteem. The grandiosity of the narcissist
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Glion Institute of Higher Education Aggression and Gender Diversification Social and Developmental Psychology Maria Zubova Table of Contents Introduction 2 General understanding of aggression 3 Images of men and women in media 4 Aggression as a chemical process in men and women 5 Aggression as a symptom 7 Conclusion 11 List of references 12 Appendixes 15 Introduction There has been a significant development in fields of gender diversification for the past years
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Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia (8 marks AO1/16 marks AO1) Schizophrenia is classified as a mental disorder that shows profound disruption of cognition and emotion which affects a person’s language‚ perception‚ thought and sense of self. The dopamine hypothesis states that schizophrenic’s neurones transmitting dopamine release the neurotransmitter too easily‚ leading to the characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia. This hypothesis
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SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY Social contract theory (or contractarianism) is a concept used in philosophy‚ political science and sociology to denote an implicit agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens‚ or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members‚ or between individuals. All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society without violating the contract;
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understanding of this concept. Henri Taijfel’s social identity theory proposed that instead of seeing identity as individualistic it should be looked at in terms of social processes. He and other social identity theorists suggest that identity can be divided into two broad categories. The first is our personal identity‚ with regard to who we are in terms of our personal relationships and our individual personal behaviour. The second being our social identity‚ which is who we are in terms of the
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Outline and evaluate the role of neural mechanisms in eating behaviour AO1: One way in which eating behaviour is controlled is by a process called homeostasis. This involves mechanisms which both detect the state of the internal environment and also correct the situation to restore that environment to its optimal state. The body has evolved two separate systems‚ one for turning eating on and another for turning it off. Glucose levels play an important role in producing feelings of hunger. When
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Explain and Evaluate Critically Malthus’s Population Theory. In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus‚ a British clergyman and professor‚ wrote an essay showing the way to modern demography. In 1824 he wrote a shorter final version‚ the article on population for that year’s Encyclopedia Britannica. Malthus has been criticized for his lack of scientific foresighthe did not foresee modern advances leading to increased life expectancy‚ food production and birth control. He has been criticized for his
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