As an American born and raised‚ I can say without a shadow of doubt‚ that our country hold religion to the utmost regard. Anne Bradstreet‚ America’s first poet‚ endlessly expressed her religious beliefs as a Purtian throughout her writings. Though English by birth‚ Bradstreet held many religious beliefs that modern America still holds todate. Such as‚ earthly possesions and sinful thoughts and pleasure do not outweigh the award of devotion‚ which is everything that earth has to offer plus more. Bradstreet
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• Every society has a Moral Horizon o These are absolute statements about how we should live o They inform citizens what is morally right and wrong • Great men create horizons for us o Plato‚ Locke‚ Jesus‚ Buddha • Moralists like Jesus said these values are wrong- that laws should protect the weak. The consequence of Christianity’s Moral Horizon • This code become the dominant moral “horizon” in Europe o Christianity triumphed over Rome o Today‚ Christian morals go unquestioned and
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Outline and Evaluate the Working Memory Model The working memory model is a theory for how short-term memory works‚ and an expansion of the views expressed in the MSM theory. Baddeley and Hitch in 1974 felt that STM was not just one store but a collection of different stores. These concepts lead them to form a model which consists of three slave systems; the central executive‚ the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial sketchpad. They used the phrase ‘working memory’ to refer to the division of
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Outline and evaluate the working memory model (12 marks) Baddeley and Hitch proposed that memory has 4 components. The central executive‚ phonological loop‚ visuospatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer. The central executive decides how to share out and direct attention to incoming information. The phonological loop can be thought of as a maintenance rehearsal mechanism for retaining verbal information. It is sub-divided into two other components‚ the phonological store (inner ear)‚ which holds
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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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TH 502 Social Sciences Winter Semester 2013 Prof Anne-Marie Willis Office: C3 114 anne.willis@guc.edu.eg Lectures: Wednesday 12.30 – 14.00 in H18 Course Description Social Sciences research phenomena of social interaction and investigate them empirically. Social sciences analyze structure and function as well as the interdependence with action and behavior processes of individuals. The lectures introduce social science thinking and methods that are useful for designer’s research
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Outline and evaluate psychological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Brown and Birley studied stressful life events in the role of relapse in schizophrenics. They found that 50% of people experience a stressful life event e.g. death‚ relationship break-up‚ job loss etc. in the 3 weeks prior to a schizophrenic episode. A control sample reported a low and unchanging level of stressful life events over the same period. However not all evidence supports the role of life events. For example‚
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Phillips‚ are found in the book‚ Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World‚ edited by Okholm and Phillips. In this work‚ John Hick argues the view of normative pluralism and its assertion that all ethical religions lead to God. Clark Pinnock promotes inclusivism and the view that salvation is ultimately based in Christ even though people of other religions may be saved apart from explicit faith in Christ. Alister E. McGrath argues for a particularist view of salvation from a post-enlightenment
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Outline and evaluate two social psychological explanations of human aggression (24 Marks) Deindividuation theory is a social psychological explanation of aggression. It explains how rational individuals can become aggressive hooligans in a mob or crowd as it suggests that losing their sense of identity and self awareness deindividuates people. Individuals in groups fail to see the consequences of their actions‚ and the social norms they would normally follow are forgotten and this is when aggressive
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Outline and Evaluate strategies for memory improvement. (12 marks) The first main memory improvement technique is the use of verbal mnemonics that focuses around words. For example acronyms‚ (where a word or sentence is formed from the initial letters of other words) e.g. - UNICEF - The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Another technique is an acrostic (a poem or sentence where the first letter in each line/word forms the method used for the item being remembered). E-g Homework
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