Response Paper 2 Migle Rakauskaite Julija Gaiduk PSY 122 Introduction to Psychology 2012-12-11 Attraction Have you ever though why do we tend to like others more or what is the real reason why we have chosen particular person to love or be friends with? According to our book the answer is all about attraction. Attraction could be defined like the combination of other smaller details‚ like physical attractiveness‚ similarity
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have intelligence as we are born in this world. The rate of our intelligence depends on how we enhance and make use of it. Intelligence refers to the ability of an individual to learn from experience‚ to reason well‚ and to cope with the demands of social living. It is also the ability to acquire‚ recall and use knowledge to understand concrete and abstract concepts‚ relations among objects and ideas‚ and to use knowledge in a meaningful way. In intelligence we consider that experiencing is really
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the future of cognitive developmental hypothesizing seems likely to follow a ‘hybrid route’. Respectively‚ current theories of cognitive development need to recognize the significance of knowledge construction‚ emphasized by Piaget‚ along with the social world‚ mainly focused on by Vygotsky. Furthermore‚ modern theories have to be consistent with biological limitations regarding how the brain really learns. 3. How would Piaget explain the 30 month old child who sits in his/her high chair and repeatedly
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though the study shows genetics as being a contributing factor to developing schizophrenia‚ there is still a problem with the study. The problems is the MZ twins concordance rate could be high only because the twin imitated the other twins behaviour (social learning theory)‚ and genetics may have nothing to do with it. The environment can play a role in the development of schizophrenia. Therefore this study can be criticized for not taking any other factors into account and only focusing on nature not
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STUDENT I.D. No: 060013503 SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY PS3034 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Assignment 1 Submission date: Tuesday‚ March 22nd‚ 2011 INTRODUCTION Social Psychological research on sexism has come a long way from a mere page on ‘antifeminism’ in Allport’s (1954) classic text‚ The Nature of Prejudice‚ to the current rate of thousands of pages of scholarly work published every year devoted exclusively to the topic (Duckitt‚ 1992). A contemporary form of sexism‚ constantly in debate is the
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Elizabeth has been a drug user for a long time. Her friend believe that addiction has not a biological explanation as none of her friends are addicts and they do not encourage her to take drugs. Describe and evaluate one biological explanation of drug addiction that could be used to understand Elizabeth’s drug explanation. Drug misuse causes significant changes to our neurotransmitter levels in the brain‚ and specifically levels of dopamine and serotonin. As these chemicals are both involved
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The spinning dancer illusion Sensation is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information‚ enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. My lab/activity is the spinning dancer illusion which was originally created by nobuyuki kayanara. The illusion was related to bistable perception in which an ambiguous 2-dimensional figure can
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An instinct is a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking‚ and can expand anywhere from animalistic instincts to motherly instincts. An example of intuitive behavior in adolescent children is the want to help others. In a lecture given by Dr. Wendy Mogel‚ she declares that children have become more dependent on adults‚ and have learned to ask for assistance rather than offer it‚ in modern times. Overprotective parents can be held accountable for these behavioral changes. Although these parents
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Kai Tak Cruise Terminal Executive Summary The HKSAR government announced to the public on 24 October 2006 that the former site of Hong Kong International Airport (Kai Tak Airport) would be redeveloped as an international cruise hub. The whole project included two sub projects‚ "Site formation" and "Cruise terminal and ancillary facilities building". In project costing Inflation factor is applied as refer
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What I Have Learned in Introduction to Psychology In Introduction to Psychology we touched briefly on a lot of the components of psychology. It is an introduction class‚ so it does not go deeply into any one category‚ instead just skims most of them. I learned what qualifies psychology as a science‚ the brain and how it is important in the science of psychology. I learned about sensation and perception and then did a project on how psychoactive drugs alter them. We talked in depth about learning
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