The Diverse Nature of Psychology Paper Sophia Martinez Psychology 490 Capstone Course in Psychology October 5‚ 2011 Giselle Gourrier‚ Ph.D. The Diverse Nature of Psychology Paper Psychology is a discipline that has extensive implications for other areas of science while simultaneously maintaining a narrow concern for the derivation of scientific knowledge about human and non-human behavior (Stanovich‚ 2010). This paper is concerned with the assessment of two sub-disciplines and sub-topics
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cortex. These help to control blood sugar levels and make fats available for energy. 3. 2) Sandy and Vandita – grazed elbows – Vandita’s wound is healing quicker than Sally’s. Sally is getting married and moving house. Using your knowledge of psychology‚ explain why Sandy’s wound is taking longer to heal than Vandita’s (4). Sandy’s wound is taking longer to heal because she is experiencing life changes like her move and getting married. These may be forcing her to make readjustments to her life
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Environmental Disasters For the purpose of this article an environmental disaster is defined as a specific event caused by human activity that results in a seriously negative effect on the environment. Sometimes a natural disaster can become an environmental disaster‚ but that is a topic to be discussed elsewhere. In most cases environmental disasters are caused by human error‚ accident‚ lack of foresight‚ corner cutting during industrial processes‚ greed‚ or by simple incompetence. In other
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Genes + Environment = Phenotype • E.g.: the rabbit + cold = black fur • Intelligence: genes + environment • Animal models • Genetic component: Benefit - selective breeding (strain of more intelligent vs. strain of less intelligent rats) • Environmental component • Upbringing - enriched vs. impoverished • Breeding maze dull vs. maze bright rats • Results: rats tend to be more polarized in their maze intelligence with higher generation • So genes do dictate intelligence...but not exclusively
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Environmental worldviews Environmental worldviews is an individual’s belief about what one’s own role in the world should be. What is a right or wrong environmental behavior and how the world works. Because of differing worldviews‚ 2 people might interpret the same environmental data and reach different conclusions. Anthropocentrism is the idea that the earth and its resources exists for human consumption. People who hold the view believe that we ought to protect the earth for future generations
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In psychology‚ there are four different styles in parenting (psychology.about.com). In an authoritarian style of parenting‚ children are expected to follow the strict rules established by the parents. Failure to follow such rules usually results in punishment. Like authoritarian parents‚ those with an authoritative parenting style establish rules and guidelines that their children are expected to follow. However‚ this parenting style is much more democratic. Authoritative parents are responsive
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Environmental Determinism Throughout the study of geography‚ there have been a number of different approaches to explaining the development of the world’s societies and cultures. One that received much prominence in geographic history but has declined in recent decades of academic study is environmental determinism. Environmental determinism is the belief that the environment (most notably its physical factors such as landforms and/or climate) determines the patterns of human culture and societal
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enviJairah DC. Ocampo Environmental Science BSIT I- C Sir Allan Pleno Critical Thinking Questions 2. Explain the function of trophic levels in an ecosystem. ANSWER : Exactly‚ A food chain cannot start with a consumer. What would it consume if there were no producer before it? SOURCE : www. Yahoo. Com Jairah DC. Ocampo Environmental Science BSIT I- C Sir Allan Pleno Critical Thinking Questions 3. Why is there always a loss of chemical energy with
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rivers‚ lakes and underground reservations. In this article the author discuses several environmental responsibilities like: * The moral problems underlying business abuse of the environment. * The costs of environmental protection. The definition that the author gives of ecology is: “the science of the interrelationships among organisms and their environments.” (Shawn‚ 2009) The ethics of environmental protection: many measures that we take‚ for example when we decide to recycle our cans
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Environmental problems Everyone has heard about global problems. Television and the press often writes about storms‚ droughts‚ melting of glaciers‚ or hunger in Africa. But not too many of us know the details‚ and the stories behind those problems. These days the biggest environmental problems are: Global warming‚ Pollution‚ drought‚ overpopulation‚ deforestation‚ Endangered species. Let’s start from global warming. Global warming is the process by which the Earth’s average atmospheric temperature
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