COMPARE UTILITARIAN AND DEONTOLOGICAL THEORIES Utilitarianism is the idea that the moral worth of an action is determined by its usefulness. In maximizing utility and minimizing negative utility‚ in short it can be defined as pleasure minus pain. Deontology means duty or obligation. This theory was founded by a German philosopher‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). According to Kant‚ it is the only way of making moral decisions. Another definition for deontology is that it is an approach to the justification
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Learning refers to the process whereby experience produces a fairly lasting and adaptive change in behaviour (Passer et al.‚ 2009). Classical conditioning is the process of learning by association which signals the approaching arrival of a significant event. It involves pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus (US) that will elicit an unconditioned response (UR). With repeated pairings‚ the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) that evokes a conditioned response (CR)
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Theories of development and framework to support development It is important that we have Theories of development because they help us to understand childrens behaviour and infulence practice that effects the way in which children learn. COGNATIVE CONSTRUCTIVIST- Looks at the way children are able to make sence of their world from ther experiences‚ this shows that children are active learners Theroists- Jean Piaget- Lev Vygotsky Jean Piaget Jean Piaget was intrested in childrens cognative development
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Behaviorism Behaviorist theorists believe that behavior is shaped deliberately by forces in the environment and that the type of person and actions desired can be the product of design. In other words‚ behavior is determined by others‚ rather than by our own free will. By carefully shaping desirable behavior‚ morality and information is learned. Learners will acquire and remember responses that lead to satisfying aftereffects. Repetition of a meaningful connection results in learning. If the student
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Describe a circumstance in your life in which you faced adversity or setback. What did you learn from this experience? Just last year I got together with a few classmates of mine to start a new club called BMEs. The idea originated because many of the majors at my school already had clubs that helped their school and professional careers. I imagined bmes to have weekly meetings‚ a huge event every month‚ and lots of involment from my peers. As founderes our groups had to work twice as hard as any
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beliefs) about typical human behavior which involves the way they function‚ which aspects of them are worthy of study and what research approaches are suitable for carrying out this study. There may be several different theories within an approach‚ but they all share these common assumptions. This includes the: * Social learning * Biological * Behavior * Cognitive * Psychodynamic * Humanistic Social learning theory This theory is a perspective that states that people
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BEHAVIORIST THEORY ON LANGUAGE LEARNING AND ACQUISITION Introduction There are some basic theories advanced to describe how language is acquired‚ learnt and taught. The behaviorist theory‚ Mentalist theory (Innatism)‚ Rationalist theory (otherwise called Cognitive theory)‚ and Interactionism are some of these theories. Of these‚ behaviorist theory and mentalist theory are mainly applicable to the acquisition of languages while the rest can account
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Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems Clinton Ward COM155 February 17‚ 2013 Joyce Keeling Air Conditioning and Heat Pump Systems Air conditioners and heat pump systems are used by most people in the world today. They are used to cool in the summer time and to heat in the winter time. These machines are bought and used when most people do not even understand the principle on which they work. The machines are expected do what they are designed to do‚ and when they cease to do this‚ they can
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freudian theory of sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality implicated the structure of the mind‚ namely the id‚ ego‚ and superego‚ and how conflicts among these constituent parts are resolved in shaping human personality. The id operates on the pleasure principle. It is regulated by both the ego‚ which operates on the reality principle‚ and the superego‚ which operates on the morality principle. Conflicts among these structures of the mind appear at each of Freud’s five basic stages
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Learning Theories When we talk of learning we usually think of something related to the classroom‚ such as English or Maths. However‚ Psychologists refer to learning as a relatively permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience’. Learning is a fundamental process in all animals and the higher up the evolutionary scale the animal‚ the more important is the ability to learn. All animals need to adapt their behaviour in order to fit in with the environment and to adapt to changing circumstances
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