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Write a paragraph Many biological psychologists hold to the position of biological reductionism (or determinism). They explain complex phenomenon in terms of simpler ones. They believe that complex phenomenon are entirely explainable by the properties of another. The complex phenomenon can be said to be reducible to more basic properties of the simpler ones. It is a mere epiphenomenon, a by product of the phenomenon that they are explainable by. They have no distinctive properties that require a distinctive theory or methodology. A reductionist model for depression that has a psychological component has been elegantly described by Professor Robert Sapolsky at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIcf-2AFHgw. For example, biological reductionism claims that the mind is entirely explained by physical properties of the brain. The mind is physical; what we call mental is really just another term for the brain; mental/mind is actually only an epiphenomenon of the brain. It can and should be studied only by physiologists—there is nothing distinctively psychological about the mind. If you have a headache, then we could explain your headache entirely by neural elements in the brain. There are no aspects of your headache that could not be understood by what is happening in the brain. We do not need any methods other than brain methods to explain your headache. The only people who could understand or treat your headache are brain scientists. Over the course of the semester, we had innumerable example of reductionism by, for example explaining memory by neural activity in the hippocampus, fear by neural activity in the amygdale, schizophrenia by neural activity in nigrostriatal dopamine pathways. In this conference you are to give three excamples in favor of reductionism of this nature and three exanples against reductionism. I will collate these examples and present a listing for the whole class. This will help sum up the most important position represented in this biopsychology course. |
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discuss the importance of parental influences on the development of children based upon what you learned about childrens' emotional and social development.
How did the parental or caregiver influences impact the child?
Do you think birth order had an impact on the relationship between the child and his/her caregiver? Why or why not?
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Family Traditions--Extra Credit 10 pts.
Post a family tradition here by doing the following:
a) describe the tradition: what is it, who is involved, when did it start, how long have you been doing it?
b) if it stopped, why did it stop?
c) what does it say about your family? Do you see any cultural world views represented in the tradition?
Respond to one other tradition (in a quality post).
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Can you describe the differences between operant and classical conditioning? Are there things which can be accomplished or explained by one, but not the other?
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Based on A. Nilsson's (2016) 'The Psychology of Worldviews' what are some of the psychological characteristics of worldviews, and how do those affect us? How do those influence our cultural, social, political, and relational beings? How do we find out our own worldviews from Arthur Nilsson's (2016) Psychology of Worldviews?
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Outline one possible process for implementing a plan for environmental sustainability.
Please select no more than three significant phases in implementation.
using Process analysis.
1) one thesis statement
2) three-sentence outlines
3) 1 body paragraph
4) 1 conclusion
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Should high school athletes have to submit to random drug testing? What about students who participate in academic decathalons or cheerleading? There have been increased efforts to have all high school students complete drug testing, regardless of whether or not they play a sport. Do you think all high school students should be tested for illegal drug use? In addition do you think random drug testing will decrease illicit drug use in high school students? Why or why not? Be sure to support your position with information from your textbook, the article below, and other scholarly sources.
https://post.blackboard.com/bbcswebdav/pid-4295785-dt-content-rid-32063720_1/courses/PSY307.301086045304/Random_Drug_Testing.pdf
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Read the scenario and then answer the following questions. GOOD answers will justify and support themselves with material from this week's reading and panoptos. Use the vocabulary of the units!
Mrs. Mordeno came to Honolulu to visit her sonn, Jose, who operated an art gallery. He married to one of his clients, Beth, who paints in her own studio near his gallery. Mrs. Mordeno’s trip was the first out of the Philippines for her and she wanted to see all of the scenic spots in the islands. Jose and Beth were expected to accompany her at the expense of their own work schedules. Mrs. Mordeno planned to stayonly a week but enjoyed herself so much that she decided to stay another month. She wanted to invite her sister and her sister’s children to stay with her. Jose’s apartment was small and did not have enough room for all of them and Jose was expected to pay the travel expenses for all. He tried to explain the situation to his mother. She seemed to accept his tactfully presented arguments and appeared to be satisfied for a few days. Then one day she packed up and returned home.
1. In your estimation, why did Mrs. Mordeno leave? (all you have to do here is make an X next to your answer.
______Mrs. M had other plans and just changed her mind
______ Jose’s inhospitality hurt her and she considered him disrespectful
______ She felt guilty for imposing
______Unable to deal with the pressures of Hawaii, she decided to leave
2. What do you think Mrs. Mordeno's expectations were as a product of collectivist world view? Why? (how did cultural world view factor into her expectations?) (This is one of the 'money' questions for this assignment--I am expecting you to dazzle me here with your ability to apply concepts from unit I (worldview) and III (what has been discussed in regards to family) to support your answer.
3. How do you think Jose viewed her expectations, as someone who is more comfortable with individualist world view?
4. How do you view Mrs. Mordeno’s expectations? Are they different or similar to your expectations when a visitor comes to your home? Are they different or similar to your expectations when you go visiting?
5. What examples of indirect communication do you see in this example?
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2. Can you think of a counter-example to her theory? That is, a negative effect of a positive emotion?
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State Grice's rule of quantity completely.
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