What are the similarities and differences of Aristotelian, Kantian and Bentham-Mill moral theories?​

Please discuss how/if your ideas about India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc. (the countries on the Indian subcontinent) have changed after learning more about the Indian Partition of 1947. Was dividing the countries by religion a good idea? Why or why not. Minimum two paragraphs.

Is the happiness of the greater number (as Mill conceives it) a good criterion for judging right and wrong actions?

Daniel Kahneman, co-author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, asserts that cognitive biases often lead to errors in judgment. How can such errors impact stress and coping?

Based on what you know now about Indigenous religions and discussions regarding Galtung's triangle of violence (peace), discuss what is important to most indigenous groups when it comes to religion and how modern day circumstances can contribute to cultural, structural, and direct violence.

ch 8 Definition: CONCEPTS

Initial behavior

•Behavior that resembles the terminal behavior

•along some meaningful dimension

•and occurs at least with a minimal frequency.

Intermediate behaviors

•Behavior that more closely approximates the terminal behavior.

Shaping with reinforcement

•The differential reinforcement of only the behavior

•that more and more closely resembles the terminal behavior.

Summing up: Use shaping with reinforcement when you want to bring about new responses. To shape with reinforcers, identify an initial behavior that resembles the terminal behavior along some meaningful dimension. The initial behavior must occur at least with a minimal frequency. Reinforce the initial behavior until it occurs frequently. Then abandon that response. Select and differentially reinforce another response that more closely approximates the terminal behavior. Continue this procedure until the terminal behavior occurs, and reinforce it until it occurs frequently.

QUESTION

1.Define and give an example of the following concepts:

•terminal behavior

•operant level

•initial behavior

•intermediate behaviors

For this post, I would like for us to discuss some event in our lives (of course that we feel comfortable discussing) that we have associated with either good or bad experiences or any examples.Let's organize our posts in the following fashion:

1). Discuss an event that you have had with which you associated good or bad experiences.  Some of you may have this experience with a dentist's office when you were younger (sorry folks who are studying dentistry ;), going to school, giving a speech, a driving test, or asking someone out on a date! While these tend to sound like possible negative experiences, you can also use pleasant experiences like the smell of apple pie, the sight of a loved one, or a particular brand of clothes or accessory you like to wear. The event must have had subsequent effects on the way you act in the presence of that situation or object following the event.  Talk about what occurred either with the initial exposure to the event or multiple exposures over time.

2). Apply your experience(s) to the theory of classical conditioning.  Make sure that you define your variables as is typically done when defining classical conditioning (e.g., UCS, UCR, NS, CS, & CR). How would you define and classify your experiences through this lens?

3) You can use the text and/or outside reputable research to find out how we can get ourselves to, let's say, be less fearful of asking someone out, becoming more accepting of others, or even to love creepy crawly spiders as pets! unlearning, counter-conditioning, and/or intensifying the association to this specific association?  You can think of this as Based on our knowledge of classical conditioning terminology, what is one way to enhance and/or change our previous experiences?

Identify and analyze the ethical complexities often faced by leaders

What is the significance of Kava blocking the re-uptake of nor-epinephrine and decreasing the activity of monoamine oxidase on it’s behavioral profile (i.e., the effects it has on anxiety or depression)? Briefly explain.

If you go online to look up the side effects of kava, you’ll find the following: Higher doses and long term use can lead to hypertension, shortness of breath, mild GI symptoms, enlarged pupils, and possible pulmonary hypertension. Assume that kava acts on the body in a similar way as it does in the brain. Please explain the side effects profile.

Why was the use of fire important in the evolution of the genus Homo?

Use the Expensive Tissue Hypothesis and the role that calories played in the development of many of our ancestors' human-like characteristics to answer the question.

Political scientists have categorized several different ways in which power is distributed among world states (or countries).  These systems include:  Multipolar, Unipolar, Counterweight, Stratified, and Globalized.  In your discussion, choose one of these systems and explain its strong points and its weak points. Does it describe todays current global system? Give an example of this system.

Go to the web and find a case concerning contract violations. Give a synopsis (at least 2 paragraphs) of the article, and give your opinion about the article (one paragraph). You should also include a working link to the article and any references that you use.