large antlers increase the chances of survival and reproductive success‚ as they are better at fighting for the harem. Intra means within and refers to the competition within a species to attract mates. The sex that invests the least (which in humans is males)‚ will compete over the sex that invests the most (i.e. females they invest more because they only ovulate once a month and once pregnant‚ can’t reproduce successfully again for 9months). Thus‚ males compete to achieve the dominant position
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Human sexuality is such a broad subject with many interesting theories. Some people think that human sexuality is just a god-given trait that we are born with. People do not want to further research sexuality because of the controversial issues that society has introduced today. Psychologists‚ on the other hand‚ have researched sexuality and have come up with very interesting theories and outcomes. Psychology has been especially helpful in the area of human sexuality‚ where our understanding lags
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Aggression Is a Part of Human Nature Aggression is something that you see everyday from turning on the television to watch the daily news to playing one of your favorite video games. This is something that is a part of human nature and will always be a part of our social life. There are many influences in our society and within us that can make aggression arise more frequently. These are genetic influences‚ neural influences‚ and biochemical influences. Some influences on aggression are believed
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Feline Aggression Towards Humans Feline aggression is the second most common problem seen by behaviorists‚ topped only by house soiling. When aggression is directed at humans it can be a frightening situation‚ especially when children are involved‚ who may be unable to read the warning signs and physical cues that can precede an attack. Cat bites and scratches are painful and can transmit disease or lead to infection. There are a number of causes of feline aggression towards people: Medical problems
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Describe and evaluate evolutionary explanations of gender. [8 + 16] During the evolutionary adaptation time period‚ between 10-40 thousand years ago‚ our ancestors were hunter-gatherers. This created a division between men and women. The men would hunt for food and the women would be in charge of the domestic duties such as cleaning and cooking. Doing the domestic chores would have kept women more protected‚ as it is less strenuous and would have guarded the camp whilst the men were out hunting
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*Critically evaluate Evolutionary Psychology theory as an explanation for sex differences in sexual j*ealousy. Discuss evidence for and against this explanation The subsequent part of this essay will now focus on the evidence against the theory of Evolutionary Psychology and will look at arguments in contradiction of this. The topic this essay will focus on in the argument against Darwin’s evolutionary psychology theory as an explanation for sex differences within sexual jealousy is Social Psychology
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Ashley Andino October 2‚ 2014 Evolutionary Relationships in Mammals For this scientific argument‚ the research question was Which of these mammals are the most closely related? At first‚ my claim had stated “The mammals with more similar traights and characteristics were the ones that were the most closely related.” As my group and I looked deeper into the data‚ we had analyzed the different mammals and ended up with a final claim which was “The elk‚ cow‚ Caribou‚ the Pallid bat‚ and big eared
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ability to use aggressive behaviour to get what they want. Children who are confident that they will be able to use aggressive behaviour effectively to achieve their ends are high in self-efficacy; those with less confidence in their ability to use aggression are low in self-efficiency and may decide to use other methods. The social learning theory is supported by Bandura et al.‚ who found that children who observed a model behaviour behaving aggressively towards a Bobo doll were more likely to reproduce
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Outline and evaluate one or more social psychological theories of aggression (8+16 marks) One social psychological theory of aggression is Bandura’s social learning theory‚ in which he combines both social and cognitive psychology in his social cognitive perspective of human behaviour. Bandura believed that behaviour was not only motivated by psychological factors but also by more socio-environmental factors. He argued that the individual and the environment were linked‚ something which he called
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social learning theory as an explanation of aggression (24) According to the social learning theory there are multiple ways of learning behaviours‚ such as aggression. One way of learning behaviours is through observation and some psychologists have claimed children primarily learn aggressive behaviours observing role models (someone who is similar to the child or in a position of power‚ of who the child can copy behaviour from). For example‚ children may learn aggression from watching their parents
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