A. Identify and briefly explain three functions of religion (9 marks) Marxism believes it acts as the ‘opium for the exploited working class people’. Religion would cushion the pain of oppression and exploitation in unequal societies such as in a capitalist society. It legitimized and maintained the power of the ruling class – helps to maintain the status quo by preventing the less powerful from changing things. Feminists see religion as a conservative force because it acts as an ideology that legitimates
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Identify and briefly explain three reasons why the New Christian Right might have failed to achieve its aims (9marks) The New Christian Right is a politically and morally conservative‚ protestant fundamentalist movement. The aims are extremely ambitious as they wish to make abortion‚ homosexuality and divorce illegal. They want to turn back to a time before liberalisation of American culture and society began. The New Christian Right may have failed to achieve its aims because the group lacked wide
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Personality Theories NAME PSY210 DATE INSTRUCTOR Personality Theories The three personality theories that I have chosen are the Psychodynamic Theory‚ the Humanistic Theory‚ and the Sociocultural Theory. The three theories all deal with a form of love as being a part of a healthy personality. The Humanistic Theory and Sociocultural Theory are comparable in that both deal with an understanding of the self‚ the concepts we have of self‚ and developing part of that concept from how
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The Nine Types of Intelligence 1. Naturalist Intelligence (“Nature Smart”) Designates the human ability to discriminate among living things (plants‚ animals) as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world (clouds‚ rock configurations). This ability was clearly of value in our evolutionary past as hunters‚ gatherers‚ and farmers; it continues to be central in such roles as botanist or chef. It is also speculated that much of our consumer society exploits the naturalist intelligences
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Psychology Prof. Bilovodska TYPES OF INTELLIGENCE Throughout centuries‚ people have wondered what makes some people highly intelligent‚ moderately intelligent‚ and some with low intelligence. In order to determine intelligence one must first know what intelligence is. Intelligence by definition means to learn‚ understand‚ and or deal with new experiences (MERRIAM-WEBSTER‚ 2012). Individuals use intelligence to think rationally during critical times. Intelligence in an individual measured
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Types of Intelligence Brett C. Walker General Psychology PSY-102 May 26‚ 2010 Types of Intelligence After reading the chapter and lecture that was assigned to me‚ I believe that I have a better understanding of the types of intelligence. During my study I have also‚ learned that there is eight different types of intelligence. In this short essay I am going to take the time to discuss each of the eight types of intelligence‚ I will also be discussing the benefit to intelligence testing
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Gardner 1993 believed that there are seven different kinds of intelligences that are independent of one another. They are: Linguistic intelligence: the ability to use language effectively.This intelligence includes making convincing and persuasive arguments; writing poems and using appropriate vocabulary‚ observing subtle differences in meaning of words while communicating with others. _ MUSIICAL IINTELLIIGENCE:: This is the ability for creating understating and appreciating music. This includes
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Types of Intelligence Although intelligence can be defined in several different ways there are specifically eight different types of intelligence. They are as follows; language‚ logic and math‚ visual and spatial‚ music‚ bodily-kinesthetic‚ intrapersonal‚ naturalist (Coon 2009). Each form of intelligence is important and each person may excel in one type of intelligence. Thus making each individual special in their type of learning. Artificial intelligence is computer programs or robots capable
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Identify and explain the major stages of group development in five or more paragraphs (p.223-236 Chapter: 10) The major stages of group development are: Forming‚ Storming‚ Norming‚ Performing‚ and Adjourning. The theory of these words symbolizing the stages of group development were based upon Tuckman’s (1965) model‚ which has been widely accepeted throughout the years. Further more‚ Wheelen and Hochberger (1996) was able to conduct research that proved Tuckmans theory on the stages of group development
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Rachel Jones Culinary Arts-3rd Mrs. Hunnicutt 10-2-12 Body Types Body types are a part of genetics that depict how the structure of your body is designed. The three major body types are the mesomorph‚ ectomorph‚ and endomorph. Although these are the main distinguishing types there are cases in which people land in between and hold characteristics of more than one body type. The mesomorph‚ aka apple shape‚ are freaks of nature seeing as how their bodies are naturally lean and muscular. Mesomorphs
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