Sarah Pacheco Psychology 101 Term Paper October 25‚ 2017 Psychology and Attachment Becoming attached to someone‚ or in some cases something‚ is a part of human nature. In most cases attachment begins at birth between a child and its caregiver but‚ what exactly is attachment and what does it mean? Humans are different from other animals. Like ducklings‚ a lot of animals begin to follow and imitate the first thing they see. This is called imprinting. Yet‚ humans do not imprint‚ they become attached
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Outline and evaluate research into institutional aggression deindividuation include being in a large crowd‚ anonymity due to wearing a uniform and altered consciousness due to drugs or alcohol. Deindividuation leads to reduced inner restraints and therefore an increase in behaviours that are usually inhibited and also reduces the fear of negative evaluation from others. This leads to an increase in aggressive behaviours. Recent changes to this theory focus on the importance of private self-awareness
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Variations in Humans Aim: To find the differences in human size from measurement Apparatus: Seven to five friends‚ measuring tape Method: 1. Choose five/seven friends 2. Take height of each person 3. Record data in appropriate manner 4. Process data collected 5. Make evaluation Observation: The males in most case were taller than the females and had a general height of 5 feet 8 inches‚ while the females remained in the area of 5 feet and 1 inch to 5 feet and 2 inches. Theory:
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an egg in the ovaries to ripen and produce oestrogen. Whilst it is known to be biological due to its universal nature‚ there are large individual differences such as the length of time and the age the menstrual cycle begins. Reinberg conducted research into infradian rhythms where a woman spent 3 months in a cave only with dim lighting. Her sleep/wake cycle slightly lengthened whereas her menstrual cycle shortened suggesting that light affects menstrual cycles. However‚ this is a case study which
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Describe and evaluate the learning theory for attachments. The learning theory suggests that we are born with a blank slate which means everyone starts off exactly the same‚ and then we learn all of our behaviours once we are born. The learning theory is split into two areas‚ Operant and Classical conditioning. Operant conditioning is one part of the learning theory to describe attachments. This states that attachments are formed through positive and negative reinforcements. An example of positive
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Compare and evaluate three significant learning and development theories In this assignment I will compare and evaluate three significant learning theories‚ these being; Behaviourism‚ Constructivism and Social Constructivism. This will include a clear presentation of; knowledge of these theories‚ a demonstration of the understanding of academic debates pertaining to these theories and by selecting three key aspects of these three theories‚ comparing and evaluating them. The three key aspects that
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Attachment is usually a word that we use to describe a feeling of connection that we have towards either an individual or an object. Similarly‚ childhood attachment occurs as an enduring‚ emotional closeness develops between children and their families. Attachment is essential because it allows children to prepare for the independence that they will need to develop to succeed as adults; it also helps pave the emotional and psychological grounds for children to be able to enter parenthood one day
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Outline and evaluate neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression. There are two main biological explanations to aggression‚ neural and hormonal. The neural explanation is the serotonin and dopamine neurotransmitters and how they affect our aggression; the hormonal mechanisms are the testosterone and cortisol chemicals. Testosterone is a hormone that is more concentrated in men than in women as it is a male sex hormone‚ it is thought to influence aggression from a young age onwards‚ due to its actions
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Outline and Evaluate The Cognitive Interview (12 marks) The cognitive interview was created by Fisher and Gieselman in 1992‚ the cognitive interview is a technique which aims to bring out more accurate information from eye witnesses. It consists of four stages; the interviewee is asked to mentally recreate the environment from the original incident including weather conditions and their feelings. The interviewee is asked to report every single detail of the incident even if it may seem irrelevant
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of abnormality is failure to function adequately. If you are diagnosed with this you are said to be unable to cope with the demands of everyday life. There are 5 variations dysfunctional behaviour‚ observer discomfort‚ unpredictable behaviour‚ irrational behaviour and personal distress. If you show symptoms of 1 or more of the 5 variations then your behaviour is considered abnormal. A limitation of this is that everyone has done one of those things at least once in your life‚ does that mean that you’re
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