Foundations of Psychology PSY300 September 4‚ 2011 Foundations of Psychology It is just another normal day for you. You were taking a leisurely stroll through the park before you decided to rest for a minute on a bench. And that is when you notice the man sitting next to you‚ singing quietly to himself. He seemed normal at first glance‚ but you begin to notice that he looks disheveled. Hair a little frazzled‚ and clothing a bit wrinkled. At first it seems no big deal. Then you
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The explanation biological factors influencing homosexuality and people trying to figure out if people are truly born that way or if the is a way to cure homosexuality. Researchers have been exploring biological factors that could be contributing to same sex orientation (Santrock‚ 2013). Bialey and Pillard s did a study on identical twins to find contributions to any genetic factor‚ his study show a fifty-two percent concordance rate which means with every homosexual twin‚ the chances that the other
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Biological explanation of phobias Genetic factors One biological explanation for the cause of phobic disorders suggests that we can relate it back to our genetics. This theory values the ‘nature’ side in the nature vs nurture debate. This theory uses twin studies to try and separate genetic factors from environmental factors in order to draw a causal conclusion between genetics and phobias. If a closer concordance rate was found between MZ and DZ twins we could suggest a genetic inheritance
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Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa include neural explanations and evolutionary explanations. 1st BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION - Neurotransmitters -Serotonin Disturbances in the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin appear to be a characteristic of individuals with eating disorders. Kaye 2005 found a reduction in the levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA in people with eating disorders. This suggests that brain serotonin pathways are underactive
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In the study conducted by Dr. Tanzi‚ he found out the biological factors that cause Alzheimer’s disease. This disease affects mainly older people‚ late 50’s to early 60’s‚ and it is one that does not go away with time‚ but‚ instead‚ gets worse. There are three stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The first stage of the disease attacks the hippocampus in the brain‚ which deals with memory. With this‚ a person affected by the disease will start forgetting things. The second stage affects their emotions
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The different schools of psychology represent the major theories within psychology. Behaviorism became a dominant school of thought during the 1950s. Behaviorism suggests that all behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces. Behaviorism is focused on observable behavior. Theories of learning including classical conditioning and operant conditioning were the focus of a great deal of research. Psychoanalysis is a school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud
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Cesare Lombroso’s biological explanations: How relevant are they to modern criminal psychology? Cesare Lombroso is thought of by many as the founding father of criminal psychology (Kushner 2011; Assael & Avanzini‚ 1997; Granieri and Fazio‚ 2011). When Lombroso was alive his theories on the biological explanations of crime were seen as cutting edge (Kurella‚ 1911) but after death his theories were ridiculed and denigrated (Gatti & Verde‚ 2012) with Abraham Verghese referring to them as “pseudoscience
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The Associations between Anxiety and Psychological and Biological Factors Many people believe that anxiety exists in the occasions that give you a lot of stress. Presence of anxiety is mainly due to the environmental elements. In my opinion‚ anxiety is a result of imbalance of internal states of human being rather that purely caused by environmental factors. The external environment only triggers the disequilibrium of mental status but not all the person will experience anxiety under a same stressful
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LONG ESSAY QUESTION Examine the use of one research method used in the biological level of analysis‚ including an evaluation of the ethical considerations related to them. The case studies method consists in taking a patient personal history in order to take a diagnosis. It is usually applied in persons that have abnormal characteristics in behaviour‚ at biological or at cognitive level; it can also be applied to a group of people that are under the same situation. Case study is a long-term
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Writing Up A Factor Analysis James Neill Centre for Applied Psychology University of Canberra 30 March‚ 2008 Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ Table of Contents CHECKLIST 2 About 2 Theoretical underpinning 2 Results 2 Assumption testing 2 Type of FA 2 Number of Factors & Items Removed 2 Rotation 2 Factor Loadings 2 Label Factors 3
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