Process used To reach a recommendation I commenced with a review of available course material and relevant evidence was selected in order to identify the pros and cons of habituating another gorilla group based on the objectives provided. This evidence is presented in the table below and has been weighted based on the importance I have given to each.
Development is defined as the orderly and sequential changes that occur with the passage of time as an organism moves from conception to death. Developmental psychology is defined as the branch of psychology that deals with how individuals change with time while remaining in some respects the same (Zanden et al., 2007). Developmental psychologists have been seeking ways to determine how we change and the changes that take place during our lives as we develop. Urie Bronfenbrenner develops a theory that involves how a person and their ecological environment interact and the influence that a person’s environment plays in their development. Bronfenbrenner is most famous for his views on ecological psychology.
The subsequent discussion offers an analysis of these levels and their influence to child development, and then the writer offers a personal analysis of the influence of the ecological theory in decision making. The theory suggests there are four levels of the environment that simultaneously influence individuals. Brofenbrenner suggest that we can’t fully understand development without considering how a person is influenced by each of these levels (Vander Zanden, 2007). Bronfenbrenner examines the mutual accommodations between the developing person and these changing contexts in terms of four levels of environmental influence: the microsystem, the mesosytem, the exosystem, and the macrosystem (Vander Zander, p. 8, 2007). The microsystem consists of the network of social relationships and physical settings in which a person in involved in each and every day.
Research has demonstrated that all mammals including canines, dolphins and bonobos, have fundamental basic emotional systems. These include a seeking system to look for food, a fear system to react to unfamiliar things that may be harmful, a play system and a care system to raise young and “form vital social attachments” (“Do Dogs have Emotions?” Purina). These functions determine how they react when signals are send to the brain. Not only is the evidence overwhelming for emotional behavior in animals, but science also dictates that an emotional core can be beneficial to animals in the wild, including humans, a trait we have lost touch with as we’ve evolved. Examples of this behavior are found in canines, dolphins, and bonobos.
Bailey Pearman Professor Stemple Bio Lecture 102 March 27, 2013 Animal Research Paper: Giraffes Giraffes have many obvious physical adaptations that make them perfect to survive in the African savannas. These primary consumers belong to Phylum Chordata. They have a notochord (noto=back, cord=string) present in all embryos that may be absent or reduced in adults, and also have a post anal tail that extends beyond the anus (Carter 1). Giraffes belong to the subphylum vertebrata and class mammalia. The main characteristics of this class include: fur/hair, mammary glands that evolved from sweat glands to produce milk for their young, a diaphragm to aid in respiration, they are endothermic, and bear live young.
The biosocial theory. The term ‘culture’ encompasses the knowledge, beliefs and values shared by a society that are passed down the generations through imitation and communication. By looking at research through a variation of different cultures we can distinguish between universal features, which suggest an innate basis for gender therefore supporting the nurture side of the argument, and culturally specific features, which suggest gender is learned and so support the nurture side of the argument. A famous piece of cross cultural research on gender was the Six Cultures Study by Whiting and Whiting (1975) studied child rearing processes in North America, the Philippines, India, Mexico, Kenya and Japan. Researchers integrated themselves into the societies and conducted systematic 5 minute observations of the children’s daily lives.
Mbuti-Pygmies Barbara Wall Ant 101 Lecia Sims October 14, 2012 Mbuti-Pygmies The primary mode of subsistence is likely to influence a community’s social organization. Mode of subsistence is where a community is able to satisfy its basic needs .The Mbuti are of many people known as pygmies. Mbuti call themselves Bambuti. Mbuti are scattered throughout Africa. Tswa, Twa and Mbuti are three groups of pygmies.
Social Psychology Definition Paper 1 Social Psychology Definition Paper September 11, 2012 Social Psychology Definition Paper 2 Social interaction plays a major role in defining social psychology because social psychology includes areas that include: psychology, evolutionary theories, and physiology. These areas according to Harold, (2000) are components of uncultivated areas of the social sciences. The principles of natural selection and adaptation can explain the biological theories that explain human hair color to choices for reproducing. At the same time sociology explains the choices of social structuring and how humans organize socially. However, social psychology has the job of explaining what people think about, how the thought affect people, and how the thoughts will interact with each other on the biological, psychological, and social levels (Myers, 2008).
There are four fundamental aspects of EI (as measured by the Emotional Competence Inventory, published by The Hay Group): Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. Perceiving emotions is the initial area of emotional intelligence and the most basic area that has to do with the nonverbal reception and expression of emotion. Evolutionary biologists and psychologists have pointed out that emotional expression evolved in animal species as a form of crucial social communication. Facial expressions such as happiness, sadness, anger, and fear, were
COPYRIGHT MICHAEL P M MHLANGA THE NATURE NURTURE DEBATE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUALS. MICHAEL P M MHLANGA GREAT ZIMBABWE UNIVERSITY The concepts of nature and nurture shape the development of human beings. This write up sets out to assess the nature nurture debate, pinpointing the effects each has on the development of children. Terms that will be defined are nature nurture debate, nature and nurture. Feldman (2009) defines the nature nurture debate as the issue of the degree to which environment and hereditary factors influence the behaviour.