SAMPLE Book Report: As Nature Made Him John Colapinto, the author of “As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl”, explores the details of a famous “twins case” study by the reputable psychologist/sexologist John Money and how it all went wrong. As a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, Colapinto first encountered the book’s protagonist, David Reimer, a few months after an article published in 1997 from the medical journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, written by Dr. Milton Diamond and Dr. Keith Sigmundson, disproved Money’s well-established theory about gender reassignment (Colapinto 2000, xiv). After publishing his own article on the subject in Rolling Stone without revealing any details about Reimer’s identity, Colapinto convinced Reimer to “abandon the mask of John/Joan” for a feature book about his life (Calapinto 2000, xv). The author’s account was based on a number of sources: personal interviews with John Reimer, family members, friends and school teachers; private legal papers; therapy notes; Child Guidance Clinic reports; IQ tests; medical records; and psychological workups (Colapinto 2000, xvii). Colapinto investigates and reassesses the famous case study through these various sources and establishes some ethical dilemmas now facing the medical world; a direct result of decades of misinformation brought forth by the original “John/Joan” twins case.
Dorothea accomplished extreme reform for the treatment of the mentally ill. Her achievements are still being felt today (Tiffany, 1891). Dorothea was born in 1802 and had a pretty unstable childhood with a mother of mental illness and a father of alcoholism. From a young
His character has already been shaped by the abuse experienced in his childhood and the story of his life provided a moving film. Pog, written by Lyn Lee, was the most delightful story of a baby monster who reversed the usual scary monster story. All three of these texts support a belief that change can happen in so many ways. Relationships alter the journey of our lives. In “Looking for Alibrandi”, Josie at first finds it hard to accept her Nonna’s behaviour towards her
Magnificent Malpractice Starting in the 1950’s, what people believe to be an unethical experiment had been conducted. Surprisingly, those humble beginnings gave birth to what is still an underground subject that is continually researched till this day. Following a lecture in her biology class, Rebecca Skloot set off on a journey to document unknown facts of a misfortunate African American woman. Her persistence had led her to publish the well acclaimed story about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Skloot’s purpose of telling Lack’s story does not come without the terrifying discovery of human experimentation.
Freud is well known for his theory on a mother and her son, or the Oedipus Complex. Huxley ties this theory into the relationship Linda has with her son. Aldous Huxley’s ability to grab the audience’s attention with his outrageous, yet shockingly true allegations of a fictitious world, created a vision of a futuristic lifestyle unthought-of prior to Brave New World. With the use of symbolism the audience is able to make a connection between the world they are accustomed to, and the frightful reality of the future. Huxley’s
This allows researchers to focus on triggers like dopamine, the neurotransmitter that defines the brains pleasure pathways. At the Brookhaven National Labatory, Nora Volkow shows a 43 year old meth user an MRI of his brain. She compared his brain next to a “normal” brain which was not affiliated with drugs. John has seen both brains and there is clear visual evidence of Damage. She tells john that our brain has a tremendous capacity for recovery and tells john that his brain can be fixed.
Its immediate ancestor was the cognitive revolution of the 1970s, an explosion of psychological research into the way people think. After decades dominated by the study of observable behavior, scientists wanted a closer look at the more mysterious operation of the human brain. And the development of computers-which enabled scientists to display information very quickly and to measure minute discrepancies in reaction time-permitted a peek into the unconscious. At the same time, the study of cognition was also illuminating the nature of stereotypes themselves. Research done after World War IT-mostly by European emigres struggling to understand how the Holocaust had happened-concluded that stereotypes were used only by a particular type of person: rigid, repressed, authoritarian.
August 2010 - A recent updating of Abraham Maslow's iconic pyramid of needs by a team of psychologists including two from Arizona State University (ASU), published together with four commentaries in Perspectives on Psychological Sciences, concludes that factors involved in successful parenting, such as caring, feeding, nurturing and educating, are indicative of a profound pyschological need that merits placement at the top of the hierarchy. Maslow's concept of ordering human motivations dates from the 1940s. The current revision, which the authors acknowledge is controversial, takes into account developments in areas such as neuroscience, developmental psychology and evolutionary psychology. Lead author Douglas Kenrick, a professor of psychology at ASU explained: "It was based on some great ideas, several of which are worth preserving. But it missed out on some very basic facts about human nature, facts which weren't
Describe a piece of evidence to support your answer. Answer 4 strong and accurate at birth prenatal experience (in the womb, taste what mother eats) Steiner experiment: placed drops of flavoured water on neonates who have not yet been fed found that there was a universal reaction to sweet, sour, and bitter Question 5 Your friend decides to adopt a child from an extremely impoverished town. He shows you a picture of a boy who is 3.5 years old. Having taken Dr. O's class, explain some of the concerns you might raise and provide one piece of research using humans to support your answer. Answer 5 Purpose: to determine environmental factors and genetic influences on development IV: time spent in orphanage DV: head size, cognitive development Methods: measure head size of infants of different age groups, depending on how long they spent in an orphanage Conclusion: head size negatively correlated with cognitive development and time in orphanage critical periods
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