Biological determinism

result, Isaac collects attitudes about non-Greeks/Roman in antiquity and identified seven categories in which Greeks/Romans portrayed themselves as superior to inferior “others.” These include: environmental determinism, hereditary/acquired characteristics, the combination of environmental determinism and hereditary/acquired characteristics, “good government” verses “effeminate government,” autochthony/pure lineage, physiognomics, and…

The mind-body problem is a debate that has raised questions throughout history and is still doing so today, philosophers argue as to whether the mind and body are one entity or two separate entities. The body is what we perceive to be our physical attributes, things like the head, legs, and so forth, the mind is one that controls our feelings, thoughts, and beliefs. For philosophers there are many ways to explain the mind and body problem but the two main ones include materialism and dualism. In…

Every year, about 1 in 1 in 4,000 people in the United States and worldwide is diagnosed with an eye disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition is characterized by slow, progressive loss of peripheral vision, decreasing visual clarity and acuity, the loss of color perception, and night blindness (https://nei.nih.gov/health/pigmentosa/pigmentosa_facts). It is typically diagnosed in childhood, but some individuals are not affected until adulthood. The rate, the degree, and range of…

In the article “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” Sherry B. Ortner discusses how females are associated symbolically with nature and males with culture. The article supports the notion that male dominance is universal. Written in 1974, this was a very popular idea among Feminists in the 70s. The author explores this idea in her structural gender analysis of cultural female devaluation. Additionally, she uses this article as a platform to suggest political change which would enhance…

consideration for other species during the second wave of feminism: To some extent, this was the result of emphasis in early second wave feminism on the social construction of gender, and a disavowal of claims that gendered behaviour resulted from biological determinism. Feminists wanted to separate themselves from the bestial, from implications of fixity: so, since non-human animals were so often cited as examples of how gender is fixed into biology, they were disregarded” (Birke, 1994, p.…

Introduction The literature review was conducted using major perspectives of personality. The major perspectives are Psychodynamic, Behavioral, Traits, Learning/Social, and Humanistic. Within each theory, the major theoretical approaches, research methods, and assessment instruments will be included to give a better understand of the personality aspect within each theory. Personality is the foundation of psychology. Personality is defined as our enduring, distinctive thoughts, emotions, and…

randomness, and chance should be central in any STEM pedagogical model. The concepts of randomness and chance play a very significant role in the essence of all sciences, and especially in the empirical sciences. Randomness is a critical component of biological modeling at many levels in a wide range of systems. The fundamental axioms of the quantum paradigm in physics are, by definition, essentially stochastic. Economics uses the randomness in human thought to create econometric models that…

In this report I will be talking about the theories developed by Italian criminologist, Cesare Lombroso. He is considered to be one of the greatest criminologists of the field due to his world wide appeal and infamous studies and ideas. Cesar Lombroso’s Criminal Man (1876) is considered the first book devoted solely to the causes of criminality. One of his most famous studies was based that criminals are born criminals and can be identified by their physical imperfections also known as atavism.…

According to Mcleod S. (2015), Piaget was not in agreement with the idea that intelligence was a fixed process, due to biological maturation and interaction with the environment. According to Piaget, children are born with a very basic mental structure (genetically inherited and evolved) on which all subsequent learning and knowledge are based. His interest was not to measure children’s I.Q., but how well they could count, spell and solve problems. He was mostly interested in the fundamental…

children use their inborn cognitions of adaptation and organization (Rider, 2012). Organization involves using schemas; schemas are cognitive structure which allow individuals organizes action and thought, helping to interpret human experiences. Biological predisposition such as…