Classical Realism

The Father of Modern Science: Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei is an important historical figure who is known as the Father of Modern Science. He was a polymath meaning he excelled in many sciences. He was a physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, and an excellent inventor. Galileo greatly affected history and if he had not made his discoveries it is possible that we could be living in a very different world today. In the beginning… Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy…

Freedom of speech gives the right of an open expression of ideas and opinions without being pursued by the government after that. It takes its origins form the Athens’ democratic ideology of the late 6th or early 5th century BC. The Athenian democracy was the first known democracy of the world. The democracy gives rights to take part in the countries` legal life and to express ones ideas openly. The idea of free speech is not only the sharp topic in the modern world, and the thing that people…

This study will be guided by James-Lange: Theory of Emotion In 1884 and in 1885, theorists William James and Carl Lange might have separately proposed their respective theories on the correlation of stress and emotion, but they had a unified idea on this relationship - emotions do not immediately succeed the perception of the stressor or the stressful event; they become present after the body’s response to the stress. For instance, when you see a growling dog, your heart starts to race, your…

In Athens, there were three groups of people, the slaves, foreigners (which include freed slaves), and Athenian born natives. The slaves were owned by individual Athenian citizens, unlike in Sparta, and they were either skilled or non-skilled. The skilled performed duties like accounts, etc for their Athenian masters while the non-skilled did other duties like work in the silver mines in Attica and they were not valuable compared to the skilled. They were not allowed to participate in politics…

there are differences and similarities between Skinner and Pavlov’s theories, the same could be observed when applying their theories to education. As for the first similarity, both theories involve the process of pairing (Lee, 2005). Pavlov’s classical conditioning involves pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to create an unconditioned response. When this pairing is demonstrated multiple times the desired behavior becomes the conditioned response. Pavlov would exemplify…

Behaviourism and humanism are two views of learning which have strengths and weaknesses in the process of learning and the process of teaching. These two theories have ideologies of how students learn and what pedagogical approaches are to be used. The behaviourist theory looks at learning from an external view, not needing to look at internal mental states (Pritchard & Woollard, 2013). Humanism, on the other hand, is very intrinsic, looking at the internal factors that aid in learning. These…

The Role of Psychology in Science There is a reason why we have a vast array of divisions within the world of psychology. Whether it’s from Child Psychology to Adult Development and Aging or from Military Psychology to Rehabilitation Psychology, there seems to be a study of the mind for almost anything and everything that we do in our lives. These divisions, along with 50 other subfields of psychology, branch out and interconnect with the other disciplines creating a network that sources from…

In most of the cases, if not all, human is capable to learn without understanding the nature of the learning process (Bigge, 1982). However, by understanding the basic nature of the process and learning the way to manage it, they are able to solve numerous practical problems of the control of learning for their own needs (Hilgard and Bower, 1966). In order to effectively utilise and enhance their ability to use both themselves and their environments in a more productive way, the curiosity to…

Developed in the late 18th century, classical economics contains the idea of economists who hold various theories regarding how society works under the backgrounds of emerging capitalism. Though with occasional theoretical variations, each classical economist shared similar thoughts and advanced these hypotheses of former writers. Discussed by the most influential classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, one specific distinctive of classical economics is its theory of wages in which…

Introduction The main objective of this lab is to observe the behavior of a metal block while experiencing uniaxial translation and oscillation in respects to time to calculate the acceleration, spring constant, and damping factor. The experiment was split into two different labs. Part one, the drop test, to take the block to a fixed height and drop it. This would then allow us to calculate the friction force, along with the acceleration of the metal block. Part two, the bounce test, is…