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    In Charles Duhigg’s book The Power of Habit, he asserts people can understand and change personal habits. Duhigg backs this claim with a description of the so-called habit loop composed of a cue, routine, and reward, pointing out the cues start habits and rewards signal the brain to remember routines. The author's purpose is to give information about habit loops people so they can understand how habits work and thus change them. With Duhigg’s insight about habits, students can stop the bad habit…

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    1.) Kohlberg’s model of moral development is made up of three levels. These levels consist of pre-conventional, conventional, and at the end would be post conventional. He acknowledged the fact that there was different ways and stages in the model to show values. The issues in the specified case all fall into the Kohlberg’s model and a specific level. Since Barbara shows behavior of that which must do with societal changes, she would fit in the conventional stage of the model. 1.)…

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    Why is critical thinking essential to biological psychology? Intro In this essay I will be explaining the meaning of critical thinking and biological psychology, I will write about how critical thinking is used in biological psychology, examples of theories will be included and discussed in detail, thirdly I will evaluate the importance of critical thinking in biological psychology, to do this I will be using examples of theories and findings for me to highlight the effects of lack of…

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    In Littlejohn, Foss and Oetzel’s Theories of Human Communication (2017), the first chapter introduces a basic understanding of why theories are developed and how they assist in predicting and understanding human behavior. Two terms, epistemology and ontology, are applicable to Far from Heaven (2002). Epistemology is the study of knowledge, or as Littlejohn et al. state it, “how people know what they claim to know” (2017, pg. 8). Knowledge is gained through four possible positions: Rationalism,…

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    Why is it that when we try not to think of something, we end up imagining exactly that? It seems counterintuitive – after all, people are usually better at doing things when they try harder, and random objects (take white bears, for example) don’t usually pop into people’s minds. Daniel M. Wegner, an American social psychologist, wondered this too. He conducted research that was pivotal in explaining how humans deal with thought suppression. Wegner’s paper, “How to Think, Say or Do Precisely the…

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    Rhetoric of Psychology The psychology field consists of a wide range of ideas and contributions that have lead to many rhetorical situations that have changed the world. Psychologists have and always will have strong values and when analyzing their rhetoric, their values tend to be shown more in depth. Throughout various readings, rhetoric is displayed and their rhetoric can be shown in the field of psychology. The scientific method, clear communication, empathy, and ethics are four topics that…

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    Wisdom Questions Essay

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    Wisdom Questions To discuss the wisdom questions, “wisdom” must first be explicitly defined. Wisdom instructs us how to use knowledge- the facts of this world that we understand- to create a better understanding of us and our world. To integrate our knowledge, the following essential questions, what we call “Wisdom Questions”, must be asked: “Who are we?”, “Why are we here?”, “Where do we come from?”, “What do we hope for?”, and “What do we owe one another?”. The answers to these questions are…

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    Mirror Neuron Summary

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    Reflections on Mirror Neurons The author's main point in the article is that mirror neuron help with imitating what we see. The author wants the reader to understand that humans and monkeys think in a similar way when mirror neuron is being studied. The author uses professional researchers to explain the finding of mirror neurons and their experiments. The author explains that the monkeys learn by visual models as well as humans. The monkeys learned by seeing food that they want just by…

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    The flexibility of language is a highly controversial topic in the field of linguistics. How easily does language acquisition occur and in what ways may it be limited? Through his text Language and Symbolic Power, French linguist Pierre Bourdieu introduces a market metaphor in order to explain the ways that communicative exchanges relay both messages contained in words and nonlinguistic information about a person’s social status. He explains that in the process of “linguistic exchange,”…

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    Rationalism Vs Empiricism

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    Rationalist’s understanding of the mind/body problem typically states that everything we do and say should have a background of knowledge and reason rather than impulse and emotions. All the different types of rationality holds belief that the world is a rationally ordered whole the parts of which are linked by logical necessity and the structure of which is therefore intelligible. Defensibly, rationalist would argue that innate knowledge does not require input of any kind. Empiricists believe…

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