Habituation

scientific conceptions about the unidirectional nature of time. Bem used countless, used and well-accepted psychological experiments but with a twist, which I will be talking about one specifically. One experiment Bem used was to test the effect of habituation in his study "Experimental Evidence for Anomalous Retroactive Influences on Human Cognition…

In the Nicomachean ethics, Aristotle discusses virtue ethics and becoming a virtuous person. He explains how having virtue means doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, in the right amount, towards the right people. It is safe to categorize Colin Kaepernick as a virtuous person for being a genuinely benevolent and honest man. Kaepernick’s failure to stand while the national anthem was playing can be validated as appropriate behavior through virtue ethics. “A courageous person…

It has been well established that personal stress can affect our bodies and behavior, but what about the stress experienced by our parents or even our grandparents? It is not too much of a stretch to connect a mother’s stress during pregnancy to changes in the fetus. It makes sense that what the mother’s body goes through during pregnancy could also affect the child, however, in the New York Times article by Inna Gaisler-Salomon, “Inheriting Stress” (March 7, 2014), the author discussed her…

Heathcliff conveys many variations of jealousy in this novel, but mostly it stems from his desire for necessities, wealth, or excess. Through Heathcliff’s early habituation at the Heights, he is often quoted and narrated to be quite envious of the wealth and appearance of Edgar Linton, such as when he relays to himself, “I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed, and behaved as, and had a chance of being…

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World - Society of Imprisonment True Freedom is having the right to act, speak and think whatever one wants without any hesitation or restriction. Imprison [im-priz-uh n] to confine in or as if in a prison (dictionary, 2018) Why is it so important that freedom is achieved? The motto that shapes the World State is “Community, Identity, Stability” (p.1). The motto tricks the citizens into thinking that they have achieved the utmost freedom and are content with the way…

Virtues as described by Aristotle in book II falls between two extremes or Vices. One side represents the deficits where a cowardice decision is taking place the other side represents the excess of passion where recklessness is. There’s also a middle, the perfect midpoint between the two extremes otherwise known as the golden mean. The golden mean is when a person has access to the right action and achieves equilibrium. Aristotle divides the human brain into parts one part governs and reasons…

Cau Thoong Psyc 242 Paper 2 – Treatment Plan The patient Elizabeth came in because of a recommendation by her mother. She was experiencing distress, anxiety, and unease because of her parents. About a year ago, the patient overheard her parents talking about getting a divorce, and they would get into very heated arguments. After experiencing this, Elizabeth started to feel very anxious about the divorce, and she started to have an obsession with exercising. Every day, Elizabeth would feel…

Abstract Plato and Aristotle helped shape the foundations of western philosophy. Their very thoughts echo through the corridors of time and they have been immortalized in the annals of academia for ever. While both philosophers agree on a number of topics, they fundamentally represent two different schools of philosophy. Plato and Aristotle have a variety of opinions of common good, social peace, and individual happiness. This paper will compare and explain the position of the philosophers on…

Food is commonly recognized as a substance containing nutritional elements for the human body. However, from the archeological record to today, there are many examples of items of food that are consumed for reasons other than simply fulfilling one’s dietary nourishments. In modern cultures, medical substances fit into this category, since they are properties that are ingested for reasons other than nutritional value. In Callahan’s article, ‘Eating dirt’, he not only discusses the nutritional…

To begin with, a lot of fast food restaurants and gas stations have those signs where they sate their new items or their current special. Every time that I am driving down the road, I always find myself reading them. At times, some of those advertisings are missing some letters to complete a word. For example, a McDonald’s is advertising two Big Macs for five-dollars, and the sign says “2 B_g M_cs for $5, this is where the Top-Down processing (p. 124) comes into play. You use previous knowledge…