Habituation

make up what we call character (Aristotle, 1931). Whether or not someone is right or wrong character depends on many things that can contribute to whether you think something is good or bad. Aristotle says good or bad character it is produced by habituation. When we do certain things depending on how we act and how we get it done, make up our character. An excellent example of this is when someone decides to make that step and sign up for the army. In basic training, you learn in detail the…

This theoretical Underpinnings paper analyses how I will teach what I am planning to teach, and also what makes this lessons interdisciplinary, differentiated, and what makes them moderate to high cognitive complexity. During my lessons, my main focus was keeping knowledge alive on the students. According to Doll, romance is the early period of fresh exploration when the joy of the new, the zest of undisciplined exploration are dominant. During my lessons, keeping knowledge alive was essential…

Learning, whether active or passive, represents a modification in an animal’s behaviour as a result of experience of a particular set of circumstances. For horses, “its main learning processes are habituation, sensitization, shaping, operant conditioning, and classical conditional” (Beckstett, 2015). Horses are notable in their capacity to retain specific memories, making training the horse correctly a crucially important foundation in the human-horse…

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but is a habit.” –Aristotle. In this quote, Aristotle is describing what it takes to be at the top at what you’re doing, similar as to what he did in almost every subject he studied. An attitude similar to the one he portrayed in the quote above is the reason…

Amnesia A slideshow of familiar faces and people; every frame associated with a particular smell, taste, emotion, or feeling. Our memories are foundational to each of our personalities and influence nearly every decision that is made throughout our days. A network of associates weigh the possible benefits and repercussions of every decision that could influence you in the future at supersonic speed, based on previous experience and recollection. So, how would someone without access to their own…

In this essay I will be discussing J.B. Watson’s theory. This involves looking at Watson’s view of psychology being the “control and prediction of behavior” (Crain, 1992, p.157). Watson then being a behaviourist will further be explored to see how this impacts his focus in his studies. It also involves looking at the three innate emotions that Watson said that he could condition into people. This will then lead to exploring how Watson uses the emotion of fear to then condition Little Albert to…

Before I discuss how utilitarianism, deontology, and virtue ethics would respond to what took place, I am first going to briefly describe the situation. “While most of the population slept during the night of December 3, 1984, a toxic cloud of over forty tons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas escaped from the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, central India. Heavier than air, the gas blanketed the slums surrounding the facility and spread over the city of 800,000 people. At least 2,000 died immediately…

heroin, PCP, speed, shrooms, valuable stone meth, and favored ambassador dust are an extensive variety of unlawful prescriptions. What is an illegal pharmaceutical? An illegal medicine is something and oftentimes a substance that causes obsession, habituation, or a weighed change in perception. The use of unlawful meds in the United States is considered by some to be the most concerning issue in…

My six year old brother wakes up every Saturday morning around 7 am. The first thing he does is turn on the TV to Netflix. He will spend over an hour flipping between his favorite shows. He will then start playing various games on his IPod, and turn on his Leapster. My 3 year old sister will join him in texting each other back and forth; this all occurs before we even wake up. It is sad that a six year old boy does this every single day. While he is not old enough to acknowledge the issue…

The medieval thinker Algazali states that the “sun and moon, stars and elements, are in subjection to His command. There is none of them whose activity is produced by or proceeds from its own essence” (272). Algazali wrote this as a criticism of the philosopher’s postulated theory of cause and effect. His reason for this polemic was to uphold the omnipotence of God, for if necessary causal effects could be found in nature, the effects would not be acts of Gods will. Below, this paper will…