PROPER PRESENTATION OF YOUR ACADEMIC WORK

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Patient: - I'm fine, but a little worried

Psychologist: - Well, tell me

Patient: - uhmmm, well, I, uh ...

Psychologist: - Sorry How old are you, Mary?

Patient: - 39, turn 40 Saturday.

Psychologist: - And what do you do?

Patient: - I am a general manager in a candy factory, Arcor more precisely.

Psychologist: - Husband, children?

Patient: - Yes, I have a son and my husband does not live with us, I have trouble actually my son is very troublesome and disobedient what not to do.

Psychologist: - How old is your son?

Patient: - He has 11

Psychologist: - so what relationship does your father with your son?

Patient: - only see what weekends

Psychologist: - are you at what time you are with your son?

Patient: - Well, at night when I get home from work

Psychologist: - Generally children need attention and that is what he is looking

Patient: - Yes, I have neglected

Psychologist: - Look to correct behavioral problems you can do is be clear is not the same as saying "behave yourself" or "do not misbehave", to say what is right and what is not, you understand me?

Patient: - Yes, I understand

Psychologist: - You have to be consistent and have recorded a parent who scolds his son for a certain behavior, you should always do it detects again. Keep in mind also that the child observes his surroundings and imitates, it would be wrong to disapprove conduct that includes regularly in his family but it is necessary that all family members, to apply the same guidelines when to teach the small good habits of behavior. Everyone should allow or not the same performances.

Patient: - Yes, I understand and I must devote more time to be with him.

- Read and answer the questions ( 2 points)

Evolutionary psychology takes as its starting point the uncontroversial assertion that the anatomical and physiological features of the human brain have arisen as a result of adaptations to the demands of the environment over the millennia.

However, from this reasonable point of departure, these psychologists make unreasonable extrapolations. They claim that the behavior of contemporary man (in almost all its aspects) is a reflection of features of the brain that acquired their present characteristics during those earliest days of our species when early man struggled to survive and multiply.

This unwarranted assumption leads, for example, to suggestions that modern sexual behavior is dictated by realities of Pleistocene life. These suggestions have a ready audience, and the idea that Stone Age man is alive in our genome and dictating aspects of our behavior has gained ground in the popular imagination. The tabloids

repeatedly run articles about “discoveries” relating to “genes” for aggression, depression, repression, and anything for which we need a readymade excuse.

Such insistence on a genetic basis for behavior negates the cultural influences and the social realities that separate us from our ancestors. The difficulty with pseudo science of this nature is just this popular appeal.

People are eager to accept what is printed as incontrovertible, assuming quite without foundation, that anything printed has bona fide antecedents. We would do well to remember that the phrenologists of the nineteenth century held sway for a considerable time in the absence of any evidence that behavioral tendencies could be deduced from the shape of the skull. The phrenologists are no more, but their genes would seem to be thriving.

1. The author’s primary purpose in the passage is to

[pic 1]A. argue for the superiority of a particular viewpoint [pic 2]B. attack the popular press [pic 3]C. ridicule a particular branch of science [pic 4]D. highlight an apparently erroneous tendency in an area of social science [pic 5]E. evaluate a particular theory of human behavior in all its ramifications

2. The author mentions phrenologists as

[pic 6]A. pseudo scientists who are the logical antecedents of evolutionary psychologists [pic 7]B. a group with inherent appeal to the followers of evolutionary psychologists [pic 8]C. a warning against blind acceptance of ideas [pic 9]D. scientists with whom evolutionary psychologists share common assumptions [pic 10]E. behavioral scientists who have spawned a variety of wrong ideas

The questions and concerns will be in virtual tutorials with the teacher at the times scheduled for the course.

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