For a while, suicide and depression has been an urgent issue among Aboriginal youth. Though suicide rates vary among the different groups, statistics show that suicide rates for First Nations and Inuit youth are much higher, ranging from 5 to 11 times higher than non – Aboriginal youth. Statistics show how this issue in many…
Introduction Attentional blink refers to the tiny gap that is created when one shifts his or her focus from one thing to another (Cherry, 2017). Usually, it is barely noticed since it lasts for less than a second. The brain’s attention resources are limited. This explains why when we try to focus on multiple things…
Sleep paralysis is the feeling of being paralyzed despite of being conscious and aware of the things that are happening around you. In addition, while in this state, the person who is experiencing this will not be able to move nor speak. Dating back to the 10th century, sleep paralysis was believed to be caused…
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” wrote Shakespeare in his play Hamlet. This derives a question about ethics and how important it is, because people make it out of nothing. Ethics may be useful in people’s everyday lives, but its benefits are debatable in science, namely in psychological experiments.…
Everyone strives toward a place in their life in which they feel satisfied with what they are accomplishing. Whether people are striving for excellence in academics, finances, morality, etc., they desire to reach a level of success that pleases them. Most would say that this success defines their happiness in their lives. Throughout the course…
The notion of world integration has been much appraised as advancing the human rights situation worldwide considering the fact that globalization has resulted in the formation of international human rights bodies such as the united nation and international criminal court, whereas UNICEF watches the human rights of children, international cooperation has resulted in the formulation…
Poverty in the rural areas has been attributed to the urban bias as attributed by Michael Lipton considering the fact that urban bias has resulted in the uneven distribution of national resources this has caused poor agricultural and infrastructural reforms in the rural areas. Urban bias has amounted to rural to urban migration that causes…
Do women have equal rights as men? Do men in the Indian society always overshadow women’s existence? Throughout history, mostly all areas in India have held women in an inferior place compared to men due to archaic traditions. Many movement groups and liberation groups have been created so as to stop this injustice and are…
The term “stereotype” holds many definitions. While Aronson et al. state that “stereotypes are widely held evaluative generalizations about a group of people”, the definition from Augoustinos et al. is that “a stereotype is a schema, with all the properties of schemas”. As one can tell from these definitions, a stereotype can be seen as…
Socrates believed that living a life where you live under the rules of others, in a continuous routine without examining what you actually want out of it is not worth living. This illustration of a lifestyle is what Socrates would describe an unexamined life. Hence Socrates’ renowned statement “The unexamined life is not worth living”.…
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING: Psychological testing is the branch of psychology in which we use standardized tests, construct them in order to understand individual differences. Psychological testing is a term that refers to the use of psychological tests. It refers to all the possible uses, applications, and underlying concepts of psychological tests. TEST: Test is defined as…
Canada as a nation we are known to the world for being kind, polite, and generally very accepting of all ethnicities. However, the treatment of Canada’s Indigenous population seems to suggest otherwise (Paquin, 2015). Throughout our history, we have shown undeniable amounts of discrimination towards Indigenous peoples. This, and more, has led to major…
The acquisition of new kinship significantly affects those from an adopted background. New kinship has a huge impact on the identity partially in western cultures; this is because in American culture kinship is defined by blood relation and this contradicts the adopter and adoptee relationship which revolves around the idea of social kinship (Carsten, 2007).…
Søren Kierkegaard, famously known as a ‘knight of faith’, was a religious author who later donned the title of the first existentialist philosopher in history. Furthermore, faith and religion played large roles in outlining many of his works and life. In his work, Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard outlined the three stages of life: the aesthetic,…
INTRODUCTION Natural law is a philosophy that certain rights or values are inherent by virtue of human nature, and universally cognizable through human reason. Historically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze both social and personal human nature to deduce binding rules of moral behavior. The law of nature, being determined by…
Some variables are manipulated and others are controlled. The greatest advantage with this method is that you can infer cause and effect because of the way the experiment is set up and the way it is controlled. A disadvantage can be your subjects might not behave as naturally as they should. There are two very…
SURVEY METHOD The survey method involves handing out questionnaires to try to get an idea to establish people’s attitude, beliefs and behavior. You have a population of interest; who you are interested in surveying. E.g. You want to study Canadian teenagers about their attitude on the legalization of marijuana Ideally, you would give a survey…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau General Information Jean Jacques Rousseau, was born at Geneva on June 28th, 1712. He was an influential Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy deeply influenced the major revolutions like the French Revolution and the American Revolution. Political and Social Views He was and is a national hero to…
A sample is group of people who have been selected to take part in research; a small section of the population is used. If a sample is representative it must show the characteristics of the whole population within the small group selected, this allows researchers to obtain information about the population as a whole without…
Key term Definition Achieved status Gained by the individual through talent, effort and hard work. Agents of socialisation Social groups and institutions which have a role to teach us norms, values, customs, traditions etc. Ascribed status Status which is fixed and determined at birth. Culture The way of life of a social group, made up…