...in Psychology What makes you think, feel, and behave the way you do? Were you born predisposed to live the life you are currently living, or were you born a blank canvas upon which your experiences gave shape and expression to the person you are today? These are the types of questions the Nature vs. Nurture debate has posed and scientists have probed for over a century. In this paper we will look at some of the aspects of this debate the scientific community does not attend to, or dismisses, the origin and history of this debate, the essential characteristics around which this issue is debated, and where scientists are today in understanding this issue. What are your thoughts on the Nature vs. Nurture argument? Sir Galton wrote in his book English Men of Science (1874), “Nature is all that a man brings with him into the world; nurture is every influence that affects him after his birth,” (p. 12). I have been led to believe that our biology (nature), our environment (nurture), and our cognitive abilities all interplay and influence our resulting personality and other existing traits. We are, as Myers (2012) continuously asserts, biopsychosocial beings (p.124). These aspects of our existence work in accord to actuate the developmental potential written into our genetic code. Where I think there is a deficiency in the theories proffered, in attempt to answer the Nature vs. Nurture issue, is in the lack of consideration for the spiritual reality in which we exist. Theories are...
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...idea that nature and nurture are both pieces of the human puzzle. Are we as humans shaped because of our genes only or are we influenced by our peers and environment? The opinion of this writer is that a person is who he or she is based on both principals of nature and nurture. Personal Thoughts My thoughts on nature and nurture have never been explored until now. I have always assumed that I am who I am because God made me this way. Now that I have learned a bit more about this debate, I find that I am a product of both nature and nurture. I am tall, have brown hair, wear glasses, and speak with a country accent because of my gene structure given to me by my parents. The way that I act and my thought processes come from influences in my environment and the teachings of my family. “We are a product of nature and nurture, but we are also an open system” (Myers, pg. 167). This means that even though genes and culture are influences in a person’s overall structure, a person can defy each. For example, as a teenager, I was always pressured to go with the crowd and conform to their ways of thinking and acting. I wanted so badly to fit in and found it difficult because I was tall, lanky, and had acne which was all given to me by my nature or genetic structure. Growing up in a smaller town, teenage drinking was a pressure of my social group and while I knew it would be the “thing to do”, I opposed what culture was telling me was okay. I chose not to go with the crowd...
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... Philosophers who think about ethics usually try to live by an ethical code, while the people who set up a code of ethics often study and think while they are doing so ("Define ethics," 2011). According to this definition, ethics can be one of two things: it can be a code that you follow and live by, or it can be something that you study and think about. Of course in our daily life it has a chance of being both. Ethics is not an easy word to define. Almost everyone wants to live an ethical life, but knowing what that means is not as simple as it sounds. Being that life is not that simple sometimes people come across what writers would call “ethical dilemma”. When a situation comes up and two ideas might seem ethical, it might be hard to choose which answer is correct. Some “ethical dilemmas” may have little consequences: for example, is it right to tell a lie when someone asks “does this dress make my butt look to big or was my steak to tough? The dilemma is what to do, lie or risk hurting the persons feeling? There is no easy answer to these questions because it depends on your definition of ethics! In sociology, the definition for values is believed to help ease the conflict between individual and collective interests. Values serve an important function by enabling individuals to work together to realize collectively desirable goals (Karp, 2001). Sociologists, Smith and Schwartz believe there are five features to define values: some examples of the five are beliefs, desirable...
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...Marketing environment………………………………………….5-6 Customer’s profile………………………………………………...6 Business Objective Our company’s goal is to create superior value in the mind of customers by providing best quality product for the people who can afford it. Our company is providing a T-shirt with the best quality and as we all know quality needs cost so the price of our product is high. The main objective of our business is customers’ satisfaction and that we can get by knowing the need of customers and delivering superior values to them. Our business don’t want to have short term relationship with customers we will see at the long term business relationship with them as we know the loyal customers will never leave you in hard situation which is an advantage for the business, as there are some companies who wants to just deliver the service and get profit they don’t care about the customer satisfaction which costs them to lose customer. Another objective of our business is to create an image in the society as our product is for upper class and our prices are high we need to obtain this objective because if we don’t have an reputation or image of our product we can’t attract as much customers we are targeting and this may cause our company to bankrupt so we need to obtain it, on the other hand it needs time to make an image of our new product so I am talking about one to three years in this time we must stop thinking about profit instead we should focus on our objectives. As we are doing...
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...THE TRUMAN SHOW “We are the villains, victims, and hero of The Truman Show. And, ultimately, the only illusion we have to escape are the ones we create ourselves.” When you watch The Truman Show, a satirical social science fiction comedy-drama starring Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, you’ll get to know how powerful media is, of how it affects individual ideology and of how are you going to relate it on the issues in our society. The movie was directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. It was all about a man who unknowingly lives his life as a reality show-star until he notices. that his environment is not what it seems to be . The cottage at 31 Natchez Street served as Truman home, from where he greets his neighbors with his famous line: “Good morning…and in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night!” The show's creator and executive producer Christof is able to capture Truman's real emotion and human behavior when put in certain situations. He was able to control every aspect of Truman’s life to prevent from discovering his false reality. Until there’s such time that Truman desperately want to leave Seahaven. He overcome his fear in water and sailed away in the town with a small boat. Christof, the creator of the show did everything just to make sure Truman would not leave the town by giving order to the show’s crew to create a large storm to capsize the boat but Truman overcomed it. As Truman recovers, he reaches the edge of the...
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...is truly fascinating to stop and ask your self some questions. What makes me shy or brave? What makes me smart and what makes me lack common sense? What makes me the way I am? Is it the way I was born and the genetics I have or is it because of the environment I grew up around and the behaviors I caught on to? Just thinking about all the questions you can stop and ask yourself about why you are the way you are can give you some idea as to why nature versus nurture is still such a big debate today. The coding in each of our cells determines the different traits that we are going to have, more dominantly like the eye color, hair color, ear size and height. “However, it is still not known weather the more abstract attributes like personality, intelligence, sexual orientation, likes and dislikes are gene coded in our DNA, too”(explorable.com). One of the hottest issues that people like to bring up today regarding looking at the nature theory is the gay issue. People like the say that there is an actual “gay gene” that exists and that gay people are born that way. Another issue that we face today would be the “behavioral gene”. Criminal acts, divorce, and even aggressive behavior are all caused by the behavioral gene that people say you can be born with. Some psychologists believe that genetics has very little to do with people’s personalities and that their environment, surroundings, culture, and traditions are what shape them. The nurture theory holds that genetic influence over...
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...Conslusion 9 Sources 10 Introduction For the company research assignment of the minor Cross Cultural Communication, the company we chose is Philips. Philips is a company that produces electronic goods for consumers and companies and organizations. It was founded by the Philips brothers in Eindhoven, The Netherlands in 1891. Philips started out as a company that was manufacturing carbon filament lamps and over the years it grew out to become one of the largest multinational that provides consumer and professional electronics of all sorts. Philips is divided in three main parts, healthcare, consumer lifestyle and lightening. The healthcare part produces medical electronic devices for hospitals and practices all over the world. The consumer lifestyle department is producing all sorts of consumer electronics that improve the well-being and health of its customers. The lightening division of Philips is aiming to produce all sorts of end-user-driven, energy efficient solutions for lightning (Philips, 2012). The reason we chose Philips is the fact that Philips is one of the multinationals around the world that pays a lot of attention to diversity. In the next session we will pay attention to this. Below, you will find Philips’ mission, vision and strategy for the company, taken directly from their 2010 annual report. ‘’Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Health and Well-being company...
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...historic religious traditions, practices and beliefs, and material business strategies that are all focused around December 25th” (Sherbondy). How much do we actually know about the history of Christmas? Some might be completely surprised that December 25 is an approximate date of the birth of Jesus Christ. The exact date of his birth was unknown, so early Christians chose that date “to correspond with the day exactly nine months after they believed he was conceived” (Crock). The current culturally accepted forms of consumption behavior became established over time. “For centuries it was common to give Christmas gifts to friends and relatives at Christmas. However hanging out stockings to be filled with presents was first recorded in parts of England in the early 19th century. It became common in the late 19th century” (Lambert). “The sending of cards at Christmas time evolved from the practice of giving small, inexpensive favors to wish distant family, friends, and acquaintances well over the holidays. Over time, this custom gave way (largely due to marketing influences from greeting card companies) to the more widespread use of holiday cards to acknowledge both business and personal relationships” (Project Assignment). Compared to any other holiday, Christmas has the greatest potential for consumption of products. In America, Christmas is the most celebrated holiday. It is customary to give presents to...
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...doubled up as surgeons. Even today Western medicine is indebted to indigenous medicine for the most commonly used anaesthetic derived from Coca .A plant that South American Indian doctors have used for this purpose since pre-Colombian times. Indeed there are numerous plants of both south and North American Native origin that have enriched modern western herbalist and medicine. However, in Native traditions it is not just the plant that makes the medicine, but foremost the power of the spirit that governs the plant. A plant as such would be considered useless unless it were gathered and prepared with due respect, prayer and rituals with which the healer seeks the support of the plant spirit to help him affect a cure. Native American Medicines: Even though, Native American Medicines have no real threat to our bodies. Are Native American Medicines better for us than Traditional medicines with no side affects because Native American Medicines have been around for years and are still being used today and Native American Medicines have no real side affects like traditional medicines do. The most important reason are Native American Medicines better for us than traditional medicines, like pain killers, or others is because Native American Medicines have been around for years and are made from plants and roots from their region. In conclusion, although Native American Medicines have not real threat to our Bodies. Are Native American...
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...9th, May, 2001 To Mr. Md Asraf Harun Lecturer in Marketing Department School of Business BUBT Subject: Submission a report Dear Sir/Madam, It is really a matter of immense pleasure for us to submit the report on “Identifying the factors that affecting the customer hospitality”. This report enriches our knowledge. We will be highly encouraged if your kind to receive this report. We put our best effort to include all the applicable information, which we have collected from both primary and secondary sources and also from our personal observation. If you need any further clarification therein, we will be your instant service and I am always available for any queries. We would be grateful to you if you accept this report and give our assessment on it. Faithfully yours Taha Kabir (Group Leader) On the behalf of group E Bangladesh University of Business and Technology Acknowledgement First of all our expressing our sincere gratefulness to Almighty Allah for enabling us to prepare this term report in a complete from. In our country getting information is not so much easy. No one is steadfast to provide all information of the concern, though they are. We are assigned to...
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...G582: Religious Ethics Meta-ethics...........................…………………………………….p.25 Free Will and Determinism………………………………….……p.28 Conscience.......................…………………………………….…p.32 Virtue Ethics………………………………………………………..p.36 Sexual Ethics…………………………………………………...….p.40 Environment and Business Ethics……………………………….p.44 Religious Language Introduction The problems of religious language: • If we use language univocally about God, then we are limiting him / making him like a human • If we use language equivocally about God, we cannot be sure what the word means when applied to God • Are statements about God supposed to be cognitive – if so, what evidence proves / disproves them? • Are statements about God supposed to be non-cognitive – if so, do they have any meaning? The Verification Principle The Vienna Circle This group of philosophers argued that a statement is only meaningful if it can be verified empirically, or if it is a tautology. This idea is known as the verification principle, or sometimes the strong verification principle. For example, ‘the chair is blue’ is easy to verify with our senses; ‘the widow’s husband is dead’ is a tautology. Both of...
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...Society, Culture and the Individual Geography, Society and Culture History, Society and Culture Cultural Diversity in Caribbean Society and Culture Impact of Societal Institutions on Caribbean People Caribbean - Global Interaction Concepts and Indicators of Development Contribution of Sports to Development in the Caribbean Regional Integration and Development Factors Promoting or Hindering Development Intellectual Traditions The Mass Media Social Justice Investigating Issues in the Caribbean Pages 1 – 21 22 – 51 52 – 87 88 – 116 117 – 146 147 – 170 171 – 187 188 – 195 196 – 207 208 –222 223 – 247 248 – 255 256 – 262 263 – 303 INTRODUCTION Purpose The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), has developed Self-Study Guides for a number of Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) subjects. The main purpose of the Guides is to provide both in-school and out-of-school candidates with resource materials which should help them in preparing for CXC examinations. Each Study Guide is student centered and its language is student friendly. The Caribbean Studies course is designed for persons over the age of sixteen who which to further their studies. The course is equally useful to persons who are pursuing part-time study and those enrolled fulltime in an...
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...concepts and definition Objectives: By the end of this lesson you will be able to: Explain why marketing managers should understand consumer behavior Define and explain basic concepts in the study of consumer behavior. Introduction Why is it difficult to market any product to consumers? The reason is simple: Consumers are complex and constantly changing. Not only is it difficult to figure what marketing program will work but also what worked yesterday may not work today. Thus marketers must constantly improve their understanding of customers. Understanding consumer behavior and knowing your customers is never simple. Customers may say one thing but do another. They may not be in touch with their deeper motivation. They may respond to last minute influences. Some companies like Kenya Airways, Equity Bank, Microsoft, Coca-Cola e.t.c have stood to profit from understanding how and why their customers buy. On the other hand not understanding your customer’s motivations, needs and preferences can hurt. In Kenya, companies like Elliott’s and Sang Yong Motors failed. Consider also the case of Kodak when it introduced its Advantage camera and proudly marketed it as a high-tech product but to a generation (usually referred to as middle-aged baby comers) for which the bells and whistles of new technology had lost their appeal. It was a costly bust. Basic definitions and concepts Marketing: Just to remind ourselves we can say that marketing is typically seen as the task of creating...
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...Feedback is the process of giving data to someone about the impact the person makes through his or her attitudes, actions, and words. If there is lots of honest, open feedback going on in an organization, up and down and sideways, that is a clear signal that the environment is in the Stretch Zone and that people are learning and changing. The “Art” of Giving and Receiving Feedback Most of us bristle at the prospect of criticism, so it is also important to reassure the other person that you’re not hassling them, but rather trying to help. In simple terms, this means taking the following approach: following approach: • Describe the behavior. Be specific—do not put someone down or be vague. State the facts as you see them. • Avoid loaded terms that produce emotional reactions and raise defenses. Be specific and use clear examples rather than vague generalizations. If you say to someone “You’re always late” they can avoid the central issue by arguing that “always” is not strictly true. • • Build on the other person’s strengths. You can help the other person keep the feedback in perspective by including positive comments about their overall behavior • Invite the other person to respond. Think of feedback as a way of helping people to explore their behavior and see for themselves what needs to be done. You should resist the temptation to tell individuals directly what they should or shouldn’t do. The usual response to direct advice is...
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...This report was commissioned to show what are characteristics of Hawaiian business ethics and what should you expect if you are going to do business in Hawaii. This report shows that Hawaiian culture in its state nowadays is mixture of number of different cultures and heavily influenced by US. At the same time “Aloha spirit” makes Hawaiian culture something special. After analyzing information we found on Hawaii we concluded that the main difference from US is that Hawaiian culture is more of collectivism, and the whole society is based round the idea of “Ohana” which means family, even business use this concept. Building business there you have to know that relationships between company, it’s employees and customers are very close and not as formal as you can expect. Reflection of this can be found in dress-code which is very loose. Another point that emphasizes fact of “Ohana” concept in business is that during our researches it was hard to find examples of bad ethics. Another important thing to remember about Hawaii business ethics is that even though they are very openhearted and welcoming to any other cultures, they give a great value to their own culture and always trying to protect all their traditions. Despite the fact that Hawaii is one of the most distant and mysterious islands in terms of business ethics, in this report we tried to gather all possible information about most significant differences in Hawaiian business culture. Table of content Introduction...
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