Essays

In today’s society where the majority of the population is obese and overweight, it has never been as important for people to not only become knowledgeable of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle but also to act out on that …

Have studies of perception in infants demonstrated the importance of both innate capacities and the role of environment in development? The question of nativism versus empiricism has been a central issue in studies of perception. Nativism offers the view that we …

Eating a healthy diet in today’s world is a great achievement. Living in an over-consuming society where one has so many food choices, takes a lot of inner strength to maintain a healthy balanced diet. Supermarkets offer such a great …

The connection between adolescence and old age is found with the description of a theory in psychosocial development by Erik Erikson, there he explains that from childhood to adulthood, we go through a series of eight changes that are marked …

On average, children say their first word at around twelve months of age, with a range of eight to eighteen months (Berk, 2000). Nevertheless, preceding this is a period of communicative development which has led to an array of research …

Another communicative tool available to infants is the use of vocalisations such as babbling, it has been proposed that from as early as one month infants begin to recognise phonemes such as the consonant sounds d and s and soon …

The two major issues in investigating human/ape relationships, are the nature of the relationships between humans and great apes, and the timing of their divergence. Various molecular techniques can be used in order to try and establish molecular clocks, which …

The amino acid sequences in many other proteins are equally as informative technique for studying human/ape relationships. Biochemical techniques can be used to determine the amino acid sequence in proteins or specific parts of them. Comparisons have been made of …

Question #5 – Imagine that you are a behaviour geneticist interested in the heritability of personality attributes. Describe how you would go about studying the genetic basis of personality. What would your basic procedure be? What measurement issues would you …

There are two main methods by which DNA sequencing is performed, the Maxam and Gilbert method, and the Sanger method. Both methods were developed in 1977 and initially they were used equally, however more recently preference has been given to …