Categorization

Some people argue that many unconscious decision-making systems such as reflexes, Procedural, and Pavlovian are not a part of oneself. However, I would argue that these systems are definitely parts of oneself because of their correlation with the brain that brings about changes in the mind, and their neural basis that share some similarities with the deliberative system. Moreover, to claim that only a decision-making system that exerts self-control belongs to oneself is to overemphasize on self-control

Mrs. Smith just arrived at the bus stop to take a bus to downtown. She knew that the bus would be coming in an about five minutes. She noticed that a young couple joined her at the bus stop. The woman was wearing a veil, and carrying a hand bag, while the man had nothing peculiar, other than a beard. Mrs. Smith began to be uncomfortable on their presence, as if she were in danger. The few minutes she had to wait for the bus seemed to be eternal. The couple start to talk in a foreign language

label a person with a dogmatic stigma- so called “mental illness” in the psychiatry. Since the referential theory based categorization would not take account of the person’s belief, policy, emotion, or communities, the labeling categorization could ignore the humanity of the person. Regardless, the person might have different perspectives on his/her life or world; the categorization would not reflect the person’s

in blood pressure, and increase in stretch reflex (Quentin 1960). The changes in heart rate and blood pressure were assigned the “adverse” categorization, while pupil dilation, and stretch increase were given the “neutral” categorization. The most common psychological effects of psilocybin are anxiety and paranoia, which were assigned the “adverse” categorization (Amsterdam, Opperhuizen, and van den Brink 2010). Additionally, further common psychological effects include hallucinations, increased sensitivity

the importance of social belonging. This theory is based around three mental processes, social categorization, social identification and social comparison. People who are in a group or belong to and even assigned to the group, they would naturally think of the member within that group as the in-groups while others outside the group would be the out-groups. This can be explained by social categorization. People would normally categorize other people into different categories, including themselves

Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, people in the United States and Canada will celebrate Thanksgiving. The most common reason why they celebrate Thanksgiving is because they see Thanksgiving as a year to reflect what they are thankful for and to spend time with family, friends, and loved ones. Therefore, on that day, families will prepare Thanksgiving feasts and some traditional foods include turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, corns, and etc. However, my family

their knowledge off the presumptions of gender. This reaffirms the categorization of identifying someone as male or female. Thus, physiological differences between men and women are transformed into similar appearing gendered bodies. They state “we see what we believe, whether it is that ‘females’ and ‘males’ are essentially different or that ‘women’ and ‘men’ are essentially the same”’(Lorber 578). Through the conventional categorization of gender, one will see what they believe. “Biology as ideology”

The Gran Fury poster asserts the notion that due to the risk categorization and representation that stemmed from this association of the homosexual lifestyle to the AIDS virus, groups, including women, who were perceived a tangential to the AIDS epidemic, that did not fit into the perceived potential candidates for the

In the film, Crash by Paul Higgins there is the incorporation of numerous perspectives and theories of societal issues. The film brought up various issues we face in our world today such as racial discrimination, stereotyping, and prejudice etc. One theory that is seen is the symbolic interaction theory. There is the usage of different symbols in the film. Each character in the film comes from a different culture; socioeconomic background etc. and they each have their own story. There are many

addition of this property along with 'other' would provide more granularities to this question and would eliminate the assumption made. The question on the race of the person could be modified such that there is a clear hierarchal structure to the categorization of multiple properties. For example, Asian could be constructed as a hypernym having sub-categories such as Chinese, Japanese. A well-defined hierarchal structure would provide more granularities to the properties. Again, the question inquiring