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An instinct is the mechanism by which animals and humans can perform complex behaviour patterns without learning or conscious effort. Instinctive behaviours are inherited and have evolved to be adaptive, fitting the organism to its particular role. Instinct is of particular importance in animal behaviours such as courtship, mating, and other reproductive activities. More general behaviours such as feeding and defence may have an instinctive base. Many birds, some grasshoppers, frogs, and a number of other animals have song or call patterns that attract mates and are based upon instinct. Instinctive behaviours often require a stimulus or releaser to initiate them. The herring-gull chick pecks the red spot on the adult's bill, releasing its instinctive feeding behaviour. A releaser will operate only if conditions, both internal and external to the organism, are suitable.
Ethos takes account of the character, sentiment, manners, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution and the predominant characteristics of a racial culture. In rhetoric, this is the speakers' or writer's character or emotions, articulated in the attempt to persuade an audience. Ethos is distinguished from pathos, which is the emotion the speaker or writer hopes to induce in the audience. The two concepts were well known in a broader sense by ancient Classical authors, who used pathos when referring to the violent emotions and ethos to mean the calmer ones. Ethology deals with the behaviour in a natural environment and investigates the development of systems of morals; now more generally, the science of human character. Ethology is particularly concerned with the animal's interactions with others of the same species and the function of behaviour and how the evolution of behaviour has been influenced by natural selection.
18. Programme Management Workshop. ISBN: 0952725371 Year: 2005The Programme Management Workshop, as a manual and book, deals with the Management of Projects, where established management procedures and various development methods are explained. This Workshop is intended to give I.T. and Programme Management staff an overview of the Project Development Methods and an indication of how these relate to the various Project Management Techniques. The Workshop explores the fundamental aspects of the Management of Risks, Programmes, Structured Systems Development, Operational Computing and the construction of new information systems.
Yusuf's Odyssey: From one range of mountains to the next hilly land, the adventures of a young man in the eastern-most of islands in the Mediterranean sea, a beautiful youth, willingly and against his wishes and by fate, he is thrown into the bitter conflicts of human races and their cultures. Bitter fights follow him, from one country to the other. His unexpected adventures continue as a modern-day slave in a male brothel in London. His many quests continue in unexpected places until his bravery lands him on his feet...
Philosophic Counselling For People And Their Governments.ISBN: 0952795663 Year: 1999 The logic of philosophic counselling assists in the understanding of human behaviour and can contribute to the treatment of the people and their governments. Philosophic Counselling has been with us since the times Pericles, the Golden Age of Athens. As such, this book includes the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Burke, Hegel, Bentham, Mill, Marx and other philosophers in contemporary counselling.
This presentation of Jung's psychotherapy is intended to give a condensed picture and an introduction to his extensive publications and method of therapy. Jung popularised the terms 'introvert and extravert', interpreted the deeper conscious levels, and established psychotherapy as the treatment of disorders. His theory of 'psychic energy' emphasised a final point of view as against a purely causal one. His discovery and exploration of the 'collective unconscious', with its 'archetypes' was an impersonal substratum underlying the 'personal unconscious'; the concept of the psyche as a 'self-regulating system' expressing itself in the process of 'individualisation'. Jung's latter work included dreams and drawings interpretation, symbolism, myths, historical antecedents, physics... Thus, Jung's work has become of great importance for medicine, psychology, anthropology, religion, art, history, literature, etc...
The Management Of Commercial Computing. ISBN: 0952795604 Year: 1996 The development and management of systems and people in multi-national corporations, systems and software houses, government departments, European Union Commissions and academia.
In reading this book on Child Psychotherapy, the reader must take into consideration the influences attributed to childhood. Childhood is after all a very influential phase in the human life-cycle, which stretches roughly from infancy to puberty or to the legal age of majority. Because children can be distinguished from adults by certain biological and cognitive characteristics, childhood is perceived as separate from adulthood, and the transition is normally accompanied by a significant change in social and legal status and marked by rites of passage and initiation. The social significance, experience, and duration of childhood are extremely variable, both historically and geographically. For example, before the 20th century, children in Europe generally worked alongside their extended family in factory, field, or mine. In many developing countries, children still work alongside their parents, marry and have children at an age when their coevals elsewhere are required to remain in school
Philosophy and Politics have many different areas, classified according to the subject-matter of the problems being addressed. Thus, this volume includes eight books on: Epistemology, British Philosophers (Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Burke, Bentham, and Mill), about Machiavelli, Hegel, Rousseau, Marxism, Plato, and Aristotle. This tome of the eight books attempts to describe the use of reason and argument in the search for truth and the nature of reality, especially of the causes and nature of things and of the principles governing existence, perception, human behaviour, political systems, and the material universe. The contents of this title explain the philosophical activities, directed at understanding and clarifying the concepts, methods, and doctrines of other disciplines, or at reasoning itself and the concepts, methods, and doctrines of such general notions as truth, possibility, knowledge (epistemology), necessity, existence (ontology and metaphysics), and proof.