Essays on Behavior

The themes of conformity and rebellion appear in a wide array of literary art materials available globally. Evidently, there is an obsession with the above themes, an indication of their real-life prevalence in the society over time. The play Antigone and the poem conformity and rebellion in the poem “When I was one and twenty”...

As we prepare to take a look at the relationship between law and morality, it was good to review some material found in the early part of the textbook, Contemporary Criminal Law. The review prepares a basis for understanding what law is, which first of all means we have to understand what defines a crime....

The typical ‘teen mum’: irresponsible, a bad mum, a secondary school dropout and living in poverty. They are portrayed to public in the media as careless and incapable mothers, but do we really think beyond the snap judgements about the influence that these young mums have on young girls in the UK? With television programmes...

Abstract Teaching is more than lecturing knowledge or giving assignments. They are considered role models, counsellors, and mentors for their students. People interpret what a teacher and school should look like in many different ways. This paper will discuss a couple of philosophies and the way a classroom and school should be designed. It should...

Every man is a philosopher, however, a good philosopher invents and justify his own theory. According to Michaud (2015), It is hard to justify the importance of philosophy for educators when philosophers cannot seem to justify effectively the importance of philosophy for students” (p. 74). Moreover, classical conditioning is a theory produced by Ivan Pavlov....

Procrastination is described as a non-rational tendency to delay tasks that must be finished (Lay, 1986). Everyone puts things off sometimes, but procrastinators keep avoiding continuously and keep searching for distractions. We all make similar situations every now and then. Like that time when you didn’t sleep the whole night just to finish the research...

There has been a great debate about the relationship between vegetarianism and morality. While the arguments against eating meat are quite convincing, there were only a few researches to justify the morality of consuming animal product. However, I believe that morality does not require vegetarianism since it is not the only choice to live life...

Humans are social creatures. We have all heard this statement at some point throughout our years in school: may it be from your primary school teacher encouraging you to go around the room and befriend kids in your class; your world history teacher from sixth grade teaching you about how civilization was first established several...

It is human nature to want to feel comfortable. We are programmed to coordinate our behavior with that of the people around us. When we are put in unfamiliar circumstances, we look to others for cues on how to act. To follow normative cues is an instinctual action, in situations we have little to no...

I have chosen the topic ‘Common biases and errors in decision making’. Research has shown that decision makers let preset bias and errors into decisions to reduce effort of brain, conserve time and avoid any trade off. I remember one clear incidence from my job, where my decision was driven by a bias. I worked...