Human Evolution: From Hominids to Homo Sapiens

**Hominization: The Evolutionary Journey to Humanity**

Biological anthropology defines hominization as a process of humanization. Changes promoted by the evolution of animals have allowed the emergence of the human species. The process began with the appearance of:

  • Bipedalism: A factor that differentiated hominids from other species.
  • Encephalization: A determinant of the occurrence of the genus Homo.

Hominids

The first phase is defined by the appearance of the family of hominids. The African continent

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Social Sciences Research: Methods and Paradigms

Item 1: Methods in Social Science Research

In the epistemological realm of the Social Sciences, there is no single rigorous, detailed, universal, and manual-like scientific method. The purpose of investigating the Social Sciences is complex, changing, and subjective, encompassing both society and the individual. There are multiple and different scientific methods to seek an approach to social reality to be measured. The methods of sociology are not interchangeable and random but are appropriate in

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Effective Behavior Modification Techniques in Education

Behavior Modification Techniques:

To behaviorists, the main forms of behavior control are: punishment, reinforcement, and extinction.

1. Withdrawal of Care Misconduct: Serve with:
Reinforcement of appropriate behaviors to inappropriate and incompatible behaviors.
2. Isolation: During time out or a short period of time: 5 to 7 minutes.

3. Punishment: To give something undesirable. Provide an unpleasant consequence for the misconduct. Removing a reward once enjoyed.

4. Reinforcement: Positive and negative

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Understanding OCD and Its Impact on Childhood Development

OCD: Obsessions and compulsions are the presence of persistent and recurrent thoughts or behaviors severe enough to cause marked distress, a significant loss of time in their construction, and interference with the usual routine of the child, or school functioning.
Relationships:
  • Contamination, germs, and dirt.
  • Intense fear for oneself or family members.
  • Symmetry, order, and accuracy.
  • Moral scruples and religious content.
  • Concern for waste or body fluids.
  • Lucky or unlucky numbers.
  • Thoughts, images, or
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Understanding the Laws of Perception in Gestalt Psychology

The Collection
The elementary theory is devoted to studying the feelings and is considered part of the contents of perceptions. The sensations are studied as simple and indivisible contents of perception. We now know that this is so because perception involves many factors that should be studied as a whole. Feelings are related to the stimuli triggered by the external or internal environment: noise, odor, flavor, or something that falls before us. These stimuli trigger an activity through the sensory

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Human Developmental Psychology: Concepts and Theories

ITEM 7: Introduction to the Psychology of Development

Preliminary Concepts

  • Growth: Quantitative physiological changes.
  • Maturation: Differentiation and development of biological structures and functional capabilities resulting from the interaction between genetics and experience.
  • Development: Functional relationship between behavior change and chronological age. Individual change is multidimensional and multidirectional.
  • Learning: Changes caused by external influences.

7.1. The Psychology of Development:

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