Why is the emotive experience of normal adults in daily life as orderly as it is? Why, generally speaking, do people feel gay at parties, sad at funerals, happy at weddings? This question leads us to examine not conventions of appearance or outward comportment, but conventions oi feeling. Conventions of feeling become surprising only when […]
Месяц: Сентябрь 2015
Inhibitory Loss
One popular hypothesis is that older adults have reduced processing resources due to greater difficulty inhibiting the processing of irrelevant information (Hasher & Zacks, 1988; Persad, Abeles, Zacks, & Denburg, 2002). That is, older adults have more task-irrelevant thoughts during processing and have trouble keeping them out of their minds. This difference could explain why […]
Processing Resources
Another alternative theoretical explanation for age — related changes in cognitive functioning focuses on why older adults have more problems performing more difficult tasks, or tasks on which they have little practice, simultaneously? Many theorists and researchers believe that with increasing age comes a decline in the amount of available processing resources, the amount of […]
The soldier in transition
When the Chinese soldier in Tiananmen Square hesitated to kill people his own age who were offering him food, and when he set fire to his own tank yet remained in uniform, we can only imagine his internal conflict. We like to frame this as a conflict between immorality and morality, but to the soldier […]
THE RACIAL FAMILY
oedipus/electra, the eternal triangle, the BROTHEL-BEHIND-THE-SCENES Let us look at race relations in America,* a macrocosm of the hierarchical relations within the nuclear family: The white man is father, the white woman wife-and-moth — er, her status dependent on his; the blacks, like children, are his property, their physical differentiation branding them the subservient class, […]
The Setting
Historically, public executions, especially the executions of women, were always a draw (Gatrell 1994). During the late 1800s and early 1900s the day of an execution was considered a time for social gathering. Flyers were posted, invitations sent out, and discussions held about how to accommodate a multitude of dignitaries. It was considered fashionable to […]
THE DILEMMA OF THE SOLDIER IN TRANSITION
Stage I soldiers free women to be Stage II women Ninety-five percent of women’s experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive. . . women didn’t go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Ram bo. Jodie Foster, The New York Times Magazine40 Muhammad Ali’s refusal […]
Attentional Control
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What is processing speed? What age differences are found? • What are the processing resources that underlie information processing? • What is inhibition loss? When are age differences found? • What are attentional resources? Under what conditions are age differences observed? • How do automatic and effortful processes differ? In what situations […]
Critique of psychoanalytic theory in its application to feminist film analysis
Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis became a primary tool for feminist film analysis initially among the editors and writers of the British film journal Screen as well as among French film theorists. Byars (1994:95) notes that, although there was a recognition of a power imbalance inherent in society, these psychoanalytic theorists operated with a model which […]
FROM THE HOME FRONT
As one might expect, from the time Tyson was accused of raping Desiree Washington until he was finally sentenced, the "accusation" was a hot topic of conversation. I had a number of discussions about the accusation with other African-American males living in Indianapolis. When the accusation was first made, I asked a lot of my […]