Месяц: Сентябрь 2015

The Neuroscience Approach

LEARNING OBJECTIVES • How do the basic developmental forces benefit from the neuroscience approach? • What is the major focus of the neuropsychological approach to neuroscience? • Describe the difference between the correlational approach and the activation imaging approach to studying neuroscience. • What is the difference between MRI and fMRI scanning? A t age […]

REFORMED MORALITY

In fact, by the early sixteenth century the main public criticism was that existing practice was far too lenient. This was a major complaint of the Protestant movement, which began around 1500 as a campaign to purify the church from within, but pretty soon developed into a cataclysmic struggle for truth that tore apart the […]

Preface and. Acknowledgements

Gender is a vast and expanding subject; in this book we have tried to guide our readers through what seem to us to be some of the most important debates and issues, especially as they impact on culture and representation. Although it is impossible to give a comprehensive treatment of all the cultural and historical […]

Neuroscience as a Basis for Adult Development and Aging

2.1 THE NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH Implications of the Developmental Forces • Neuroscience Tools • Neuroscience Perspectives • Discovering Development: What Do People Believe about Brain Fitness? 2.2 NEUROSCIENCE AND COGNITIVE AGING Structure of the Brain • Age-Related Changes in Neurochemical Properties Age-Related Changes in Brain Activity • Functional Consequences of Brain Deterioration • Culture, Neuroimaging, and […]

THE HETEROSEXIST CONSTRUCTION OF BLACK RACIAL VICTIMHOOD

By and large, Black gay and lesbian experiences are marginalized in or excluded from antiracist discourse. The marginalization is achieved—wittingly or unwittingly—through the heterosexualized nature of some, though certainly not all, Black political engagements. Consider the Black civil rights intervention into the military’s "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy. The intervention was not to support gay […]

Key Terms

age effects One of the three fundamental effects examined in developmental research, along with cohort and time-of-measurement effects, which reflects the influence of time-dependent processes on development. ageism The untrue assumption that chronological age is the main determinant of human characteristics and that one age is better than another. biological forces One of four basic […]

New experiences

This book analyses younger same-sex partners’ accounts of their for­malised relationships. It considers couple and individual narratives of being formally partnered or ‘married’, and situates these with respect to partners’ relational biographies, the meaning and practices they attach to money and finances, sexual and intimate commitments and to being coupled. These are important new stories […]