Critical writing by Chloe Dixon

Critical writing by Chloe Dixon https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp en-us 2023-05-30 10:12:19 UTC 2023-06-04 11:01:31 UTC hello@padlet.com Descriptive or critical? Text 1 chloedixon87 https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608971543 Bowlby’s Attachment Theory argues that child development is affected by the closeness of the bond between a mother and its child. Bowlby claimed that even short spells away from the mother during infancy could have a profound effect upon a person later in life. This became known as ‘maternal deprivation theory’. According to this theory, the relationship with the mother during an early ‘critical period’ gives the developing child an ‘internal working model’. This model then forms the foundation of all future relationships.]]> 2023-05-30 10:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608971543 Descriptive or critical? Text 2 chloedixon87 https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608972131 In the West, all life forms are divided into one of two categories: plant or animal. Animals move and take in food. Plants are rooted into the earth in some way and lack locomotion. They photosynthesise their food. Zoologists study animals, and botanists study plants. Bacteria were classified as plants because many kinds of bacteria photosynthesise their food. However, they also have locomotion. Recent research has shown that there is an enormous variety of bacteria. Some are able to survive at extreme temperatures and in the absence of oxygen. Most plants cannot usually survive those conditions. Therefore, even though bacteria photosynthesise, they are not now regarded as plants.]]> 2023-05-30 10:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608972131 Descriptive or critical - Text 3 chloedixon87 https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608973567 The difficulty in categorising bacteria was partly based on the assumption that all life forms were divided into two main categories: plants and animals. Organisms that photosynthesised and lacked mobility were classified as plants; those that had locomotion and ingested food were classified as animals. Bacteria were traditionally categorised as plants because many forms of bacteria photosynthesised their food like plants. However, bacteria also have locomotion, associated with animal life. Genetic research has now shown that there are at least eleven major divisions of bacteria, all of which are more genetically distinct than plants are from animals (Fuhrman et al., 1992). In addition, the minute organisms formerly described as ‘bacteria’ are now found to consist of several major kingdoms and domains of unicellular and multi-cellular life (bacteria, archaea, eucarya) (Woese, 1994). This research is significant as it has shown that the fundamental division of all life forms into ‘plant’ or ‘animal’ was an error, and that plants and animals form only a very small part of a much more diverse range of living organisms.]]> 2023-05-30 10:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608973567 Descriptive or critical? Text 4 chloedixon87 https://padlet.com/magnificentcrossservices/g8lce3vv54dpc9zp/wish/2608975621 Scientists do not agree about the extent to which creativity can be linked to activity in the right hemisphere of the brain. It is known that the biochemistry of the two hemispheres of the brain is different. For example, there is more of the neuro-transmitter, norepinephrine, in the right

hemisphere than the left (Oke et al., 1978). Norepinephrine is associated with increased alertness to visual stimuli. It has been suggested by Springer and Deutsch (1981) that this may lead to increased right-hemisphere specialisation for visual and spatial perception. However, this link is not yet proven. It is not yet clear whether one hemisphere of the brain can be responsible for any creative task. Moreover, although it might seem reasonable to assume that responsiveness to visual stimulus may be an important factor of creativity, this has also not yet been proved.

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