3.2. Biological & Biomedical Sciences Aassignment.

The simplest and most direct explanation of a LAB class is that it is an application class. That is, LAB courses go beyond the repetition of information and focus on the discovery of information. This is accomplished by trial and error.
Meaning, a lecture course is useful in that it provides information, much of which has been gathered and presented by others. That is, lectures, for the most part, present known information for the purpose of planting seeds and growing ideas.
This is not to say that a lecture course is without discovery. It is to say that the discovery through trial and error is not the bulk of a lecture course. The bulk of a lecture course is a review of information which is known. This is in contrast to a LAB.
LAB courses by design, have tasks which require students to gather information about what is not known to the researcher/student. That is, an idea could be to analyze what the information gathered could be useful for. Meaning, rather than a set of memory assessments, a LAB is to use techniques to gather information which is applied to a structure, in order to make predictions about things.
Ultimately and simply stated, a lecture is mostly about information which is known while a LAB is about discovering the information, for oneself, in order to apply the process of trial and error ultimately to be used to make predictions. This is also known as the scientific method.
The idea
The information about lecture vs LAB illustrates an idea which is complex and can be shared amongst others. This is to state that one way to learn is to study and take a test and another is to do. That is where we find an ideal meaning both are better than one or the other.
This lab section adds to the “Big 6” characteristics of Clarke Spencer Laarson which make us human. It adds because the idea of only six is a good start but, likely is not enough. Recalling ideas such as those which are stated about the dangers of a single story, the use of the holistic approach, and that by perception others may view the world differently and have other useful ideas. Meaning although six is better than none, it is not fully representative of the complexity of what makes us humans but it is a good start. Also, the six does exclude one characteristic which is thus far, demonstrated only in humans. That characteristic is idealism.
Idealism
Idealism is a mental picture about something which is put into practice. That is, the way we think about things. Seemingly, language is a biological phenomena in that, there are unique biological variations of it. Showing the ability to think through language is a biological product according to Noam Chomsky. However, according to Sapir and Whorf, Hymes and Gumperz, and Pinker; how we think is to a certain extent constructed by our language which is an ideology. In the words of Sapir:
'Human beings...are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society...The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group'
What is Ideology
Ideology is the culturally created rule for cultural competence, in that, it is learned. Simply stated, an ideology is part of a system. Especially one containing the beliefs which are often found in the association of a group. That is, the beliefs are kept by humans in art, oral tradition, rituals, and also are written. Each of the ideological parts of the system are those which contain: political beliefs as well as common ideas which form the distinctions of a group such as faith, vocation, SES, and language. These for the purpose of this class would include ideas about science.
When combined with the idea of competence within a group, membership, and ideology we see the foundations of a worldview. A worldview is the application of life experiences such as information as a framework to understand. Consequently, our experiences and associations construct our view of the world. Therefore, ideologies are the basis of distinctions which form social groups/communities.
Works Cited
Dell Hymes (1972b). On Communicative Competence. in, J.B. Pride & J. Holmes (eds.), Socio- Linguistics (pp. 269-93) Harmondsworth: Penguin.
1a Gumperz, John. 1968. The Speech Community. In, Linguistic Anthropology A Reader: . Alessandro Duranti editor. Blackwell Publishing. Malden. 1:66-73.(2001)
Pinker, Steven. The Stuff of Thought : Language as a Window Into Human Nature.Viking. New York.(2007)
Bernard Comrie. Language and Thought. About the Sapir and Whorf Hypotheis /resource/language-and-thought Feb 2019
Bio:
Allen Johnson is Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Some of his books include; Families of the Forest, The Evolution of Human Societies, 2nd Edition (with Timothy Earle, 2000), and Oedipus Ubiquitous (with Douglass Price-Williams, 1996), which won the 1997 Boyer Prize.
Please complete the following sections of lab 3.2 by printing only the pages for them or if online submit as one document.
Tasks for this apply information ideas obtained in LAB 3.1
There is a 12 minute video to watch for the section which is used to answer the questions and is added to the i123a notes for your videos and will be asked for later in the semester.
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