1. The term paleoanthropsychobiological was coined by Ellen Dissanayake in her article “What is Art For?” and can be described as her view on art that “must be viewed as an inherent universal trait of the human species” (Dissanayake 1).  In other words, she believes that the history of art and art itself is a universal perspective.

2. To make something special it must be something that is unordinary or not seen everyday and must impact the person in a significant way. For art to be made special implies that there is a lot of meaning and intention behind it and can truly impact us to adapt new values and emotions. This ultimately affects human survival as we adapt to things that are special to us as individuals and can impact our decision making.

3. Three theories that Dissanayake mentions in her article include modernism, postmodernism, and western concept of fine art. The development of the western concept of fine art she discusses developed up through the 18th century and was shaped by the great minds of Plato and Aristotle who did not mention art specifically but used beauty to describe the understanding we had with daily tasks or activities. This emphasized the value of reason on art and developed the true thinking behind fine art, not being restricted to what we may simply think is art. Modernism was a belief of art as an ideology and happened in the 18th century through the 20th century. American critics like Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg challenged previous beliefs of what we believed to be art as the appeal of aesthetics were introduced into art. Finally, postmodernism is currently happening as it integrates the idea of art being an interpretation. Postmodernism believes, “Artists, just like everybody else, do not see the world in any singularly privileged or objectively truthful way, but rather-like everybody-interpret it according to their individual and cultural sensibilities” (Dissanayake 5). This is showing how the idea of self interpretation has been introduced and is encouraged to challenge the art and previous beliefs of art.