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    One psychological explanation of anorexia nervosa is the behavioural approach. This approach explains that anorexia nervosa(AN) is learnt through both classical and operant conditioning as well as social learning theory. Classical conditioning is involved with making an association with eating and anxiety. Therefore anorexics seek to lose weight/not eat to reduce their anxiety. Once this association has been made operant conditioning starts playing its part through negative and positive reinforcement

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    In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth murders King Duncan and it drives him insane. The vicious murderer begins to have hallucinations and‚ by the time the murderers over‚ clearly is out of his mind. Shortly after the violent murder‚ a drunken porter is knocking at the castle door‚ which in his mind is the gate of Hell. The porter’s rant seemingly lightens the mood after such a violent‚ despair bringing seen. However‚ it actually provides audience with a deep‚ thought-provoking‚ understanding of Macbeth’s

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    “treated” for it‚ they may not have had the opportunity to make the powerful contributions they gave to modern society. The following is an excerpt from the essay “Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic” that describes the experiment Professor Wilson conducted. “In an illustrative experiment‚ David Sloan Wilson‚ a Binghamton evolutionary biologist‚ dropped metal traps into a pond of pumpkin seed sunfish. The ‘rover’ fish couldn’t help but investigate — and were immediately caught. But the ‘sitter’ fish stayed

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    Was Antigone`s decision to bury her brother just? In the Antigone by Sophocles‚ king Creon issues a decree that whoever tries to bury the body of Polyneices (Antigone`s brother)‚ shall suffer a penalty of death by stoning in the presence of the assembled citizens. Antigone refuses to follow this law because she believes that it`s more important to follow the god’s principles than to obey a man. In the book‚ she tells her sister‚ Ismene : "I will bury him myself. If I die for doing that‚ good: I

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    How do the four biological explanations fit together to explain schizophrenia or are they mutually exclusive? The biological explanation can be divided into subcategories to explain schizophrenia; genetic‚ biochemistry (dopamine hypothesis)‚ brain structure and season of birth explanation. Firstly there’s genetics. This view says some people posses certain genes that predispose them to schizophrenia. However‚ if schizophrenia was totally and always inherited then concordance rates between MZ

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    Name ______________________ *********Complete and submit this Algebra 1 Midterm Review Packet when you return 1. Write the Order of Operations: __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Evaluate: 2. 3p – q when p = 7 and q = 3 3. when w = 10 and u = 5 4

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    Huffman Trucking ERD Explanation Alvin Calahan‚ Adam Morgan University of Phoenix Database Concepts DBM/380 Michael James November 19‚ 2011 Huffman Trucking ERD Explanation Huffman Trucking‚ founded in 1936 with a single tractor trailer has grown tremendously over the years. Huffman Trucking now has 800 road trailers‚ 2100 45 ft. trailers‚ 260 roll-on and roll-off units‚ 925 drivers‚ and 425 support personnel. With facilities in Cleveland‚ OH‚ Los Angeles‚ CA‚ St. Louis‚ MO‚ and Bayonne

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    1.0 Explanation of Use Case “Use Case” is a system engineering or software term that portrays how a customer or user uses a system to complete a certain task. In other word‚ “Use case” is act as a software modeling method that defines the logic to be implemented and the outcome of the error in the result can be encountered earlier. An interaction between external actors is defined by use cases to attain particular goals. Three main elements that construct a use case are: • Actors: Actors are the

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    Active gene-environment interaction has its foundations in evolutionary theory. Evolutionary theorists had identified that assortative mating allowed individuals with similar traits to gravitate toward one another (Rhule-Louie and McMahon‚ 2007)‚ thus resulting in antisocial behaviour partnerships (Coyne and Wright‚ 2015). Consequently‚ these genes and antisocial environments created by these individuals play a massive role in segregated cross-generational criminal behaviour in families (Baum‚ 2013)

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    Newcastle University Business School NBS8214 Technology Change and Innovation Management Module assignment 1.:Question 3. Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory and Social-Shaping Theory: Suggesting Drivers of Technology Change Introduction Technologies has been intertwined with our lives since the early days of mankind (MacKenzie and Wajcman‚ 1999)‚ when stones where used as a cutting tool. Over time this ‘cutting tool’ was improved‚ substitutes were developed and the usage of

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