1. Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement‚ punishment‚ or extinction. A positive reinforcement would be if a student was doing the correct behavior‚ the teacher would praise the student for using the correct behavior. Example: Jimmy raised his hand to answer the questions the teacher directed to the class. The teacher smiled at Jimmy‚ and told him he was doing a great job answering the questions by raising his hand. Jimmy is proud of himself
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nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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“More than half of adult New Yorkers are obese or overweight‚ according to the city’s health department‚ which said it believed 5‚000 New Yorkers died every year as a result of health problems related to obesity” (Grynbaum). This mind-boggling statistic is what lead the mayor propose a soda ban that would limit the size of soda that could be sold. This ban‚ in an effort to fight obesity‚ would discourage people from buying larger sodas by banning the sale of sodas of more than 16 oz. Although this
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DOES RAGGING DEVELOPS FRIENDSHIP OR NOT? Does ragging develope friendship? Ragging is a term used for active‚ systematical human rights abuses‚ similar to hazing and fagging‚ the severest forms of which are found in engineering‚ medical and military colleges. Ragging is defined as –“ the doing of any act which causes‚ or is likely to cause any physical‚ psychological or physiological harm of apprehension or shame or embarrassment to a student‚ and includes– (a) Teasing or abusing of playing
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I believe that Medicine C should be researched further. Some reasons why I believe that Medicine C is the best is because for one‚ the side effects are low and are not of high severity‚ there are very few restrictions and they are minor‚ and also even though only 35% of people got their headaches to go away that is still a pretty high number‚ and with some more research they could get that number up. In the data table provided in the book it showed that the only side effects were dry mouth and slight
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Threat of ragging in educational institutions One of the most dangerous developments in the modern day educational institutions has been the tendency of senior students ragging the juniors‚ especially the first timers to the institutions. Ragging has been denounced in many forms. Many academicians‚ administrators‚ and above all the judiciary has been continuously denouncing it and have recently come out with legislations for preventing ragging in schools and colleges.One of the most comprehensive
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tests their curriculum growth throughout the year‚ but what if a student does not test well. Lawmakers and Congressman have been contemplating whether to ban state testing. Although it relatively shows students curriculum growth‚ State testing should be banned on the basis of it takes out on the creative process of learning‚ eliminates the idea of students learning things dealing with life‚ and can cause stress amongst students. State testing takes out in the creative process of learning. Students
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Should smoking be banned altogether？ Smoking among adolescents rose in the 1990s in several developed countries. More and more young people are under 18 years old who smoke cigarette have been blinded by the deceit of tobacconists. Tobacco among adolescents remains stubbornly persistent. Tobacco become a global threat. In recent years‚ more and more people have come to realize that smoking is doing irreparable harm to the whole world. It has become fashionable in the world today to condemn smoking
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