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    Madang Faculty of Arts Department of PNG Studies Until Title: Leading and Managing a Major Change Project Code: PG 405 Unit Lecturer: Jerome K. Semos‚ PhD PG 405 Assignment Number 1: Media Reports + 3 Key Concepts + Local Community Development “Success Story” Aspects through PNG Development Strategic Plan 2010-2030 and PNG Vision 2050. Title: Leadership‚ Management and Change Project Due Date: March 10‚ 2013 (11:50 p.m) Name: Elijah. Luan Contents Introducntion________________________________________________________________1

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    COMPARISON OF MAJOR PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS The Oxford dictionary defines psychology as "Science of the nature‚ function and phenomena of human soul or mind: mental characteristics." (1980). The normal mental characteristics of the human mind are very difficult to categorize; so when looking at the disorders of the mind a number of factors have been identified that "attempt to define" (Meteyard‚ 2007‚ p. 49) what is abnormal or psychopathological. For this assignment I will be looking at four

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    JOHN FREDERICK CHARLES FULLER 1. Gen. Major Gen John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878 –1966) was a British‚ mil historian and strategist‚ notable as an early theorist of modern armd warfare. He was commissioned in a Light Inf Bn and participated in South African Boers War and World War I. In 1916‚ he was apptd as a staff offr in the newly raised HQ Tk Corps. He planned the first successful tk attk at Cambrai in 1917 and the tk ops for the autumn offn of 1918. 2. Biography. Fuller was born in 1878

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    Assignment #1 The first major theoretical perspective is the functionalist perspective‚ which also goes by the names functionalism and structural functionalism. These types of perspectives are commonly based on the theory that society is a stable‚ orderly system. Under the functionalist perspective‚ a society is said to be composed of many different parts‚ which are interrelated and serves different functions that in the end contributes to the stability of the society. Many factors‚ such as education

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    levels of the surrounding environment‚ from immediate settings of family and school to broad cultural values and programs (Berk‚ 24). This theory has three major structures; the microsystem‚ the exosystem‚ and the macrosystem. The following will include how each system has been applied to my virtual child as well as how different biological‚ psychological and social forces affect development during transitions such as childhood to adolescence. Microsystem is considered to be the innermost level of

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    One of the main divisions between mainstream and critical social psychology is that of the methods adopted. Discuss with reference to the cognitive social and at least one other social psychological perspective. Social psychology has existed for about 100 years‚ before which psychology was a branch of philosophy. Social psychology studies individuals in their social contexts. It is a diverse discipline made up of many theoretical perspectives and variety of different methods are used in social

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    together with one another. There are three major chemical bonds and they are‚ Ionic‚ Covalent‚ and Hydrogen bonds. An example of a covalent bond would be SCl^2 which is Sulfur dichloride. SCl^2 is a covalent bond because since they are close to each other in valence electrons‚ they have almost full outer shells so they share electrons with one another. A good example is table salt NaCl‚ because they are on opposite sides of the periodic table therefore that means that they are different and one has less

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    Assignment 2 The three major macroeconomic goals of an economy should be economic growth‚ low unemployment/full employment‚ and low inflation rates. Economic growth occurs when an economy ‘increases its ability to produce goods and services’ (AmosWeb‚ 2012). The growth or loss of the economy is measured by the production of goods made in a year compared to the production of goods made in the previous year. If there is a greater production of goods and services in the present year‚ then there has

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    The other four perspectives are behavioral perspective‚ social structural perspective‚ cognitive perspective‚ and evolutionary perspective. First‚ the behavioral perspective assumes that human behavior can be explained through observable‚ verifiable behaviors‚ rather than people’s thoughts. It argues that if a behavior is followed by something favorable or by removal of something unpleasant‚ the behavior is more likely to occur. Stimulus induces response‚ and reinforcement makes it more likely for

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    2012 Contrasting Perspectives on the Treatment of Fears: 1. Psychologists consider a phobia to be an irrational fear‚ meaning it is a fear reaction that is out of proportion to the reality of the danger. This differentiates itself from a normal fear reaction because the apprehension felt towards something alarming is to a real danger. 2. According to the Freudian concept of psychoanalysis‚ phobias are believed to originate from childhood traumas. This perspective also supports the idea

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