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Addison Wesley Mcgraw Hill
1,865 wordsImagine you are the CEO over thousands of employees whom you depend on to make your business successful. Would you be satisfied if all of your employees did just a satisfactory job, just enough to get by? Probably not, you most likely would want the peak performance out of each employee, which would maximize the efficiency of the business. However getting people to do what you want them to do can be difficult. One way to improve the performance of your employees would be to implement a performan...
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100 000 People Genetic Diseases
1,823 words"We [the human race]|do not have much time to prove that we are not the product of a lethal mutation" Science 263: 181, 1994 "I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race. " Thomas Love Peacock The genetic catastrophe consists of four major genetic "epidemics" - those of cancer, vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease, and behavioral disease. There are identified approximately 250 common genetic diseases, and approximately 7, 000 "rare" genetic diseases. T...
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Anorexia Nervosa Self Starvation
1,595 wordsAnorexia nervosa is a life threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain fifteen percent of a normal body weight through self-starvation (NAMI 1). Ninety-five percent of anorexics are women between the ages of twelve and eighteen, however, in the past twenty years, this disorder has become a growing threat to high school and college students (Maloney and Kranz 60). Anorexia produces a multitude of symptoms, and if not treated, anorexia can lead to permanent physical damage or deat...
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Behavioral Therapy Behavior Patterns
455 wordsTreating ADHD with Ritalin is a way to ignore the situations and factors that may exacerbate the symptoms of the disorder. Parents need to take some responsibility for their childrens disorders and seek treatments besides Ritalin. Physicians should recommend a program that combines chemical and behavioral treatments to assist children in working through their disorder. It seems that Ritalin may be over prescribed in our country, with an estimated 2 million children taking Ritalin (Breggin, 1995)...
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Attention Deficit Root Causes
857 wordsMoving beyond ADD/ADHD is a book that discussed what Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is. It is a condition for which the medication Ritalin is most commonly prescribed. Its diagnosis is based on problems with attention, focus, impulsivity, or over activity at school or home. The book distinguishes the difference between ADD and ADHD according to the American Psychiatric Associations diagnostic and statistical manual, the DSM IV, which is used by insurance comp...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,654 words... s affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. The last number from South Africa is from recent work done by Phil May and colleagues. References England G, Perham-Hester KA, Gessner BD, Ingle D, Berner JE, Middaugh JP. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Alaska, 1977 through 1992: An administrative prevalence derived from multiple data sources. American Journal of Public Health. 1998. 88 (5): 781 - 786. Aberdeen IHS Area (1995) MMWR. vol 44 (#): 253 - 261. BDMP (1995): MMWR Vol. 44 (13): 249 - 253. Atlanta,...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,560 words... ate alcohol similar to human, transport alcohol and metabolites across placenta similar to human, have embryos and fetuses with developmental and metabolic patterns similar to that of human, be easily bred with large litters and a short gestation length, be inexpensive to maintain under laboratory conditions, and importantly not bite, scratch, kick, howl or squeal. No one animal meets all these requirements and the vast amount of work has been done in rodents (e. g. rats and mice). However, ...
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Behavioral Patterns Generation Y
2,563 wordsThe aim of the paper is to compare the generation X and the generation Y in relation to their employment characteristics and motivation techniques which should be applied to them to make them work more effectively. The work will discuss the differences between these two generations in relation to employment motivation. Outline Generation X Defining the basic characteristics of the Generation X employees in relation to their abilities and values. Generation Y It is interesting to have closer look...
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Physical Fitness For Youth And Adults
2,167 wordsPhysical fitness for youth and adults According to A Comprehensive Lifestyle Approach: physical fitness is the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively. It consists of health-related physical fitness and skill-related physical fitness, which have at least eleven different components, each of which contributes to total quality of life. Physical fitness also includes metabolic fitness. Physical fitness is associated with a person's ability to work effectively, to enjoy leisure time, ...
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Social Learning Theory Aggressive Behaviors
1,623 wordsSocial Psychology Paper In my paper I will compare and contrast the socio-psychological articles: Violent, Delinquent, and Aggressive Behaviors of Rural High School Athletes and Non-Athletes and The Role of Behavioral Under control in the Relation between Alcohol Use and Partner Aggression, discuss research methods used for each of them. Also, I will state the main hypothesis of each article and mention the main results of achieved by the researchers. While discussing the topics of the articles,...
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Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
2,564 wordsDisabilities Many children and teenagers suffer different sorts of disabilities and disorders, like attention deficit or learning disability, which may affect the development and behavior of such children and cause difficulties with education. A child with any sort of diagnosed disability requires a lot of attention, proper treatment and help from people around: parents, friends, teachers, etc. It is necessary to provide students, who suffer psychological disorders of various levels, with specia...
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Plants And Animals Mode Of Production
4,496 wordsAnthropologist Marvin Harris in known for his strong conviction based on cultural materialism. He writes widely and is famous for his books, which appeal to the popular masses. His fundamental belief is that the means of production and reproduction cause other aspects of culture such as organization or art. He goes through a causal chain which can all be relate to the urges to eat and reproduce. Although this is a highly simplified way to describe his theory of cultural materialism most of his w...
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Low Self Esteem Fight Or Flight Response
3,990 wordsby Ashley Strawder I. Stress Stress by Ashley Strawder I. What Is Stress? Stress is the combination of psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions that people have in response to events that threaten or challenge them. Stress can be good or bad. Sometimes, stress is helpful, providing people with the extra energy or alertness they need. Stress could give a runner the edge he or she needs to persevere in a marathon, for example. This good kind of stress is called eu stress. Unfortunate...
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Domestic Violence Battered Womens
5,987 wordsDomestic Violence: Theory, Effects &# 038; Interventions Essay, Domestic Violence: Theory, Effects &# 038; Interventions The female is, as it were, a mutilated sort of natural deficiency. It is not appropriate in a female character to be manly or clever. The male is by nature superior and the female inferior. Introduction Domestic violence has been present in our society and an accepted practice of many cultures for hundreds of years. Up until the late 1800 s, a man in this country had the right...
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Rational Emotive Behavior Quot Or Quot
3,862 wordsAlbert Ellis and William Glasser have been in the mainstream of psychological society for over four decades. Both have contributed greatly to modern psychotherapy. The Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) of Albert Ellis and the Reality therapy of William Glasser have endured the trendy world of psychology and in fact as they are based in ancient philosophy (Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius), they also remain the foundation for brief therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and eclecticism. Their str...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Anorexia Nervosa
2,576 wordsThesis Statement: Anorexia Nervosa, a disturbing disease of denial, consisting of self -imposed starvation and the intense fear of gaining weight, is becoming an epidemic among many teenage girls due to the environment, biochemistry, and personality of the individual. I. The immediate environment, friends and family, directly influence the development of anorexia. A. Anorexics tend to come from families placing strong emphasis on food and the family may have used food for purposes other than nou...
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Smoked Marijuana Cannabinoid Receptors
9,824 wordsOver the Marijuana EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Over the past 18 months there has been wide-ranging public discussion on the potential medical uses of marijuana, particularly smoked marijuana. To contribute to the resolution of the debate, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a 2 -day scientific meeting on February 19 - 20, 1997, to review the scientific data concerning the potential therapeutic uses for marijuana and the need for and feasibility of additional research. Central to the current debat...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
5,336 wordsObsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (henceforth OCD) is an anxiety related disorders and is a potentially disabling condition that can persist throughout a person s life. The key features of OCD are obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions can be defined as persistent ideas, thoughts impulses or images that are experienced as inappropriate and intrusive. This then causes the person high levels of anxiety and distress. Compulsion on the other hand, Are repetitive behav...
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Mental Processes Human Behavior
527 wordsIn psychology there are six modern psychological perspectives. These perspectives are behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and biological. Each perspective has its own unique way of explaining the human behavior. I believe to truly explain the complex mental processes and behavior, each perspective must be examined and not limited to just one. The following is my explanation and comparisons between two of these perspectives: psychodynamic and behavioral perspectives p...
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Positively Correlated Heavy Drinkers
4,520 wordsAbstract In response to the need for research that incorporates multiple aspects of theory into a testable framework, this study attempted to replicate and extend the results of Cooper, Russell, Skinner, Front, and Mudar (1992). A modified stressor vulnerability model of stress-related drinking was tested in a homogeneous sample of 65 male and female undergraduate student drinkers. Total weekly consumption of alcohol was used as the criterion measure, whereas family history of alcoholism (Adapte...
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