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Decision Making Process Product Or Service
1,291 words... tions. That's one of the reasons that many strategic planners now place as much emphasis on identifying strategic values as they do mission and vision. Decision- making groups may be widely used in organizations, but does that imply that group decisions are preferable to those made by an individual alone? (Robbins pg 240) Organizational performance is mostly dependent upon the decision making processes that a particular organization uses. In all organizations, decisions must be made on a dai...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Behavior Therapy
980 wordsAn estimated four million Americans have Obsessive-compulsive disorder, which includes 1, 000, 000 children and adolescents. These people with OCD are slaves to their rituals, and their rituals begin to take over their lives. Stephanie, an eighteen year old, had trouble with math because of her OC D. If I got to number seventeen on the math test, I would have to tap my pencil seventeen times. (Weiskopf, Catherine. Understanding Obsessive-compulsive disorders. ) Stephanie's situation shows that o...
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Emotional Distress Negative Social
1,251 wordsProfessional Articles -- The Social Meaning of Illness The article that I choose to use for this assignment was "The Measurement of Meaning in Illness" by Betsy L. Fife. I was assigned chapter 5, which dealt with the social meaning of illness. The chapter explored the idea of illness as a form of social control and considers the various models of illness and how they have changed over time. The Sociological model of illness refers to the subjective judgment regarding the meaning of the condition...
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Social Learning Theory And Tv Violence
1,252 wordsDON-RAY TV Violence on Children In the United States children watch an average of three to fours hours of television daily (Cantor & Wilson, 1984, p. 28). Television can be a powerful influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior. Unfortunately, much of today's television programming is violent. Studies of the effects of TV violence on children and teenagers have found that children may become insensitive to violence. Consequently, they tend to gradually accept violence as a way to ...
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Neo Cortex Visual Cortex
1,311 wordsBy a "super intelligence" we mean an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills. This definition leaves open how the super intelligence is implemented: it could be a digital computer, an ensemble of networked computers, cultured cortical tissue or what have you. It also leaves open whether the super intelligence is conscious and has Entities such as companies or the scientific community a...
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Technological Advances Greater Understanding
1,018 words... it does not interfere with our understanding of our being and essence. We could to easily get caught up in our devises and let them rule our lives. Heidegger feels it would be a supreme danger for them to define our being. The saving power would be our understanding of our being and using those gadgets only as means to their end. I think Heidegger would not respond favorably to our technology of mass media and electronic communications. Our society seems to see our technological advances as ...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,433 wordsI know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. However, I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and lonelier by the day (Healthy Place: OCD Com...
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Ready For Bed Obsessions And Compulsions
1,195 words... and she was checking all the time again. VII. Judy Judy is 13. Her life has been ruled by OCD as long as she could remember. She never even thought much about it until she was 8 and stayed over at her friends house for an overnight. That was the first time Judy realized that she was different. She thought OCD was just part of being human. Well, when the other girls got ready for bed in 10 minutes and she was still getting ready for bed an hour later, she realized she was different. Judy was ...
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Pathological Narcissism Positive Reinforcements
1,189 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Part 1 Many textbooks (and many patients... ) claim that the psychodynamic therapies when applied to personality disorders are ineffective. Functional (cognitive, behavioral) treatments should be preferred in certain cases and regarding certain aspects of the disorder. To a Narcissist, I would recommend a behavioral-cognitive-functional and less protracted type of therapy. (1) Know and...
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Eating Disorders And Personality
985 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Patients suffering from eating disorders binge on food and sometimes are both Anorectic and Bulimic. This is an impulsive behaviour as defined by the DSM (particularly in the case of BPD and to a lesser extent of Cluster B disorders in general). Some patients adopt these disorders as their way of self mutilating. We may be witnessing a convergence of two criteria: self-mutilation and a...
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Internal And External Point Of View
1,124 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Knives and forks are objects external to us. They have an objective - or at least an intersubjective - existence. Presumably, they will be there even if no one watches or uses them ever again. We can safely call them "Objective Entities." Our emotions and thoughts can be communicated - but they are NOT the communication itself or its contents. They are "Subjective Entities", internal, ...
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Anorexia Nervosa World Hunger
670 wordsAnorexia Nervosa is characterized by a refusal to maintain a minimal normal body weight. A disturbance in perception of body shape and weight is an essential feature of anorexia nervosa. It appears to be far more present in industrialized societies, in which there is an abundance amount of food and in which being considered attractive is linked to being thin. The disorder is most common in countries like the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. More than 95 % of cases of anorexia ...
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Children And Adolescents Child And Adolescent Psychiatry
1,460 words... if you do decide to treat the child with antidepressants, which is by far the easiest mode of treatment, the child could still be at risk for self-harm due to the risk associated with antidepressant drugs and children. As a parent, this scenario is like tossing a one-sided coin, in that with or without treatment your child may be at risk of suicidal tendencies. Another concern is the dosage of antidepressants being given to children and adolescents. Currently, the lowest dosage for an antide...
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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,354 wordsPotentials and Challenges Computer graphics technology enables us to create a remarkable variety of digital images and displays that, given the right conditions, effectively enrich education [Clark 1983 ]. Real-time computer graphics are an essential component of the multi-sensory environment of Virtual Reality (VR). This article addresses the unique characteristics of emerging VR technology and the potential of virtual worlds as learning environments. I will describe several key attributes of V...
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Controlling Security Threat Groups
711 wordsWith the increase of street gangs, prisons see a rise in gang activity such as race related crime, drug trafficking, and inmate protection. "Today's street gangs are becoming tomorrow's prison gangs. Institutional managers report that the "drive-by shooting mentality" has moved into the prisons and jails as the young offenders have been convicted of various gang-related offenses. " (Carlson, Peter M. , Jan. 2001). Although there is a correlation between the two, researchers are clear of the diff...
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Terminal Illness Brain Death
885 wordsDeath is defined in various ways such as Heart-Lung Death, Whole Brain Death and Higher Brain Death. Taylor, Lillis in her book states that Heart-Lung Death is: "The irreversible cessation of spontaneous respiration and circulation", this definition emerged from the historical idea that the flow o body fluids was essential or lie. Whole Brain Death is defined as "The irreversible cessation o all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem." Higher Brain Death is defined as "The irrev...
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Anorexia Nervosa Cognitive Behavioral
660 wordsFamily therapy is treatment of more than one member of a family based on the idea hinting at problems with the way the whole family operates. The anorexic will get better if the family system can change (Marx 198). Family therapy is most useful with the young high-school age anorexic who lives at home (Whitaker 74). Treating the entire family is advisable if the patients appear to be strong enough to adopt a nurturing authoritative posture toward the anorexic in therapy sessions (Levenkron 171)....
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Human Behavior Social Norms
710 wordsHuman Behavior There is an assumption that human behavior is influenced by forces outside the persons (by other persons and situational factors). The aim of this paper is to examine and to discuss the role of these social forces and the role of the social influence and social cognition. As far as human behavior is examined as the set of activities performed by persons, these activities are obviously influenced by a range of factors, such as emotions, attitudes, values, culture, ethics, rapport, ...
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Criminal Investigation Independent Variables
1,027 wordsBuilding Face Composites The hypothesis of a research study Building Face Composites Can Harm Lineup Identification Performance, by Gary L. Wells and Steve D. Charman, is contained in the name of the project. Authors task was to gather evidence that would support their claim that building face composites, on the part of witnesses to the crime, affect the objective properties of their memory. This is the reason why criminal investigations that rely on eyewitnesses identification of potential susp...
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Act Of Courage Brave Man
1,143 wordsAristotle Philosophical Ethics Got Courage? Aristotle s Doctrine of the Mean states that there are three kinds of dispositions, two of them vices, involving excess and deficiency and one virtue which is the intermediate or mean. Aristotle considers the act of courage to be a mean concerning fear and confidence. With the deficiency of courage being cowardice and the excess being rashness. In his Nicomachea n Ethics, he goes into detail about what courage is and what qualifies a person as being co...
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