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Essays 1891 - 1920

Operant Conditioning, B.F. Skinner, and Criminal Behavior

pigeons to coin the now infamous term "operant conditioning" to describe the phenomenon of learning occurring in response to an or...

United Kingdom Machinery Construction Company JCB

a business, but can be seen to encompass the most major. Strategy Michael Porter has argued there are two way to compete; these ...

Skateboarders' Behavior

or research in regards to age group alone. Another thing to look for is the gender of those involved. Are they primarily male, ...

Adolescents and Crime

possibilities; and other issues. They also dont seem to understand that older people were once young, and therefore understand th...

Advertising and Consumer Behavior

confusions would occur for brands using a similar message strategy" (i.e., would consumers get mixed up as to who the advertiser r...

Tammany Hall and Political Impropriety

The perks are a part of the deal. He gives an example by saying that if he knew a bridge was being built, he should buy land aroun...

Essays on Gender

their roles, their tasks. Now, while not all work spaces are divided in this manner, the case in reality is that men and women are...

Behavior and the Influence of Genetics

to the effects on human behavior, not the least of which include community, family, substance addition, divorce, deviant behavior,...

Justice and Ethics V

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

Objective of Symbolic Interactionism

the next - and even one country from the next. While people may share various cultural traits, there are still both subtle and ex...

Ape Tool Utilization and Language

sticks are the primary example of such primitive tools. Apes select these sticks, modify them, and use them to entice ants to cra...

Literature Review on Special Education and Challenging Student Behaviors

such as non-compliance, aggression, disruption, self-injury, property destruction and anti-social responses (Scott and Shearer-Lin...

Criminal Justice II

ended at the boundaries of the Catholic church which was barely recognized by Anglicans. Not until the mid-18th century was...

Consumer Behavior

they have always purchased (Postrel, 2009). Consumers can no longer purchase a simple chocolate bar or a package of laundry deterg...

Cognitive Therapy and Personality Disorder

hopelessness; he feels he is not good enough and not worthy. (2) affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, liability, and appropri...

Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents - Assessing the Negative Impacts

and effectively determine the true scope of the impact upon adult children of alcoholic parents, one must recognize that such data...

A Research Proposal to Determine How Employers May Decrease Employee Absences

that employees may take time off of work for a number of reasons, some of which may be valid, such as illness and family emergency...

Analysis of Four Videos on Gang Behavior

group originally formed spontaneously, and then integrated through conflict" ("Frederic"). According to Thrasher, gangs are charac...

How Can the Persuasiveness of Marketing Communication Be Optimised?

way in which competing messages may be perceived as persuasive. In any commercial environment there is likely to be different mess...

Criminology and Biology

as pariahs. Although the film is science fiction, this along with other fictitious works demonstrates the problem of human nature ...

Topics Pertaining to Learning

it draws on what students already know, which aids them in assimilating new material. The learning environment should be both chal...

Communications and Consistency Theory

Austrian psychologist Fritz Heider developed one of the earliest consistency theories, balance theory, which focused on the relati...

Microsoft and Monopolies

competing Netscape equated to exclusive dealings and were anticompetitive (Lapotka, 2009). Not all charges were upheld; the second...

The Passenger Train Industry as an Oligopoly

order to overcome potential problems associated with monopolies. Many railway industries had been nationalized, this facilitated l...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

Important Developments in Nursing

prove that the reason for the higher mortality rate was poor hygiene and overcrowding (Glass, 2002). The research was suppressed...

The Super Bowl and Consumerism

States better if one seeks out those rituals which are widespread but entirely socially constructed rather than traditionally inhe...

Modified Leadership Construct for Health Care

are more easily measured. You can determine how much time is spent on the task, how much on team development, and how much on each...

Motivation Retention Hotel

on the floor until the pit boss changes. The first step would be to have this person attend a management and leadership class to l...

Utilizing 3 Theories

colleagues developed the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) at the University of Rhode Island Cancer Prevention Research Center in the e...