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GUILT, PUNISHMENT AND PLEA BARGAINING

The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defen...

The Approach of Multinational Corporations to the Ethical and Social Responsibilities

and ethical responsibilities due to their position of influence; they are able to influence markets, suppliers and in some cases m...

Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism

family (Meadan, Halle & Ebata, 2010). This stress can lead to poor health, anxiety, depression, and marital discord (Meadan, Halle...

Persuasive Strategies

This essay explains how the writer intends to persuade family members to eat only organic foods. The ‘campaign’ will include justi...

An Ethical Consideration of the Drug Companies

Drug companies are often criticized for unethical behavior. The writer considers the pharmaceutical companies from an ethical per...

Issues in Psychology

This essay offers five questions with answers. Topics include using behavior modification to change one's own behavior, developmen...

Organizational Behavior and Management

In a paper of sixteen pages, the writer looks at organizational behavior. The most important aspects of organizational behavior ar...

A Synthesis of Psychological and Economic Behavior Models

theory refers to the study of how individuals choose to act within a group context; unilateral pursuit of self-interests has prove...

Do Genes or Environment Determine Crime

Theories abound as to why people commit crime. One of these theories purports...

Risk Factors in Criminal Behavior Among Juveniles

Families are subject to a number of stressors that for the most part didnt exist just a few generations ago....

Risk Behaviors and Adolescents - A Talk

address the topic of how you, as adolescents, can recognize when youre being tempted to engage in risky behaviors, and decide whet...

Person vs. Environment Debate, Behavior Influences

This paper presents the writer/tutor's opinion that neither personal nor environment factors are fully responsible for shaping hum...

Naturalistic Observations

Observing people in their natural environment is an important exercise for psychologists. It is in this environment, one observes ...

Disruptive Behavior and Behavioral Interventions

reinforcer because a negative or unpleasant condition is avoided or stopped as a consequence of the behavior. A good example is ...

Arguing the Position of the Outsider

blinker when he pulled over, exacerbating the police officers agitation over the event. John, not suspecting a problem, took ou...

Public Behavior and Interpersonal Relations

a ruckus. It might be deemed crazy behavior as well. Children learn this too. When children act out at home, they may receive a "t...

Nailbiting and CBT

most pragmatic and meaningful of treatments in terms of how it shows where and how a person may have distorted thoughts regarding ...

Earthquakes and Animals

In seven pages the link between earthquakes and animals is made in terms of animal behavior prior to an earthquake and if there wo...

Behavioral and Psychoanalytical Theories of Sigmund Freud

Freuds new outlook at behavior as a possible cause and its analysis as a way to treat "abnormal" behavior was different than many ...

Organizational Behavior

question put forth by bosses and managers everywhere: "how do I get more out of my workers?" In this paper, we will...

Family Therapy - Three Different Models

Batesons cybernetics model (Niolan, 2002). Tucker (2002, PG) notes that to Bateson familial problems exist in a system of units a...

Ethical Requirements of a Financial Planner, a Case Study

placed the phone call. While this was an honest enough error, he handled the situation poorly. That having been said, he should ha...

Economic Behavior, Social Class Income, and Consumer Behavior

the traditional consumption theories considered as asocial individualism, insatiability and commodity orientation. Asocial individ...

Terms Defined

of responsibility, as the title Hone Secretary indicates; this is the home state. The responsibly is law and order, which includes...

Fireflies of the Eastern United States

the females attention away from competing males (Nevins, 1999). Species also vary according to their flight pattern, the time of...

3 Types of Psychological Themes

In seven pages the psychological themes of phobia research, how diagnosis and treatment have changed throughout history, and behav...

Anger Management and Behavior Modification

How behavior modification techniques can be employed in the context of an anger management program is discussed. This ten page rep...

Al Franken and Bill Clinton

The writer suggests that possible motivation for some of Bill Clinton's behavior can be found in Al Franken's book Human Motivatio...

Journal Article Entitled 'A Play Therapy Intervention And Its Relationship To Self-Efficacy And Learning Behaviors'

In two pages this article on self efficacy and play therapy is reviewed. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Biology as a Determinant of Action

The writer discusses the role genetics plays in determining behavior, and indicates that while social models and genetics together...