EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATIONS Animal Aggression Lorenz- aggressive behaviour in animals have the following functions: • Selection of the fittest for survival • Aggression will protect the young animals for survival • Distribution of animal territories What are the criticisms of Lorenz? Human Aggression Benign Aggression and Malignant Aggression Nelson: the 3 basic factors affecting human aggression • Process of Learning: Social Learning theory-observation/imitation‚ Learning strategies
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Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) P.L. 104-193 on August 22‚ 1996. What are the basis and implications of this law? On August 22‚ 1996‚ President William Jefferson Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) (P.L. 104-193‚ 110 Stat. 2105) into law‚ thus fulfilling his campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The PRWORA changed both the substance and administration of the national welfare system. The act eliminated
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chemical equilibria.1” Henry was best known for his principle‚ properly name Le Chatelier’s principle. The principle allows one to “predict the change of conditions will have on a chemical reaction.3” His finding of this principle came from his early work in the experimental study of thermodynamics.3 Le Chatelier’s principle states what will happen to a system if a condition such as concentration‚ temperature‚ or pressure moves the system away from equilibrium.2 When the equilibrium of a system’s
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to political offices and titles. Anthropologists tried to come up with way to understand this seemingly irrational conspicuous consumption. There are three explanations that anthropologists have given in an attempt to explain this behavior however this essay will compare two of the three namely the cultural-ecological and the Marxist explanation. According to Suttle (1960: 299) the potlatch is an occasion where the host/s invites members of other communities to the host community to receive gifts
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The evolutionary explanation of gender difference Evolutionary means organism developing from an earlier form in order to survive in their environment. Parental investment theory Trivlers put forward that women have to be choosy about the partner they choose because they are stuck with the child for much longer than the male is required for reproduction. This is meant to explain why men are so assertive and aggressive because it is best for him to have sex with lots of people; for a women
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Identification and Explanation of a Disease Process Katelyn Westphal Herzing University Diagnosis of Heart Disease A 65 year old woman with a history of hypertension‚ allergic rhinitis‚ GERD and a murmur arrived at the hospital. The patient stated that for the past four months she has noticed an increase in exertional dyspnea‚ orthopnea‚ and occasional feelings of heart pounding. The patient’s vital signs were taken and were recorded as follows: * Temperature: 98.6 * Respiratory Rate:
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Explanation of the Utilitarian Ethical Theory There are many different ethical approaches that deal with the morality issues we face every day‚ but the utilitarian approach holds the feeling of morally belonging to a group and the lack of individualism that many others carry. It also can be a very cold approach for those who belong to the minority in a society. This is because the principle of utility says that “we ought to do that which produces the greatest amount of happiness or pleasure for
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I think the most accurate sociological explanation of deviance and crime is symbolic interaction. The saying ‘You are a product of the environment you grow up in’ is very true. Sociologist Edwin Sutherland studied deviance from the symbolic interactionist perspective. The basis of his theory of differential association is that deviance is a learned behavior. People learn it from the different groups with which they associate. If you grow up in a family with a life of crime that’s what seems natural
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Explanation of the poem from Snowbound The main theme of Snowbound is that no-matter what happens‚ family will be there to help and comfort. This theme is demonstrated widely throughout the poem and even more so in the last stanza of this excerpt. Another‚ less prominent‚ theme of Snowbound is the meaning and involvement of God in the lives of people. The first stanza describes the moment before the storm. "A chill no coat‚ however stout‚ Of homespun stuff could quite shut out‚" This stanza
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Brief review and explanation of Effort Justification Effort Justification is a theory of social psychology stemming from Festinger ’s (1957) theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Effort justification theory states that people have tendency to attribute a greater value to an outcome they had to put effort into obtaining. Cognitive Dissonance theory attempts to explain people ’s change of attitudes or beliefs when they face a dissonance between contradicting cognitions. Effort Justification theory is only
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