1. Give a school-based example of two of the following: positive reinforcement‚ negative reinforcement‚ punishment‚ or extinction. A positive reinforcement would be if a student was doing the correct behavior‚ the teacher would praise the student for using the correct behavior. Example: Jimmy raised his hand to answer the questions the teacher directed to the class. The teacher smiled at Jimmy‚ and told him he was doing a great job answering the questions by raising his hand. Jimmy is proud of himself
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Ban Zoo Background By definition‚ a zoo is a facility in which animals are kept and displayed to the public. It is a short form of Menagerie‚ zoological park and garden. The word zoological refers to zoology which means study of animals. An Egyptian queen called Queen Hatshepsut decided to build a zoo about 1500BC and about five hundred years later a Chinese Emperor named Wen Wang founded the Garden of Intelligence. The Garden of Intelligence was an enormous zoo which was full of different kind
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watched approximately sixteen hours of pharmaceutical advertisements per year (Mulligan). Even though these commercials may seem funny or just annoying‚ they impact how we think about how prescription drugs are (or should be) marketed and sold. Pharmaceutical advertising should be banned because it can lead to unnecessary prescriptions‚ companies spending more money on advertising than they do on research‚ the possibility of it being misleading to patients‚ along with the threat
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tried again to find a better alternative to the idolized cigarette. And they did! Electronic cigarette have arrived and are accepted into the gracious hands of the general public. Unfortunately‚ not a lot is known about the electronic cigarettes‚ or even if it does truly help regular smokers to stop using cigarettes. Even doctors and health organizations are stressing to place a ban on these devices‚ or at the very least to have the devices banned from indoor places? For those interested‚ this essay
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Heroin Heroin related deaths and arrests among young pop culture musicians has not been this visible for decades. "We observe pop culture making this drug- which is very lethal-look glamorous and chic‚" says Ginna Marston of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America (54). For example‚ according to Karen Schoemer’s report for Newsweek‚ Kurt Cobain of Nirvana‚ Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon and Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead‚ all participated and abused heroin (54). Kurt Cobain took his own life with
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smoke regardless of the harms done. In New York there have been bans for smoking in public places. This could be a start of a new trend to ban smoking everywhere in the US. However tobacco should not be banned because of individual rights‚ it’s effect on the economy‚ and the increased crime it could cause. The first point against ban on tobacco would be the individual right to smoke. The individual right to privacy should allow people to harm their own bodies with dangerous drugs. The government
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nothing short of essential. Their main function is conservation. Without captive breeding‚ many endangered species would now be extinct - for example‚ the golden lion tamarin‚ red wolf and Przewalski’s horse. I am not for a moment suggesting that we should stop trying to protect animals’ natural habitats‚ but if endangered species were to become extinct in the wild (which sadly seems quite likely in the near future)‚ zoos will have preserved them for future generations‚ with enough genetic diversity
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Should there be stricter gun bans? Handguns are the cause of so many deaths amongst the people of the world today. In the past few months there have been so many awful tragedies due to the access we all have to guns. The repercussions of gun violence make up 50 percent of today’s disasters claiming lives ranging from babies to adults and even elderly. The government needs to make guns less accessible‚ and the law along with the law enforcement need to really enforce the laws they make. This
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Self Assessment and unit evaluation – Y7 ICT Term 1 Habit of Mind Focus: Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision How does your terms work on producing a newspaper article demonstrate your use of the habit of mind above? I have communicated with my team mates by e-mailing and we talked about what topic we are doing and whose going to do what. I have thought deeply what topic I’m going to do about and I choused “Volcanic eruption in Iceland”. I described words nicely and neatly
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Social Network: an online community of people with a common interest who use a Web site or other technologies to communicate with each other and share information‚ resources(dictionary.com). There are almost 500 million users of social networks and spent over 700 billion minutes a month using them. Is this hindering our social skills? There are many ways that people interact with each other such as e-mail‚ texting‚ a social network but the least used interaction is face to face. A negative impact
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