developmental skills. But a new study says that it all depends on what children watch — some educational programs on TV can actually enhance children’s intellectual development. Until now‚ television viewing has been blamed consistently for having a negative effect on children’s developmental skills. But the authors of a new study‚ which was published in the September/October issue of Child Development‚ argue that not all television programs are created equal. "All TV is not alike‚" says co-author Aletha Huston
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Breaking bad habits: classical conditioning and smoking Smokers find it difficult to quit because the environment is full of signals associated with smoking cigarettes. Sarah Horrigan Addictions are difficult to break as we usually surround ourselves with people‚ paraphernalia or situations that trigger the behaviour that led to the addiction in the first place. But psychological conditioning can be used to break bad habits. Over a century ago‚ the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov made a discovery
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participate in highrisk behaviors such as alcohol or drug abuse‚ promiscuous sex‚ or association with dangerous people (7677). As seen‚ exposure to gun violence in any form is extremely harmful. If guns create cultural violence‚ and these psychological effects are occurring in young people exposed to violence‚ then guns are causing these negative adaptations in youth. Bradshaw continues‚ informing us that exposure to gun violence normalizes violence‚ and can limit relationships (77). This occurs even when
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Late Night Cup of Coffee: Bad for Sleep Sleep is very important to human beings especially because it allows both our minds and body to rest. It sorts out and arranges our memory and it is necessary for our body to function well. In fact about 40% of a person’s day is allocated to sleep throughout adolescence. However‚ adolescents who are people aged 12 to 18 years need 9 hours of sleep but on average most teens get 7 hours only (Mindell and Owens 30). A variety of factors contributes to the tendency
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backing them up. The continued use of genetically modified organisms will eventually lead to the demise of a natural ecosystems and organic material because everything will be cross-contaminated and disrupted with engineered genes. Who knows what the effects will be fifty years from now‚ only time can
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organizational operations. Not only companies but also countries have to decide whether or not to decentralize. There are many advantages and disadvantages to both sides. This paper will examine the benefits of decentralization and whether they are good or bad for an organization. Decentralization I would hate to work for a company where I had no say in anything that happened. I ’m not saying that I need to make top management decisions or decide on the organizational operations‚ I would like to be able
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kids that look up to them. According to an article by Dr. Robert R Franks‚ Senator John McCain is worried about what affect that P.E.D usage in the MLB might have on high school athletes. “What these young athletes fail to realize is the damaging effect steroids have on a person’s physical and psychological health over time‚” says Michael J. Sampson‚ DO‚ an osteopathic sports medicine and family physician at Virginia Tech and Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine. “The more we learn about these
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Abstract When I think of bad or evil leadership‚ I think the power between leaders and followers are often locked in a complicated dance of sorts. Leadership today is a phenomenon‚ which implies that a leader‚ by nature‚ is someone wise and inspirational. However‚ it is better to understand that sometimes a leader is driven by darker forces‚ as well as their followers. Leadership can be painted in shades of gray‚ sometimes in black and bad leadership is as ubiquitous as it is insidious. This
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Is ObamaCare Bad for Business? On March 23rd‚ 2010‚ President Barack Obama signed into legislation the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” Since then‚ the new bill‚ nicknamed “ObamaCare‚” has sparked heated controversy all across the country between Democrats and Republicans‚ each side fiercely tearing at each other with facts and statistics. I was curious as to what all the hoopla was about‚ so I decided to look into ObamaCare‚ and find out what I could about the 2‚000-page mandate.
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Advertising – Good or Bad? This week I continue my series on the economics of advertising. Adding on to the introduction of the informative and persuasive view that I wrote about in my previous article‚ let’s proceed to consider some more specific contributions‚ and advertising’s potential influence on welfare. Have economists been able to come to a sweeping conclusion about the very unusual good ‘advertising’? The answer to the above question is obviously ‘no’. Rarely do economists come to a
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