Tia Gardner September 21‚ 2012 Humanistic Perspective and Addiction There are several theories of addiction. All of them are imperfect. All are partial explanations. It is for this reason that it is important to be aware of and question addiction theories. One contemporary psychoanalytical view of substance abuse is that it is a defense against anxiety (Thombs D 2006). Addicts often abuse alcohol and other substances to guard against anxiety and other painful
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minds‚ there is existential depression sad. In James T. Webb’s article‚ “Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals” he explains the thought process of higher thinking individuals and how the thinking can affect their emotional state. Existential depression is when people ponder life’s existential questions like death‚ isolation‚ freedom‚ and meaninglessness‚ for a prolonged period of time. Tess in Aryn Kyle’s short story‚ “Nine” is an example of a gifted child with existential depression. She
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scientific paradigms and how do they function? Choose one of Jonathan Wells’ icons of evolution (any one of your choice) and show how this particular icon could be understood as demonstrating the paradigmatic status of modern Darwinian evolutionary theory. According to Thomas Kuhn‚ normal science is this idea of puzzle solving where scientists take past achievements and base their research on that achievement. The achievements are acknowledged for a certain period of time making them paradigms. Instead
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WEEK TWO: DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS & THEORIES ------------------------------------------------- The study of development is large and contains many different viewpoints and academic disciplines. You will need to understand the difference between modernisation theory and dependency theory for any future study of development. ------------------------------------------------- These two approaches were both built on classical studies of economics‚ have been superseded by refined versions in both
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PARADIGMS The design of a research study begins with the selection of a topic and a paradigm. A paradigm is essentially a worldview‚ a whole framework of beliefs‚ values and methods within which research takes place. It provides a conceptual framework for seeing and making sense of the social world; to be located in a particular paradigm is to view the world in a particular way. A paradigm stands for the entire constellation of beliefs‚ values and techniques‚ shared by the members of a community
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Research paradigms are a framework about you think about the world as a researcher / team Paradigms are models and frameworks for observations that shape what we see and how we understand it. Paradigms are a set of conventions used to alter the way we perceive different situations through
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Reconciling internalization theory and the eclectic paradigm ! ∀ # ∃ % &∋∋( ))%∗∃∗+ ∀ ‚−− .−/ − & ∀ # . 0 1 ∀ 0 0 ‚! & 0& ! ∋ 2 3 ∀ 4 3 & #
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summary of the book‚ instead. And there were a lot done by different people/organizations. From the various summaries I read‚ I found the book interesting because it was not a conventional science book. Yes‚ it talked a lot about science but the paradigm shift that Kuhn wrote about got my interest. The ‘scientific revolutions’ were true and believable and somehow‚ I agree with them. Science‚ or normal science as Thomas Kuhn put it‚ is the process of gathering facts to build hypotheses that explain
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I. INTRODUCTION The emergence of humanistic learning theory can not be separated from the movement of humanistic education that focuses on affective outcomes‚ learning about how to learn and learning to enhance creativity and human potential. This humanistic approach emerged as a form of disapproval on two previous views‚ the views of psychoanalysis and behavioristik in explaining human behavior. Disagreement is based on the assumption that the views of psychoanalysis too pessimistic outlook bleak
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defines paradigm as "an example or pattern: small‚ self-contained‚ simplified examples that we use to illustrate procedures‚ processes‚ and theoretical points." The most quoted definition of paradigm is Thomas Kuhn ’s (1962‚ 1970) concept in The Nature of Science Revolution‚ i.e. paradigm as the underlying assumptions and intellectual structure upon which research and development in a field of inquiry is based. The other definitions in the research literature include: Patton (1990): A paradigm is a
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