Evaluate two strengths and two weaknesses of the Behaviourist approach One strength of the behaviourist approach (BA) is it can be applied to everyday life and it has its advantages to society‚ for example Aversion Therapy helps stop people from doing unwanted behaviours such as excessive drinking. An experiment was conducted by Duker and Seys which proves this form of therapy works‚ with 7/12 children cured from self-injuring – stopping it altogether – and 3/12 reduced the amount of times they
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The Output Approach The Output Approach focuses on finding the total output of a nation by directly finding the total value of all goods and services a nation produces. Because of the complication of the multiple stages in the production of a good or service‚ only the final value of a good or service is included. This avoids an issue often referred to as "double counting" - when the total value of a good is included in the national output in several stages of production. In the example of meat
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is multi-site mixed method case study that will employ a Concurrent Triangulation Mixed-Method design. Using a multisite mixed methods approach‚ the study will strive to appraise selected peri-urban settlements situated on the fringes of Port Harcourt. 3.1.1 A Multisite Mixed Methods Approach A Multi-site case study investigates a defined‚ contemporary phenomenon that is common to two or more real world or naturalistic settings (Bishop‚ 2010). A multisite mixed methods approach is the type of
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Identification of A Mixed Culture Unknown An experiment such as this one serves the purpose of allowing us‚ the students‚ to apply what we already know about any organism and any laboratory procedure to the difficult task at hand. It is possible to identify a mixed culture by running familiar experiments on the unknown bacteria and taking information already known about specific bacteria and applying it to the results. This helps to slowly eliminate any bacteria that do not correspond with the
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The contingency approach to management emerged from the real life experience of managers who found that no single approach worked consistently in every situation. The basic idea of this approach is that number management technique or theory is appropriate in all situations. The main determinants of a contingency are related to the external and internal environment of an organisation. The process‚ quantitative‚ behavioural‚ and systems approaches to management did not integrate the environment. The
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2.1 Introduction The nature of the comparative approach At a basic level the comparative approach is simply one of making comparisons‚ something we do constantly in our everyday lives. Thinking‚ and learning‚ by making comparisons is a very natural and intuitive process for us. We use comparisons extensively in our daily thinking and interactions with people and various objects. However‚ making comparisons is not necessarily easy or without its pitfalls.
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- care and then discusses critical medical anthropology (CMA)‚ one approach proposed within medical anthropology to take account of the fact that health and illness are not simply biomedical events‚ but are impacted upon by the social‚ political‚ economic and environmental contexts within which people are located. Following this approach‚ the notion of social capital is discussed to understand
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References: Creswell‚ J. W. (2009). Research design: Qualitative‚ quantitative and mixed methods approaches (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage Publications‚ Inc. Morley‚ J. (2012). Review of ’Five ways of doing qualitative analysis: Phenomenological psychology‚ grounded theory‚ discourse analysis‚ narrative research‚ and intuitive inquiry
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BEHAVIORIAL APPROACH I want to use behaviorist approach to explain the time I taught my dog how to sit and play tricks. Behaviorism is an avenue in psychology‚ which has associates with elements of reasoning‚ process‚ and theory. It started in the early twentieth century as a reaction to "mentalist" psychology‚ which often had difficulty making predictions that‚ could be tested using rigorous experimental methods. The primary precept of behaviorism‚ as embodied
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Analysis‚ Ethics‚ Access‚ Sampling‚ Pilots‚ quality will all be considered and following this a detailed description of the actual research process (including the strengths and weaknesses) that took place. 4.2 - Research Strategy The approach was concurrent mixed method case study. A case study research was a strategy that involved the empirical investigation of a particular contemporary phenomenon within its real life context‚ using multiple sources of evidence (Saunders et.al‚ 2012). Case study
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