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    Why Is Stop Poaching Wrong

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    Stop Poaching Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing a living organism. Poaching is wrong because it endangers animals‚ plants‚ the environment‚ and many more things in this world. Animals and plants are living creatures that deserve to be alive and living in their natural habitat. They do not deserve to be taken away from their homes just for the benefit of others. The environment is a complicated structure in which the animals and plants depend of each other to survive. Everyone should the

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    Zoos Are Prisons

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    stepped into a prison in which the inmates are defenseless and innocent‚ the sentence is long‚ and the penalty is cruel and severe. Zoos are not made for educational purposes but for entertainment‚ they do not benefit animals but push them toward extinction. "Zoos range in size and quality from cage-less parks to small roadside menageries with concrete slabs and iron bars." (Zoos: Pitiful Prisons.) The larger the zoo and the greater the number and variety of the animals it contains‚ the more it costs

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    Wildlife Conservation is essential to the protection of endangered species and potentially saving humans and the ecosystem because scientists don’t know all of the affects that the extinction of certain species may have on the ecosystem and people. There is an ongoing battle between people who think that they are helpful and people that think that they aren’t doing anything. As the population of humans grows we have to expand so that we can all live comfortably. Unfortunately a lot of people believe

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    greatest number of remaining lion populations are small‚ scattered‚ and highly vulnerable. Ghana‚ Coted’Ivoire‚ and Congo are the latest African countries added to long list that have lost all their lions‚ and Nigeria‚ Kenya and Uganda predict local extinctions in the next ten years. The population of the African Lion is decreasing because of trophy hunting and habitat destruction. However‚ you can help save the African Lion. The African Lion is a mammal and is a carnivore. They measure around

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    The Poaching Epidemic Animal wildlife is something that should be treasured and protected‚ not devastated by inconsiderate poachers. Poaching has contributed to the extinction of animal species all over the world. Some of the species that have been affected and have gone extinct are the Tasmanian tiger‚ the eastern cougar‚ the eastern elk‚ the black rhino and numerous amounts of bird species (IDA). Poachers usually kill wildlife in order to make tax free profit from the wildlife’s resources which

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    because it helps organisms prepare for good or bad events. 
Higher order conditioning occurs when the conditioned stimulus from one conditioning procedure is paired with a new neutral stimulus‚ creating a second‚ often weaker‚ conditioned stimulus. 
Extinction refers to the diminishing of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus occurs repeatedly without the unconditioned stimulus. Spontaneous recovery is the reappearance‚ after a pause‚ of an extinguished

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    WEEK 2 QUIZ

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    Organization except: Answer Selected Answer: good approximity. Question 8 2 out of 2 points An animal is conditioned to salivate to a bell using Pavlovian procedures. After the conditioning is established‚ the animal is then put through an extinction procedure and the conditioned salivation disappears. Then the animal is removed from the

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    The twentieth century was a turning point in the way we view behavior. Sigmund Freud shook the medical world when he claimed that unconscious forces dictate our behavior and childhood experiences play a large role in personality formation. Freud’s psychoanalytic theory placed the subject of behavior into the forefront of medical study. Freud’s theory brought much criticism and controversy but most importantly; it brought interest to the subject of behavior and personality. This newfound interest

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    planet—the animals. The current condition of many species of animals is very severe and the extinction rate of animals is increasing with an alarming speed. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),it calculated that the percentage of endangered species as 40 percent of all organisms in 2008. Destructive human activities have led to the current rate of species extinction‚ which is at least 100–1‚000 times higher than the expected natural rate. Although almost every

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    Phobias and Addictions May 27‚ 2013 PSY/300 Phobias and Addictions Millions of Americans suffer from phobias and addictions. Classical conditioning and Operant conditioning are psychological processes in which a person learns. Webster defines a phobia is an irrational fear towards a situation‚ object or thing‚ which in turn becomes a strong desire to prevent or avoid it. Common phobias include claustrophobia a fear of tight and closed in spaces‚ necrophobia is a fear of dead things in general

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