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    Albert Bandura Albert J. Reiss Albert K. Cohen Andre Michel Guerry Austin T. Turk Charles Horton Cooley Charles R. Tittle Clifford R. Shaw David Metza Delbert Elliott Edmund Husserl Edwin Lemert Edwin Sutherland Emile Durkheim Ernest Burgess F. Ivan Nye Georg Rusche George B. Vold George Herbert Mead Gordon Trasier Gresham Sykes Hans Eysenck Henry McKay Howard Becker Howard Kapkin Ian Taylor‚ Paul Walton‚ Jock Young John Braithwaite Karl Marx Lambert Adolphe Lawrence

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    Theories and Theorists Many professions have theories and theorists‚ especially in the medical and psychological fields. Sometimes theories will develop by theorists doing new research‚ but at other times previous theorists theories are used by a new researcher to expand on the theory and possibly come up with a new theory of his or her own. This paper will help show theories and theorists important to psychology. Psychologists and researchers in this field use these theories often‚ which is what

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    Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa Biological explanations for anorexia nervosa include neural explanations and evolutionary explanations. 1st BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION - Neurotransmitters -Serotonin Disturbances in the levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin appear to be a characteristic of individuals with eating disorders. Kaye 2005 found a reduction in the levels of the serotonin metabolite 5-HIAA in people with eating disorders. This suggests that brain serotonin pathways are underactive

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    The different schools of psychology represent the major theories within psychology. Behaviorism became a dominant school of thought during the 1950s. Behaviorism suggests that all behavior can be explained by environmental causes rather than by internal forces. Behaviorism is focused on observable behavior. Theories of learning including classical conditioning and operant conditioning were the focus of a great deal of research. Psychoanalysis is a school of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud

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    Cesare Lombroso’s biological explanations: How relevant are they to modern criminal psychology? Cesare Lombroso is thought of by many as the founding father of criminal psychology (Kushner 2011; Assael & Avanzini‚ 1997; Granieri and Fazio‚ 2011). When Lombroso was alive his theories on the biological explanations of crime were seen as cutting edge (Kurella‚ 1911) but after death his theories were ridiculed and denigrated (Gatti & Verde‚ 2012) with Abraham Verghese referring to them as “pseudoscience

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    Running Head: Personal Learning Theory Theorist Research and Personal Learning Theory Paper Marta Montanez Abstract This is a study to evaluate several behavioral and cognitive theories that educators today still apply in their classroom today with their students. It is important to know the base and reasoning behind these theories to understand how children learn and what factor affect or control their cognitive and social growth. This paper intends to expose the author’s preference

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    Comaprison Theorist

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    Running head: Comparison of Theorists 1 Comparison of Theorists Mary M Brown Grand Canyon University: PSY 255 04/14/2013 Comparison of Theorists 2 Sigmund Freud’s approach to personality would be and still is a debate within our society today. Researchers and psychologist are still observing his approach and there are still unanswered questions. One approach Freud did not use was how our society and culture would effect

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    unrelated to rewards or unconscious desires. Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled a person seeks to fulfil the next one‚ and so on. The original hierarchy of needs five-stage model includes: 1. Biological and Physiological needs - air‚ food‚ drink‚ shelter‚ warmth‚ sex‚ sleep. 2. Safety needs - protection from elements‚ security‚ order‚ law‚ limits‚ stability. 3. Social Needs - Belongingness and Love‚ - work group‚ family‚ affection‚ relationships

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    predicting‚ and /or prescribing." | | | The goal of nursing is “to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him”. - Nightingale | Introduction * Born - 12 May 1820 * Founder of mordern nursing. * The first nursing theorist. * Also known as "The Lady with the Lamp"  * She explained her environmental theory in her famous book Notes on Nursing: What it is‚ What it is not . * She was the first to propose nursing required specific education and training. * Her

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    learners they will encounter and the numerous strategies they can employ to create an effective learning environment. Although the Greek philosophers are considered to be some of the earliest thinkers on learning‚ it was not until the mid 1800’s when psychology emerged as a separate discipline that any new learning theories emerged. The first of these was behaviourism‚

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