Outline and evaluate one or more biological explanations of schizophrenia. In your evaluation you should refer to research evidence. 24 marks According to the genetic hypothesis‚ the more closely related the family member to the schizophrenic the greater their chance of developing the disorder. Evidence from twin‚ family and adoption studies has tended to indicate schizophrenia to have a genetic component although a major problem is separating out environmental influences. Recently gene mapping
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News & Research. Retrieved November 2‚ 2011‚ from www.psychologicalscience.org: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0301/prescol.html Cherry‚ K. (2006). Explanations for Forgetting: Reasons Why We Forget. Retrieved November 2‚ 2010‚ from About.com Psychology: http://psychology.about.com/od/cognitivepsychology/tp/explanations-for-forgetting.htm Gerrig‚ Richard‚ J.‚ & Zimbardo‚ P. G. (2002). Glossary of Psychological Terms. Retrieved October 27‚ 2011‚ from American Psychological Association:
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Outline each of the types of intervention and evaluate their effectiveness (9 + 16 marks). One intervention is through biological means. For example‚ methadone mimics the effects of heroin but is less addictive and produces euphoria but to a lesser degree. Initially a drug abuser is prescribed slowly increasing amounts of methadone to increase tolerance to the drug. The dose is then slowly decreased until the addict no longer needs either methadone or heroin. However‚ this needs to consider individual
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An Explanation of Terrorism After browsing through Stephen E. Atkins book Terrorism‚ I soon learned many interesting things regarding the history of terrorism. It seems this form of protest has been around since Biblical times. Also‚ the main goal of a terrorist is not to do damage to one peticular person or place‚ but to gain publicity for an idea they support. (page 1) Evidence of this can be found by looking at the recent past of the United States. The Oklahoma bombing was one man’s way
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Many eyewitnesses are called to testify because they have witnessed a crime‚ accident or incident. The anxiety if this may cause an affect on the reliability of their EWT. There are two main issues in this question: firstly the prediction of the Yerkes Dodson Law that as arousal increases‚ then so does performance weather spotting‚ stage performance‚ or memory encoding‚ up to an individual optimum level. However‚ after this optimum level it is suggested that the performance of the individual
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Q1: If an Ethernet port on router was assigned an IP address of 172.16.112.1/20‚ what is the maximum number of hosts allowed on this subnet? A. 1024 B. 2046 C. 4094 D. 4096 E. 8190 Answer: C Explanation: Given IP address of 172.16.112.1 / 20‚ subnet mask: 255.255.240.0 max. num of hosts =(( 2^12) -2 ) = 4096-2 = 4094 Q2.:An access list was written with the four statements shown in the graphic. Which single access list statement will combine all four of these statements into a single statements that
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Technology Explanation There are many different kinds of technologies that are available for the world to use today. We have the convenience of all different types data input and output devices and the means to store and make available at lightning fast speeds. Some of the input devices that we use every day are essential in different kinds situations and projects everyday. We also use many different types of output devices to view our finished product. The input devices that we use are
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Outline and assess whether crime statistics give an accurate measure of actual crime Crime is seen as behaviour that breaks the law in a particular society. What is considered to be a crime also changes over time‚ often as a result of government legislation and also people’s attitudes‚ this may have an effect on how crime is recorded. Because the definition of ‘crime’ changes frequently‚ this may not paint an accurate picture of what crimes are committed and in a result of this‚ sociologists talk
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What are historical explanations? Historical explanations are another term for ultimate explanations which are concerned with the entire existence of a group of organisms as opposed to just the explanations of a specific individual. 2. How are Freudian concepts historical explanations? What mistake do such explanations make to manufacture an immediate cause of behavior? Freudian concepts are historical explanations because of the use of childhood experiences as explanations for adulthood behavior
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ERD Explanation DBM/380 January 23‚ 2012 ERD Explanation There are several levels of normalization such as 1NF‚ 2NF‚ and 3NF. The Huffman Driver database was brought to the normalization level of 3NF by following a series of guidelines from the lowest form of normalization‚ 1NF. The first normalization form level (1NF) consists of the basic rules for an organized database. These are: • Eliminate duplicative columns from the same table. • Create separate tables for each group
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