J Heffernan General Theory of Crime Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi have devised the General Theory of Crime‚ or the GTC‚ as a way of explaining root causes of criminal behavior in an effort to find a solution to the problem of crime in America. The GTC is defined as: A developmental theory that modifies social control theory by integrating concepts from biosocial‚ psychological‚ routine activities and rational choice theories. (1) Unlike other crime theories‚ the GTC considers the
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this article Burgoon et al. use Expectancy Violation Theory to examine how different forms of interfaces that confirm or violate user expectations affect the communication process‚ social judgments‚ ability to influence‚ and accuracy to recall associated with HtEAC (communication with a computer generated person). Burgoon et al. explain that EVT begins by identifying the pervasiveness and potency of expectations during interpersonal communication. Expectations come from characteristics of actors‚ their
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Social Care Assignment 1 Task 2 Questions to discuss on Argyle’s Communication Cycle 1) ‘Effective communication is a two-way process’. What does this mean? ‘Two-way’ process refers to the fact that both parties are involved in the transmission of information. ‘Two-way’ process involves feedback from the receiver to the sender. This allows the sender to know the message was received accurately by the receiver. Effective communication involves the process of checking understanding that is involved
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Explain the implications for the business and stakeholders of a business operating ethically. (P2) All businesses have a number of stakeholders each with individual interests in what the business does‚ the owners (In co-ops case‚ the members) will want good financial gains from their investments. Businesses such as co-op should be managed with the interests of all stakeholders in mind. Stakeholder is anyone with an interest in a business. Stakeholder can be individuals‚ groups or even organisations
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The principles‚ applications and communication of teaching and learning theories In teaching cycle there are many different factors contribute to the final outcome‚ one of the factor is student learning which contributes the most to our teaching strategies. To get the best outcome‚ we have to apply the teaching strategies that suits our group profile the best‚ and in order to do that we need to know how student learn. Educational psychology is one of the principle foundations for our preparation
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Ashleigh Goldie 401730 P2 – Explain different psychological approaches to health practice P3 - Explain different psychological approaches to social care practice In this assignment I am going to look at four different psychological approaches and how they can be linked to health and social care situations‚ two of the approaches will be linked to health care situations and the other two to social care situations. The first approach that I am going to link to a social care situation is the behaviourist
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I. Operational Effectiveness Is Not Strategy According to Porter‚ various management tools like total quality management‚ benchmarking‚ time-based competition‚ outsourcing‚ partnering‚ reengineering‚ that are used today‚ do enhance and dramatically improve the operational effectiveness of a company but fail to provide the company with sustainable profitability. Thus‚ the root cause of the problem seems to be failure of management to distinguish between operational effectiveness and strategy: Management
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Public Health - Unit 12 - Petra P1 Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society‚ organizations‚ public and private‚ communities and individuals" (1920‚ C.E.A. Winslow). This therefore infers public health is the preventing and controlling of disease within communities‚ to prolong life and promote health through organised society. The keys aspects of public health … -Monitoring the
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P2‚ P3‚ M2 & D1 ‘The Zone’ A report about all the different types of therapies of which will be used This report seeks to help find out about all the different types of therapies in which could be used within ‘The Zone’. These therapies will be used to help reduce some of the problems within the local area‚ and due to the fact that ‘The Zone’ is located within a deprived area I will be researching about therapies of which could help individuals with substance misuse‚ dysfunctional family issues
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BTEC LEVEL 3 NATIONAL IN BUSINESS (The Business Environment). P1: Describe the type of business‚ purpose‚ and ownership of two contrasting businesses. Sainsbury’s: Sainsbury’s is the UK’s third largest chain of supermarkets‚ it’s also the longest standing major food retailing chain‚ which was founded by John James Sainsbury’s in 1869 as a partnership with his wife Mary Ann. The holding company J Sainsbury’s PLC‚ is split into three divisions which are: Sainsbury’s Supermarket Ltd‚ Sainsbury’s Local
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