1. Criminologists use scientific methods to study the nature‚ extent‚ cause‚ and control of criminal behavior. 2. Criminology is an academic discipline that makes use of scientific methods to study the nature‚ extent‚ cause‚ and control of criminal behavior. 3. Deviant behavior: departs from social norms 4. Criminologists who devise valid and reliable measures designed to calculate the amount and trends of criminal activity fall under which sub-area of the criminological enterprise? Criminal
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Critically discuss the concepts of empiricism and empirical methods and their use in geography. Empiricism is a philosophical doctrine that our knowledge only comes from experiences. It can be described as a central role of observation. Empiricism was eventually somewhat replaced around the 1970’s by Positivism‚ Humanism‚ Marxist‚ Feminism and Post-Colonialism. However it still plays an important role today’s society‚ for example in the cataloguing of species. There is about 1.7 million species
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desire to purchase. The operational definition I choose for the hypothesis would be ‘Background music in a supermarket stimulates the consumer’s desire to buy more.’ I am going to conduct this research through using scientific experiment method. The main advantage of this method is its ability to limit alternative explanations and to infer direct causal relationships. I believe it is the best and only way to directly prove a cause and effect relationship between music and how much people buy. In
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Part One: Scenario 2: Katherine wants to investigate if the time of day a plant is watered affects the growth of the plant. She hypothesizes that a plant watered in the morning will grow faster than a plant watered at other times of the day. 1. Identify the specific independent and dependent variables that will be involved in an experiment to test this hypothesis. 2. List at least five variables that should be controlled during the experiment. For each variable identified‚ give a specific
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The news in the last year has said there has been an increase in the rate of childhood obesity. What has caused this increase in the rate and how can we work to reduce it in the future. My hypothesis for my question is that the cause of obesity rate and how it is caused is that you don’t see too many children who are overweight or obese but can be caused that there are some genetic and hormonal causes towards obesity and overweight children. But it can also be caused by kids just eating too much
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University of Phoenix Material Environmental Science Worksheet Answer the following questions in at least 100 words. The answers are found in Ch. 1–4 of Environmental Science. 1. What would you include in a brief summary on the history of the environmental movement? In the first two centuries of U.S. history was a widespread environmental destruction. In the 19th century there were four people who played a key role in protecting the environment; Henry Thoreau‚ John Audubon‚
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02.02 Early Cells 1. How are cells affected by the movement of water? Cells are affected by the water through diffusion. You see if you when you apply or remove water from the cell it will most likely show you how it functions. For example when you have the egg and you apply a bit of water it will most likely shrink if you add a lot of water it’s mostly likely that the egg will burst. Hypothesis (What do you think will happen to the egg after the three days? Be sure to give a reason for
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2nd week of sim lab‚ we are given a scenario for the day. I was to play the role of family member‚ whose husband is admitted as a result of severe knife like epigastric pain on the RUQ. Diagnostic test shows pancreatitis. Begin a family member I was so worry about what going on with my husband‚ I kept asking the nurses to tell me what was going. The nurse did not communicating with me effectively‚ is like I was left out entirely. Even when the doctor walked in I was expecting the nurses to at least
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This work MGT 230 Week 1 Discussion Questions and Summary contains answers on the following questions: What are the four functions of management? What do the four functions of management have in common? How do managers at different levels apply the four functions of management? What are the four functions of management? What do the four functions of management have in common? How do managers at different levels apply the four functions of management? How do the 4 functions of
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Assignment: Scientific Method University of Phoenix Introduction In this paper we will be working with plants and the Scientific Methods. My first experiment with the plants will be to find out why plants tend to lean toward a window. For my second experiment‚ I will be trying to discover if the Topsy Turvy grows better tomato plants. These experiments will be conducted using the scientific method. The scientific method is a way to ask and answer scientific questions by making observations
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