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    factors include; lifestyle choices‚ medicines‚ emotions‚ and social-economic factors. Question 2: Explain the increase in obesity rates from the viewpoints of two different theories of health related behavior.

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    standpoint. Cultural identity As we can see in Parehau Richards opening speech of the 1998 ANZCA conference (Richards‚ 1999)‚ Richards seeks to identify herself from both a Maori cultural and an academic standpoint‚ whilst weaving in the many social groups that have influenced her culture‚ including: * Two lines of tribal heritage * European ancestry * Catholic denomination * Upbringing by Anglican grandparents in a rural community * Education as a Maori woman * Academic

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    Social Disengagement Theory This theory was created and discovered in 1961 by two theorist called Cumming and Henry. Disengagement theory is when an older adult isolates themselves from the society; this is a process of mutual withdrawal. This is when elders slow down and aren’t able to do the things they were once able to do for example this may include golf‚ bowling‚ bingo‚ visiting friends and family and many other hobbies‚ this also may include voluntarily retiring as expected by society. They

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    New Girl and the Social Penetration Theory In a new sitcom called New Girl‚ Jess‚ an offbeat young woman‚ decides to moves in with three men that she has never met before after experiencing a bad breakup. Even though she does not know the group of men‚ she takes the chance to get to know them better through an interview to discuss her interests in becoming the new room mate. In this famous series‚ Jess‚ the three men‚ and Jess’ model best friend Cece come together in an unusual fashion and transcend

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    that social learning theory is a sound theory in early childhood education. Social learning theory was proposed by Albert Bandura in 1977 (Cherry‚ n.d). Bandura believed that children are able to learn new behaviors by observing others (Cherry‚ n.d. para. 3). Children are very observant and fast learners. Adults might not notice that children observe everything adults do until they see the child performing the learned behavior. Children learn positive and negative behaviors. The social learning

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    According to the website History of Forensic Psychology‚ Meghan Ortiz states “the theory suggests that people engage in criminal activity when their bond to society has weakened” (n.d.). Based on this statement and the four factors which makeup the Social Control Theory‚ Alex exhibited weak social bonds. He is only close with his mother‚ and Jessica who commits deviant acts. Alex only committed to one conventional activity which was trying

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    modify behavior. 8. Types of nonverbal communication Kinetics – eye contact (most important type of non verbal communication)‚ facial expressions – smiling – universal nonverbal communication‚ Haptics – touch Proxemics – space – personal and social Chronemics – utilize time Artifacts – how we dress‚ car we drive Physical appearance – more attractive is more persuasive – abstract terminology Paralinguistic – form of nonverbal but deals with speech‚ dis fluency‚ rate‚ tone‚ pitch 9. Credibility

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    Albert Bandura was a psychologist who came up with what is known as the “Social Cognitive Theory” (“Albert Bandura‚” 2015). He believed that two aspects‚ imitation and operant conditioning‚ result in social learning. According to Hannum (2005)‚ “Bandura noted that our behavior is changed when we see a person take a specific action and be rewarded for that action”. This is where both operant conditioning and imitation comes in. Operant conditioning is any learning that is established through the

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    BANDURA’S theory of social learning By Chante‚ Hassan‚ Valeria‚ Eunice‚ Elorm‚ Jazante‚ Alison and Holly A brief description of the and subject.   In social learning theory Albert Bandura (1977) states behaviour is learned from the environment through the process of observational learning. He believed that children observe the people around them behaving in various ways. This is illustrated during the famous bobo doll experiment. Bandura’s bobo doll method and result Method Result Children

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    Social Theories and White Collar Crime Criminology 302 Social Theories and White Collar Crime Edward Sutherland believed that without including white-collar criminal offense as its own category it would contribute to errors in how we depicted the crime‚ understood the cause of offense‚ and evaluated crime in the justice system. (Simpson & Weisbud‚ 2009) Sutherland’s idea did not hold up well with scholars‚ due to missing information of the criminal‚ so his idea never took hold. Still

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