Discuss biological approaches to addiction (9+16 Marks) The genetics of addiction: * People who have an addictive personality are likely to be predisposed to it because of their genes. * Family and twin studies have demonstrated that genes contribute towards the development of alcohol dependence‚ with heritability estimates of between 50 and 60 % for both males and females. McGue‚ 1999 * Fowler et al‚ 2007 – found that in a study of 1‚214 twins genetic influences played a role in the
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Schering-Plough Corporation is a global pharmaceutical company which manufactures and markets prescription‚ consumer and animal health products worldwide. The company operates in the US‚ Europe‚ Canada‚ Latin America and Asia. Schering Plough ’s net sales in 2005 were $9.5 billion‚ an increase of $1.2 billion‚ or 15%‚ over the 2004 period. In 2005‚ six of the company ’s top 10 products achieved double-digit sales growth. Schering achieved huge success during 2005‚ with other products targeted to
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A Comparison of Applied Reading Practices Little Red Riding Hood Feminist Marxist Psychoanalytical Dominant There are 3 female figures: Mother is a carer; LRRH is a dutiful daughter; Grandma is a helpless victim. The male figures are: the wolf – a predator who stalks the female child; the woodcutter – who is the typical male hero‚ rescuing the damsel. LRRH is implicitly criticized for disobeying her mother‚ when she was simply exercising childish curiosity. Women‚ especially the
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CARDINAL UTILITY ANALYSIS 3Human wants are unlimited and they are of different strength. The means at the disposal of a man are not only scarce but they have alternative uses. As a result of scarcity of resources‚ the consumer cannot satisfy all his wants. He has to choose as to which want is to be satisfied first and which afterward if the resources permit. The consumer is confronted in making a choice. For example‚ a man’ is thirsty. He goes to the market and satisfies his thirst by purchasing
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The second loop of learning involve understanding the value‚ beliefs and assumptions people hold about why the occur and effective ways to intervene for less effective behaviour‚ Sharon ultimate objective is to ensure that effective services are delivered for community that uses the centre in accordance with the organisation policies and procedure. To be effective‚ Sharon need to challenge the organisation policies‚ Sharon need to focus on the relationship between the staff‚ service users‚ the tasks
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The psychodynamic approach is mainly based on Freud’s ideas. Freud implied there was three main assumptions they include e.g. - how the unconscious mind drives our ideas‚ Freud believes the unconscious mind is repressed information is stored. However a limitation of this is that Popper questions whether the unconscious mind even exists as you can’t see it or touch it he also questions this due to the lack of scientific research to back up Freud’s assumption. On the other hand strength of this is
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Paper 1: Risk-based Audit Approach Risk-based audit is an approach that is related to the concepts of audit risks and materiality. Audit risk is the likelihood that the financial statements are materially misstated after the auditor has determined that the financial statements are free of material misstatements. Materiality is a concept relating to the significance of an amount‚ transaction‚ or discrepancy. In this approach‚ auditors analyze audit risks‚ sets materiality based on the analyzed
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extension of the approach used to teach classical Ls to the teaching of modern L Grammar translation approach *Characteristics * Instruction is given in the native L of the students. * There is little use of the target L for communication. * Focus is on grammatical parsing; the form and inflection of words. * There is early reading of difficult texts. * A typical exercise is to translate sentences from the target L into the mother tongue ‚VS * The result of this approach is usually
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I believe that the social-conflict approach is the best theory that explains social movements. A social movement can be defined as an organized activity that encourages or discourages social change. There are four different types of social movements. They are alternative‚ redemptive‚ reformative‚ and revolutionary. When looking at the social-conflict approach‚ it can be described as a framework for building theory that sees society as an arena of inequality that generates conflict and change. Looking
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Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach 7th Edition Chapter 11 Hypothesis Tests and Estimation for Population Variances Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach‚ 7e © 2008 Prentice-Hall‚ Inc. Chap 11-1 Chapter Goals After completing this chapter‚ you should be able to: Formulate and complete hypothesis tests for a single population variance Find critical chi-square distribution values from the chi-square table Formulate and complete hypothesis
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