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Online parent-based intervention for reducing college student alcohol use

In paragraph form students are to utilize (Exercise #1) in Chapter 3 of a Developmental Guide to Research, as a guide on how to critique an article.

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Gender identification in How I Met Your Mother and South Park

In the United States and throughout the world the popular culture has both reflected and created the identity of the individual and that larger population. One of the most important aspects of a person's identity is their gender.

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The concept of intervention: autonomy, morality, and social responsibility

The notion of 'intervention' has the literal, Oxford English Dictionary meaning of "stepping in or interfering in any affair, so as to affect its course or issue." But its connotative meaning within contemporary culture is more resonant and multivalent in nature.

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How memory and decision-making function in human cognition

Starting from a purely global point, at least as far as it applies to humans (animals in general actually), the brain is where everything begins. Within its folds and neural pathways are contained the chemicals that allow the electrical impulses which in turn produce thought.

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Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner": aesthetics, philosophy, and psychological transcendence

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is much revered in Western poetical tradition, and it has survived despite the fickle reading audience's drastic turn towards the novel and other forms.

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The symbolic and scientific dimensions of the color red

Red is one of the oldest colors known to humans. It is a color that carries with it significant emotional meanings. Red occurs in nature on Earth and in the cosmos. It is a dynamic color affecting people and animals.

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Tolman's theory of purposive behavior and implications for human learning

Unlike John Watson, B.F. Skinner and the other strict behaviorists, or the Russian physiologists like Ivan Pavlov, Edward C. Tolman argued that the behaviorist theory that learning was a matter of stimulus-response (S-R) and positive and negative reinforcement was highly simplistic.

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C. Wright Mills and the sociological imagination in contemporary life

Contemporary life presents a set of paradoxes that can be resolved through what C.W. Mills calls the sociological imagination. Mills makes a distinction between the inner world and the outer, highlighting the conflicts that can arise between the two.

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Skinner's operant conditioning and cognitive behavioral therapy compared

Compare and contrast 2 different behavioral theories/models of your choice. The father of behaviorism is widely acknowledged to be B.F. Skinner.

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Emily Dickinson's "The World is Not Conclusion" and isolation

The poems of Emily Dickinson have been interpreted in a multitude of ways and often it is hard to separate the narrator of her works with the woman who wrote them. Few authors have such a close association between the individual and their work as Emily Dickinson.

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