According to the psychology dictionary, learning is defined as the process through which one acquires new information or build on information previously learnt (Psychology Dictionary, 2013). ... Operant Conditioning This theory is defined as a process of behavior modification encouraged through association of behavior and negative and positive reinforcements (Medical Dictionary, 2013). ...

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"Mommy, Mommy I want this," is what every little kid says when they pass the candy or toy section in a store. Does that really change, as we get older? Webster's Dictionary defines want as, "to be needy or destitute". It seems not just children always want something because it keeps them enterta...

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Sloth, n: "a: disinclination to action or labor: indolence. b: spiritual apathy and inactivity." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2003. In regards to Health B1 and health in general, one can assume that the act of being slothful, or static greatly imbalances ones physica...

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I hear my son say to his brother, "Ha-ha! Stevie got in trouble." What my child is experiencing is Schadenfreude. Schadenfreude is something that everyone experiences at one time or another. I see it almost every day. It is a fairly new word, but what it means has been around since the dawn of ti...

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The Macquarie Dictionary defines "change" as revolutionizing, substituting, altering, and modification. ... "Perspective" is defined in the Macquarie dictionary as analysis; conspicuous relationship; way in which people, ideas or things are perceived. ...

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How to Become an A Student? Every student in school desires to be an A student, but it is hard to get an A on the report card. So you need to use the right way to get good grades. First, you need to concentrate in class. The second way is to do your homework daily. And the last one is ...

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Before reading this chapter the term abnormal only reflected the one end of a spectrum ( Manic-depressant, etc.). Abnormal was defined by me as someone who "freaked" me out. Two real good examples of this would be Russell Crowe's character in A Beautiful Mind, and the many characters in One Flew ove...

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The museum to me is like the dictionary of life that includes many active things like the human who visits it and the appreciated scientists who work in it and the interactive things that trigger the whole theme of life, which is education. ...

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Bad Euthyphro Euthyphro did not act pious toward his father at all. If he had been trying to be a pious human he would to think deeper in to what he did. Euthyphro turned in his father for killing one man, but he only satisfied one part of being a pious person. According to the American Heritage D...

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I believe aging has more to it than being the number of years past by since you were born and the wonderings of how many more years to come till you reach downhill along with it. Yeah sure, the dictionaries define it as "the length of past life or existence" or as "showing signs of age", and yeah y...

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(Bernstein 2002) The Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary defines OCD as follows; OCD is a disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions that are severe enough to be time consuming or cause marked distress or significant impairment. ... (Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary 2001) These medications generally help decrease symptoms, but each individual person is different. ...

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Can love be eternal? Does love still stay around in some form after one's lover deceased or does it wither away like one's lover does when he died? To the author, love is eternal and that love stays with people forever in a form of memory. Memory doesn't fade away since it is intangible ev...

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Computers Can Never Think. To form an opinion on computers and thinking, I think it is important to first form an opinion on thinking itself. Now many people may feel that thinking is merely scientific - the application of facts and figures. I disagree; and therefore went to my dictionary to s...

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Reading - Not Just an Assignment For any reader, a good book grants a pleasure-sought escape from the every day, monotonous world in which we live. Each and every person should experience this well-deserved break from a physically and emotionally hectic life. With each new book, readers ...

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The Experience of Synesthesia Synesthesia is defined in Webster's dictionary as "The Sensation produced at a point other than or remote from the point of stimulation, as of a color from hearing a certain sound". ...

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Culture, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, is a: the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon man's capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b: the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group c: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a company or corporation. ...

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Alchemy, as stated by Webster's Dictionary, means the seemingly miraculous change of a thing into something better. The title The Alchemist embodies Paulo Coelho's novel by showing many incredible changes that the main character, Santiago, goes through. At the start of the story, Santiago is a self-...

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Friendship, defined from Webster's Dictionary as, the state of being friends, or a friendly feeling. Friends, on the other hand, are defined as people whom one knows well and is fond of. The second definition states a friend as an ally, supporter, or sympathizer. My personal definition of what...

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The Transformation of a Friendship. In John Knowle's A Seperate Peace , the main characters, Gene and Finny have a unique friendship that transforms throughout chapter four. According to Webter's dictionary the word "friendly- means not hostile; amicable. One could assume that a friend would ...

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According to Plato, by nature, human is a political animal. Regardless of time, culture and geography, human beings exhibit a strong political nature that constitutes their existence. This behavior seems embedded in the human DNA and seems to last as long as humanity is in existence. Plato's belief...

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Socialization, best described by the Oxford dictionary as the lifelong social experience by which individuals develop human potential and learn the patterns of their culture. Unlike, other living species whose behavior is biological human beings rely on social experience to learn their culture in or...

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The Five Primary Psychological Paradigms Primary Psychological Paradigms 2 In this paper, I am going to briefly discuss each of the five primary psychological paradigms. Biological Approach The biological approach assumes that abnormal behaviors are due to somatic of bodily causes. ...

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Many women probably believe that they have a fulfilling female friendship. However, the greater part of the female population even now lives in a hetero-reality. The majority of female friendships lack the thoughtfulness, passion, worldliness, and happiness, which are the conditions of female frie...

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Rest, toil, sleep, work, leisure, worry, serenity; these are qualities of great Heroes. Nearly all civilizations consider a dimension of human potentiality which is able to achieve greatness by becoming a Hero. The western and Eastern cultures each encompass their own individual and distinct concep...

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Raymond B Cattell Biography: Raymond. B. Cattell was born in Staffordshire in England in 1905. He came from what Engler (1999) described as a happy and content Childhood. He was 9 years old when World War One broke out, which "had an effect on him in his later years". Cattell did his University ...

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