Development Course Works Samples For Students

Skinner’s research and contribution to psychology

Development of Psychology has been influenced by several great contributions from different major researchers who proposed several concepts that influenced understanding of human nature and psychology. Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), was one of the most influential American psychologists that had his name in several theories and inventions within the scope of psychology. He was the main proponent of the school of behaviourism in psychology and this explained the human actions as regards to their physiological responses to various external stimuli. He also provided the detailed analysis of operant conditioning which focused on Continue reading...

“Medicare” is a type of health service responsible for provision of services to old people. “Medicaid” is a health program that offers health services to poor people of all age groups. A person qualifies for Medicare if he is aged above 65 years and is eligible for social plus social security benefits. A person also qualifies if he is permanently impaired or has severe renal disease. For a person to qualify for Medicaid, he should be poor and medically unfit. Persons who require Medicare should be well covered by offering “health care” and “physician services”. An example of such Continue reading...

Security Problems in Software

A security issue is a topic of great concern to all software developers. Software that meets its functionality requirements coupled with tight and impenetrable security features and controls is desired software by all organizations and individuals. In as much as there has been advancement in security implementation in software, vulnerabilities have always been seen in them. Some of the security risks are associated with poor development of the software while some are due to poor policy framework and software usage. In the past, there has been software security breaches that ended up causing undesired effects Continue reading...

During the practicum, I felt myself not only learning as a teacher but also as an individual too. I mean this in the sense that before I began the practicum, I was less organised and much less confident but, as a result of this course, I now feel as though I am a lot more gregarious, prepared and generally more ‘together’ than I was before. Having spoken to a number of teachers now, it seems that all teaching practicums are intense and hard work – demonstrating the challenge of the job Continue reading...

# 1 Compare the research process of Fig. 4.1 in Ch. 4 of Research Methods for Business to the research design of Fig. 6.2 in Ch. 6 and discuss their similarities and differences. Why might one refer to the business research process as a nonlinear process?
The research process in figure 4.1 employs a non-linear approach whereas the fig 6.2 employs a linear approach. In fig 4.1, there is bound to be changes in the data collected or hypothesis or even research requirements hence the probability that at some point in time if disparities or wrong data is gathered, there Continue reading...

If you had a time machine and could go back to any historical time period and live in it for a week, when and where would you go? Why? Knowing what you now do about the time and place, how do you think you would feel, both physically and emotionally? Would this experience change your perspective on how you live now?

If I could travel in time, I would choose as my first destination the Tudor court at the times of Elizabeth I (1558-1603); a period of great political and military significance but at the same time a period Continue reading...

1. What is it about secure attachment in infancy that seems to set the individual up for better emotional health throughout life?
Secure attachment is considered one of the best forms of attachments that a child can ever be given. Children who are securely attached often feel upset when their caregivers or parents leave them and feel a sigh of relief when they return. Secure attachments help the children develop a binding relationship with their parents. The children usually prefer their parents to strangers. These children will tend to have some form of trusting relationships with their parents. They Continue reading...

Psychology theories

1 Identify the main ideas of major theories of intelligence.

Intelligence can be one of the most complex subjects of discussion and has been in existence for several years. It is mainly debated within psychology but there is no general definition to be used precisely on what intelligence constitute. Some scholars have proposed that intelligence is a general, single capacity, while other states that intelligence entails a wide range of aptitudes, talents, knowledge, and skills. Historically, the way people think of intelligence has changed over the years, whereby Spearman suggested that intelligence was common (g factor) and Continue reading...

Question one

Introduction

Arguably, human beings are in a continuous process of development. In most cases, human development occurs in stages and each stage has physiological, emotional, and psychological changes. People always have mental stages that help in guiding their day to day behavior. Morality refers to the capability to distinguish between wrong and right, acting on distinctions as well as experiencing shame or pride.
Actually, most theories of moral development differ significantly in their opinions regarding the occurrence of moral development. According to Social learning theory individuals gain knowledge on how to morally behave through modeling, on the Continue reading...

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING

Introduction

Computer networking is a term that is used to refer to the interconnection of computers so as to facilitate communication and share resources. Computer networks can be classified according to a variety of characteristics such as the medium which is used to transport data. Networks can also be classified depending on the method of connection used. We can have wired computer networks or wireless computer networks. A wired computer network uses cables to interconnect different computers in the setup while the wireless networks do not use any kind of physical connection. In wireless networks we Continue reading...

1. How does gender impact fashion during these periods?

The fashion of the Industrial Age reflects both the traditional roles of men and women in society as well as the revolutionary changes, which affected not only political and economical situation, but also had a great impact on the social life. While bustles, corsets and crinolines prevailed at certain periods of the Industrial Age, limiting the movements and creating unnatural forms, women strived for equality not only in social life, but also in fashion. Already in 1850s Amelia Bloomers promoted the use of full-legged pants (“bloomers”) and refused to wear Continue reading...

Why were the battles at Gettysburg and Vicksburg significant? How did they change the tide of war strategically?

The Battle of Vicksburg was significant due to the important role it played in restoring dwindling morale in the Union Army. Before that point, Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg had ended in defeat for the Union, but Ulysses S. Grant saw a chance to make up for that in Vicksburg. Once there, one Union Army handled two Confederate armies at once, defeating them after a pitched battle. Tens of thousands of prisoners were taken, the Mississippi River fell under Union Control, and the Continue reading...

Abstract

Environmental factors that influence human growth and development in Childhood are divided into two broad categories. They are intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic has to do with elements related to the internal physical activities such as functioning of the organs and systems. Precisely, cognitive development is concerned with their mental disposition. It denotes how well they reason, interpret, understand, analyze, differentiate and distinguish based on their physical growth. Babies do not display any of these cognitive attributes when they are born. However, as the brain begins to develop they became obvious and are recognized as products of the mind. Continue reading...

Personality development

Personality development is the evolution of a logical course of characters and attitudes, which ensures an individual is unique. Personality development takes place through the continuous interaction of character, temperament, and the individual’s surrounding. Character is what makes an individual distinct and identifiable immediately after birth. Different factors have played a crucial role in shaping my personality, and among these factors, we have genes, which determine most of the people’s personalities but no gene specifies the character. However, they only organize the development of the nervous system that in turn molds the personality.
The other Continue reading...

Vocabulary Strategies

Assessments

ELL/Special Needs Changes

Definition Copying

Definition copying involves forcing students to list vocabulary and definitions of words as they are presented (Phillips et al, 2003).

Checking the answers of students to determine if they have the correct definition.

Words would likely be simpler for special needs students.

Context Clues

Context clues prompt students to learn words as a result of their specific usage (Phillips et al, 2003).

Interventions could be given to see if students pick up on context clues.

Understanding context would be more difficult for special needs; extra effort would be required to give Continue reading...

CHANGE PROCESS IN NURSING EDUCATION SECTOR

Introduction

Nursing practice comprises of any process which utilizes significant specialized knowledge which has been obtained from diverse dimensions of professional academia such as physical sciences, behavioral sciences and biological sciences with successive utilization of the acquired knowledge in provision of health services. These health care practices must tap on the well being of each and every person irrespective of gender, race, background or religion. Subsequently, nursing should or may comprise of activities such as laboratory tests and diagnosis, treatment as well as counseling services to the patients or individuals in question. In Continue reading...

CISCO SWITCHES AND ROUTERS

VLAN

Before beginning anything regarding switch installation and set up, there is need to read and understand the vendors’ instructions concerning the same (Ouellet et al, 2002). Before attachment of the switch to the cluster VLAN, its IP address should be configured. Once this has been done, the switches firmware codes are then updated and the name and logging style set. The installation plan dictates the Chassis maximum transfer unit (Stallings, 2007). This should be set as well a plan that is developed to point to the network time protocol server is implemented. Once all Continue reading...

The experience of the neighborhood teenager is discussed and analyzed here which goes like that the person demonstrated majorly industry behavior as he was quite confident of his conduct and status among his friends and classmates . Since he was good in studies, he was appreciated by teachers. However, he also mentioned being designated as nerd and bookworm by some classmates and was considered to fair poorly in sports. He used to feel inferior in sports and was convinced that he can never excel or be fairly good in sports.His self esteem was low in relation to sports and used Continue reading...

Introduction

I agree with the behavioral geneticists and cognitive theorists view of the language development process that all children will learn and develop their own speech through dialogue and their own reasoning.

Parental Roles

The parent's role in language development is very important. In view of the fact that children will acquire a great proportion of their language from their parents, the language a child is subjected to at home is a vital factor in defining the child’s language skills.
During a child's formative years is the optimum time for learning to speak, therefore Continue reading...

LEADERSHIP

Question One

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in October 1869. He is the chosen individual in this context considering his widely known and recognized name, character, and most vitally his undertaking (Gandhi, 2007, p. 14). His predominant existence and presence in the political arena in the last century and their relation and impact in the current era are factors that make this leader a strategic and ideal one for analysis. Mahatma was a pre-eminent leader in India during the Indian independence movement. He is mostly known from his political ideologies and undertakings.

Mahatma was Continue reading...

FILM TITLE: This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Director Kirby Dick

Basic Plot (a single sentence if possible), and what areas of “politics” are present in the film:

This film is about the problems inherent with the ratings system of the MPAA, tackling race, gender, and sexual politics as the ratings board’s view of them is examined.

1. Does the movie have a point of view? Is it advocating a political philosophy or policy orientation? What is it?
The movie has the point of view of admonishing the MPAA for being ignorant Continue reading...

In Shurts and Myers’ article “A Examination of Liking, Love Styles, and Wellness Among Emerging Adults: Implications for Social Wellness and Development,” emerging adulthood is discussed, as well as how the emotional and psychological factors found in this period of life shape their development. After high school but before finishing their education, many young adults enter emerging adulthood, a period of time where they are still not really considered adults, but where they are given the responsibilities of adults. Continue reading...

The gateway program (Puerta al Futuro) at Fairleigh Dickinson University involves an admission process that must be improved dramatically. It is evident that the administrator of that admissions program needs to undergo drastic changes in management style and effectiveness in order to make the appropriate adjustments. With the help of my group, I have helped to come up with several methods by which the administrator can change his or her actions to streamline and improve this admission process. This essay helps to delineate the problems found, the principles the administration should follow, and my own experiences working with this Continue reading...

Begin working on your final project early over the span of the next seven weeks. It is divided into two sections worth a total of 300 points with a grading rubric for each section. Please keep and save project files, updating them as necessary, completing each sectional requirement.

Length of report for Section I should be a minimum of 300 words using the APA guidelines for citing all sources used. Label each Section I & II.

Section one - Fedora Installation (100 points)

As part of your textbook, there is a Fedora Installation DVD that came along with Continue reading...

History Questions

1. Do you think that America’s fear of a communist takeover in the 1960s was valid?

The fear of communism appeared to take on an almost personified form in the 1960s. America and, indeed, the rest of the west, were terrified of a communist takeover, in much the same way that the fear of the H1N1 virus spread across the world a couple of years ago. It was as if the Americans believed that they could ‘catch’ communism like they could a cold. Their fears Continue reading...

Introduction

The catering industry has from research been found to be one of the industries most sensitive to changes, may they be external or internal. When making any form of changes in the industry therefore, it is important to look at the resulting effects they will have to the business. As the catering manager to our hotel that is changing form using traditional cooking methods to more advanced (the use of microwaves) I have the duty of informing all the concerned people about the change.
To begin with, it is important to inform all members of staff Continue reading...

1.0 Introduction
As men advance in age, there are several changes that occur in their reproductive system. The changes particularly occur within the testes. The testicular mass decreases with aging. There is a decline in the levels of testosterone and as a consequence of the decline, men tend to have decreased libido and reduced number of spermatozoa. Aging in itself does not render a man sexually incompetent rather it presents several challenges to sexual performance. Some men develop erectile dysfunction although this may not necessarily be a direct consequence of aging. It may be caused by medications such Continue reading...

Marriage entails coming together of two people of the opposite sex .In most cases if differs from one region to another depending of culture, law and religion. In the course of marriage, the couples may divorce due to different reasons and terminate the marriage legally. Divorce affects both the couples and their children. Debatebly, divorce affects the parties in different degrees. Children from these broken families, suffer both emotionally and psychologically.
Actually, last five decades have witnessed a stable increase in the number of divorce cases. Long ago couples rarely divorced. Since the beginning of 21st century, many children Continue reading...

Human development occurs in different stages. Each stage has its systematic emotional changes, psychological changes and perceived changes. Actually, a young adult is a person who is generally between the age of 20-40.As a matter of fact it represents a genuine phase of development in the cycle of human life (Power & Lorna, 2000). Transitional position of early adulthood shares numerous traits with the entire development process in adulthood and youth.

During early adulthood, many psychological problems arise. At this stage of development, individuals become more concerned with the developing the ability to enjoy and share intimate relationship. The Continue reading...

Environmental science

Problem description

Energy conservation entails the efforts that are being undertaken to reduce energy consumption. Energy conservation can be attained by enhanced, efficient energy use in relation to the minimized energy consumption and or minimum application from the conventional energy sources. The problem associated with this is the global energy crisis that has resulted in strong demand for the rare commodity. There has been great, rise in the global demand for energy in the past few years due to industrial growth and population increase. Supply of energy, thus, is in deficit than the Continue reading...

1. Based on Gardner's (2007) article, describe the importance of timing when implementing new projects.

According to Gardner, most players in the Mortgage industry are afraid to implement new projects when the business is booming, probably because they fear damaging the smooth running of operations, consequently cutting on their revenue. However, they are also wary of initiating new projects in times of low business activity because they are concerned about the possibility that those projects may not generate enough to compensate the investment made on them. However, Gardner asserts that these players are not privy to the importance of Continue reading...

Fill in the blank Questions (4 pts. each, 20 pts. Total)

1) Field inputs are governed by input masks.
2) A computer program is an algorithm that has been customized to solve a specific task.
3) Intensity of color ranges from cosmic rays to electric waves.
4) Figuring out why a process or system doesn’t work is called debugging.
5) An algorithm must be simple and precise.

Short Answer Questions (5 pts. each, 60 pts. Total)

1) What is the Turing Test?

It is an examination of whether a machine has the ability Continue reading...

Marriage conflict erodes marital satisfaction. This statement agrees with the three criteria of causality. There is covariation between causes and effects; conflict in marriage causing marital dissatisfaction. There is also the temporal precedence of the causes; conflict in marriage occurring before the marital dissatisfaction, and also the exclusion of the alternative explanations of cause effect linkages.
The dependent variable from the problem ‘The research problem is to examine the effectiveness of a DVD to change the viewer's opinion regarding gun control’ is behaviour of the viewer while the independent variable is the watching of the movie. An experimental design Continue reading...

Novel Stem Cell technologies (Isolation & Differentiation)

Stem cell technologies are now much easier to isolate and differentiate when compared to years ago. This paper shows those cells to have great plasticity with potential therapeutic application. Isolation and differentiation characteristics of those stems cells were considered to be on properties of the mesenchymal stem cells to be able to adhere to plastic surfaces.
The importance of this research is that of the understanding of the properties of the stem cells and what make them function the way they were. Understanding that is being provided by this would represent Continue reading...

As the United States of America continues to develop and assume the role of a global leader in almost all the fields, the problem of obesity continues to haunt its development pride, and no matter the interventions that are made, it never seems to go away. Eating has developed to be a habit and not just for sustenance. Consequently, millions of people of all ages are grappling with the problem of obesity, while many others not obese are watching them with intent to condemn rather than help. Even children are not spared, with more than nine million obese children Continue reading...

In his book Competitive Advantage Michael Porter introduced the concept of a value chain, as a basic tool for analysing firm’s competencies and exploring the potential of developing competitive advantage in a certain field. Since competitive advantage cannot be investigated when looking at the entire company, value chain helps to identify separate activities, which may form the basis of further differentiation strategy. Careful analysis of the cost and efficiency components of every process makes it easier to identify areas of competitive advantage and those for further improvement.
The situation in the microchip industry makes it very hard for Continue reading...

The theory asserts that conflict in the families is a very normal occurrence .Conflict theories view family as a class in society, which one of the group is oppressing others (Otomar & Wehr, 2002). Debatably, a family is not just a social entity of children and married couples. It is a social group in which its members are linked to each other through marriage, ancestry, living together and adoption .In addition they care for each other and share economically. Family is just but a section of society. Conflict theories have variety of Continue reading...

Change in the present society in the current business environment is very avoidable. Individuals and companies have a choice of either to be controlled by the change and react appropriately to the changes or play a proactive role in the change and manage it in such a way that the change can maximize there business benefit and reduce on the negative impacts that can arise for it. There are several way that an individual can react to change and benefit appropriately some of the way include.

One of the ways of managing change is by acknowledging that people do Continue reading...

Introduction

In an organization, goals provide the road map towards achieving its mission. The goals turn the organization’s vision into reality and generally navigate the set course established by the organization. Effective goals must be recorded and written. This provides motivation to the team and act as a constant reminder to everyone (Wallace, 2010).

Characteristics of Well-Written Goals

One characteristic of these goals is that they must be specific with measurable results. The existence of quantifiable results is important in assisting the managers or owners to assess whether the business is performing or progressing as planned. Continue reading...

Abstract

Over the last ten years, changes in organizational culture and globalization have impacted greatly on management of manufacturing and service organizations. Organization culture is formed by the behaviors, beliefs, values and norms practiced by members of an organization so as to align their individual and collective expectations with the objectives of the organization. This paper seeks to explain how these changes in these factors have made current management practices different from those practiced ten years ago.

Globalization has had immense effects on management. It has resulted in changes in the firm’s market and customer base and Continue reading...