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Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
... has to be a better way. A person that has not learned a certain amount of information by a certain age is not a stupid person, they are just ignorant to some information that has not been presented to them. This can be determined by several different factors. It can be due to the school a person went to, the upbringing a person had, or even a disability that did not allow this person to have the same advantages that others had. None of these three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened ...
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Flash Memory
... disoriented that it changes the individual's entire
personality and lifestyle, therefore, disrupting all sorts of other behaviors.
The means of personality disorder is on purpose. False memory syndrome is
especially destructive because the person carefully avoids any confrontation
what so ever with any evidence that might challenge the memory. So this
syndrome takes on a life of its own, keeping itself to be alone and resistant
to correction. The person may become so focused on the memory that he or she
may be effectively distracted from coping with real problems in his or her life.
There are many models which try to explain how memory works.
Nevertheless, ...
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Euthanasia: Precious Life
... my arguments, it would be well to define “euthanasia”.
An essential aspect of euthanasia is that it involve taking a human life. Also,
the person whose life is taken must be someone who is believed to be suffering
from an incurable disease or injury from which recovery cannot reasonably be
expected. Finally the action must be deliberate and intentional. Therefore
euthanasia is intentionally taking the life of a presumably hopeless person.
It is important to be clear about the deliberate and intentional aspect
of the killing. If a hopeless person is given an injection of the wrong drug by
mistake and this causes his/her death, this is wrongful killing ...
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Diabetes
... of the symptoms
are:
1)being very thirsty
2)having to go to the bathroom very frequently
3)weight loss
4)increased hunger
5)blurry vision
6)skin infections
7)wounds that don't heal
8)and/or extreme unexplained fatigue
In some cases, there are no symptoms, this happens at times with Type II
diabetes. In this case, people can live for months, even years without knowing
they have the disease. This form of diabetes comes on so gradually that symptoms
might not even be recognized.
Diabetes can occur in anyone. However, people who have close relatives
with the disease are somewhat more likely to develop it. The risk of getting
diabetes also increases a ...
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A Guide To Indoor Air Quality
... Supplies
12. Paneling
13. Wood Stove
14. Tobacco Smoke
15. Carpets
16. Pressed Wood Sub flooring
17. Drapes
18. Fireplace
19. Household Chemicals
20. Asbestos Floor Tiles
21. Pressed Wood Cabinets
22. Unvented Gas Stove
23. Asbestos Pipe Wrap
24. Radon
25. Unvented Clothes Dryer
26. Pesticides
27. Stored Hobby Products
28. Lead-Based Paint
INDOOR AIR QUALITY CONCERNS
All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day to day lives. Driving in cars, flying in planes, engaging in recreational activities, and being exposed to environmental pollutants all pose varying degrees of risk. Some risks are simply unavoidable. S ...
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Depression
... focus-we are at least twice as likely as men to develop some form of . Yes, is more widely understood and yes, there are powerful treatments that produce real relief. Yet is still widely misunderstood and stigmatized as a "character flaw" rather than being more correctly perceived as a recognized illness.
Depressed? Sometimes it's hard to know what really is because it has become such a sweeping term, being used to describe everything from deep grief to daily frustrations. But to start with the most rigorous definition, Western psychiatry has a fairly standardized way of diagnosing . Coming from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the ...
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Suicide
... and loss of a spouse or friends due to institutionalization. rates have tripled for the 15-24 age group, due to an increase in mental illness in young people, increased drug use, and availability of firearms.
Gender also plays an important role. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, four times as many men, as women, complete . Women are about two to three times as likely to try to kill themselves, as men. It is believed that more men succeed in committing because they are more deliberate in their intentions, they tend to use more lethal methods to kill themselves, and are less likely to talk to anyone about their plan.
There are sever ...
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Memory
... touching a hot stove would cause a burn and therefore would convey a message to not repeat again. All of this is effected by the development of short-term (STM) and long-term (LTM).
Memories can be positive, like memories of girlfriends and special events, or they can be negative, such as suppressed memories. Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is known to cause severe psychological and emotional damage. Adults who were sexually abused in childhood are at a higher risk for developing a variety of psychiatric disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and mood disorders. To understand the essential issues about traumatic , the human mind’s respon ...
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Cancer
... circulation and
so can produce invasive tumors in almost any part of the body.
In 1997, an estimated 1,359,150 people in the United States will be
diagnosed with cancer and 554,740 will die of the disease. Early screening for
cancer is believed to be able to drastically reduce the number of deaths due to
the disease. Knowing what to look for when detecting cancer, as well as knowing
if you are in a high risk population are two of the main factors of early
intervention. Early intervention of cancer has proven to increase survival
rates and lower the length and severity of treatments. Detection and protection
are two types of ambulatory care for cancer th ...
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AIDS: Risk Factors / Modes Of Transmission / W. Africa
... Africa alone, it is most feasible to acknowledge modes of transmission across the African continent as a whole (Bethel, 138). Also, “we can assert that AIDS cases do not occur on the African continent in a uniform fashion but rather form an “AIDS Belt” in central, southern, and eastern Africa” (Bethel, 138).
First, by mentioning the fact that the Third World contains three fourths of the Earth’s population, and combining that fact with that of those worlds having an overall lesser knowledge upon transmission, prevention, and AIDS in general, it is not surprising that these countries populations are greatly impacted by mortality. “Africa, with about 12% of the w ...
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