What are key developments in epidemiology from Snow until the present?

1. What is LTP? Why is LTP so interesting to researchers? Describe a specific demonstration of LTP at a hippocampal site of your choice

Using Chapters 10-11, compare and contrast formats for formal and informal reports. Describe an example of either kind of report you have actually used or locate one on the internet. Explain how the document meets (or fails to meet) the standard described in our text. Is it more or less difficult to compose a solicited or an unsolicited proposal? Why? Describe a situation in which you would compose an unsolicited proposal. Who is your imagined audience—internal or external? How might you persuade your reader to agree to your proposal? What ethical or legal issues must you anticipate? Note: Each week, you are to compose discussion in written form and to provide a narrated slide presentation. Here is a good practice to follow: Meet with your peers and brainstorm the assignment together. Freely exchange ideas in your group to help each other achieve the best outcomes. On your own, create a short document that responds to the discussion questions (and provides the basis of your narrated presentation) Organize your ideas into bullet points on your slides Use visual images to support your text Gracefully narrate your ideas in a 1-2 minute slide presentation. Respond to your classmates' presentations in writing, audio, or video.

Explain what position Chesterton takes regarding the question: Is man different in degree or different in kind from all other sentient creatures? How does Chesterton support his position? What is the position taken in Genesis, chapters one and two, regarding this question? Explain how the Genesis account of man’s creation supports this position.

our universe was made by a powerful Intelligence who exists outside our universe, and in whose image we are made. explain, with reference to James Gardner’s Biocosm hypothesis.

Gender stereotypes may limit children to narrowly-defined roles that may not account for a child's unique and individual interests and abilities. What are your thoughts about gender-specific toys? (For example: Are dolls okay for boys? Toy cars or trucks for girls?) How did your parents or caregivers feel about this topic? As a parent, how do you think you would approach it?

No less than 250 word count!

Welcome to Discussion 5.1! Dennis Rader was dubbed “BTK” for his method of murder: Bind, Torture, Kill. Rader was active from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. Throughout this time he wouldn’t often send letters to the police and news outlets detailing his crimes. After a ten year of hiatus of contact, he began sending information again….soon after he was apprehended. In our course, we see that law enforcement has a wealthy of means that they use in investigating crime. For the BTK murders, how was Rader ultimately caught? This week, we’ll look into the means of investigation and apprehension of serial killer. Address the following prompts: • What role did not technology play in finding Denis Rader? • In your opinion, was he trying to get caught? Why/Why not? • Independently research why serial killers often leave signatures and clues for law enforcement. Why might this occur? (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/shadow-boxing/201312/serial-killer-signatures) • Beyond the apparent atrocity of murder, what other damage do serial killers cause? For example, what social consequences occur for the community, their family, friends etc?

Many companies now view the social media media pages of their workers and potential applicants. Do you think that this is ethical and a good business practice, or is it a violation of worker privacy?

Define differential responding, stimulus discrimination, and stimulus generalization. How do they relate to one another? What is a stimulus generalization gradient and how does it allow us to study stimulus discrimination/generalization? Draw stimulus generalization gradients depicting strong discrimination and strong generalization. What happens when the animal is given intradimensional stimulus discrimination training? How does Spence’s theory explain this effect?

The development of language is critically important in early childhood. Discuss some examples of key normative

milestones (i.e., a child should be able to ______ around age _____) with respect to language acquisition in the first 3 years.

Discuss two advantages and two disadvantages of group and individual learning ability tests?

Discuss the major differences between a standardized test battery and a single content standardized test? Discuss two advantages and two limitations of each.

Explain the procedures involved in spontaneous recovery, renewal, and reinstatement of an extinguished response. What are the implications of these effects regarding extinction of conditioned behavior? What theoretical view can explain all these effects and how? Finally, describe different treatments aiming to enhance the effectiveness of extinction training.

What are the implications of assuming that animals can learn R-O associations in an instrumental conditioning procedure? Describe a real experiment providing evidence of R-O associations in nonhuman animals. Indicate how S, R, and O might organize hierarchically. Give a laboratory example and a daily-life example of such hierarchical organization.