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Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Multicultural Educational Environment and Counseling Issues

In eight pages African American students are examined in terms of literature regarding dropout rates for adolescents and college s...

Concepts and Theories of Object Recognition

In five pages this paper discusses memory in a consideration of object recognition and its importance with empirical evidence prov...

Five Empirical Studies on PTSD

3. a sense or action that suggests that the traumatic event is recurring, and in young children, trauma-specific reenactment may o...

Salivary Cortisol Testing and the Empirical Method

In four pages this controlled study on a flawed salivary cortisol children's tests and their inflated results are addressed throug...

Company Earnings and Dividends

In nine pages this paper examines how dividends can be studied in order to understand a company's present and future earnings with...

Candidate Screening and the Process of Interviewing

In fifteen pages this paper examines the process of interviewing prospective candidates in a literature review that considers a th...

Scientific Functionalism Versus Empiricism

This paper addresses the statement: functionalism is a scientifically suspect theory, quite apart from concern about its empirical...

Students with Special Needs and Educational Modification

In two pages this paper examines empirical studies regarding students who have special needs and educational modifications that wo...

Overview of an Empirical Study I

In three pages an empirical study regarding the differences in learning between students with special needs and those who do not h...

Special Education Empirical Study II

In three pages an empirical study is presented in which the differences in learning requirements between students who have special...

Innate Knowledge and the Debate Between Nativism and Empiricism

In nine pages the debate between innate or native knowledge as espoused by Kant, Descartes, and Plato is compared with the empiric...

Politics and Empirical Evidence Regarding School Vouchers

more efficiently compete for students. The market forces principles that Adam Smith applied to economics more than 200 years ago ...

Analysis of Massachusetts Changed Education Law

In six pages this paper uses Fisher's framework in order to analyze the change in Massachusetts' education law that reduces 'free ...

David Hume and John Locke on Perception

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the perception theories of David Hume and John Locke and exposes flaws in the empi...

Global Warming: Liberal Perspective

spite of the fact that China has attempted to address its number of people, there is no denying how this huge nation requires a si...

Piaget vs Erikson

there is no flexibility in the order of stages (Ginn, 2004). Piagets four stages of cognitive development are: 1. Sensorimotor s...

Multicultural Education And Technology

the perfect duo? Teacher Competence to Teach Multicultural Education It seems the first question that needs to be addressed is w...

Keeping a Perspective on Research

should demand details, ask questions. If a researcher states "traditional classroom discipline techniques" have been shown to "ef...

Add On Pricing Model Assessment

to buy. If they do not make a purchase they are assumed to gain zero utility, giving no motivation to refrain form making a purcha...

Organizational Behavior and Customer Satisfaction

changes. Gomes, et al. (2003) investigate a company in the textile industry, one that supplies knitted clothing to its cust...

6 Questions on Calculations and Statistics II

was close to the middle of the distribution; and that values for 8, 9, 10 and 11 hours were higher than those for 3, 4, 5 and 6 ho...

Premarital Counseling Effects Upon Marriage Length

do arise in marriages that are not foreseen by the partners at the time that they marry. Problems with in-laws, money and sex are...

Nursing and Knowledge

led to alter his position. The old philosophers gave much attention to the issue of knowledge and epistemology. Aristotle ...

Theory Dependence of Observation by Chalmers

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

Empirical Measurement Validity and Reliability

Many research projects are based, in part, on interviews, for example. The problem with interviews is not merely the subjective so...

MMPI an Overview

The MMPI is the most commonly used assessment for its purpose, which is to assess personality traits. The design of the instrument...

Pragmatic Philosophy of William James

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer

is referring not to a political orientation, but rather to a general stance toward society. This is the same sentiment expressed ...

Rogerian Argument on the Development of Infants and Human Milk Benefits

avoid logical fallacies. The first task, therefore will be to present four clearly defined causal links that can be used to explo...