...Discuss issues of reliability and validity associated with the classification and diagnosis of schizophrenia (8+16) One issue related to classification and diagnosis is reliability. Reliability refers to the consistency of a measuring instrument like DSM that is used when diagnosing schizophrenia. It can be measured by the extent to which psychiatrists can agree on the same diagnosis when independently assessing patients (inter rater reliability). The use of DSM III in 1990 was believed by Carson to have fixed any problems of IRR. Therefore the system is now more advanced with the DSM 5, there would be much greater agreement over who did and didn’t have schizophrenia by comparing the diagnosis which would make it reliable. However there is little evidence that DSM is routinely used with high reliability by mental health clinicians. For example Whaley found that IRR between health professionals were low as .11 between different raters. This suggests that when independently assessing patients the diagnosis was rarely consistent between them, meaning the DSM tool is unreliable in accurately and consistently diagnosing schizophrenia. There are also cultural differences about the interpretations of schizophrenia which poses a threat to reliability of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. For example Copeland et al gave a description of a patient showing clinical characteristics associated with schizophrenia to US and UK psychiatrists. From the US psychiatrists 69% diagnosed the patients...
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...RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI 448 Final Exam Guide http://www.devryguiders.com/downloads/reli-448-final-exam-guide/ RELI...
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...This is a paper in explaining on how each of the three major sociological theories (Functionalist, Conflict, and Interactionists perspectives) that you would approach or evaluate in the topic of religion. Sociologist views society in many different ways. Some see the world as a stable and ongoing entity. Other sociologist view society as being made up into many groups that are in conflict with each other. While still other sociologists use aspects of the so-cial world on the everyday, routine interactions, among people that we take for granted. Together, these approaches will provide an introductory look towards religion and a sociologist perspective. As a Functionalists point of view on religion’s role in integrating society, providing social support, and promoting social changes in society. In other words this means religion plays a big part in our so-ciety, and plays a major role in many of people’s lives. It makes religion a cultural universal, along with other common practices or beliefs found in eve-ry culture. There are many types of religions around the world with enormous diversities in religious be-liefs and practices. But it all has one common bond that every religion believes in which is God. This means religion provides shared beliefs, and values about the questions of life. These values help society to function as an integrated social system. ...
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...RELI 211 optional assignment #2 25, September 2013 Compare/Contrast God’s covenant with Abraham (See Gen. 12, 13,15,17,18 and 22) God made a covenant with Abraham and had to remain faithful to God and serve as a channel through God’s blessings could pour to the rest of the country. (Gen. 12:1-3) The Lord promised Abraham that he would make him and his descendants a great nation; even though he and his wife did not have a child (childless) Abraham obeyed God and still had faith in all of God’s promises. In Genesis 15 the Lord reaffirmed his promise to Abraham, and Abraham agreed to go to the land that God would show him, and God agreed to make him a great nation. Genesis 16 Abraham slept with his slave Hager, and she conceived and named him Ishmael. Abraham and his children were commanded to be circumcised as a "sign of covenant" between them and God (Gen. 17:10-11). God told Abraham his wife’s name was no longer Sarai, but now Sarah and will bear him a son named Issac. “I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you” (Genesis 17:7) “I will bless Sarah and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother os nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” (Gen. 17:15) * * © 2014 Microsoft * Terms * Privacy & cookies * Developers * English (United States)...
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...Technology Ventures From Idea to Enterprise is p r bite ohi d. se The pre na limi ry p s age are p are rep d fo r s ent tud s of D ho r. T ma Any s. yer sB oth e e r us se The pre na limi ry p s age are p are rep d fo r s ent tud s of D ho r. T ma Any s. yer sB oth e e r us is p r bite ohi d. Technology Ventures From Idea to Enterprise d. Thomas H. Byers Stanford University se The pre na limi ry p s age are p a Richard C. Dorf . Thom f Dr University of California, Davis so t den stu r d fo Andrew J. Nelson are rep University of Oregon Any s. yer sB oth e e r us is p r bite ohi TECHNOLOGY VENTURES: FROM IDEA TO ENTERPRISE, THIRD EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright @ 2001 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008 and 2005. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the...
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...Nik Reasor Reli 217H Gospel of Thomas The “Gospel of Thomas”, written sometime before 200, is considered to be one of the most confusing religious texts when it comes to Christianity. Containing only vague, out of context sayings of Jesus, with the prologue proclaiming that “Whoever finds the meaning of these sayings will not taste death” (Layton, 380). While these texts mainly prescribe to traditional Christian doctrine and parables, there is also a significant amount of fundamental gnostic beliefs. The first hint for Gnosticism comes in parable 13, where Thomas decrees that he knows what Jesus is, but he cannot tell the other disciples for fear that they “will take up stones and stone me” (Layton, 382). This is reminiscent of the Gospel...
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...When you think of Thurber you think of his best-known story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,”. That is hat this paper will be about. The story starts of with Mitty in a daydream were he is a brave military commander piloting a hydroplane. His wife interrupts this by exclaiming that he is driving too fast. That is when you relis it was a mear daydream and in real life the Mittys are out on some errands. This pattern of daydreaming wile he is doing other takes is repeated several times through out the story. When she urges him to make an appointment with his physician, his mind drifts off to were he becomes an eminent surgeon at work. That is at least until a parking-lot attendant’s contemptuous commands temporarily call him back to reality....
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...RELI 8 December 2015 1. Briefly tell the lives of Buddha and Muhammad. How did their life experiences affect their teaching? (10 points) Siddhartha – whose name means “the one whose objective is attained” – was born into a noble family around the year 560 AC. in the city of Kapilavastu in Nepal. Legend says that at the moment that his mother was making love with his father, she had a vision: six elephants, each one with a lotus flower on his back, were coming in her direction. The next instant, Siddhartha was conceived. During her pregnancy, Queen Maya, his mother, decided to call the wise men in the kingdom to interpret the vision she had had, and they were unanimous in affirming that the child about to be brought into the world would be a great king or a great priest. Siddhartha’s childhood and adolescence were very like ours; his parents wanted by all means to protect their son from knowing about the misery of the world. So he led his life confined between the walls of the gigantic palace where his parents lived and where everything seemed perfect and harmonious. He married, had a son and knew only the pleasures and delights of life. Eventually, Siddhartha wanted to keep being in the city, whilst being in the city the deprivation of the sight of suffering in his life finally became a reality to him. Shortly thereafter, he became enlightened. 2. Tell some ways that Hinduism and Buddhism are similar. Why is this so? (10 points) Every being wants happiness...
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...General Education and Arts & Sciences Req. Communications (9 cr.) Done: ENGL 1010 Crit Read and Expository Writing ENGL 1020 Crit Thinking and Argument Take one of the following (one of these must be taken and will count as the speech req, but not an Oral Intensive. If an additional one is taken it will count as Oral Intensive): SPCH 1300 General Speech SPCH 2300 Public Speaking SPCH 2320 Arg & Debate (meets A&S req) History (6 cr.) Done: HIST 2010 The United States to 1877 HIST 2020 The United States Since 1877 Using Information Technology (3 cr.) Done: CSCI 1100 or pass exam (schedule exam at: http://www.cs.etsu.edu/academics/signup) Science (8 cr.) Done: A sequence of 2 courses in the same field is required by A&S (e.g., biology). Psychology requires at least one biology course. Students can take two biology courses or two other lab courses and one biology. Take two of these BIOL or two other lab sciences in the same discipline and one of these BIOL: BIOL 1010-1011 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1020-1021 Biology for Non-majors I BIOL 1110-1111 Bio for majors I BIOL 1120-1121 Bio for majors II BIOL 1130-31 Bio for majors III Other lab science: Other lab science: Literature (3 cr.) Done: Take one of the following: ENGL 2030 Literary Heritage ENGL 2110 American Literature I ENGL 2120 American Literature II ENGL 2210 British Literature...
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...YOUR NAME IN ALL CAPS HERE Your Student Number RELI 1710 PLUS YOUR SECTION (A or V) Professor Zeba Crook Title Can Be Whatever You Want 1 Identification: The type of religions tradition I chose to attend was that of Christianity. The denomination was Roman Catholic. The name of the place of worship I attended was St. Michael’s Church located at 150 Corkery Rd RR2, Carp, ON, K0A 1L0. I attended Sunday mass on February 6, 2011 at 11:00am. Building: The outside of the church is square shaped with grayish bricks all around. At the front of the church is a tower shaped entrance, with wooden doors. On both sides of the church are glass windows. In the tower there is a church bell that rang at the beginning of the mass. The inside of the church is filled with pews (roughly 20 on each side) as well as an altar in the front. The windows on the inside of the church are stained with images. There is a second floor in the church which also has pews along with a piano and guitar. At the front of the church where the altar is hangs a cross which indicates that this is a religious institution. Along with the cross, other religious symbols that are visible include statues and pictures of Jesus along with a statue of Mary. There is much art visible inside the church. Some particular examples include that of Pope Benedict, a Cardinal, as well as Jesus. These pictures do not really affect the experience. They just concretely show that we are in a religious institution. Other areas marked...
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...Kevin Combs RELI-3350.1 Chad Spigel 11-9-2009 Beyond the Essene Hypothesis Since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, scholars have come up with a variety of theories surrounding the origins and nature of the Essene community at Khirbet Qumran. Gabriele Boccaccini discusses his theory on the origins of the Essene movement, specifically at Khirbet Qumran, in his book Beyond the Essene Hypothesis. In his book, Boccaccini argues that the Essene movement was actually an offspring of Enochic Judaism during the Second Temple period, which later led to the parties of Jesus and John the Baptist. Boccaccini looks at the historiographical analysis and systematic analysis of the Essene community at Qumran to construct his argument. Boccaccini believes that Khirbet Qumran was not the only Essene settlement, but a group of Essenes which were further isolated from society, and followed a stricter covenant than the mainstream Essene community. Beyond the Essene Hypothesis does not suggest anything too radical regarding the Essene hypothesis; but, Boccaccini believes that the term “Qumran” and “Essene” should not be interchangeable with one another. Qumran was merely one example of an Essene settlement throughout the Palestinian area of that time. Comparing the historical writings of Jewish to non-Jewish authors, Boccaccini largely looks at the writings of Philo; the Jewish historian, Flavius Josephus; and Pliny the Elder for historiographical analysis. Boccaccini looks at the ancient...
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...Robert Paupore Thomas Condry RELI 101 22 February 2014 The Faithful and the Proud Since the year 1609 the North American Native people have been forced to give up their way of life and land to the invading white race from Europe. Simply put, it is time to return to the native people what was most precious to them which was their religion. To this end by losing their sacred religion the native people of America lost that which bonded together their communities. Through religious arrogance it was not recognized, the nearly identical history both cultures share. Now that Christianity remains the dominate religion in all the Americas, it is easy to forget that another religion almost identical to Christianity was already in place with the most natural and noble people on earth. With overwhelming numbers, superior weaponry, unlimited resources, and disease, the Native North American people were forced to lose everything to include their religion which mirrored the ancient Israelites in spiritual devotion, practices, and belief system. As an example of the once proud religions belief system, George Catlin said “The North American Indians is are nowhere idolaters-they appeal at once to the Great Spirit, and know of no mediator, either personal or symbolical.” He also stated “In their feasts, fasting, and sacrifices they are exactly like those of the ancient Jews.” (George Catlin p. 233). The social system of the native people was almost identical to that instituted...
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...any organised political state. Hobbes (1651, cited in Brown, 2005), writing shortly after the English Civil War, argued that in a ‘state of nature’ individuals would be fearful for their own interests, resulting inevitably in war of all against all. To obviate this, Hobbes suggested that individuals should voluntarily accept restrictions – and invest their will in an absolute power (the monarchy) to make collective deci-sions for all. This restriction of individual freedoms would provide all with freedom from war. John Locke (1689, cited in Brown, 2005), writing shortly afterwards at a time during which many feared that King Charles II would indeed become an absolutist monarch, believed that a ‘state of nature’ would be a place of reli-gion and morals where...
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...CYBERPSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND SOCIAL NETWORKING Volume 16, Number 2, 2013 a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2012.0321 How Facebook Might Reveal Users’ Attitudes Toward Work and Relationships with Coworkers Hui-Tzu Grace Chou, PhD, Ron J. Hammond, PhD, and Roberta Johnson, BS Abstract With the spread of Facebook among people in many countries, some companies have started using applicants’ Facebook profiles as a criterion of personnel selection, in an effort to identify good workers among job appli- cants. However, how using Facebook is connected to individuals’ relationships with coworkers and work attitudes is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between using Facebook, rela- tionships with coworkers, and some attitudes toward the current job. Undergraduate students at a state uni- versity in Utah were randomly chosen to participate in an online survey between April and May 2012. The results of a multivariate analysis, based on 516 currently employed respondents, revealed several findings. First, those more involved in using Facebook—often assumed as more people-oriented individuals—do not have better relationships with their coworkers than their counterparts. Second, those with more Facebook friends care less about their work performance than those with fewer Facebook friends. Third, those frequently update their Facebook profile like their current job less, and are more likely to think about changing their jobs, compared with those...
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...Ho Man Chan RELI 1301 05 J. Jonathan Kim, Ph.D. 11-12-2010 Books of Wisdom Literature Wisdom Literature is a style of Hebrew literature. It was originated from 6th century BC, when the Israelites in exile after being swept into the AD era. These literary works are such as "Wisdom books." "Wisdom literature" has four main characteristics: 1. The writing time should be after the Israelis were swept and before the birth of Jesus Christ; 2. The contents should focus on ethics, but not designed to focus on theology; 3. The way of expression are mainly the maxim, aphorism, metaphor, fables, poems, eulogy, etc; 4. The writing object is not only limited to Jews. There are five main books of Wisdom Literature, Book of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms and Song of Songs. First, Job is a faithful servant of God who is known for piety and patience. At that time, the Israelites were polluted to worship the Egyptian demons, but only Job is adhered to worship the God purely. The most ancient tradition believed that Moses is the author of this book. Many Jewish and early Christian scholars also agreed with this proposition. It is because the style of Job is very similar with the Pentateuch. So, the time of writing should be estimated around 1500 BC of the Patriarch Period. Most of this book (3:1-42:6) is a form of play or epic written. The front (1:1-2:13) is a prelude and (42:7-17) is the end. These two parts is written in prose form. Job not only teaches a great truth. “The Book of Job...
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