Game Theory Essays and Term Papers
765 Essays on Game Theory. Documents 251 - 275
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Labeling Theory
Labeling Theory Labeling Theory is a sociological approach to explaining how criminal behavior is perpetuated by the police and others. This theory looked at how labels applied to individuals influenced their behavior; particular negative labels (such as “criminal” or “felon”) promote deviant behavior (online). Emphasis is being placed on rehabilitation of offenders through an alteration of their labels. Labeling theory has been accused of promoting impractical policy implications, and criticized for failing to explain society’s
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Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of Learning
Helping students learn more effectively is a major goal of every teacher. As a teacher of 9th grade High School students it is important to realize efficient teaching methods to better achieve this goal. To help accomplish this we look towards two philosophy methods; the Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of learning. The Behaviorist Paradigm (or classical and operant conditioning) teaches us that we learn based on how we interact with our environment. The
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The Containment Theory
The Containment Theory was originally proposed by sociologist, Walter C. Reckless in 1961. His theory attempts to explain delinquency as the interaction between two different kinds of control; one being inner or internal pushes, and the other being outer or external pushes. Containment theory suggests that every individual contains an external structure and also a protective internal structure. The strength of these structures determines the actions of the individual, and the severity of their
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Reality and Choice Theory
1. "Reality therapy concentrates on the client's needs and getting them to confront the reality of the world. In Reality Therapy, these needs are classified into power, love and belonging, freedom, fun, and survival. Survival includes the things that we need in order to stay alive, such as food, clothing and shelter. Power is our sense of achievement and feeling worthwhile, as well as the competitive desire to win. Love and belonging represent our social
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Big Bang Theory
The big bang theory The big bang theory first originated from the early 1600’s from a man named Galileo Galilei. The whole theory didn’t unfold until the 20th century when powerful telescopes and other equipment allowed us to see the vastness of our galaxies as well as galaxies beyond ours. A priest by the name of George Lemaitre was the first to propose that the universe began with a big explosion. He claimed that the
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Models for Aggressive Behavior: The Attributes of Violent Characters in Popular Video Games - Article Review
Researches on Violent Video Games are Irrelevant Second to the movies industry, video games industry is on a rapid development with billions of dollars made. Like the movies industry, Americans are increasingly concerned about violence, gore, and antisocial behaviors feature in games. In fact, violent video games have been constantly blamed for school shootouts. For example, not long after the Northern Illinois University shooting occurred, Jack Thompson, an attorney who strongly believes violent video games
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Management: Theory, Practice, Application
MANAGEMENT: THEORY, PRACTICE, APPLICATION Functions of Management Management is defined as the process of working with people and resources to accomplish organizational goals Snell, Bateman (2007). Even though the people, resources and goals might change constantly, the one thing that never changes is the way that managers achieve these goals. The entire concept and effectiveness of management is made up of four distinct and equally important functions. The four functions of management, defined as planning,
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The Effects of Violent Video Games on Aggressive Behavior
In recent years, technological advances have introduced many new forms of entertainment, one of the most popular being video games. Since their introduction, professionals and parents have become concerned with the addictive power that video games can have on people, particularly children and adolescents. Today, concern has shifted from the addictive effects of video game playing to the possible effects that they have on players’ aggression levels. As defining aggression as any thoughts or behaviors
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“how Useful Are Content and Process Theories of Motivation in Explaining What Really
“How useful are content and process theories of motivation in explaining what really motivates people to work?” Motivation is a complex concept to define, psychologically everyone has experienced the emotion and feeling motivation gives individually for different reasons. It is aspired within everyone to fulfill the inspiration or enthusiasm that comes from each individual of us. From resources I have researched it is referred, as “essentially an area of psychology, which attempts to explain why
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Theories on Social Inequality from a Functionalist, Conflict, and Symbolic-Interactionist Points of View
Social inequality is the issue pertaining to the lack of housing, health care, education, employment opportunities, and status. It is the dismissal of people from participation in what we, the members of society distinguish as being valuable, important, socially desirable, and personally worthwhile. There are many different perspectives on social inequality within our society; the three areas I am going to focus on are those of the Functionalist, Conflict and Symbolic-Interactionist. The Functionalist theory believes
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Contingency Theories of Effective Leadership
CONTINGENCY THEORIES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP • Contingency Theory – Theory that explains leadership effectiveness in terms of situational moderator variables LPC (Least Preferred Co-Worker) CONTINTENCY MODEL • The LPC contingency model describes how the situation moderates the relationship between leadership effectiveness and a trait measure called the “least preferred co-worker” score Leader LPC Score • The LPC score is determined by: • Asking a leader to think of all past and present co-workers • Select
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Critically Discuss Strengths and Weaknesses of McClelland's Acquired Needs Theory and Expectancy Theory
Critically discuss strengths and weaknesses of McClelland’s acquired needs theory and Expectancy theory. Motivation play an important role in today’s work environment as motivated employees are more productive employees. However, the ways how we motivate the employees have to be improved from time to time as employees are being more demanding and that they are more concern about their needs than before. Motivational strategies have probably affected the most by employee concerns and values (Greiner
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Aristotle's Ethical Theory and How It Conflicts, If at All, with Our Contemporary Worldview
Aristotle's ethical theory and how it conflicts, if at all, with our contemporary worldview. Aristotle is one of the most well known philosophers in history. He was born in 384 BC in Stagira, which is in Macedonia. His father was personal physician to the king of Macedonia at that time, Amyntas. He lived until 322 BC when he died at a family estate in Euboea. Aristotle is credited with many great accomplishments during his time.
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Own Theory of Personality
The perception of personality varies from person to person. The conclusion of what an individual's personality may be is based upon the criteria of the person observing another. Our profile--our personality--stands in dialectical relationship to perception. What we are as a personality, our motives, goals, temperaments, and so on, influence what we perceive as a situation; and this perception itself will influence our personality. Each person is a unique personality, a profile of motivational, temperamental,
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What Is a Game?
A game is any interactive recreational activity. Interactive is defined as anything involving the actions or input of a user or participant where the outcome can be altered by those inputs or actions. Recreation is defined as a means of refreshment or diversion. As such, a game can be defined to be any activity engaged in as a means of amusement or diversion, where the participant(s) have direct input and control of an outcome. This
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Violent Video Games
The technology of video games has been around for almost a quarter of a century (Volk 10). Over this time, it has become a major source of entertainment for young adults; in fact, most homes contain video game units. With this increasing popularity, video game makers have targeted a new audience of gamers, children. This has posed a major debate: do video games with graphic content affect the behavior of these young users, or do
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Theory of Constraints
Background Eastern Financial Florida Credit Union is the largest credit union in South Florida. The last three years have been intensive with rates dipping to there lowest in 40 years. Because of this, 92% of mortgage holders had economic reasons to refinance. Eastern exists to achieve goals to improve member service, work performance and increase profitability; however, certain factors limit their capacity to manage constraints and they needed help. Eastern Weak Links Eastern needed
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Theory of Relativity
Alltel has sales revenue of almost eight billion dollars last year, but the Alltel shops see you in most towns are a relatively small business. This break is probably true for internal controls also, the shops have relatively few controls but hopefully the corporation as a whole has more. We are looking at the sales process and the controls in place and missing that go along with the process. The first control in place is
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Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage
Theory of Absolute Cost Advantage MERCANTILISTS’ VERSION Mercantilism stretched over nearly three centuries, ending in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. It was the period when the nation-states were consolidating in Europe. For the purpose of consolidation, they required gold that could best be accumulated through trade surplus. In order to achieved trade surplus, their governments monopolized trade activities, provided subsidies and other incentives for export, and restricted imports. Since most European countries were
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Osmosis Theory
OSMOSIS Osmosis Theory Diagrams available in any science book Osmosis is the diffusion of a solvent through a partially permeable membrane until there is an equal concentration on either side of the membrane. The partially permeable membrane contains pores that are very small. Because these pores are only very small, only certain molecules can pass through it. Usually though the membrane will allow all or none of the molecules through. When only one type of
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Inequality and Radical Theory
INEQUALITY AND RADICAL THEORY Inequality and Distribution of Crime Theorists attempt to attack the engulfing problem of crime from many different angles. Crime is so encompassing that it is difficult to know where to begin. Often times it is toiling to decide on a definition of the intangible subject of crime. This paper proposes that the problem of solving crime is difficult because crime is very diverse. It is just as equally difficult to devise
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Kant’s Formalism Theory
Kant's Formalism Theory The theories of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, have had an impact on the formulation and shaping of ethics today. Immanuel Kant graced this earth from 1724 to 1804. During his eighty year life time, he formulated many interesting ideas regarding ethical conduct and motivation. Kant is strictly a non-consequentialist philosopher, which means that he believes that a person's choices should have nothing to do with the desired outcome, but instead mankind
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A Cognitive-Systemic Reconstruction of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization
A COGNITIVE-SYSTEMIC RECONSTRUCTION OF MASLOW'S THEORY OF SELF-ACTUALIZATION by Francis Heylighen1 PESP, Free University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Maslow's need hierarchy and model of the self-actualizing personality are reviewed and criticized. The definition of self-actualization is found to be confusing, and the gratification of all needs is concluded to be insufficient to explain self-actualization. Therefore the theory is reconstructed on the basis of a second-order, cognitive-systemic framework. A hierarchy of basic needs
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3 Postulates of the Kinetic Molecular Theory
Another postulate of the kinetic molecular theory is that gas particles are always in motion, like the other states of matter. But they are different in that they undergo random translational movement. In solids, the particles mainly experience vibrational motion and in liquids they mainly vibrate and rotate, with some translational motion. Gas particles move rapidly in straight lines, unless acted upon by another particle or the walls of a container. This continuous contact with
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The Linwood Method and the Bio-Medical Approach: Two of the Competing Theories
RUNNING HEAD: Competing Theories for Treatments of Autism The Linwood Method and the Bio-Medical Approach: Two of the Competing Theories For the Treatment of Patients with Autism Abstract The author of this paper gives and explanation of what autism is. He also tells you a b it about Jeanne Simons and why she created the Linwood Method and what it is. Then, in addition, you are given a description of who Dr. Jacquelyn McCandless
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