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John is in his twenties and has a phobia of animals ever since he was bitten by a dog in his teenage years. Seeing pets causes John extreme anxiety and he goes out his way to avoid contact with animals. How might Behaviourism explain John's phobia?

Behaviourism would explain John's phobia of animals through operant and classical conditioning proposed by Skinner (1934). Firstly, John being bitten by a dog in his teenage years would have evoked a pain re...
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Answered by Oliver C. • Psychology tutor
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Integrate e^x sinx

Since we have two functions of x being multipied togrther, we have to integrate this by parts. Therefore if we say, u=sinx and v'=e x , then u'=cosx and v=e x .Applying the integration by parts rule of: uv' ...
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Tom is an expactant father who is worried that he will pass on his Haemophilia A, an X linked recessive disease, to his offspring. The mother is homozygous dominant. Explain why his 1st generation offspring will not be affected by the condition.

A recessive inheritance pattern means that 2 copies of the mutant allele need to be inherited for the individual to be affected. The disease is X linked, meaning the allele is only found on the X chromosome....
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What does a compiler do in the context of programming?

A compiler's main purpose is to translate source code (code that we write in Java, C++ etc) into machine readable code. Think of it like a machine which takes our document of code and translates it into 0's ...
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Solve the following equation 3(2x -1) = 4(x - 2)

Firstly, we need to identify what this question is asking us to do. Looking at the equation we can see that we have one unknown value, which is x. It is therefore the value of x which we are being asked to f...
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Answered by Oliver L. • Maths tutor
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