The most important factor affecting the pH of body tissues is the concentration of _____.

A person with an extremely high count of neutrophils is likely suffering a(n) _____.

Descartes’ discussion of dreams can be read as containing the following argument: 1. If I am certain that I am now sitting before the fire, in my dressing gown, with paper in my hands, and so on, then I am certain that I am not now dreaming. 2. I am not certain that I am not now dreaming. So, I am not certain that I am now sitting before the fire, in my dressing gown, with paper in my hands, and so on. Put this way, is the argument valid?

The claims made in that one sentence are: (a) All that up to the present time I have accepted as most true and certain I have learned either from the senses or through the senses; (b) It is sometimes proved to me that these senses are deceptive; and (c) It is wiser not to trust entirely to anything by which we have once been deceived. The conclusion of the argument made in this paragraph is left unstated. It is something like: the senses should not be trusted. Two of the three statements work together to support this conclusion. Which two?

What are the two ideologies that govern Tara’s family life? Name & give a very short description of each of them.

Briefly define the word “patriarchy”. 

The one-sided (left) join of Booking on Guide tables contains how many rows?

Compare W.E.B. Du Bois’s Social Disharmony theory and Clifford Shaw & Henry D. McKay’s Social Disorganization theory in explaining why crime rates may be higher in certain neighborhoods. In your answer: Briefly define each theory in your own words. Explain how each theory would interpret the higher crime rates in majority Black neighborhoods in Dallas. Highlight the key difference in their explanations.

Seven teenagers in the Austin area were recently arrested for a series of auto thefts and violent carjackings. 1. Using social learning theory, explain why a teenager might have engaged in these crimes. 2. In your answer, explicitly discuss the roles of differential association, imitation, and differential reinforcement, and describe how these processes interact to increase the likelihood of engaging in this behavior.

In your own words, 1. How did Cesare Lombroso explain criminal behavior? 2. Critically evaluate this explanation by identifying its key assumptions and discussing why the theory has been widely criticized. 3. In your answer, explain what these criticisms reveal about the limits of biological explanations of crime.