If You Wanted to Study the Decline of the Salmon

question 12

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to study the decline of the salmon population in a particular waterway, you should

• A) Consider the phenomena studied by potentially relevant disciplines, then choose the best discipline
• B) Identify which discipline studies the phenomena involved in this complex problem and study its insights.
• C) Make sure that the disciplines you choose cover all the aspects of the problem and how they interact with other aspects, since each component of the problem may draw on different disciplinary insights.

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Definitions:

Weight Set Point

A theory suggesting that an individual's body has a natural or optimal weight that it "defends," making it difficult to deviate from this set point.

Enmeshed Family

A family system characterized by very close and often overly involved relationships between members, leading to a lack of appropriate boundaries.

Emotional State

The complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of feeling or mood, ranging from joy to sadness, that can change in response to the environment.

Facebook

A social networking platform that allows users to connect and share with family and friends online, established in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and colleagues.