Chapter 13: European society in the age of the Renaissance I. The Evolution of the Renaissance A. The Renaissance was a period of enhancement in all aspects of life 1. Economic growth laid the material basis for the renaissance a.1050-1300 witnessed commercial and financial development b. Venice became wealthy from overseas trade c. Genoa and Venice ships sailed all year long B. Communes and Republics 1. Northern Italian cities were communes 2. Milan
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Social Psychology The definition of prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. There are many components which play a role in promoting prejudices. Some of these factors include stereotyping‚ self-fulfilling prophecy‚ fundamental attribution error‚ media‚ projection‚ and groupthink. Many prejudices are made based on where a person lives‚ what they look like‚ or what religion they belong to. Although these are a few examples of prejudices‚ there are many
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Traditions and Encounters‚ AP Edition (Bentley)‚ 5th Edition Chapter 24: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania Chapter Outline I. Colliding worlds A. The Spanish Caribbean 1. Indigenous peoples were the Taino a. Lived in small villages under authority of chiefs b. Showed little resistance to European visitors 2. Columbus built the fort of Santo Domingo‚ capital of the Spanish Caribbean a. Taino conscripted to mine gold b. Encomiendas: land grants to Spanish settlers with total control over local people
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Chapter 30: The West at the Dawn of the 21st Century~. ----------------------------------- The 20th century movement of people: The Soviet communists’ forced removal of the Russian peasants and the Nazi’s deportations and execution of European Jews were only the most dramatic examples of this development. Many moved from the countryside to the cities. Other vast forced movements due to the government caused millions of Germans Hungarians‚ Poles‚ Ukrainians‚ Bulgarians‚ Serbs‚ Finns‚ Chechens
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Chapter 4- Sensation and Perception * Sensation vs. Perception * Sensation- Basic processes by which sensory receptors and the nervous system: Receive and represent stimulus energies from environment‚ and entails basic psychological experiences. * Bottom-Up Processing- Sensory detection and encoding; construction of whole from parts. * This includes Lines‚ shapes‚ angels‚ colors‚ items/events that grab our attention * Perception- Interpretation and integration
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Chapter 22: The Revolution in Energy and Industry I. The Industrial Revolution in Britain A. Eighteenth-Century Origins 1. Social and economic factors influenced England’s takeoff. a. Colonial markets for manufactured goods contributed. b. The canal network constructed in Britain after 1770 contributed. c. Productive English agriculture meant capital available for investment and spending money for ordinary people to purchase industrial goods. 2. A stable government and an effective central bank also
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AP English Language and Composition Summer 2014 Assignment David Gold Introduction: An AP course in English Language and Composition is essentially a course in rhetoric that engages students in becoming skilled readers of prose written in a variety of rhetorical contexts‚ and in becoming skilled writers who compose for a variety of purposes. Both their writing and their reading should make students aware of the interactions among a writer’s purposes‚ audience expectations‚ and subjects‚ as
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******************** AP World History ********************* September 15‚ 2012 Chapter 14 Outline Introduction: Every year or al least once in their life‚ the Muslims must travel to Mecca. This is a holy pilgrim that has been a tradition for the Muslims since Muhammad made the trip. At the beginning the pilgrims to Mecca were made by small amounts of people. However‚ by the ninth century‚ thousands of people traveled to Mecca in the 9th lunar month. All these people survived on food and water
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cerebellum. 10. Describe the functions of the structures in the lim bic system. 11. Describe the structure and functions of the cere bral cortex. 12. Discuss how damage to one of several different cortical areas can impair language functioning‚ and outline the process by which the brain directs reading aloud. 13. Discuss brain plasticity and what it reveals about brain reorganization. 14. Describe research on divided and undivided brains‚ and discuss what it reveals regarding nor mal brain functioning
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with ever-changing experiences. 2. Pavlov explored the phenomenon we call classical conditioning‚ in which organisms learn to associate stimuli and thus anticipate events. This laid the foundation for John B. Watson’s behaviorism‚ which held that psychology should be an objective science that studied only observable behavior. Pavlov would repeatedly present a neutral stimulus (such as a tone) just before an unconditioned stimulus (US)‚ such as food‚ which triggered the unconditioned response (UR)
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