A. Explain in three sentences only the educational implications of the following: 1. Thorndike’s laws of learning a. Law of Readiness First primary law of learning‚ according to Thorndike‚ is the ‘Law of Readiness’ or the ‘Law of Action Tendency’‚ which means that learning takes place when an action tendency is aroused through preparatory adjustment‚ set or attitude. Readiness means a preparation of action. If one is not prepared to learn‚ learning cannot be automatically instilled in him‚ for
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the first psychological tests done on biological vs. environment was conducted by “Karen Hooker…to test for biological determinism in 1957‚ on a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health….The study was meant to explore the relationship between homosexuality and psychological development and illness. Hooker studied both homosexuals and heterosexuals. Both groups were matched for age‚ intelligence quotient (IQ) and education level‚ and were then subjected to three psychological tests.” (Johnson
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COMM 225: MIDTERM REVIEW QUESTIONS TOPIC: PROJECT MANAGEMENT Q 1.1: Kozar International‚ Inc. begun marketing a new instant-developing film project. The estimates of R&D activity time (weeks) for Kozar’s project are given in the table below. The project has two paths: AC-E-F and A-B-D-F. Assume the activity times are independent. a) What is the probability that the project will be completed between 35 and 45 days? b) If the time to complete the path A-B-D-F is normally distributed‚ what is the probability
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Psychological testing has been done for years. Many have used is as an easy‚ cheap way to hire profitable‚ productive‚ and honest employees. But ultimately‚ the test accuracy depends on how carefully and seriously you answer the question being asked. One may say that these types of test are fair to hire people‚ but it is a proven fact that these test do not help determine if a person presses traits required for job success. For instance‚ there are many psychological test that fall into different
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Erving Goffman‚ The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life‚ 1-4 [When two or more people interact‚ there are two aspects of situations that may be involved. Some aspects of a situation are familiar to the participants‚ so that they know how to behave and do so habitually without giving it much thought‚ such as knowing that it is a college admission interview. Other aspects however may not be clear to participants and therefore problematic‚ such as the student wondering what will best impress the
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Week 5 Assignment Kanit Dararutana Dr. Thomas Hennefer BUS 642 – Business Research Methods & Tools Ashford University 4 February 2013 Week 5 Assignment Making Research Decisions 2) Suppose you were preparing two-way tables of percentages for the following pairs of variables. How would you run the percentages? a) Age and consumption of breakfast cereal. Here I would use cross tabulation because there are two variables and start by listing age in the left most column
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Towards the end of the play‚ as the Athenian nobles prepare for the mechanicals’ performance‚ Theseus remarks‚ “How shall we find the concord of this discord?” This question relates to the whole play; the discords of Oberon and Titania and the lovers having been resolved into concord. The following mechanicals’ play of ‘Pyramus and Thisbe’ offers a new set of incongruous conjunctions reflecting - as in a distorting mirror - aspects of the earlier discords. In this play the apparently anarchic
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Three of the five major perspectives in Psychology are biological‚ cognitive and humanistic. The biological approach states that all behaviours‚ thoughts and feelings are caused by biological factors such as hormone production and genetics (McLeod 2007). For example the production of the hormone serotonin causes an individual to feel happiness‚ while genetics have evolved over the years so that human bodies and behaviour adapt to their environment‚ meaning that most behaviour we display today has
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Psychological noise is mental interference that prevents you from listening. If your mind is wandering when someone is speaking to you‚ the noise in your head is preventing communication. This is due to things like day dreaming. This was perhaps‚ what happened to me a few days ago. I was in the English class all lost in thinking of my home. I had my sister’s marriage in my home country and I suddenly started thinking of what is to be happening in my sister’s marriage. I was even very depressed because
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Presentation outline 1. Introduce fashion design 2. Tow development in fashion design a) The development of science and technology progress. People used to make clothes all need through sewing machine‚ scissors‚ etc. need to be done by hand‚ now with the development of social science and technology invented the new machine‚ can automatically generate does not require any human‚ tailoring sewing clothes. b) Material Before people only used two or three kinds of clothing materials to make clothes
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