Donnie Millang Psych August 30‚ 2012 Chapter 1- The Science of Psychology What it means to be a psychologist Overview: 1. What is psychology 2. The growth of psychology as a science 3. Major trends in the development of psychology What is Psychology? -Psychology: the scientific study of the causes of behavior A. Why is behavior studied a. To understand human behavior b. To explain why people do what they do *If behavior has laws we can study and control those
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Chapter 7 Summarizing and Displaying Measurement Data Lecture Summary GOALS FOR CHAPTER 7 1. To illustrate that summarizing important features of a list of numbers provides more information than looking at an unordered list. 2. To explain the concept of the shape of a set of numbers and the vocabulary used to describe shapes‚ and why it is useful to know something about the shape. 3. To learn the details of how to construct stem-and-leaf plot‚ histograms and boxplots and how to compute
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Chapter 20 Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade I. Introduction A. Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua – symbol of slavery 1. Muslim trader > African slavery > African slave trade > Missionary B. Impact of outsiders on Africa 1. Islam first‚ then African developed at own pace‚ West had big impact C. Influence of Europe 1. Path of Africa becomes linked to European world economy 2. Diaspora – mass exodus of people leaving homeland 3. Slave trade dominated interactions
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The Outsiders–Chapter 7 Characters: -Ponyboy -Sodapop -Darry -Jerry -The doctor -Two-Bit -Steve -Randy Main Events: -Ponyboy finds out about Dally and Johnny’s conditions -Ponyboy reads the newspaper and discovers that Johnny is charged with murder and there’s a chance to send both him and Sodapop to a boys’ home -Ponyboy catches up with news of Sandy‚ Sodapop’s girlfriend/ex-girlfriend -Ponyboy has an insightful conversation with Randy Vocabulary:
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question Chapter 11 1; working individually or in groups‚ identify the factors for a successful incentive plan. For an incentive plan to succeed‚ employees must have some desire for the plan. This desire can be influenced in part by how successful management is in introducing plan and convincing employees of its benefits. Encouraging employees to participate in developing and administering the plan is likely to increase their willingness accept it. Compensation specialists also note the following
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Chapter 28 Cont. Evolution of the Kidney in Vertebrates * Vertebrates have 2 kidneys * On the back of the abdominal cavity * Kidney has a * Renal capsule * Cortex (towards the outside) * Medulla (towards the central region) * Structure and function of kidneys can differ depending animal type and developmental stage * 3 kinds of vertebrate kidneys * Pronephros * Adult hagfish & (embryos fish and amphibians)
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10 Science Questions Every High School Graduate 1. What percentage of the earth is covered by water? Answer: About 71 percent of the earth’s surface is covered by water. --Submitted by Robert Gagosian‚ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute 2. What sorts of signals does the brain use to communicate sensations‚ thoughts and actions? Answer: The single cells in the brain communicate through electrical and chemical signals. --Submitted by Torsten Weisel‚ Rockefeller Institute‚ New York 3. Did
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6 Emotion ’We think and name in one world‚ we live and feel in another.’ MARCEL PROUST‚ 1871-1922 ’Conquer your passions and you conquer the world.’ HINDU PROVERB ’The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.’ BLAISE PASCAL‚ 1623-62 ’Philosophy is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.’ F. H. BRADLEY‚ 1846-1924 ’Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling.’ SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE‚ 1772-1834 ’Axioms in philosophy are not axioms
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The Problematic Relation between Reason and Emotion in Hamlet Eric Levy Hamlet opens on a state of incipient alarum‚ with martial vigilance on the battlemented "platform" (act 1‚ scene 2‚ line 252) of Elsinore and conspicuous "post-haste and rummage in the land" (1.1.110).1 For the sentries‚ this apprehension is heightened by the entrances of the Ghost--a figure whom Horatio eventually associates with a threat to the "sovereignty of reason" (1.4.73). In the immediate context‚ loss of the "sovereignty
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is the name of the port used by an Ethernet cable? What is the name of the port used by a dial-up modem? RJ-45‚ RJ-11 9. If you want to upgrade your 100BaseT Ethernet network so that it will run about 10 times the current speed‚ what technology would you use? Gigabit Ethernet 10. What is the maximum length of a cable on a 100BaseT network? 100 meters or 328 feet 11. What does the 100 in the name 100BaseT indicate? The transmission speed of the network which is 100 Mbps.
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