Review Questions Introduction to Psychology Social Psychology; Describe the difference between personal and situational attributions in explaining behavior. What is the Fundamental Attribution Error‚ and how is it related to these types of attributions? Personal attributions- also know as internal or dispositional attributions‚ are explanations that refer to things within people‚ such as abilities‚ traits‚ moods‚ or efforts. Situational attributions- external attributions‚ refer to
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Biological Level of Analysis: -Outlining the principles that define the BLA: What will be in this essay: 1. State what you will be talking about. 2. Define the BLA. 3. State the principles of BLA: -Behavior has physiological bases. -Behavior can be inherited -Behavior has evolutionary processes. -Animal studies give an insight into human behavior. 4. Purpose of the BLA 5. Bi-directional relationship in human behavior. 6. Reductionist approach. The writing part:
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40 Three hypotheses to support this idea Self-Image Hypothesis: memory is enhanced for events that occur as a person’s self-image or life identity is being formed Development of self-image mainly occur during adolescence or young adulthood Cognitive Hypothesis: periods of rapid change that are followed by stability cause stronger encoding for memories Rapid changes occur during these periods of adolescence and young
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Managerial Decision Kathy Stamps BUS. 640: Managerial Economics Michael Thirtle March 19‚ 2011 oAbstract Should we buy a new machine or upgrade the old one? One of the managerial decisions that our local hospital had to make was whether to transition into a digital format with our portable x-ray machines by performing transformation upgrades to both existing analog units or to trade them in and use their value to offset the total price incurred by the purchase of new units. This
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Jorge Escobar ASHFORD UNIVERSITY BUS 640: Managerial Economics February 25‚ 2013 John Sellers 1. PV = FV x [ 1 ÷ (1 + i)n ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ (1 + 0.06)2 ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ (1.06)2 ] PV = $11mil x [ 1 ÷ 1.1236 ] PV = $11mil x [ 0.88999644] ← PV factor PV = $9‚789‚960.80 If I were chose between alternative 2 and the first $10min alternative I would go with alternative 1. It reflects a bigger present value than alternative with an opportunity
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scores on these tests were similar. (Sparknotes 2005) People who performed well on one test tended to perform well on other tests‚ while those who scored badly on one test tended to score badly on others. He concluded that intelligence is general cognitive ability that could be measured and numerically expressed. (Sparknotes 2005) Contemporary psychologists continue to use the term g in research such as in measurements of SAT test scores. (Rathus‚ S. 2012) Specific or s factors account for specific
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C) What would you do if you were Datin Timah? * Be innovative‚ go for incremental & radical innovations‚ be creative‚ think out of the box‚ invent‚ innovate‚ imitate. SHOW & TELL US WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO. If we were Datin Timah given the option whether to take up the Guardian’s offer or just sell off the business to the Watson‚ we will take up the Guardian’s offer rather than sell off to the Watson. This is due to the profit betterment. If we take up Watson’s offer‚ we can only get the
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1. Jennifer Trucking Company operates a large rig transportation business in Texas that transports locally grown vegetables to San Diego‚ California. The company owns 5 large rigs and hires local drivers paid fixed salaries monthly‚ regardless of the number of trips or tons of cargo that each driver transports each month. The below table presents details about the number of drivers and the total cargo transported by the company at different staff levels. Drivers employed Total Cargo Transported
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INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY (Winter 2013) Tuesday Thursday 12:30-1:45 Campbell Hall Instructor: Jonathan Schooler TA’s Rachelle Oldmixon oldmixon@psych.ucsb.edu Psych 3818 Jessy LeClair leclair@psych.ucsb.edu schooler@psych.ucsb.edu Kaziya Lee kaziya.lee@psych.ucsb.edu Office hours Wednesday 11:30-1:30 Lauren Winczewski winczewski@psych.ucsb.edu Office: Psychology East (Building 251)‚ Room 3818 Celeste Pilegard pilegard@psych.ucsb.edu
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causes while attributing our own behavior to external causes 16. Self-serving bias: the tendency to attribute our successes to internal characteristics while blaming our failures on external causes 17. Attitude: a predisposition toward a particular cognitive‚ emotional‚ or behavioral reaction to objects 18. Elaboration likelihood model: a model suggesting that attitude change can be driven by evaluation of the content of a persuasive message
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