5/03/2013 Psychology The Stroop effect The human brain constantly responds to a lot of inputs of sensory information. Our brain tends to manages this by responding to one or more input(stimulus) at a time such is listening to music while watching tv‚ or ignoring inputs such as the background noise from the tv. But‚ sometimes our
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(http://explorable.com/hawthorne-effect) The Hawthorne Effect is a well-documented phenomenon that affects many research experiments in social sciences. It is the process where human subjects of an experiment change their behavior‚ simply because they are being studied. This is one of the hardest inbuilt biases to eliminate or factor into the design. The History of the Hawthorne Effect The name is not the surname of a researcher‚ but the name of a place where the effect was first encountered. In 1955
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Strickler‚ G Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center. (2006). Methamphetamine. Lineberry‚ T.‚ Bostwick‚ J.M Methamphetamine. (2011‚ October). Retrieved from http://www.nida.nih.gov Methamphetamine Drug Information Morton‚ A.N. (2007). The Oral Effects of Illegal Drug Abuse. Corrections Today. Watanabe-Galloway‚ S.‚ Ryan‚ S.‚ Hansen‚ K.‚ Hullsiek‚ B.‚ Muli‚ V.‚ Malone‚ A.C Zastrow‚ C. (2009). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare Empowering People. Belmont: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company
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The effect of illiteracy Every person has the right to gain the basic knowledge of reading and writing. People that do not have this education are known as illiterate. Even with the extremely modernized society that we live in‚ illiteracy still occurs and has a big effect on the overall success of the country. Illiteracy has lots of effects on the society. It affects the development of the country‚ the people in the society‚ and the illiterate people themselves. First‚ illiteracy
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Alcohol Effects I think that alcohol has a major effect on accidents and deaths. High school students who use alcohol or other substances are 5 times more likely to drop out. Every year in the United States about 5000 people under the age of 21 die from an alcohol related incident including car crashes‚ homicides‚ suicides‚ alcohol poisoning‚ and other related injuries. Researching about alcohol related accidents I learned that most traffic accidents are caused by alcohol. I also learned that alcohol
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Cornelia Nistor‚ Positive and negative effects of globalization / Annals of University of Bucharest‚ Economic and Administrative Series‚ Nr. 1 (2007) 152-163 Positive and negative effects of globalization Assoc. Prof. PhD Cornelia Nistor Faculty of Administration and Business University of Bucharest Abstract Although globalization cannot ensure worldwide stability and economical equilibrium‚ or full environmental protection‚ its positive effects mainly regarding the trading development and the
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century. And with the increasing effect of globalization they become more significant. In the beginning of 20th century‚ advertising a product moved from static announcement to a more persuasive manner. Companies were able to realize their customers that they actually need that product. By the end of 20th century the limits of ads agencies grown from print media to the more sophisticated and advance media like television and internet. Effects: Regarding the effects of advertisements‚ it has positive
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The Placebo Effect The activity I chose to write about was on Dr. Walter A. Brown’s article in Scientific American about placebos and their effect on the patients. His article described what a placebo is and if it is ethical for doctors to prescribe this “treatment” to their patients. Dr. Brown‚ who is a psychologist at Brown University‚ decided to do a study on the effects of a placebo. A placebo is any treatment or drug with no medicinal value that is given to a patient
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Great War‚ its far-reaching effects resounded in the world for decades in the forms of changing politics‚ economics and public opinion. In other words‚ the war accelerated the process of change. The United States was the world’s dominant economic power in the 1920’s‚ changed by the Great War from a debtor to a creditor nation. The loans the United States had made to its allies during the war troubled the nation’s relations with Europe throughout the decade. The many effects of World War I on the American
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Effects of TV Television is one of the effective media used to promote all kinds of products. Unsupervised television watching in children can lead to early exposure to things they may not understand or may misinterpret. Television advertisements may influence the children to resort to improper measures. Commercials about fast foods‚ cold drinks or other such products that are not good for health‚ are bound to leave an impact on children watching them. Attractively presented advertisements and film
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