Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD is a slow and progressive obstruction of the airways. There are two categories of COPD. These are emphysema‚ a condition where there is abnormal and permanent destruction and enlargement of the alveoli. Chronic bronchitis is a productive cough and inflammation of the bronchi and other lung changes. Smoking and second hand smoke exposure are the main contributors to this disease. Other contributing factors can be environmental air pollution and genetics
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Pygmalion Effect in Management Principles of Management Abstract The Pygmalion Effect in Management is the idea that workers are more productive when being watched by members of management. Workers are eager to please bosses‚ or appear competent‚ so productivity and rule following increases when a member of management is present. Your expectations of people and their expectations of themselves are the key factors in how well people perform at work. Pygmalion Effect in Management The Pygmalion Effect is
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GREEN HOUSE EFFECT * The green house effect is the rise in temperature that the earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun. * Earth receive most of it’s energy‚ called radiation‚ from the Sun sun earth Atmosphere * The Earth’s surface absorbs the solar energy and release it back to the atmosphere as infrared(IR)radiation‚ some of which goes back to space. * IR radiations emitted by the Earth is absorbed by gases in the atmosphere that
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What is the bystander effect? The bystander effect is when the presence of others discourages an individual from intervening in an emergency situation. People get discouraged in helping others when no one is doing the same. The bystander effect is a Psychological phenomenon that deserves a thorough examination because there are many reactions and causes‚ also scenarios where people have been killed‚ and there have also been experiments on the phenomenon. As a matter of fact‚ there are many reactions
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The Greenhouse Effect Rationale The “Greenhouse Effect” is a term that refers to a physical property of the Earth’s atmosphere. If the Earth had no atmosphere‚ its average surface temperature would be very low of about 18℃ rather than the comfortable 15℃ found today. The difference in temperature is due to a suite of gases called greenhouse gases which affect the overall energy balance of the Earth’s system by absorbing infrared radiation. In its existing state‚ the Earth atmosphere system balances
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Analysis of the ‘CSI Effect’ The Honorable Donald E. Sheldon is a felony trial judge in Ann Arbor‚ Michigan and a member of the faculty at Eastern Michigan University. In Sheldon’s article‚ The ‘CSI Effect’: Does it really exist? that was published in the National Institute of Justice‚ he discusses the craze around the “crime-fiction television dramas” and the possible effects it has on jurors in their decisions in court cases. (Sheldon‚ par. 3)With the country in complete fascination with crime-fiction
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The Stroop Effect My science fair project was based on the Stroop Effect. The Stroop Effect was discovered by J. Ridley Stroop in the 1930’s. The Stroop Effect says that when you read a color word with the same ink as its color word‚ it will be recognized and be identified easily. When you read a color word with a different ink than its color word‚ it will not be recognized as easily. So you should be able to read the same color word with the same color ink faster than a color word with a different
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One of the major studies conducted that gives results to this phenomenon is called The Stroop Effect. What’s interesting about this sensation is that it is virtually impossible to interfere with its processes. The Stroop Effect was conducted under the watch of J. Ridley Stroop in 1935‚ and is still widely used as a means of understanding the process of automaticity. An example of the Stroop Effect is located in the picture to the left. He observed that people who are given a word list that is
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n this study‚ the Stroop effect experiment will be carried out on matching and mismatching test. The Stroop effect experiment was named after Ridely Stroop‚ published in 1935‚ and the purpose of this experiment was to demonstrate the difference in reaction time of reading the name of the coloured words and naming the ink of the colour. Not only does it record the reaction time‚ but it also aims to measure individuals focused attention‚ learning and memory (Stroop‚ 1935). However‚ when reading through
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I. INTRODUCTION The Stroop effect (sometimes called the Stroop test) is an outcome of our mental (attentional) vitality and flexibility. The effect is related to the ability of most people to read words more quickly and automatically than they can name colors. John Ridley Stroop first reported this effect in his Ph.D. dissertation published in 1935. Current research on the Stroop effect emphasizes the interference that automatic processing of words has on the more mentally effortful task of just
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