dementia is titled “Robot & Frank “ and stars actor Frank Langella. The movie is set in the near and is about an aging ex-convict and thief named Frank who lives alone. Frank is starting to experience serious mental deterioration and dementia. Frank’s son Hunter‚an attorney with a family of his own‚ grows tired of making weekly visits to his father’s home‚ but is reluctant to put his father into fulltime care‚ so he purchases a robot companion‚ which is programmed to provide Frank with therapeutic care
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behaviour = classical conditioning ( conditioned stimuli) & instrumental learning ( discriminative stimuli) Stimulus Control - Habit Learning Motivation = Why individuals initiate choose or persist in specific actions in specific circumstance Motivation is transient / temporary fluctuation of state ( learning is enduring ) and it is energizing Motivation vs Learning: Car analogy - motivation translates learning into action 4 Theories on Motivation: Instinct Theory How
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Charlotte Smith was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She introduced a renewal of the English sonnet‚ helped build the conventions of Gothic fiction‚ and wrote political novels. Charlotte Smiths’ “The Emigrants” is a classic poem due to its stanza form and book-length‚ though it by no means complies with the conventions of the form. “The Emigrants” uncovers the contradictions and shortcomings essential in dominant late‐eighteenth‐century‚ especially in the French Revolution. However‚ she applies
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was pain and hurt everywhere. The Nazis destroyed the life of Jews like Anne Frank. There is conflict everywhere in life. Everyday more problems arise and even more pain is caused. In life humans start conflicts‚ in fiction there are conflicts‚ and throughout history there always has been conflicts. When there is conflict‚ the best thing to do is stay strong and positive. One motivational story is The Diary of Anne Frank. When the Nazis came‚ her life fell apart. The Nazis were taking all of the
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Adam Smith and David Ricardo‚ the “creators” of modern economy theory and their impact on the relationship of economics to the marketplace‚ international trade and comparative advantage and the role of government policy. Adam Smith was born in Kircaldy in 1723. He was very smart and bright individual. At the age of 14 he went to study at Glaskow University. In extensive period of time he was awarded a Snell Scholarship which allowed him to study at Oxford University. It’s not that he did not
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If the utility of wealth inspired people then they would admire the happiness that the rich‚ the noble or the ‘superior in society’‚ as Smith calls them‚ derive from their wealth and not the seemingly beauty that comes with wealth. Smith asserts that sympathy drives us to act the way we do. As observers‚ we put ourselves in the position of a sufferer. We imagine what it is to be in their shoes and what they may be feeling. We form an imagination of how they are affected and conceive what we ourselves
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and in everyday conversation. Anne Frank is a well known exemplar. She used her optimism to change the lives of the people around her. Now‚ one may think that remaining happy in tough situations is nearly impossible‚ or unimportant considering other situations. Nevertheless‚ plenty of scientific evidence‚ historical evidence‚ and common sense points to the truth. Remaining positive in any conflict will benefit
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The knowledge argument is an argument against physicalism that was first formulated by Frank Jackson in 1982. While Jackson no longer endorses it‚ it is still regarded as one of the most important arguments in the philosophy of mind. Physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that‚ basically‚ everything in this world-including cars‚ humans‚ animals‚ research papers‚ even our sensations-are ultimately physical. The knowledge argument attempts to refute this thesis by appealing to the following made-up
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a young teenager’s personal diary written from 1942-1944. Anne was a fun-loving girl living with her family in Amsterdam‚ Holland. Anne’s father gave her a diary for her thirteenth birthday and it was her favorite present. She decided she would write daily entries about her life in her new diary Anne hoped her diary would be like having a real friend and not be so lonely‚ therefore she named the diary “Kitty.”
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Learning 1.Nature lends a helping hand by providing animals with a set of built in inherited skills that functions at birth or shortly thereafter. * These skills are called reflexes. Some reflexes like sucking provide necessary biological supports. Other reflexes are ready made‚ swift and simple reactions to stimuli that pose a potential threat. * An example of a fixed action pattern would be salmon swimming up stream to spawn or birds seasonal migration. 2.Learning is a way that a
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