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    EXTREME PERCEPTION AND ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE Many animals also have extreme perception. Forensic dogs are three times as good as any X-ray machine at sniffing out contraband‚ drugs‚ or explosives‚ and their overall success rate on tests is 90 percent. The fact that a dog can smell things a person can’t doesn’t make him a genius; it just makes him a dog. Humans can see things dogs can’t‚ but that doesn’t make us smarter. But when you look at the jobs some dogs have invented for them­selves using

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    average Pitch High pitch distortion perception‚ it’s something not many people know about yet experience every day. I made a couple pitch distortion tests I found in the internet‚ the topic was entertaining and the best thing about it is I did not know one thing about the topic when I chose it. Everything about this topic is new to me and to be honest‚ I was scared about this project because I did not know what it was about. It was fun learning about pitch perception because I experience it a lot in

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    20/05/2013 Market Research Report Young Adult Voter Segment Political Perceptions TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.0 Executive Summary 3 2.0 Background 3.0 Previous Research 3.1 Need Recognition 3.2 Pre-purchase Search 3.3 Evaluation of Alternatives 3.4 Purchase Behaviours 3.5 Post-purchase Evaluation 3.6 Family Influence 3.7 Peer Influence 3.8 Media Influence 4.0 Method 4.1 Research Problem 4.2 Research Design 5.0 Results 6.0 Conclusion

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    the social system (e.g.‚ work team‚ family‚ company) are influenced to participate in the dispute‚ whether they would personally define the situation in that way or not. In the above example‚ people very readily "take sides" based upon current perceptions of the issues‚ past issues and relationships‚ roles within the organization‚ and other factors. The parties involved can become an elusive concept to define. Conflicts occur when people (or other parties) perceive that‚ as a consequence of a disagreement

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    Sensation: Intro Sensation is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment. Perception is the process of organizing and interpreting sensory information enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events. Bottom-up processing is the analysis that begins with the sense receptors and works up to the brain’s integration of sensory information. Top-down processing is information processing guided by higher-level

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    Social Perception and  Interpersonal Behavior Journal Article & Presentation Social Perception and Interpersonal Behavior: On the Self-Fulfilling Nature of Social Stereotypes Mark Snyder PSY 221 Social Psychology Dec 13‚ 2012 Natalie Martinez What is in fact Cognitive Social Psychology? Cognitive social psychology is concerned with the processes by which an individual gain knowledge about behavior and events that they encounter in social interaction

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    The influence of the media on our perception of female beauty Defining beauty is not without its challenges: look up the definition of beauty in any english dictionary and one will be met with an ambiguous description similar to this: ’’A combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral sense’’ (Newman 2010) acknowledges the dilemma in asking what beauty is. She maintains ’’we grope around the edges of the question as if trying to get a toe-hold on a cloud’’. We know it when

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    English Essay Scout’s Perception in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (movie) The Classic Motion Picture produced by Robert Mulligan ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ investigates the racial prejudice in Maycomb‚ a fictional town in the deep south of America. Through narration by a grown up scout‚ the leading protagonist we gain an insight to how the world ran in her youth. As Scout recites her exhilarating Childhood we witness her discovery of prejudice and racial profiling in her community. As these stories

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    Thomas Gilmer Phil 201 Essay 6/11/13 A Matter of Perception “How often have I dreamt that I was in these familiar circumstances that I was dressed‚ and occupied this place by the fire‚ when I was lying undressed in bed?” Rene Descartes in his writings from Meditations on First Philosophy brings to us this very reason of doubt of our senses and perceptions. For we have all “been deceived in sleep by similar illusions” (Descartes) placing the question‚ how would we “know the difference

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    Social perception is the process by which we form impressions for other people and make inferences about them. It means to be aware of the patients likely feeling’s‚ needs and intentions. These factors can be shown by facial expressions‚ posture‚ tone of voice and as well as what was said‚ perceptions can accurate and inaccurate and the nurses and doctors must be aware of making assumptions that are wrong. (http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/defination.php?term=social%20perception-19/10/15) A patient’s

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