What is central tendency? Explain three important measures of central tendency? • Measures of central tendency are scores that represent the center of the distribution. Three of the most common measures of central tendency are: – • Mean Median Mode – – The Mean The mean is the arithmetic average of the scores. – Mean is the average of the scores in a distribution _ X = _________ i N Σ Xi Mean Example Exam Scores 75 91 82 78 72 94 68 88
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Egocentric Ways of Thinking An egocentric tendency is the inclination to think only of oneself without thinking of others. Basically‚ this means putting some or all aspects in your life at the moment over everything else. I believe that everyone has egocentric tendencies mainly in areas where we fail to think logically. Three ways that I am egocentric include egocentric hypocrisy‚ blindness and immediacy. Egocentric hypocrisy is the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what
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Listening Skills Questionnaire Date: ____________ Client: Age: Filled-Out By: _____________________ Relationship / Title: Developmental and Environmental History (Please check if applicable) History of ear infections Delayed motor development Delayed speech or language development Emotional trauma‚ including dangerous or frightening experiences Exposure to loud sounds such as gunfire or loud concerts Ringing in one or both ears (which?_______________) Concussion
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Mental Health Human Services Workers Personal characteristics of a human services professional can be both essential and detrimental for success. Essential characteristics of a professional do not make the job easier. However‚ they create a higher tendency for the professional to work successfully with clients. An open-minded professional recognizes differences between themselves and clients. They treat those differences with respect and include them in treatment according to the clients’ desires.
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Question 1 Surface level diversity Surface level diversity are those differences that are easily noticeable such as age‚ gender‚ ethnicity/race‚ culture‚ language‚ disability etc. Surface level diversity is easy to be measured and managers/recruiters can fall into the wrong practice of discrimination based on these factors. For example‚ thinking that performance degrades with age‚ they might prefer younger workforce. Surface level diversity is often difficult to change. For e.g. racial differences
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The Pursuit of Unhappiness After meeting the basic needs of food‚ clothing and shelter is being sought to make men different courses in life they do bring happiness. Day and night for a few moments of happiness and pain‚ transient and satisfaction‚ it will be ready to go to them for life routine‚ which may not give them any joy. This is the pursuit of happiness. I have pondered this dilemma for groups of therapists‚ teachers‚ and spiritual gatherings. With the promise to follow the path of spirituality
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usually want to look our best and try to reap those rewards associated with being beautiful. There are tons of products and procedures out there that claim they can help us achieve our goals‚ too. The problem is‚ what society considers beautiful has a tendency to change‚ which means our pursuit of beauty tends to be lifelong and subject to the whims of trendsetters. In this article‚ we’ll look at 10 ways the standard of beauty has changed over the course of history. 1. If you walk around an art museum
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ones who stand out and the ones who uses up gargantuan power to be different are often neglected because of its normality. People who uses queer routines would at first be queer but as time passes by‚ it would be normal in their aspect. The future tendency of that person is to make another show to stand out because that habit would not have lasting appreciation of the listener’s. Being normal means to do things that are exceptionally dominant in a common society. When in a casual
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John Snively English 10B 3/27/12 Lennie Smalls is a barley bucker. Hidden behind his enormous size‚ he is very innocent. He doesn’t understand how things work. He has a very pure mind and hasn’t adopted any evils of the world. For example‚ in the book‚ Lennie finds himself in Crooks’ room‚ which few people have ever been in‚primarily because he is black. Crooks reluctantly lets Lennie into his room and tells him to set down. They get into conversation and find themselves talking about how Crooks
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Like any other young person in the world I grew up in my environment‚ and that is what one knows. My life started in Austin‚ Texas and that is where the first ten years of my life took place. Although memories do not really start becoming vivid and detailed until after leaving Austin‚ I did still have lasting impressions from there. The culture there is much different than Green Bay. First of all‚ the diversity in ethnicity is glaring obvious compared to the primarily Caucasian ethnicity that is
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