Lecture 8 Helplessness & happiness • Why did Seligman and maier use a tripartite design? • What are the long term effect sof uncontrollable stressors • What does delta p = 0 Pavlov • Pavlov’s apparatus • 2 different procedures: classical conditioning and then punishment • because using dogs in experiment‚ noticed that if dogs had been through classical conditioning experiments‚ could not be used in avoidance experiments o but adverse for the opposite (avoidance exp dogs 1st could learn
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Carnegie talks about the issue of proper distribution of wealth among the population. He admits that currently there is uneven distribution of wealth among the masses and goes on to explain how the change has come to be. Changes in the way goods were produced are partly responsible for this change. In the past‚ goods were produced in small quantities‚ which inevitably led to high prices and very little business. However‚ this began to change by the inventions of scientific age and big machines helped
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for happiness since he was five years old. Unfortunately‚ he went to unhappy places to find happiness and that didn’t work and Weiner spent most of his life in unhappiness. Weiner loves to travel as finding way to happiness so he decided to travel the world in search of happy places and then maybe he will find the key to happiness. Because he spent most of his life to study and research about happy so he is the right guys to talk about happiness. With his adventure story of finding happiness in different
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Suzuki 6 Closing the Income Gap In today’s capitalist economy‚ where economic transactions and business in general is centered on self-interest‚ there is a natural tendency for some people to make more than others. That is the basis for the “American Dream‚” where people‚ if they worked hard‚ could make money proportional to their effort. However‚ what happens when this natural occurrence grows disproportional in its allocation of wealth within a society? The resulting issue becomes income inequality
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All the wealth in the world is useless if you don’t have the health to enjoy it. To me health IS wealth. It’s as simple as that. If one is in good health‚ he can find wealth but show me anyone who can buy good health. Good health is a gift money cannot buy not even with all out latest technology. I am one of those who believe in being happy. I know I will be happy just to be able to jump out of bed every day and go for a run in the park or even trek up the mountain path. I would be terribly
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In Lois Lowry’s The Giver‚ Jonas and Gabriel travel back in time to a world full of color‚freedom‚ emotions‚ family‚ the young and the old together‚ and love. In the last two sentences of The Giver‚ it reads “‘Behind him‚ across vast distances of space and time‚ from the place he had left‚ he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”’ The word time‚ alludes to Jonas traveling back in time. When the book reads‚ “‘From the place he had left‚ he thought he heard music too. But perhaps
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But economic growth also has opportunity costs! (Let TA handle in recitation) An important factor responsible for economic growth is an increase in capital Capital goods long-lasting tools used to produce final/consumption goods (goods that are used up) But capital itself has to be produced by the use of other resources (e.g. tractors‚ R & D) More capital a society produces today higher will be future output of final goods growth in the output of final goods => PPF will push out
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Connections Essay The theme that I have selected is racism and discrimination. The texts I have selected are the poem Still I Rise written by Maya Angelou‚ the poem Nothing’s Changed written by Tatamkhulu Afrika‚ the film The Hurricane directed by Norman Jewison‚ and the film Mississippi Burning directed by Alan Parker. The connections between the texts I will discuss are how black people are not treated equally‚ how the texts are based on real life‚ the texts are set in the 1960’s‚ and
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Every child should achieve wealth and economic well-being. Means that children experiencing poverty should have same opportunities ad their peers. Clear link between poverty and employment. Children more likely to live in poverty if: • Children in care. • One or both parents unemployed • Parent is a teenage or lone parent. • Parents are disabled‚ have mental health or addiction problems. • Parents are from an ethnic or minority group. • They have a disability. Family income influences the type of
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The Power of Wealth In the story “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison there is a constant theme of race‚ discovery and social class differentiation. The characters in Morrison’s story‚ Twyla and Roberta‚ are of different races but are more evidently separated by class based on their wealth. Wealth is one of the most important defining elements of personal identity and class differentiation. The wealth of a person will determine what products and services they will consume‚ what subcultures they will
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