Druid Hills High School Internal assessment Psychology SL An experiment evaluating people to overestimate the probability of events associated with memorable or vivid occurrences Candidate name: Esther Ko Candidate number: Date of submission:11/21/14 1 Word count: 1482 Abstract The aim of this experiment was to investigate the availability bias in judgments about the lists of names. The investigation was a replication of the famous study of Kahneman and Tversky (1974)
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common belief‚ Roosevelt did not directly save the economy nor did the "New Deal" revitalize the country from this depression‚ World War II did. This war was truly worldwide and revealed how discriminative American society was. Even though the military reopened its doors for African-Americans in 1932 policies were still discriminatory. Soldiers training in the South suffered violent attacks from white communities and were gradually being separated from "the rest"; moreover‚ black soldiers were only
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Learning history is one of the most important things that everyone should do. We are always worry about our future‚ but to make a better future‚ people should learn about their past to avoid doing the same mistakes that older generations did. It is important to observe the daily life of American people and society in the past and how did it affect our present and will affect our future lives. During the History 171 course‚ we have studies different eras‚ starting from the development of the West
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Essay Title: Something that has had a great impact on your life “Two years ago I went to summer camp for Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot children. When I told my best friend about it she laughed at me‚ so I didn’t want to go. But my daddy said I had to go and see for myself what it was like. I went there expecting to see monsters and instead I saw children just like me. We played games and told jokes. We had the same hobbies and our grandmothers cooked the same kind of food. I was amazed.
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few decades‚ did not sit well with the colonial Americans. They‚ drifting further and further from being under the relentless sun of the British Empire‚ were not keen on the idea of being told what to do from a force that couldn’t control them anyways. The Americans felt that it was their destiny… manifested to have the right to this land westward. Had they not fought on and bloodied their own soil in order to help protect England. One of the impacts of this resentment was the birth of the idea of
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What is “The American Dream”? * idea of freedom * our rights * French people gave statue of liberty to America * we are all equal * individualism * able to live by his/her views rather than others * mobility – ability to move between social classes American Dream * Land of opportunity * Rags to riches – anybody can became rich‚ famous‚ and powerful * Jobs and education are available to who want them * Meritocracy (rewards) = skill + effort *
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The arrival of Europeans on the North American continent impacted Native American indigenous people in ways that have been discussed in written material of eyewitnesses 500 years ago‚ as well as anthropologists and historians in recent times. The science of human evolutionary genetics has now provided confirmation that the arrival of Europeans on the North American continent catalyzed a demographic disaster for Native American indigenous peoples. New evidence indicates that although the population
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A Unique American Woman What makes Appalachian Americans unique? Starting with characteristics one that most Appalachian’s share is an intense desire for freedom. “Freedom to live as they pleased‚ with lots of space to themselves– “elbow room”‚ as Appalachian Daniel Boone used to say. People who settled Appalachia were not inclined to be bound to institutions‚ religious or otherwise. Those ties and that external authority were part of what they wanted to leave behind. These people brought their
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Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating events that has ever happened in the U.S History. Katrina started out in the Atlantic Ocean as a small rotation at the beginning of August 20th and in 4 days crossed over the southern tip of Florida. At this point it was considered a category 1 hurricane‚ but it didn’t do to much damage and took approximately 20 lives. Four days later the U.S Government issued an evacuation of the city because the hurricane had grown to a category 3 and predicted
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Society and the Impact of Social Class In the world today‚ social stratification is the main reason for inequalities in economic‚ social‚ political and ideological dimensions. It is a system whereby people rank and evaluate categories of people in a hierarchy of social classes. This causes negative effects on society because one social class is rewarded with more wealth‚ authority‚ power and prestige. The Quiet American‚ a novel written in 1955 by British writer Graham Greene‚ demonstrates the negative
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