...Once you reach a certain age or a certain amount of time spent with the same partner, especially as a woman, friends and family will inevitably start asking questions about marriage or even downright pressure you into taking this step. But is getting married such a good idea? I believe not, since, nowadays, at least in the developed countries, it doesn’t bring truly valuable benefits. Marriage is no longer necessary legally or practically. Once upon a time, for a woman, getting married meant ensuring financial security and gaining access to a variety of legal rights they wouldn’t dream of otherwise. But now, in the modern world, years after the feminist movement has established legal rights for women, we no longer need marriage to get access to certain benefits. Nowadays, women are highly educated and actually constitute the majority of the workforce in the US. Furthermore, we no longer require a marriage license to be allowed to visit our partner in the hospital, and, for a lot of us, getting married doesn’t even imply a tax break. Marriage does not guarantee fidelity. Many people get married hoping that the sanctity of marriage will reduce the chances of being cheated on. But if your spouse doesn’t respect your relationship and is tempted to cheat, a piece of paper will have no power in preventing infidelity. Actually, it seems that in around half of marriages, one of the spouses will have an extra-marital relation at some point. There’s no longer a stigma on you if you have...
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...Modern Day Golden Age The Golden Age was in-mistakably one of the major eras that contributed to the foundation of our everyday life. I believe that the modern day society that is experiencing it’s Golden Age is Spain. The Spanish society has had a very large impart on every aspect of this world. Natural and herbal medicinal advances in Spain are becoming widely known. Most of these natural medical practices were created by doctors not wanting to use modern medicine and wanted to find alternative healing method for illnesses. While Spain has many achievements and wonderful music there is also a downside to the place. Spain’s economic freedom is at a score of 68. Spain is ranked 22nd out of 43 countries in the European region. The top corporate...
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...In 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to establish control. This triggered resistance by the some of the population of the New Territories. There ensued six days of fighting with heavy Chinese casualties. This truly forgotten war has been thoroughly researched for the first time and recounted in lively style by Patrick Hase, an expert on the people and history of the New Territories. After brief discussion of British Imperialism in the 1890s and British military theory of that period on small wars, the heart of the book is a day-by-day account of the fighting and of the differences of opinion between the Governor of Hong Kong (Blake) and the Colonial Secretary (Lockhart) as to how the war should be fought. Dr Hase uses his deep knowledge of the people and the area and to give a full picture of the leaders and of the rank-and-file of the village fighters. New estimates of the casualties are provided, as are the implications of way these casualties are down-played in most British accounts. As a small war of Imperial Expansion, fought at precisely the high-point of Imperial thinking within the British Empire, The Six-Day War of 1899 is of interest, not only to historians of Hong Kong and China, but also to historians of the British Empire and the British Army, and to general readers interested in military, imperial and Hong Kong history. About the Author: Patrick H. Hase (PhD, Cambridge, FSA, Hon.FRASHK)...
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...From primary education to postsecondary education we are subjected to a popularity contest. These popularity contest are truly based off the notion that the more friends one has, the higher they rank on the popularity charts. Unfortunately, that is not the only thing that is held against us to be considered popular. We are subjected to how we look, feel, and the amount of money we have and the list continues. The possibilities are endless of what can be used to determine whether one is popular or not. The most common out of all the choices possible to be deemed popular is whether someone is weird or not. With all of this in mind, many being to question their ranking on this scale. They question their style, amount of income, and essentially their whole demeanor. Sadly, they have failed to realize the extreme similarities between the popular and unpopular. Many people have become so accustomed to the differences of popularity, but many have forgot to identify the similarities between the popular and unpopular. From what I have experienced in life about popularity is that it can take about 10 seconds to be considered unpopular. Anything a person can say or do can lead their fate down to unpopular or up on the popularity charts. As humans, we are constantly in a state of mind that causes us to point out the differences in someone. This emotion is completely normal, but it becomes a problem when someone begins to classify someone in separate groups. A countless number of people...
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...Automatization and the Stroop Effect Abstract, we intend to investigate the effects of the stroop effect and the validity of these findings. We anticipated that it would take longer for participants to perform the second task more than the first task. This is what occurred in the experiment. There were 20 people picked using opportunity Sampling used in this experiment and we found that it took longer for people to decipher the colour when it was not linked to the word. When a behaviour or skill seems to no longer require direct interaction, cognitive psychologists say it is automatized. Many behaviours can become automatized: typing, reading, writing to name just a few. To explore properties of automatized behaviours cognitive psychologists often put observers in a situation where an automatized response is in conflict with the desired behaviour. This allows researchers to test the behind-the-scenes properties of automatized behaviours by noting their influence on more easily measured behaviours. This demonstration explores a well-known example of this type of influence, the Stroop effect. Stroop (1935) noted that observers were slower to properly identify the colour of ink when the ink was used to produce colour names different from the ink. That is, observers were slower to identify red ink when it spelled the word blue. This is an interesting finding because observers are told to not pay any attention to the word names and simply report the colour of the ink. However, this...
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...The original Stroop task in 1935 was far from perfect as its conclusions were later re-evaluated and refined by Hintzman et al. (1972). It was determined that competition amongst stimuli was causing delays in incongruent tasks not interference from one stimulus over the other. Numerosity Stroop tasks demonstrated that numbers can also cause delays in reaction times when the number and number of digits are incongruent with each other (Windes, 1968). Although recently, Stroop tasks have become more of a testing material rather than the focal point of the study. Stroop tasks are beneficial in determining cognitive capabilities, yet there is a gap from previous research that necessitates the numerical Stroop task be highlighted once again. While Windes (1968) began the numerical Stroop task, the research did not determine what causes the interference in naming the quantity stimuli in an incongruent numerosity task. This study’s purpose is to determine if the interference exhibited by the incongruent numerosity task is due to competing stimuli or if it caused by one stimulus taking precedent over another. To best determine which conclusion is more accurate, congruent and incongruent numerosity tasks will be tested to see how quickly each task can be completed. There will be four separate tasks: the first with single digits where the number must be named, the second group will have different quantities of + signs where the number of symbols must be named, the third group are incongruent...
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...Psychological report on the Stroop effect By Thomas Silk Abstract The aim of this experiment is to study autonomic processes by replicating the previously carried out Stroop effect by using numbers. My hypothesis was that participants will be slower to properly identify the colour of ink when the ink used to produce colour names different from the ink. That is, observers were slower to identify red ink when it spelled the word blue. A number of 20 random participants aged in between 17-18 were recruited to participate in this experiment. Participants were presented with one condition for 10 participants and a second for the other 10.The first condition had the words of colours and were printed in a different colour ink, and the second condition the words were printed in the corresponding colour. Based on the results, participants took a considerably longer time to say the number of number in the incongruent condition than in the congruent condition. This corresponds to the earlier research carried out by Stroop. Therefore, it can be said that the powerfully autonomic nature of reading words is as same as reading numbers, as it is such a well-learned automatic activity it does interfere with the task. Introduction When you first learned to tie shoelaces you needed to carefully think through each step of the process. Now, you probably do not even seem to think about the steps, but simply initiate a series of movements that seem to proceed without any further influence. When a...
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...Effect of Color and Word on Response Time Lidia Emelina Brooklyn College of CUNY Abstract Selective attention is the act of focusing on a particular object for a period of time, while simultaneously ignoring irrelevant information. It happens on a daily basis and seen in basically any interactions (at school, at work, at store and etc). Many different researches were done with relevance of Stroop Effect, which allowed scientist to examine differences in gender, age, as well as education on the intervention effect. The METACARD software was used to explore the effect of congruent and incongruent stimuli on the reaction time of participant’s performance. The data is from 46 participants are presented here. Results revealed that when word and color match, participants have faster responses and less errors. When word and color do not match, participants have slower responses and make more errors. The Stroop effect demonstrates the dynamic of selective attention, illustrates the nature of automatic processing, and shows that people can improve their selective attention. Keywords: selective attention, interaction, stroop effect, automatic processing. Introduction The phenomenon of interference takes a large place in experimental psychology and demands our attention. Many psychologist investigate inhibiting effects nowadays. However, the psychologists began to study interference prior to 1890. Many experiments were conducted to investigate...
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...Gabriela Casas Cognitive Psychology 3319 February 19, 2016 Target Article: Embodied Cognition: Davioli, C. C., Du, F., Montana, J., Garverick, S., & Abrams, R. A. (2010). When meaning matters, look but don’t touch: The effects of posture on reading. Memory & Cognition, 38(5), 555-562. 1. Research Question(s) Reading is an essential part of life and the with internet, humans have access to unlimited quantities of reading material. Much of the reading that we do occurs near the hands whether we read documents electronically or whether read via hard copies. There are individual functional preferences in consuming reading material, and there may also be advantages and disadvantages associated with these preferences, which may or may not in turn correlate to the perceived affect how much material is actually absorbed. Previous research has revealed that spatial processing is essential for successful reading, and is enhanced near the hands. Another critical aspect pertaining to reading involves semantic processing, which is related with vocabulary, knowledge, understanding of what a word means, and how to use words and meaning in context. Several studies have posed that hand actions affect what we see which may also contribute to language acquisition, comprehension, and communication. Research also reveals a direct manner in which visual processing is affected in relation to the spacing around the hands. The effect that hands have on our locus of visual...
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...unique human organism. The term "conception" refers variably to either fertilization or to formation of the conceptus after uterine implantation, and this terminology is controversial. 3 Stages of Prenatal Germinal stage Embryonic stage Fetal stage Embryonic stage The embryonic period in humans begins at fertilization (penetration of the egg by the sperm) and continues until the end of the 10th week of gestation (8th week by embryonic age). The embryo spends the next few days traveling down the Fallopian tube. It starts out as a single cell zygote and then divides several times to form a ball of cells called a morula. Further cellular division is accompanied by the formation of a small cavity between the cells. This stage is called a blastocyst. Up to this point there is no growth in the overall size of the embryo, as it is confined within a glycoprotein shell, known as the zona pellucida. Instead, each division produces successively smaller cells. Changes by weeks of gestation Gestational age vs. embryonic age Gestational age is the time that has passed since the onset of the last...
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...Written for Demand Media Studios. Published on LiveSTRONG.com. How Many Milligrams of Sodium Per Day for a Child? As children grow, their nutritional needs change, including the amount of sodium they require. Sodium is a vital mineral that is necessary for proper hydration, heart and muscle function. Too much or too little sodium can result in a variety of medical problems. Discuss with your pediatrician the amount of sodium your child needs, prior to making any major dietary changes. 3 Years Old or Younger Children age 3 or younger should consume 500 mg to 1,200 mg per day of sodium, according to "Contemporary Nutrition." Baby formula or breast milk meets all of the nutritional needs of infants with no need for supplementation for most babies. Toddlers ages 2 years old to 3 years old should eat a diet consisting of 1,000 to 1,400 calories, including a variety of dairy products, protein, whole grains, fruits and vegetables. According to "Introduction to Maternity & Pediatric Nursing," most toddlers in developed countries receive adequate amounts of sodium in their diets without supplementation. 4 Years to 8 Years Old A total of 1,000 mg to 1,600 mg of sodium per day should be consumed by children ages 4 to 8. Children of this age should consume 1,400 to 1,600 calories per day. At these ages, children learn many of their eating habits, according to "Wong's Nursing Care of Infants and Children," so it is important to feed your children a balanced diet so that they...
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...and feeding methods suitable for age How to introduce: • Begin with one new food at a time to give for 3 days. • Start with lugaw, fruits or vegetables in any order giving 1 to 2 teaspoons a day. • Start with pureed food at 6 months of age. Introduce finger foods at 8 months; lumpy or chopped foods at 10 months of age; table food at 12 months of age • Feed 6-8 month old infant 2-3 times a day , 9 -24 months old infant 3-4 times a day. Give additional nutritious snacks once or twice a day. • Offer a variety of foods to improve to improve the quality of food intake; avoid drinks with low nutritive values ( sweet beverages like softdrinks, fruit juice, iced tea) • Do not add salt to the infant’s diet before one year of age • Give supplements of iron, zinc, calcium and Vitamin B12 if diet is primarily plant based (vegetarian diet) • Practice responsive feeding. Feed infants directly and assist older children. Feed slowly and patiently. DO NOT FORCE FEED! Make feeding a pleasurable experience Complementary food Must be: • Timely-introduced at 6 months • Adequate- provides sufficient energy, protein and micronutrients to sustain growth • Safe- hygienically prepared and stored, feed using clean utensils, NOT bottles and nipples • Properly fed- meal frequency and feeding methods suitable for age How to introduce: • Begin with one new food at a time to give for 3 days. • Start with lugaw, fruits...
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...LIFE IN THE WORLD 3.1. The nature of life according to Christianity Christianity teaches that the universe was created through love by an intelligent power, namely the God of the Bible. Creation was purposeful, not arbitrary, and therefore the universe is not morally neutral, but fundamentally good. In this purposeful creation, everything and everyone are intrinsically valuable. God's design or purpose for creation reflects God's intention that all creatures enjoy perfect love and justice. God works in human history to fulfil that purpose. God created human beings in the divine image, enabling humans to have some understanding of God and of God's vast and complex design. The purpose of life is to love and serve God in order to help bring about God's glorious plan for creation. Reason is a unique gift bestowed by God on humans and enables them to reflect on their own nature and conscience, and from that derive knowledge of God's will for creation. But a complete understanding is beyond human reach. To fulfil the goal of wholeness in an existence perfected by both justice and love, something more is needed. Humans are not expected to accomplish the divine plan alone. The fulfilment of God's purpose depends on God's grace. For Christians, grace is God's freely-given favour and love. Reason is a good gift, sometimes misused for selfish, wilful, or prideful purposes. The substitution of selfish ambition for God's will is a condition that Christians call sin, meaning separation...
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...Major project: CCResort Introduction DGHG, a multinational hotels and resort group has opened a new resort and spa facility on the Central Coast of NSW, CCResort. It has also had numerous amounts of money used on promotions, hence wanted to know what type of clientele had been attracted to CCResort. This is for the purposes of evaluating the effectiveness of the resorts service delivery if they were successful in meeting their key performance indicators (KPI’s) stated in their business plan. Features of the data set From the sample data given, 69% of the clientele has a family income exceeding $100,000 as shown in the diagram. Income tends to influence the spending habits with those with an income exceeding $100,000 spending more than those without an income, since a majority of them tend to prefer a full week stay. [pic] As it was the initial plan during the promotions to target the family clientele, this was achieved in that the highest family bookings were at 35% for families with four members followed closely by those with two members at 34% of all bookings. Families with five to six members had the lowest bookings at 10% each as shown in the table. |Table 1. Family members per booking | | | | |members per booking |Frequency |Relative frequency |Cumulative frequency | |Two ...
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...period.1,2 The accurate knowledge of the gestational age is a keystone in an obstetrician's ability to successfully manage the ante partum care of a patient and is of critical importance in ante-natal tests and successful planning of appropriate therapy or intervention,3 especially in high-risk pregnancies such as assessment of foetal growth and to schedule the labour date. Any inaccurate estimation may lead to perinatal morbidity and mortality due to iatrogenic prematurity or postmaturity.4 Traditionally the duration...
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