...Intelligence Testing Article Analysis PSY 450 May 21, 2012 Joseph Gaines Intelligence Testing Article Analysis In earlier years many of the intelligence test that had been developed were culturally biased. The early intelligence test favored people that were from urban areas and not people from rural areas. The early intelligence test also favored people who were of the middle class status and not those of the lower class status. The earlier intelligence test also favored people who were white rather than people who were black. In this paper the author will review several different articles that are related to intelligence testing. The definition of intelligence may vary among the different cultures (Rogoff, 1990). An example of the differences among cultures and the way they view intelligence is European Americans think of intelligence in technical skills terms whereas people that are from Kenya consider intelligence to be someone who is an active participant in family and social life. Another example of the way culture views intelligence is people from Uganda view someone as being intelligent if they know the right thing to do and then they follow through with the right actions. Another example is the of the variations on how intelligence is viewed from culture to culture is the latmu people that are from Papua New Guinea, they believe people who have the ability to remember 10, 000 to 20,000 clans as intelligent. The people of the Carolina Island people believe that...
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...Intelligence Article Analysis Paper PSY 450 November 4, 2013 Intelligence Article Analysis Paper Intelligence Testing and Theories Intelligence measuring is important for individuals for various reasons. Testing intelligence throughout the years has changed. People change and not the same factors can determine one’s intelligence. The majority of individuals who take intelligence testing are for placement, such as children starting school, college, and employment. Children for example, take testing, and evaluations to see what cognitive development level the child is at and to see if that child meets the basic standard for that age group (Benson, 2003). Intelligence testing determines the level for college students, and adults, such as entering college, and employee candidates for job placement. Today in society there are several testing options for intelligence, Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale, and College Admission Test (SAT), (Benson, 2003). The American Psychological Association uses the intelligent intelligence approach for testing, as other professionals do. The intelligence testing determines effectiveness, and analyzes theories in this paper. Intelligence Testing Theories Intelligence testing is determined through a series of tests and evaluations. The evaluations are administered first to determine what type of testing is acquired. College student entering college must take a SAT test first before entering college...
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...Intelligence Testing Article Analysis PSY 450 Instructor: Iman Turner July 18, 2011 Intelligence Testing Article Analysis When the word intelligence is used, the idea of IQ testing most likely comes to mind. Intelligence regularly defines the intellectual prospective that an individual is born with, but can be measured and dimensions that is problematic to modification. The meaning of intelligence is unpretentious; it is an individual's ability to learn, reason, and solve problems. What makes intelligence complex is the way an individual ration that ability and the dimension it us used. During the early 1900s intelligence testing of separating or segregating individuals that reflected low intelligence was one the first methods used. Calculating an individual’s intelligence is devised as the ultimate goal for an excessive number of professors and psychologists. Multi Intelligence Humans are multi intelligent beings. Consequently, intelligence testing simply cannot deliver a truthful illustration of an individual’s intelligence level, rather the testing only measure two forms intelligence that are linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences according to Howard Gardner (Smith, 2008). Yet, Howard Gardner believes that human being contain other intelligence other than linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligences. The human being intelligence is made up of bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, musical intelligence, spatial intelligence, social...
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...Intelligence testing article analysis Ada N. Bren PSY450 July 23, 2013 Professor Daryl Farrow Intelligence testing article analysis Human intelligence is the mental value composed of the abilities to learn from experiences throughout one’s life and adapts to new circumstances, comprehends, and accepts intellectual theories, and utilizes that knowledge to manipulate one’s own environment. Societal expectations have emotional influence on a person’s perception of human intelligence. For example, when someone can think quickly, it is connected to fluid intelligence, which is similar to critical thinking, a person has the capacity to form concepts, think abstractly, and utilize knowledge to new circumstances. This paper is will discuss two different theories of intelligence from two different psychologists so that there can be an understanding of the different views in society. Gardner’s theory of intelligence The first Theory comes from Howard Gardner. His theory of multiple intelligences is quite popular and is widely utilized. Gardner, who was inspired by the writings of Jean Piaget has suggested a theory of multiple intelligences. He initially recognized seven elements of intelligence (Gardner, 1983). He discusses that these intelligences are somewhat distinct from each other and that each person has a certain level of each of these seven intelligences. When a student enters University of Phoenix, there is a class that is required and in this class, they issue an assignment...
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...open ended questions, students complete the exam anywhere between 5 to 8 hours and their scores are submitted during their college application process. The results will stay with them for a lifetime, either benefitting or bewildering them. Some get into Yale, while others settle for a less expensive and well known university. Then there are those that don’t attend college. But, the impact of the exam seems to hit hard at the heart. If someone scores poorly, they may think they aren’t smart enough or they did something wrong. Those who invented the SAT had every intention of measuring intelligence without any bias; everyone takes the same test so there is no complication. The impact of this is stress and feelings of doubt by students. Is the SAT a reliable source to measure student performance? If you look what defines an individual, it isn’t simply test scores. There are other areas of intelligence to be measured. The Scholastic Aptitude Test is not a reliable source for student performance because of 21st century advancement, economic misinterpretation and opportunities unrelated to academia. As time goes on, technology grows. Every year or month for that matter, there seems to be a new development or product that launches in our world and the population caters to its attention. When the I-Pad first hit shelves, many were eager to purchase one and adapt to the new...
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...Data Mining By: Holly Gildea CIS 500 Dr. Janet Durgin June 09, 2013 Data Mining We learn that data mining is a method of evaluating data from different viewpoints and summarizing it into useful information. Such information can be beneficial and used to increase things like revenue, and cutting costs, and so on. There are four categories that we will look at and determine the benefits for in regards to data mining: predictive analytics to understand the behavior of customers, associations discovery in products sold to customers, web mining to discover business intelligence from web customers, and clustering to find related customer information. To understand the behavior of customers by the use predictive analytics we must first understand what predictive analytics is. “Predictive analytics is the process of dealing with a variety of data and applying various mathematical formulas to discover the best decision for a given situation” (ArticleSnatch, 2011). This gives any business a competitive edge and helps to remove the guess work out of the decision making process therefore helping to find the right solution in a shorter amount of time. In order to find the solution faster there are a seven simple steps that must be worked thru first: what is the problem for the company, searching for multiple data resources, take the patterns that are observed from that data, creating a model that contains the problem and the data, categorize the data and find important...
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...without properly citing the source of the work, is considered plagiarism. This will result in an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course. It may also result in academic dismissal from the University. EDU7003 Sunny Liu Statistics I #3 This is my interpretation of the Flynn Effect…. Hope you enjoy. Faculty Use Only Another Interpretation of the Flynn Effect The Flynn Effect has been analyzed and discussed for years (Bennett, Briggs, & Triola, 2014). It has been debated if this phenomenon is accurate, what it truly means, how it effects populations today, and countless other scenarios (Nijenhuis & van der Flier, 2013). Dr. Flynn was truly onto a great breakthrough in modern intelligence when he stumbled upon this revelation; however, what does it...
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...Administrative Management – Assignment 1 The very first The Body Shop store opens on 26th March 1976 in Brighton, on the south coast of England. By 1978 a kiosk in Brussels became the first overseas franchise, and by 1982 new shops open at the rate of two per month. In 1985, in its first year as a public company, The Body Shop sponsor posters for Greenpeace. A year later, it creates an Environmental Projects Department of its own, while the first major window campaign for The Body Shop is "Save the Whale" with Greenpeace, in 1986. The first Community Trade product for The Body Shop, a Footsie Roller, is produced in 1986 by a supplier in southern India. This trade in Footsie Rollers has evolved into the current trade with Teddy Exports in India, one of our key Community Trade suppliers. By 1990, just one year after launching in the USA, there are 2,500 applications for a franchise, with demand for The Body Shop products ever-growing, In 1990 The Body Shop Foundation is established The Body Shop At Home, the direct-selling arm, is launched in the UK in 1994, Canada in 1995, Australia in 1997, and USA in 2001. It has now rolled out in 48 states in the USA and is set to grow even bigger. The Body Shop International has many strong traits of strength that have catapulted them into the limelight throughout the years. Many of them are extremely unique to their business which also grips them into political controversy and "drama" as they undergo "business as usual". Their first strong...
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...Analyzing Business Intelligence Information Byron Marshall, Daniel McDonald, Hsinchun Chen, and Wingyan Chung Artificial Intelligence Lab, Management Information Systems Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721. E-mail: {byronm, dmm, hchen, wchung}@eller.arizona.edu To make good decisions, businesses try to gather good intelligence information. Yet managing and processing a large amount of unstructured information and data stand in the way of greater business knowledge. An effective business intelligence tool must be able to access quality information from a variety of sources in a variety of forms, and it must support people as they search for and analyze that information. The EBizPort system was designed to address information needs for the business/IT community. EBizPort’s collection-building process is designed to acquire credible, timely, and relevant information. The user interface provides access to collected and metasearched resources using innovative tools for summarization, categorization, and visualization. The effectiveness, efficiency, usability, and information quality of the EBizPort system were measured. EBizPort significantly outperformed Brint, a business search portal, in search effectiveness, information quality, user satisfaction, and usability. Users particularly liked EBizPort’s clean and user-friendly interface. Results from our evaluation study suggest that the visualization function added value to the search and analysis process, that the...
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...important but the knowledge and expertise of the operator is as well. During my research I found the most problems associated with DNA profiling dealt with incompetent techs. For example, in 1999, Josiah Sutton was convicted to 25 years in prison for the rape of a 41 year old woman which he did not commit. The tech responsible for the testing concluded in her results that Suttons DNA was “consistent” with the DNA found at the crime scene and that is what was presented to the jurors. No further testing was done to actually confirm these results. It was not until four years later that Sutton’s mother had his defense lawyer look into the case a second time and had the results of the evidence reanalyzed. It was concluded in 2003 that Josiah Suttons DNA was not a match for the DNA found at the crime scene or from the evidence collected from the victim’s rape kit. He had been falsely accused and wrongly convicted due to a technician’s poor judgment. Even the smallest mistake in the lab could cause major errors in lab results. It is very important that all staff be adequately trained and knowledge is kept up to date with competency and proficiency testing to avoid common errors such as...
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...Upgrade of Oracle Business Intelligence Edition Enterprise (OBIEE 10G) Reporting Tool to OBIEE 11G at Econet Wireless (PVT) LTD Paddy Mutimusakwa Managerial Applications of Information Technology DeVry University - Keller Graduate School of Management February, 2015 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Brief Company background 4 Discussion of business problem(s) 5 Business/Technical Approach 6 Benefits of solving the problem 7 Business process changes 8 Technology or business practices used to augment the solution 8 - 9 High-level implementation plan 9-10 Conclusions and overall recommendations 11 References 12 Abstract With technology changing so rapidly, it is important that companies stay abreast of these changes to remain competitive. Econet Wireless, with its global presence cannot afford to ignore this fact hence the need for an upgrade to its current systems. With the utilization of the older version of OBIEE, Econet is not able to process most of its requests thereby affecting overall business performance and productivity. It is with this realization that an upgrade be done on the current software to satisfy company needs. Econet has been using OBIEE 10G as its reporting tool since the company started operating...
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...assignment #1 will be an essay in which you describe an event or person you have encountered in your past work experiences or experiences in your community. This essay is informed in part by an article from Mark Gellis, “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Class.” That article is in the ereserves section of this class. A Brief Introduction to the Strategies for this Essay: In his essay, “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Class,” Gillis writes that “An essay...is written not only to explain, but often to record and reveal the author’s personal interaction with the subject” (p. 326). You will accomplish these steps in your essay. You will record and reveal your interaction with the topic about which you are writing. Gellis notes on page 327 that writing a story or narrative of one’s past can help one’s professional growth. A goal of this essay is to help you understand your goals in pursuing the degree you are pursuing at UMUC by describing and analyzing a work or community experience you have had in the past. Examples of previous students who have written this type of analysis are given below. Overall, if you read the following article by Gellis in our ereserves section of the class, you will have a good understanding of how to approach this assignment. The article is “Autobiographical Writing in the Technical Writing Course.” Organization: In this essay, you will have the following: • • an introductory paragraph with a thesis statement •...
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...Emotional intelligence is ability to understand our own emotions and those of others and to apply this information to our daily lives (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Namy, Woolf, 2009). It’s the ability to perceive, understand, manage and use emotions to guide thoughts and actions (Goldman, 1996). Besides that, according to three studies about emotional intelligence and its influences on academic performance, people can also know that emotional intelligence is also a predictor of academic performance and studying success. All three articles did describe three different study methods and different goals; however, they all practiced on college student. The first study, “The role of trait emotional intelligence in academic performance and deviant behavior at school”, is about trait relationship between emotional intelligence and cognitive ability and academic performance. For examples, student with high emotional intelligence are likely to absence and excluded from school and most emotional intelligence effects continue to exits even when that person has controlling their personality variance (Petrides, Frederickson & Furnham, 2002). The second article, “Trait emotional intelligence and preference for intuition and deliberation: Respective influence on academic performance”, considers about the role of trait emotional intelligence and preference for intuition and deliberation in short-term academic performance. Its results are relationships between trait emotional intelligence, preference for...
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...mechanism needed for infants to develop reasoning and analytical prowess. However there is little academic research and evidence of the Mozart effect on babies, making it difficult to contribute a link between the theory and intelligence enhancement it has on babies. Many research scientists haven’t been able to replicate the results or the results are temporary and have concluded that there is no evidence of the Mozart effect. Firstly by exploring the initial Mozart experiment conclusions can be draw regarding the Mozart effect and intellectual enhancement on babies. Secondly, through critical evaluation of research articles that were conducted to prove or disprove the theory, conclusions can be drawn regarding the Mozart effect and the degree of intellectual enhancement it has on babies. Thirdly, academic research suggests there is a scientific explanation behind the Mozart effect that provides a deeper understanding of the theory’s claims towards enhancing intelligence. There has been a lot of attention drawn to the first scientific experiment that introduced the Mozart effect. Rauscher, Shaw and Ky (1993) conducted an experiment with thirty-six college students that were tested in a paper folding spatial-reasoning task from the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale. The three experiment conditions were; listening to Mozart, sitting in silence and listening to a relaxation tape. Researchers found that 10 minutes of exposure to a Mozart sonata, prior to attempting abstract reasoning...
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...E Poole Beecham English 101 10059 19 April 2010 Genetic Testing Imagine choosing your daughter to have high intelligence. No one would fault the parents for giving their daughter this advantage for life. Parents can make the decision to use any safe drug or therapy to enhance their future children to make them smarter, better, stronger, to increase their intelligence, height, or other traits (Zane). Testing for medical tendencies to screen and reduce the possibility of future illness or diseases is now feasible. Genetic testing can enhance and improve lives with immeasurable benefits. The rewards of this testing outweigh any reservations. Genetic testing are examinations of blood and other tissues of the body that doctors in the medical field prepare to test for possible defects of the body. These DNA based tests generally involves direct examination of the DNA molecule itself and are very sophisticated techniques of testing genetic disorders in the bodies of human beings. Prenatal genetic testing with the procedure of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD is a technique whereby testing is performed of an approximate three-day-old embryo to confirm that it does not carry a particular disease or diseases (Naik). The test predicts, with variable confidence, what the possible medical problems will be in the future. Then the doctor implants this embryo, which is free of that syndrome, in the mother's womb. It appears to be relatively easy to check the DNA and eliminate...
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