Shelly Leffingwell Intro to Pysch 1050 Winter 2014 January 25, 15 Alzheimer’s: Could it be type 3 diabetes? I choose this article because I am interested in Alzheimer’s research. I want to know the physical impact of the disease on the body and how it is changing the mind of the person. This disease is on the rise as baby boomers come of age; if there is a way to prevent or minimize the aliments of the disease I want to know how to best treat people as they are progressing through the
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looked at the difference between Africans and African-Americans. The article I found was very interesting because it talks about the stereotypes African people are forced onto because of their skin color, and how they are treated by Americans in a very unfair and unequal way. African immigrants feel as though they are looked down upon and automatically thought to be of a lower class because of their skin color. This article helped me understand the difference between the two types of immigrants
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Professor Comstock Psychology 07 November 2012 Stress I recently read an article on stress & personality (Martin)that could be summarized by saying individuals are different in how they react to stressful situations and environments. Martin infers that there is a possibility we are born with a predisposed temperament of higher or lower levels of stress tolerance. On a personal level what I found interesting in this article is Martin’s statement that; Sometimes stress can lead to positive reinforcement
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Wesleyan University Advanced Managerial Accounting BUSI 5243 Bill Elliott October 04, 2011 The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that Drive Performance The purpose of this article was to look at what information companies are using to rate themselves and determine what areas need improvement. This article focuses on the concept that companies should be taking in a number of factors when determining how they are doing in a market. The authors set to show how using more than just financial
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Daniel Witkus February 4th 2013 Ms. Geraldine Albins Article Summary Purpose: For schools to make a mission statement to have values of ethics and support core values in sportsmanship. Many schools already have sportsmanship’s codes to follow and embrace positive sounding missions when playing sport making this team with these codes not to have problems with violating the sportsmanship code. Essential Specifics: To successfully sustain true competition the competitor needs to balance intrinsic
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and storing research in most cases may not have dire consequences in our personal lives other than making a bad decision and who among us haven’t made one of those before, but in the business word gathering data or research information may have dire consequences like peoples livelihood. As in the article from Cheryl Lozano-Whitten, regarding Eron and perceptions of personality in a case of unethical decision-making, the article visits the unethical view on business research and decision making. Lozano-Whitten
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marker between my generation and my parents’ generation. I was born into the era of modern technology, while they were forced to adjust from the older methods of communication to the ones used now in all first word nations. I researched the lack of personal isolation, the ways that members of society used to communicate with one each other, along with examining the
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nurture debate is about the relative importance of an individual's innate qualities (“nature”) versus personal experiences ("nurture") in determining individual differences in physical and behavioral traits. There have been many theories formulated to explain why humans behave the way they do. Explanations vary from demonology to magnetic fluids controlling people's behaviors. Toby Epstein Jayaratne’s article entitled “The Perennial Debate: Nature, Nurture, or Choice? Black and white Americans’ explanation
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LP5: Assignment: Article Review Elise Ashley Leyva I have chosen the article “A Normative Theory of Forgetting: Lessons from the Fruit Fly” I chose this article because the name was very interested to me, and I thought it would be very interesting. I also chose this article because it consisted of theories and experimental conditionings of why we forget thing. This caught my attention because for many, many years I have always wondered why I would
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intimacy is not based solely on sexual intimacy, but also on emotional intimacy and companionship. Erikson believed this stage of development was meant to resolve the issues of intimacy versus isolation. He taught this is a time for young adults to make personal commitments to others as a parent or an intimate partner. If young adults do not develop intimate relationships with others, this can present a conflict that may leave young adults feeling isolated. Psychological Factors in Early Adulthood Freud
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