* Cognition is a term covering all the mental activities associated with thinking‚ knowing‚ remembering‚ and communicating. * We use concepts‚ mental groupings of similar objects‚ events‚ ideas‚ or people‚ to simplify and order the world around us. * In creating hierarchies‚ we subdivide these categories into smaller and more detailed units. * We form some concepts‚ which is formed most around a prototype‚ a best example of a category. * An algorithm is a time-consuming but thorough
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NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN ASIA‚ AFRICA‚ AND LATIN AMERICA During the 1920s and 1930s‚ after the Great War and during the Great Depression‚ intellectuals and political activists in Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America challenged the ideological and economic underpinnings of European imperialism and neo-colonialism‚ as nationalist and anti-imperialist movements gained strength on each of these continents. * In Asia‚ Japan’s militarist leaders sought to build national strength through
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Another name for operant conditioning is instrumental learning‚ introduced by Edward L. Thorndike 1913. Thorndike began studying “animal thinking”. Cat experiment: cat would perform a specific response‚ such as pulling a wire or a lever and was rewarded food after each escape. “law of effect” behavior is influenced by its consequences First book published‚ the behaviour of organisms 1938. Skinner demonstrated that organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favourable consequences
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People and governments * Need stability * Change their minds to fit their needs Political Change in the US * Americans can change who (Republicans or Democrats) dominates Congress every two years * Divided government (1994‚ for example‚ w/ Bill Clinton as pres.) * A situation that exists when political party control over the government is divided (for example‚ when the pres. is a Democrat and Congress is controlled by Republicans) * The gov. in the 1990s and early 2000s
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Joseph Cornell was an uncommon artist from the twentieth century who created an enormous amount of compositions through the art of collaging. Cornell‚ a New York native‚ patterned his works of art after the European design of art also known as “Surrealism.” In the early 1930’s‚ Joseph Cornell began his career as an artist‚ while still being a working class American citizen‚ his artworks were quite low budget. He began his career by creating his art with found objects from the city along with displaying
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Cornell Notes for Miller Chapter 4 Biodiversity * The biodiversity found in genes‚ species‚ ecosystems‚ an ecosystem processes is vital to sustaining life on earth. * Part of the Earth’s natural capital * Biodiversity is the variety of the earth’s species‚ the genes they contain‚ the ecosystems in which they live‚ and the ecosystem processes such as energy flow and nutrient cycling that sustain all life. * Renewable resource * Plays a role in preserving the quality of the air
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Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages Use this outline to preview the chapter before you read a particular section in your textbook and then as a selfcheck to test your reading comprehension after you have read the chapter section. I. Prelude to disaster A. Poor harvests led to famines in the years 1315-1322. 1. Fewer calories meant increased susceptibility to disease and less energy for growing food. B. Diseases killed many people and animals. C. Economies slowed down and
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Process (Textbook Libby et al. Chapters 1 and 2). Objectives: When you have successfully completed this lesson‚ you will be able to... Define accounting and explain its purpose Define business and identify the different types of businesses Explain the accounting equation: Assets = Liabilities + Owner’s Equity Visualize the start of a business‚ create accounting transactions for it‚ and prepare simple financial statements Reading Assignment Please read chapters 1 and 2 of your textbook.
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(Lecture Notes: Chapter 1) 1 [CHAPTER 1] Sociology: Theory and Method WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? • Sociology is the scientific study of human social life‚ groups‚ and societies. • Sociology shows us that aspects of life we consider natural or take for granted are influenced by social and historical forces. • Sociology is a discipline that insists on studying people within their social context. Your textbook begins by defining sociology and then by asking you to consider an unlikely topic—autism—sociologically
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prickly plant. A Briar Rose is a beautiful flower that grows from a potentially painful plant or shrub. Chapter 1 The parts of the novel written in Italics represent the fairytale. The most important fairytale is that of “Sleeping Beauty”. There are also elements of the “Cinderella” fairytale with Silvia and Shana as the evil step-sisters who leave all the work to the Cinderella figure‚ Rebecca. Chapter 2 20 years later‚ the 3 little girls have grown up and Gemma is near death. Shana and Silvia have
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