repeated contact and exposure to each other‚ feel positive affect‚ and develop mutual attraction. * External Determinants of Attraction * Why does proximity matter? Repeated exposure is the key * Repeated exposure (sometimes called the mere exposure effect)—Zajonc’s (1968) finding that frequent contact with any mildly negative‚ neutral‚ or positive stimulus results in an increasingly positive evaluation of that stimulus * Repeated exposure without harmful effects
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References: Gibson‚ E. J. (1969). Principles of perceptual learning and development. New York: Appleton‚ Century‚ Crofts. Gibson‚ E. J.‚ & Walk‚ R. D. (1956). The effect of prolonged exposure to visually presented patterns on learning to discriminate them. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology‚ 49‚ 239–242. Terry‚ W.S. (2009). Learning and memory: Basic principles‚ processes‚ and procedures (4th ed.). Boston: Pearson/Allyn
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Exposure to lead has been proven to be a large public health concern. For the purposes of this paper‚ I am going to introduce what lead is‚ how people are exposed to lead‚ and the physiologic effects of lead exposure‚ focusing on acute lead toxicity‚ but more specifically‚ on chronic low level lead toxicity. The supplementation of 3 studies shows the relationship between lead exposure and one of these physiologic effects in children‚ specifically intelligence as measured by IQ scores. Lead is
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! Case Study 6 Foreign exchange hedging strategies at General Motors: Transactional and translational exposures ! General Motors (GM) was the largest automaker in the world‚ and the unit sales in 2001 was 8.5 million vehicles which occupied 15.1% of the total vehicle market. With the expansion through the world‚ GM faced more risk in the foreign exchange (FX). In other world‚ it would create gains or losses due to the changes in FX rate. According to the exhibit 2 and exhibit 3‚ Latin
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Criticism of selective exposure Although empirical evidence of selective exposure has been documented in countless studies conducted in a wide range of research area‚ there have also been plentiful reports of lack of evidence supporting the existence of selective exposure. For instance‚ in a study conducted by Feather (1962)‚ evidence of the effect of selective exposure on participants’ choices was not found. In specific‚ smokers and non-smoker participants did not display any significant preference
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Exposure is a poem written by the one of the most famous poets of the World War 1‚ Wilfred Owen. The poem illustrates the conditions that the soldiers were exposed to while living in the trenches of the war zone. The poem is divided into two parts‚ with the first one being an introduction to the weather acting as more of the enemy to the British than the Germans were and comparing the war with the Germans less deadly than the war with the environmental conditions. In this essay‚ I will analyse how
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Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. In biology‚ an atavism is an evolutionary throwback‚ such as traits reappearing which had disappeared generations before.Atavisms can occur in several ways. In the social sciences‚ atavism is a cultural tendency—for example‚ people in the modern day reverting to the ways of thinking and acting of a past/former time.The word atavism is derived from the Latin atavus. An atavus is a great-great-great-grandfather or‚ more generally‚ an ancestor.
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NACO Guidelines: Post Exposure Prophylaxis for Occupational Exposure (PEP) to HIV/AIDS Dr. Asoke Kumar Sinha‚ MD (Skin) Prevention and control of AIDS is now a Social Medical problem. Doctors in all health care setting are expected to play a significant role in its prevention. Health care workers including doctors are normally at a very low risk of acquiring HIV infection during management of the infected patient. However‚ inspite of a low statistical risk of acquisition of HIV‚ the absence
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107-051-1 MITSURU MISAWA OSG CORPORATION: HEDGING TRANSACTION EXPOSURE On Monday‚ April 24th 2006‚ the US dollar fell to a new three-month low against the yen of ¥114.30/$ in Tokyo’s foreign exchange market‚ the lowest rate since January 16th 2006. This was a reflection of trading in New York three days earlier‚ on Friday‚ where the dollar had fallen more than 1.75% against the yen. The depreciation of the dollar against the yen was a direct result of a meeting of the G7 in Washington D.C. on April
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controlled to create a perfect exposure for a patient‚ making it ideal for people with PTSD. “Often co-occurring with PTSD are problems related to depression‚ generalized anxiety‚ and impairment in neuropsychological functioning.” (McLay et al.‚ 2014) In the study conducted by McLay et al. (2014)‚ neuropsychological functioning was analyzed by computer tests‚ and changes in self reports of PTSD‚ anxiety‚ and depression were examined before and after VR graded exposure therapy (VR-GET). VR-GET treatment
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