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Sleep Deprivation & Cognitive Abilities: Attention
Introduction
Sleep is a state of mind and body in which the sensory organs respond less to external stimuli, the body becomes inactive and a loss of consciousness is experienced, either partial or complete. Sleep is a mechanism that re-energies our body and brain. It is essential to maintain a good physical and mental health. Sleep deprivation is lack of sufficient sleep. In absence of enough sleep, the process of rejuvenation is significantly impacted. It may cause tiredness and lethargy, and render the mind less active. The decrease in activity of mind affects the Continue reading...

Reduced Attention Span in Children

A reduced attention span in a person of any age can be detrimental to their ability to carry out even the most basic of tasks however, in children, a reduced attention span can be life-altering as it is in childhood that we learn the skills that establish our ability to function properly throughout life. Our attention span is what enables us to focus on a particular object, matter of preoccupation for any extended length of time. For example, in school, we use our attention spans to keep us focused on the Continue reading...

I will pay attention
I will pay attention
Learning is the only compulsory requirement for any human being regardless of his station in life. One has to learn new things almost on a daily basis. Learning could be tedious or enjoyable, formal or informal, and repetitive or occasional. However, the common thread that cuts across all learning processes is the need to pay attention, focus during the process and continually reciting the learning outcomes. In addition, there is a need to apply whatever one learns in his later engagements. This paper seeks to discuss the essentials of learning through Continue reading...

Business

Sound in the television or film is for the purpose of supporting the story of the documentary, television program, narrative, or a film. However, sound can be so effective that it may explain the entire story directly, and it can also be used indirectly in order to enhance effects of movie’s story. It has been argued that television sound is different to film sound. This is because of the fact that there are different perceptual methods and mechanisms for the picture and sound in the television and film; the sound may, however, be integrated by the spectators or Continue reading...

Introduction

Psychodynamics is an important aspect of understanding human behavior and human response. It basically aims to improve the way humans understand the way their mind functions and how well their physical capacities are able to respond to such matters accordingly. This entails the connection of the conscious versus the unconscious behavioral response of individuals to particular situations that each person encounters. Practically, this study views that humans tend to react to situations according to their knowledge and understanding of how the issues develop and how these matters should fully affect them.
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Introduction

One of the most complex aspects of human existence in the modern world at present include the need to handle medical operations. The reason for such complexity is the involvement of different human elements into the system. Such human elements include emotion, culture, tradition and at times even religion. The field of medicine has been incurring several developments through the years. And somehow, the most common point of medical development incurred is mostly dedicated on how nurses and other medical practitioners could handle particularly complex situations involving human elements that could intervene with the procedures they want to engage Continue reading...

Introduction

Most of us have faced moments when we were not able to concentrate on the work in hand. There were times when focusing on a task was a big challenge. However, this type of syndrome is not very common for most of us, but some people show this kind of behavior on a day to day basis. For those people showing the lack of concentration and inattentiveness on a regular basis, this type of syndrome becomes uncontrollable and persistent. Any person showing such signs may be a victim of attention deficit hypersensitivity syndrome. Attention Deficit Hypersensitivity Syndrome (ADHD) does Continue reading...

4. Methodology
As this experiment is considered as an improvement to the previous experiments, the other cars that might appear on these pictures were controlled by removing any other cars that appear on these pictures, except the approaching one. Then on the opposite lane, pictures of one or two cars were added to act as distracters. By this method, the road was transformed from an empty road, to either mild or high busy road creating another factor that can be tested (Traffic Density factor). This factor can be acted as more realistic (see figure 4.1).
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Driving and texting is one of the most dangerous things that a person can do behind the wheel of a vehicle, this dangerous action can end lives; in fact it has. Now, driving and texting is dangerous as everyone is well aware but there are some people who do not take this seriously. Based on the attention types selective attention, divided attention and controlled vs. automated processing when it comes to driving and texting, one of the aforementioned attention types describes this dangerous action perfectly. For example, the controlled vs. automated processing attention type means that the person has Continue reading...

The decline of manners in modern society seems to be a topic of much discussion. Typing the phrase “modern manners” into any search engine yields numerous results, with pages of articles and blog posts lamenting how rude and lacking in basic manners people are today, along with predictions of the total collapse of civilization because many people no longer follow etiquette rules established in the past. While an argument can be made that modern technology makes people more alienated from face-to-face contact and encourages isolation, technology and the realities of modern life have required etiquette to adapt. In many Continue reading...

Part One

One of the specific assessment measures that were applied in this study includes the attention condition. In this assessment measure, the participant was presented with leisure activities and work materials. The paraprofessional denied the participant attention by reading a book with the back turned to him. Unless tantrum behavior was demonstrated by the participant, the paraprofessional continued to deny him attention. In an instance where the participant demonstrated tantrum behavior, the paraprofessional gave a reprimand (Mueller & Sterling-Turner, 2005).
The other specific measure used was he escape condition where the paraprofessional gave task demands involving handwriting activities. A procedure containing Continue reading...

DO WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF MEDIA INFOTAINMENT AND MELODRAMATIC REPORTAGE?

Introduction
For the past 4 decades, the role of the media has been in the process of transforming. Traditionally, the role of the media has been purely on performing an informative role concerning various events taking place across the globe. This phenomena is commonly known as the provision of hard news where the reporter presents the facts to the viewers they way they occurred. However, this is no longer the case, as the media is increasingly indulging in the provision of information as well as entertaining the society. The media houses have been shifting from the traditional methods of Continue reading...

Introduction

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a psychiatric disorder in which patients exhibit impulsive behaviour and an inability to fix attention for any significant length of time. Behaviour patterns of such persons are not age-appropriate. This disorder is detected predominantly in children and presents between ages 6 to 12. Diagnosis can be definite only after the condition has existed for a minimum period of six months to a year. The major presenting symptom is lack of attention at school and home study which reflects on academic performance. Clinical diagnosis is based on certain standardized tests – questionnaires for parents as well Continue reading...

Ads are very important tools in the promotion of goods and services, which connect the product providers to their potential customers in the society. Advertisers use the commercials to promote their products through creating specific appeals on their potential customers. In the article Advertising’s fifteen basic appeals,” Jib Fowles looks at how commercials work through examining the emotional sub rational appeals that are employed in the commercials. Fowles indicates that we encounter very many ads in everyday life; however, we only pay attention to very few of these ads. The advertisers find emotional appeals that find their way Continue reading...

Introduction

Classical conditioning is the process by which the brain is being trained to give attention to the presentations that are shown through public media. In the current years, it could be understood that classical conditioning is utilized by several public and private institutions to provide a suggestive form of thinking for the public to recognize accordingly. What makes this form of convincing effective is the fact that it caters to the ideal process by which the brain is directed to respond to the different messages that the said institutions want to impose on the public.
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The ideas presented by Elaine Scarry in her book ‘Beauty and Being Just’ resonate in my experiences as a21 year old with perceptions of beauty regarding people and objects in my interactive environment. I find Scarry to be defensive on the premise that the political conceptualization of beauty in contemporary and historical times has always been such that beauty is deemed as ameans to gain political advantage. She argues that beauty has two main incoherent criticisms that have in turn served to be misinterpretations of societal conceptualizations of beauty. First, she proposes that one of the incoherent arguments about Continue reading...

Introduction

Most of us have faced moments when we were not able to concentrate on the work on hand. There were times when focusing on a task was a big challenge. However, for most of us this type of syndrome is not very common. However, for some people these types of behaviors are a day-to-day affair. For those people this type of syndrome is uncontrollable and persistent. If a person shows such signs then they may be a victim of attention deficit hypersensitivity syndrome. Attention Deficit Hypersensitivity Syndrome (ADHD) does not show any physical signs or cannot be detected using Continue reading...

Introduction

The struggle to commit information to memory and be able to retrieve it when needed is one of the most fascinating aspects of the human brain. Memory serves as a record of information such as events, ideas, acquaintances, directions, places, etc. Forgetfulness is the process through which stored information is lost or disarranged in a manner that it becomes difficult to retrieve from memory. There are several principles, emergent from research, used to improve memory. These include processing material actively; learning how to retrieve; using distributed practice and using metamemory. This paper explores three memory concepts: depth of processing; Continue reading...

We would like to present you with this particular proposal on creating possible adjustments in the governance system that Toronto operates and functions with. In relation to this matter, we see the need to create particular adjustments that might be needed to specifically handle the growing number of residents in the city and making sure impact on how their needs and demands for good governance is properly served. We would like to call such proposal as the Local Reform Project: A Focus on Improved Public Participation and Community Councils.
The aspect of control is a strongly determining factor in Continue reading...

Introduction

Learning is a process that is considered as a distinct procedure of acquiring knowledge that every human is entitled to. It is through this process that a person is able to embrace the concept of development and personal maturity. Nevertheless, it should not be forgotten that human individuals are able to attain a learning process that is dependent on the age of the person. The manner by which the brain responds to particular stimulants of learning could be enhanced through determining particular procedures that are able to induce interest among the learner[s]. In the case discussion and response Continue reading...

Gender equality in Tennis

Like many sports, tennis is blatantly sexist. Achieving success in the sport rests on masculine characteristics such as stamina, speed, power and strength. Because of the fact that women are unable to compete with men based on these terms, the sport remains to favor men and segregate women. The gender segregation in tennis forces the need to have separate competitions for each gender, separate sets of rules and tactics for each gender, and separate world ranking for each gender. This has also created pay variations. Men side of the sport receives a much high payments than the female side. Continue reading...

Dyslexia refers specifically to learning disabilities encountered in reading. It may at times be characterized by difficulties that occur in recognizing, decoding and spelling words correctly. Due to these challenges brought forth by the disorder, there may be problems caused with reading comprehension and slowed down vocabulary growth. In addition to the outcomes brought about by the disorder, dyslexia may lead to poor fluent loudly out reading. It is thus considered a neurological disorder. It offers hindrance to aspects involved in the learning process such as reading, writing, and spelling and to some extent speaking. The neurological disorder affects Continue reading...

Introduction

In a catchy and rather humorous chapter titled “Courting” Helen Fisher bares basic yet essential truths on how people court. Jeff Abugov’s 1999 Mock documentary titled “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human” mirrors entirely all of Fisher’s assertions. A narrator tells the story of Billy (Mackenzie Austin), a shy young man who goes out looking for a date at a nightclub. He meets a beautiful girl named Jenny Smith (Carmen Electra). Billy gets Jenny’s phone number but loses it. He searches for the number frantically, finally resorting to calling all people named Jenny Smith from Continue reading...

Historically, communication has been a vital process in human existent. The mode of communication depends entirely on the environment and the circumstances around an individual. The use of images to communicate a message to people has been classified as one of the effective modes of communication. However, the meaning of an image depends on the ability of an individual to interpret the image and deduce a constructive meaning from it. Nowadays, images are used in almost every advert that we come across. This is evident from all sectors of life ranging from business, health, sports, education, entertainment, religion and Continue reading...

Introduction

Tourism is an important part of development. It could not be denied that in line with the concept of globalization, nations from around the globe has created a distinct strategy that they ought to adapt to especially when it comes to making an impact on how the world develops a better sense of what they could offer the industry of tourism. Through expanding their options, nations have become more concerned as to how they are going to improve their strategies especially in making a distinct impact on the reputation they hold in the international market. At present, tourism is Continue reading...

Introduction

Some students have trouble at school that includes learning, concentration, and perception to problems, language, and behavior. These difficulties usually arise due to various problems like behavioural problems, psychiatric disorders, emotional problems, physical disorders, and learning disorders. Children with such kind of disorders usually require additional services and accommodations with the least restrictive environment from their educational institute in order to support their ability to receive regular education in schools. Three Federal Laws have been applied in America related to education for disabled students. These include,
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- The Individuals with Continue reading...

Laura Mulvey is renowned theorist of films who has written several articles about different aspects in the film industry. One of her most famous essays is “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” that generally explores the roles played by women in the film industry. Mulvey in this essay states that there are two general roles of women in the film industry. Women in the “Visual pleasure in the Narrative Cinema” excite their audience from their erotic antics as they also gain satisfaction from the feeling that they are attracting attention from the opposite sex. Their dressing styles and general Continue reading...

A. Attention

In reference to statistics from the National Safety Council, over twenty eight percent of road accidents are as a result of people using their cell phones while sending messages or talking and driving at the same time. A higher percentage of these crashes calculated per year and estimated to be 1.4 million, result from mobile phone conversations while about 200 000 are blamed on sending messages. These crashes lead to permanent and partial injury to people leading to death or disability. They also damage property belonging to the public as well as private investors.

B. Need

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Reinforcement

Reinforcement is increasing the likelihood of repeating an action by providing reinforcements that would increase ones desire to repeat the action. Reinforcement is central to the concept of operant conditioning developed by psychologist B.F. Skinner. According to him there are different ways of and effects of reinforcement.

Positive Reinforcement

Positive reinforcement is the act of adding something to the current environment that could increase once desire to do something. Positive reinforcers could be tangible things, intangible or both. Positive reinforcement can be use in different situations to meet desired outputs. When using positive reinforcements, the reinforcer given is not enough to Continue reading...

In this experiment, students were asked to accurately guess how allergic Mrs. X was to a particular type of food. Phase 1 allowed participants to randomly guess the allergy level of a food without any prior notice of how susceptible Mrs. X was to each food, only learning after they had guessed. The lack of reinforcement of the correct answer for A in phase 1 made it less likely to remember it in phase 2, whereas they had time to get the right answer in their minds for cue B.

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Disability is termed as a result of physical, mental, sensory, cognitive, developmental or emotional impairment or sometimes a combination of two, three or more (Craig .L et al 2010). Cases of disability can either be present when a person is growing, has grown or at birth. The disability degree can range between profound, moderate and severe and causes could be inherited, congenital, acquired or unknown. This essay aims at expounding the main constraints of parents when deciding on the birth of children who are disabled and further explains the influences on the same.
Parents go through constraints when making Continue reading...

Among Female Members of the Society in Middle Eastern Regions of the World

Introduction
The modern human society thrives in a more constructive system of legal guidelines that are practically established to become more effective in determining the most important aspects of development in relation to the recognition of human rights. Now more than ever, the capacity of the law to protect humans from being subjected to delineating situations that causes them to thrive under situations that make their lives miserable has been strengthened especially in the recognition of international relations between nations pioneering in identifying the primary care human individuals need (Gosselin, 2009). Relatively though, amidst all these advancements in the Continue reading...

I have witnessed many things in my life. Some of these instances have been happy and some of them have been sad. Unfortunately, one that has stuck with me concerned a dog I knew that lived across the way from me in Southern California. His name was Raphael and he looked well taken care of: his coat was shiny and he never looked like he was being starved. However, the look of abandonment and loss of love in his eyes is something that will stay with me forever. It showed me that animals need more from their owners than Continue reading...

Doctors, Patients and the Affordable Healthcare Act- Healthcare.gov- October 13

This is a rhetorical analysis that entails a healthcare ad in support of the Affordable Healthcare Act and the subsequent healthcare program otherwise dubbed the Obamacare. This paper shall apply the Aristotelian Analysis in discussing the advertisement.
The advert is deliberately set within the hospital confines. This brings out to the target audience, the program’s critical objective. In the hospital setup, the characters are the patients, their relatives and the medical personnel. The fact that it runs within the hospital environment brings out its main objective, that is, improve medical care and to get a better healthcare system. Continue reading...

The American movies of the 2000s have been primarily dedicated to such important national and international issues as racism, gun control, poverty, drug abuse and crimes connected with it, as well as ambiguity and, as a result, ineffectiveness of national and international policy that is supposed to solve these and many other social problems. Among the most prominent movies of the decade are the 2000 Steven Soderbergh film Traffic, 2004 Paul Haggis film Crash and 2004 Terry George movie Hotel Rwanda. All three movies are based on completely different stories, but share similar tension born out of the social Continue reading...

Tom Ford Men fragrance in 2007.5

Target audience.6
Offer details..7

Time of placement7

Advertising channels.8
Perceptions8
Buyer process.8
Involvement level.9
Marketing mix.9
Product.10
Promotion.10
Placement.10
Critique and Recommendations10
Yves Saint Laurent Opium fragrance for women12
Target audience13
Offer details.13
Time of placement14
Advertising channels.14
Perceptions.14
Buyer process15
Involvement level..15
Marketing mix..15
Product..15
Promotion..15
Conclusion and Recommendations..16
CONCLUSION16

References.17

Executive Summary
The media advertisements are meant to be creative so as to meet the required needs in the market. The advertisements involving the sexual contents are increasingly becoming common, and therefore a balance is required in such creations so as not to display the extremely sexual content that would end Continue reading...

Introduction

Servicescape can be defined as environment in which a service is delivered to customers (Bitner, 1992). Service totality delivered at one place is also called service setting. Service setting plays a critical role in shaping expectations, differentiating service firms, facilitating customer and employee customer goals, and influencing the nature of customer experiences (Bitner, 1992).
In the context of the current paper servicescape means the environment of delivering hotel and restaurant services. The topic of the current assignment relates the ambient factors, design, layout and social factors accompanying delivery of the services in the hotel lobby and restaurant.
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Assignment #4: Media coverage and the Social Movement of US National Labor Union

Media has always been a powerful tool of information distribution within the society. Information plays crucial role for the organized protests in order to spread its main ideas and aims. That is why protesters that took part in the social movement of US national labor union used multiple mass protests in order to attract the attention of mass media. Protests are the most effective kind of tactics to gain great media and social attention. It is easier to communicate with the audience and to attract its attention by separating it to three main groups: activists, authorities and bystanders, and Continue reading...

Oral presentations are vital in the modern age. Why would academics, who could read journals and books by the click of a button travel long distances to hear a speaker in a conference? Why would learners who have textbooks, syllabus, and the course outline get out of their bed to attend lectures? Why would business organizers orally present reports faxed to them in all the branches? Why would the government read out the budget, when it will be published in all articles, magazine, and newspapers in the country? Therefore, oral presentation is a critical and essential form of communication. Continue reading...

Introduction

The common cough often makes no alarm at all, especially when it comes to determining the causes or the risks that come with it. However, when a simple cough becomes exuberating, it often calls for distinct attention which usually requires medical assistance. With this consideration in mind, it is then important to note what makes a cough extensively alarming and how it should be given proper attention to for the sake of imposing fast recovery on the patients being attended. For instance, the case of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease requires specific medical attention that usually involves both medication and Continue reading...