Essays on Distracting

Equality between females and males cannot be attained using legal channels only. How people, cultures, and societies perceive gender and equality can make an immense difference. The aspect means that individuals must start believing and behaving as if women and men are equal. The attitudes towards equality and females are shaped in various ways. They can arise from personal experiences, social values, or people’s upbringings. Two essential contributors of stereotypes and attitudes are culture and popular media. This paper examines popular media particularly print media to identify how women are represented as well as their presence or absence ...

Introduction

Technological advance has turned out to be an extremely affluent factor in lifestyle changes worldwide. Many technological inventions, innovations and devices are now an integral part of people’s lives, as their functionality contributes to greater convenience and comfort. Models and means of communication have been affected greatly by technologies, too: email, internet, social networking, and cellphones produce influence the way people communicate to the considerable extent. Cellphones have become a norm for modern social life with their convenience, accessibility and an immense array of opportunities available. Moreover, the cellphone culture affects not only adults but also children and ...

360 Degree System

Chapter 1

Introduction: Performance appraisal is the critical tool in the human resources management for the achievement of the organizational goals and the objectives. This performance appraisal helps to improve the employee’s strength and weakness. Based on the performance appraisal, the performance of the employees can be measured and evaluated. 360 degree review is the appraisal approach and it is defined as collecting feedback from multiple sources of the input of employees, colleagues, seniors to evaluate the performance appraisal. The research mainly focuses on the validation and reliability of the appraisal system which makes convenient for the ...

For a moment there I grappled with whether to critique Mellody Hobson’s Ted Talk, “Color Blind or Color Brave?” because of its powerful content and almost impeccable delivery, but Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on Black Beauty at the 7th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood seduced me by its honesty, its content, its simplicity and its quiet power. Despite a runny nose that would have normally been overly distracting, Nyong’o wields her audience past the sniffles in to her story, to her inadequacies, her hope, her conquest, her triumph and to a call to action. The ...

Contiguity Principle

Even without a clear understanding of the contiguity principle, most people can see that there are important ways that continuity and contiguity affect learning. The human brain is a masterful machine, but as human beings, we have to be able and willing to set our brains up for success in the most effective ways possible. As human beings understand more about brains than ever before, there are more effective was that have been developed to assist people in the learning process. The contiguity principle presents learners and instructors alike with the ability to create unique connections in the brain: ...

Abstract

This study sought to investigate the fact that there is greater likelihood of one to falter in detecting the second target T2 after he has detected the first target T1. There had been concerns that participants in previous studies had problems in detecting the second target after 200 ms -500 ms from the first target. The researcher employed a 2 ×6 experimental design; it involved a randomized sample of 49 university students. Using web experiment software, Interactive Sensation Laboratory Exercise (ISLE), the researcher had students identifying letter S as the first target and letter T as the second target ...

Summary of the News article

This news article is about Toronto Governor Rob Ford and his latest victory on winning the appeal on his Conflict of Interest case last January 25th. Due to this recent court victory, he will remain as the incumbent governor of Toronto and end the qualms about a vacant position and possible reelection.

Ford got into this dispute because of a 2013 case when “Toronto resident Paul Magder's complained that Ford violated the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act during a council vote last year” . All of this happened because of Ford’s actions at a council meeting in February of 2012. The ...

I somewhat disagree that people should be positioned to work close to one another as this can be disruptive or distracting for some employees, especially considering that people have different work habits where some employees’ habits are annoying or distracting. Moreover, this might encourage the employees to chat with each other instead of focusing on the work. Similarly, I have mixed feelings about using technology to keep people talking together, as this can also be distracting. However, on the other hand, it’s also beneficial as it facilitates communication. It enables employees to quickly get the information that ...

How Can We Minimize the Negative Effects and Enhance the Positive Effects?

An intense debate over the usefulness of internet is shaping the 21st century’s social and educational discourse. While some sustain that internet helps individuals in acquiring information in an facile and effective manner, reducing the time of searching through its optimized programs and tools, others insist that internet is making people dumber because of its distracting feature (Carr, 2010). In fact, internet has become a part of humans’ everyday existence, improving it in many aspects. Nevertheless, the argument that new technology is affecting humans’ focus, distracting them still remains an issue, which fortunately can be addressed through specific strategies ...

It is true that the television, newspapers, magazines, as well as other media pay exclusive concern to the personal lives of the famous people. There are a number of reasons why the media, may be interested with the activities of the public figures. It is wise to understand that the business of the media is to attract the attention of the public. Therefore, they will always focus on certain centers of interest to attract more people. The public figures are major centers of interest among people, and they would wish to understand what is happening around them. Therefore, they ...

Reflection Paper: Study Review, Reaction, and Extension

Reflection Paper: Study Review, Reaction, and Extension The purpose of the study by Isen and Levin (1972) was to determine whether the positive affective state affects the subsequent helpfulness to other people. Previous researchers established that there is a significant relationship between success and helping, but subsequent studies found that the relationship between success and helping did not exist when there was no previous relationship between people or when helping was low-cost or unsolicited. Based on those studies, researchers proposed that a positive affective state may significantly determine helpfulness. However, a positive mood state was induced by reports of success ...

The influence of psychological state of the athlete on his performance and, therefore, prospects of using various psyching strategies, has for quite a long time been of interest for both practitioners (e.g., athletes, coaches) and sports science scholars. According to Hackfort&Tebenbaum (2006), peak performance in sports is most often associated with such factors as physical preconditions, psychological states, motor skills, as well as mental abilities (e.g., ability to concentrate, attention) and a range of psychological issues as stress resistance, will-power, self-confidence, motivation etc. (11). Nonetheless, it is still hard to define the extent to which each of above-mentioned factors if capable ...

Technology

Executive Summary This evaluation of the user experience online has a special twist because old media and new media are meeting in this report. Old media is the old fashioned journey one needed to take to learn information in order to prepare for a family vacation like a trip to Disneyland. Bookstores were a great place to find many travel books and maps to study before heading out the door. The new media is the Internet and the World Wide Web (www). Planning a trip to Disneyland using two sites to find a helpful book was the problem that needed to be solved. The ...

Knowledge is a powerful mechanism for survival in the world. Knowledge helps us dig into our soul and understand the world better. Through our knowledge of the world and our environment, we become powerful both physically and mentally. Plato's words "knowledge is virtue" have deep underlying meaning in it. According to Socrates, virtue is knowledge of knowing what is good and bad. One who knows all the good and bad of the world is virtuous. Virtue is divided into four parts - courage, temperance, justice and piety. Courage refers to knowledge of what is good and bad in the future. ...

The proliferation of mobile phone devices amongst most Americans has been a positive step in the communication frontier but a challenge to the transport sector. The use of mobile phones, chiefly texting, while driving has had dangerous consequences on the roads by distracting drivers. Texting while driving is linked to destructive driving that accounts for numerous road accidents. The statistics indicate that the problem posed by distracted driving courtesy of mobile phone use is increasingly getting to intolerable levels. In the year 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that 18 percent of all fatal crashes that occurred in that ...

Review of Empirical Research Article

Dewar, Michaela, Alber, Jessica, Butler, Christopher, Cowan, Nelson, & Della Sala, Sergio. (2012). Brief Wakeful Resting Boosts New Memories Over the Long Term. Psychological Science, 23(9), 955-960. doi: 10.1177/0956797612441220 1. All research must have a justification why it is conducted. What justification do the authors provide for conducting the current study? In your view, is the objective of the experiment important for the field?

This study was performed to investigate how to consolidate the learning of new memories so that they can be recalled at future times. The authors have evidence from previous research studies on both human adults ...

At the beginning of Nicholas Carr’s book: The shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains, he mentions that how a super computer named HAL was destroyed in the early years of 2001. In this case, he is referring to the fact that our minds know that they are being destroyed and they can do nothing about it. He goes ahead to mention that our internet is doing this by distracting us every chance it gets. Carr presents the idea that the presence of links on the internet is distracting people. He also questions the use of Google ...

Negative attitudes and behaviors by the students in the classroom are a matter of paramount importance and with serious consideration to teachers and principals not only because misbehavior has an effect on teaching in the classroom and the learning process. Behavioral problems in schools vary widely and exhibited by different age groups of students. This can be in the form of small breaches of discipline – such as sometimes talking when the teaching is in class and expects the student’s concentration or not carrying out assignments and work given. Other case considered extreme can include disturbing the class or defying ...