Essays Tagged: "stimulus"

Alcohol

ing 'drunken'gait. The eyes may appear somewhat 'glossy' and pupils may be slow to respond tostimulus. At high doses pupils may become constricted. At intoxing doses, alcohol candecrease he ...

(8 pages) 192 0 3.9 Apr/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Alcohol

staggering 'drunken'gait. The eyes may appear somewhat 'glossy' and pupils may be slow to respond tostimulus. At high doses pupils may become constricted. At intoxing doses, alcohol candecrease heart ... staggering 'drunken'gait. The eyes may appear somewhat 'glossy' and pupils may be slow to respond tostimulus. At high doses pupils may become constricted. At intoxing doses, alcohol candecrease heart ...

(17 pages) 289 0 3.9 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Pornograhpy on internet

w. Erotic stories, explicit pictures, XXX-rated films and modern day magazines, are all part of the stimulus material which is known as 'pornography' or as it is legally put, 'obscenity.' Is it ethica ...

(4 pages) 120 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Microprocessors

res them to being an electronic equivalent of a knee-joint that when struck with the proper digital stimulus will react in the exact same way each time (Rosch,37). More practically a microprocessor is ...

(11 pages) 183 1 4.8 Apr/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

"Patients have the right to say no." Discuss this statement in relation to the adoption of the role of learned helplessness in some individuals experiencing illness.

nt (in being able to prevent a series of electric shocks) would always try to avoid the undesirable stimulus; whereas the animals which had previously had no control over their environment (and so wer ... d so were unable to prevent the shocks) eventually became apathetic and would not try to escape the stimulus, even if it was possible to do so.It was found that"Because these animals have learned that ...

(9 pages) 346 1 3.6 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Emancipation led to increased inequality.

o has been used to defeat this rebellion and strike down the standards of the Confederacy will be a stimulus to all their hatred, to all their malice, and lead them to legislate with greater stringenc ...

(3 pages) 97 1 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Get into College.

ading role, ready to determine his/her destiny. For each event in your life, you can reflect upon a stimulus, a cause. Yet there are so many events, so many years, days, hours, seconds in one's life. ...

(3 pages) 82 1 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

"Dynamics of community assembly, disassembly, and reassembly in a neotropical floodplain river"

l changes and its ecosystem. For example, the natural environment diversity of water level and fish stimulus changed from month to month. In January of 1999, the concentration of water is low, in May ...

(1 pages) 36 1 2.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Live and Love

it from the cradle to the grave.Love is mutual devotion and everlasting passion; love is a powerful stimulus instilling each creature with vigor and energy. Just like the air we breathe, the sunshine ...

(2 pages) 109 2 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Biological Lab report: The Facial feedback hypothesis "The emotions we experience are also influenced by sensory feedback from the face?"

James-Lange theory, which states that the physiological change that we experience in response to a stimulus or an event are in fact our emotions. The facial feedback hypothesis proposes that the emot ... muscle patterns associated with emotion (Laird, 1974) And those subjects were asked to receive some stimulus and the affected response would become the dependent variable for study. After that compare ...

(8 pages) 263 0 4.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Analysis of the use of music in advertising.

Many marketing practitioners already accept this notion, given that music is increasingly used as a stimulus in the retail environment as well as in radio and television advertising. Music has been sh ... tive and behavioural responses in consumers.This leads to the conclusion that music is an important stimulus for marketers to study, understand, and employ, especially when affective reactions to mark ...

(13 pages) 376 1 3.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

What Was the main theme of max weber's sociology? Analysis of the 'Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism'and weber's rationality theory.

ties and had all faded into almost insignificance in the modern age. He thought that this change in stimulus had led to men becoming dehumanised, trapped in the 'iron cage' of production and bureaucra ...

(7 pages) 386 0 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

An in depth report on Anxiety Disorders as well as some common terms associated with it

y genuine threat found in the environment. Furthermore, instead of being directed towards a current stimulus, anxiety is associated with the anticipation of a future problem. Anxiety differs from fear ... enuine threat in the environment. In addition, anxiety, instead of being directed towards a current stimulus, is usually associated with the anticipation of a future problem.Anxiety DisordersThe class ...

(9 pages) 301 1 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Essay about Krishnamurti, most notably, his book "Freedom from the Known"

physical and intellectual energy but an energy that is not dependent on any motive or psychological stimulus or drug."Krishnamurti shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from t ...

(3 pages) 18 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Perception in marketing, especially about selective perception

l receives, selects, and interprets stimuli to form a meaningful and coherent picture of the world. Stimulus itself is defined as any unit of input to any of the senses (Schiffman, Bednall, Cowley, O' ... all, Cowley, O'Cass, Watson, and Kanuk, 2001:148). So, perception not only occurs when we receive a stimulus by one of our five senses but it also relates to the view that that is developed as a resul ...

(8 pages) 181 2 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Phototropism.

tion of tropism is "a growth movement whose direction is determined by the direction from which the stimulus strikes the plant" and "photo" means relating to light. There for, Phototropism is when a p ...

(4 pages) 35 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences

Behavioristic Man

such responses the individual "operates" upon or modifies the environment. Instead of presenting a stimulus that elicits a known response, the psychologist places an animal in a situation in which it ... ditioning. It refers to the strengthening of the new response by the presentation of an appropriate stimulus. In respondent conditioning the eliciting stimulus may be pleasant, as in the case of food, ...

(1 pages) 24 0 1.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Ingosc

truth would lead to Ingsoc's downfall and the rise of freedom for the people.War is peace. The one stimulus that unifies a country the most is war. There seems to be something magical about it. When ...

(3 pages) 22 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Homeostasis in the Human Body

es of many organs and systems of the body. This exercise will also show the location of some of the stimulus receptors in the body.My hypothesis for this exercise is that by manipulating stimulus, we ...

(5 pages) 149 3 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Psychological Review of Miller G.A.'s: "The magical number 7 plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information."

on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember. By organizing the stimulus inputall together into several dimensions and successively into a sequenceor amount, we man ... getting at some of these questions. The theory provides us with different ways for calibrating our stimulus materials and for measuring the performance of our subjects. Miller explains that the theor ...

(1 pages) 52 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology