Essays Tagged: "participant"

Smoking Cessation....

review is titled Self-efficacy, Health Locus of Control, and Smoking. This article studies how the participants confidence levels and health locus prior to entering treatment predicts results of the ... s tested by questionnaires (post, during and at 6-month period). Health Locus is defined by how the participant attributed health outcomes (internal, external or by chance). The results of this experi ...

(11 pages) 213 0 3.3 Jan/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

An Insight Into Virtual Reality

creation of a highly interactive computer based multimedia environment in which the user becomes a participant with the computer in a 'virtually real' worldWe are living in an era characterized by 3D ...

(5 pages) 118 1 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

This essay indicates to what extent findings from obedience research be applied beyond the research setting.

this theory wrong, using one of the most controversial experiments in the last fifty years, where a participant was required to believe that he had 'killed' another living person.Advertisements were m ... lace at Yale University, it would take about an hour, and there would be a payment of $4.50 for the participant's time. The advertisement called for people from all areas of life. From Factory workers ...

(5 pages) 135 2 4.7 Oct/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Nick's role in the Great Gatsby along with the Fitzgeralds use of symbols and techniques

arraway plays the vital role of the narrator, but in spite of this he is also seen as the role of a participant, which indicates the importance of his part in the novel. Nick narrates the novel after ... side, but covered the real truth inside.I feel that using Nick as a narrator along with an observer/participant was sensible as it gave the book realism and greater depth. This allowed readers to look ...

(2 pages) 50 0 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The history of women's rights. A fore-runner is Mary Wollstonecraft. It explains how times have changed from her time to the present day.

t's views were primarily concerned with the individual woman and about rights. Wollstonecraft was a participant in and observer of a remarkable series of social revolutions. This may have been the maj ...

(4 pages) 212 0 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

The first person point of view applied in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall Of The House Of Usher". What effects does it have on the reader and on the story itself?

tory itself.In this story, the narrator is a character of whom we know very little, who acts like a participant or an observer. As the story goes on, it is very easy for the reader to become the narra ...

(5 pages) 72 0 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe

Reasearch Methods: A research paper on teenagers' sexual practices.

the areas of discipline of the social sciences. In this, the present research the variables are the participant's ages and the different answer they had to the questions in the survey. The questions c ... research assignment and they included, closed ended and open ended questions. It was found that the participant's answers depend upon what age they are.Literature ReviewIn western society men and wome ...

(13 pages) 619 3 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Aesthetics Definition - This essay was simply to personally define the term aesthetics for my art appreciation class.

re beautiful. Beauty can be something to perceive or observe, but only when the spectator becomes a participant, can someone truly begin to appreciate it for all that it may have to offer. Many people ...

(2 pages) 82 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

How the bride price or lobola is a social issue among african americans in the USA's modern soiety.

en's role for many generations. So when a man comes along with intentions of marrying a significant participant in a family unit and removes her from her home, he in turn leaves a tremendous loss in t ...

(4 pages) 33 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Getting Away With Murder

back a turn. Luck would draw you a "get out of jail free" card, and allow you to keep playing. Each participant is given equal opportunity from the start, parents and kids alike. Now say we were to pi ...

(10 pages) 351 7 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Two persons who are living through two different stages according to Erikson's theory of development. Interviews included.

ment of these two individuals, we have to understand their identities and their concerns. The first participant is a Latin woman in her middle ages; her main concern is her family. She lives in the co ... ?Woman:Not really, time is a problem, but I can organize myself to obtain time and learn.The second participant is a 10 years old boy who is Latin and lives in the city. His primary concern is to get ...

(7 pages) 153 1 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Leadership in the Global Economy.

liberalization, export promotion, and trade policies.World Trade Organization (WTO)The EU is a key participant in the WTO. Notifications of trade policy developments are regularly made to the WTO and ...

(15 pages) 387 1 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Edgar Allan Poe.

the short stories that we have studied and discussed during the classes.Poe's stories usually have participant first-person narrators, but frequently we, us readers, face the dilemma of trusting them ...

(9 pages) 99 1 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The sense of being stared at

n though many people seem to have had this sensation, not very much research has been done into the participant. An early study done by Titchener (1898) showed that students, who said that they could ... r he was being stared at or not (Dana Tozer, 1996).Peterson (1978) did the next known study in this participant. This was found in an unpublished thesis at the university of Edinburgh. He carried out ...

(3 pages) 38 1 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

FETC Teacher training notes.

stablish whether the learner is suitable for the course or indeed if the course is suitable for the participant.Age, level of experience, progression, financial situation, location, manual dexterity a ...

(9 pages) 106 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Anna Karenina - To what extent can a novel you have studied be considered the journey of a character or characters?

Life can be said to be liken to a journey which we all are a participant traveling from one point to another. The novel "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy follows th ...

(7 pages) 47 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The relationship between language and thought, and assess one explanation of the relationship between language and thought

ducted research to find out to what extent recall is affected by the actual words used; they showed participants a film showing a car crash involving a number of cars. Participants were asked to descr ... ants were asked to describe what happened as if they were giving eyewitness testimony evidence. The participants were split in to groups of two and asked one of the conditions below: -Condition 1: 'Ab ...

(2 pages) 107 1 3.7 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

An Evaluation of the Haney, Banks and Zimbardo 1973 study

validityUsefulnessIssues/Theme 1: EthicsThe ethical objections to this study may be founded for the participants were subjected to excessive amounts of stress and anxiety. Which some of the subjects s ... ich some of the subjects started to exhibit in the form of physiological complaints for example one participant got a rash due to the high levels of stress. Therefore it can be argued that the study h ...

(2 pages) 25 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Samuel Adams

ly in debt.Meanwhile when Adams was experimenting with different enterprises, he had been an active participant in Boston political circles (Encarta). In 1756, he was elected tax collector of Boston, ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Reserve Bank

as the fact that it prints and issues Australia's currency notes, ensure that it remains an active participant in financial markets and the payments system. Its assets include Australia's holdings of ...

(5 pages) 140 0 4.9 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics