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their feedback I improved my paper and did the best I can to make it better. The first robo-reader I used was Paper Rater. I didn’t have many mistakes but I did change some words to better vocabulary and fixed some spelling mistakes. I also fixed grammar mistakes. They weren’t so bad but I still fixed them to improve my paper.…

The investigation looked into different patterns of behaviour of a rooster, who had learnt to peck at three different coloured keys on schedules of reinforcement. The left red key related to the fixed interval (FI), the white middle key for the variable interval (VI) and the right green key for the differential reinforcement (DRL) for a total of 270 seconds, 90 seconds per key schedule. The importance of operant conditioning allowed for control over timing and when a positive reinforcement was…

Smart praise for students: how we commend undergraduates affects not only their attitudes but also their performance, by James M. Lang, explains a study that Carol Dweck and Claudia Mueller did to observe the effects of two different types of praise. The study was done on 100 fifth graders. To begin all the students were given 10 math problems and told to solve them. Once they were all solved the teacher gave some students “effort praise” and other students “ability praise.” Effort praise is…

The key concept of Mindset is you either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset, or even a mixture of both. The mindset you have affects how you go through life and deal with challenges and failures. A person’s mindset begins even when they are mere children. This was shown in the example where children where given a simple puzzle and when haven successfully solved that puzzle, they were asked if they wanted to do the same puzzle again or move on to a harder one. Some of the children remained…

In order to help my roommate lose enough weight to make the football team, there are several steps of operant conditioning that must be followed. First, I must devise a behavior modification plan for my roommate that will motivate him to want to keep progressing toward his goal. In order to make sure that this plan is effective in continuous and steady weight loss, I will use operant conditioning and the schedules of reinforcement to motivate him. I will need to measure his progress or weight…

Since childhood, students are told to work towards a goal or to improve a specific skill for it. However, after reading the first two chapters of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I noticed that it could not be worked on your entire life. It’s only a mere coincidence of opportunities and success based on events they have partaken in. Once the opportunity comes up, they are quickly taken and are used to be led into success. Famous celebrities such as sportsmen, actors or political figure can say it…

Pittsburgh has a lot of potholes, which is a vast matter. Everywhere drivers go there are potholes to try to avoid. While driving, the driver can accidently hit a pothole causing major car damage, or something worse like drifting off the road. Potholes are a particular problem in Pittsburgh because of the weather. In addition, when roads are repaired, they make all drivers reroute causing more wear and tear on that route. Some drivers might be nervous to drive places because of the many…

As a player of the Gu Zheng, I have realized that there are certain points of the strings where sounds do not resonate as clear as other points. In addition, the Gu Zheng has fixed-fixed strings which makes it possible for us to hear all harmonics, rather than just odd or even. This does not state that the Gu Zheng’s sound is periodic. In fact, the Gu Zheng’s sound spectrum is quite inharmonic, which is somewhat similar to that…

Psychologist Carol Dweck has determined the effects of a growth mindset, when someone believes that they can be good at anything by having the ability to actually achieve their goal, and a fixed mindset, when someone believes that they are either good or bad at something based on their inherent nature. The cause of these mindsets is a bit like nature vs. nurture. One believes they are born with it and the other believes that they are able to change it. The big difference is that one mindset puts…

The title of Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem, “Tu Do [Two Door] Street,” immediately showcases binary oppositions, rigid cultural forces that create powerful racial divisions. Two physical doors, metaphors for the racial binary that creates and perpetuates racial division and inequality in America, separate black and white humanity in a Saigon, Vietnamese red-light district. According to the poem’s text, America exports its racial binary, and its implicit white-superior-to-black, racist axiom, with…