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Social Observation By observing a class at Fontbonne University, there was a variety of observable information that was gathered during the observation. I observed an introduction to statistics course and it was seventy-five-minute meeting and observation occurred on Monday, September 12. I went into the class a few minutes before the class started and picked a seat in the back of the classroom. The classroom was set up with a podium for the teacher at the front of the classroom with a projector. The professor handed out note pages to the students in the front to pass back to all of the students. The professor wrote on a tablet during the class and the notes were projected onto the projector for the students to be able to see. The rest of classroom…

1. Three observable actions that I can take at an individual and personal level that I plan on implementing from now until the last week of classes are: to put myself into situations where I will meet people from other cultures and backgrounds, listen to people tell their stories to better appreciate their experiences, and note differences in the values people hold, and actions they take, in order to better understand my own values, and be open to the possibility that there may be more effective…

To humans who live on Earth, we perceive Earth as a large mass of land that has been around for about 4.6 billion years. But the Earth is only a small part of what makes up the Universe. Earth is located in the Milky Way Galaxy, and contains billions of stars, which is only a small fraction of the 100 billion galaxies. While the Universe has been around for roughly 13.82 billion years, everyday we learn more and more about the complexities that were once hidden from us. One of the main things…

Page 15 of 18 Forever Unintelligible Gardner allows that humans have wonderful brains, that we can invent thinking machines, microscopes and any number of intelligence-enhancers, but he says there are still limits, hard limits. Just as "there is no way to teach calculus to a chimp, or even make it understand the square root of 2," he writes, "surely there are truths as far beyond our grasp as our grasp is beyond that of a cow." He concedes that once upon a time humans were chimp-like and over…

Something pulls at my heart when I look into the stars. Something in the great beyond pulls at me, calling me, begging me to claim it as my own. Something in the great nothingness that envelopes our tiny planet is beckoning me. Maybe it’s nothing. Maybe it’s a fool’s hallucination, the manifestation of a child’s dream. Maybe it is a call that was meant to be answered by men and women far greater than I’ll ever be. Maybe the signal got lost on it’s way to find Earth’s next great hero and instead…

The common thoughts behind Marx’s philosophy is that he desires something like that which is observable in Communist Russia. The current view of the Communist Manifesto is one with great disdain. It is one of the reasons why there have been such notable failures in some large governments. People see the failed “experiment” that was communist China under Mao and the lasting struggle in Russia under Putin. These are all what come to mind when people begin to think of Marx. Marx was not striving…

How does stress increase the chance of group conflict? Stress increases the chance of group conflict because when we are under stress it can causes our commination and listening skills to suffer. When you are stress you often don’t listen to what others have to say and you are more likely to be verbally aggressive. When you or your group are under stress you have difficulty meeting due dates and constantly have disagreements on everything. Being stressed can affect the way you look at situations…

This week’s assignments covered A Relias Module, the Graphing Assignment and a Team Discussion with Summary. The Relias Module was on Functions of Behavior and FBAs. The information presented is preparing the students for upcoming assignments. The Module covered Task List I01, I03, I04 and I06. The video covered operational definitions which are observable and measurable. The module allowed me to watch videos and determine which definition best fit the observable and measurable criteria. This…

trap to make them astray from their religion. Observable versus Internal Psychologists come out with their theories based on what they are believed. In term of observable behavior and internal mental processes, some of them believed either one of the two or both. Psychologists who are believe in only observable behavior will not approved the existence of mind while the psychologist who are believe in internal mental processes believe in the existence of mind. But there are also theories that…

mentions numerous times that it is very possible that a given theory or set of theories may very well be false. He offers an alternative proposition, stating “we are always willing to believe that the theory which best explains the evidence, is empirically adequate.”1 Here he is basically using a traditionally realist idea to justify an anti-realist claim, that being the notion that a theory that is superior in its explanatory nature is empirically adequate. The importance of empirical adequacy…