Priming

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate morbidity from infection. When a sufficiently large percentage of a population has been vaccinated, this results in herd immunity. The effectiveness of vaccination has been widely studied and verified; for example, the influenza vaccine, the HPV vaccine, and the chicken pox vaccine. Vaccination is the most effective…

Our memories is what makes us, us. It is what we use to study, read, visualize or even listen. Our brain uses our memories for encoding, storing in short and long term memory boxes and retrieving from them when we need them. There are two parts of encoding, automatic processing and effortful processing. Let’s talk about automatic processing. Automatic processing processes the large amounts of info about space, time, frequency and even well-learned information. These four things are the big…

Color has been around us and even exists in educational setting. Previous studies show the debilitating effect of red on challenging mental tasks (e.g., IQ Test). Here, we hypothesized that perceiving red—a harsh color, will result in lower test scores. There were 32 university students (12 men, 20 women) in the present work. They were randomly assigned to red, blue, and white test papers. Results showed a higher group means from the red test paper condition. This discrepancy is likely due to…

African Americans had advanced toward equality in only minuscule increments while at that very moment, Asian and African nations across the ocean quickly approached independence. In this way, King slowly and steadily built tension in his audience, priming them for release. He also implemented very vivid language, making his subject and descriptions pop in such a way that was impossible to ignore. He described “blasted” hopes, the “shadow of deep disappointment,” the “disease of segregation,”…

1. There are many reasons why people believe media has an effect on them. The media as we know it is everywhere, and in many forms. We see it on the internet, on television commercials and through the ads we see on buses and newspapers. These are some reasons to believe that we can't escape the media due to the fact that it’s in front of us. In actuality, we all consume media the way that we want to see it. This is true as we pick and chose what we want to watch, and listen to which makes us…

policy. Different agencies, including Bay Area Air, are always interested in our toxic waist and hazardous materials. Unlike many other bases, Travis Air Force Base does not have a “paint barn,” basically a large hanger for the sanding, painting, and priming of aircraft. The Bio Environmental team at Travis has been harping our flight…

Television and video games have had an increasing growth in marketing, and in homes all around us. It has become an essential in many homes. Like most television and video games, it has provided a way for children and adults to amuse themselves. The area in which I would like to focus on in particular is youth. The video games that hit the store, are zombie related, gun related and usually have some concept of violence as well as television. With television being unsupervised it is easy for a…

Memory is the mechanism through which one forms and alters their identity, and it is this inherent idea that is explored in Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, depicting a former insurance claims investigator, Lenny, on the hunt for the murderers of his wife while suffering from anterograde amnesia due to traumatic brain injury at the hands of the murderers. While Memento is not the first film to utilize amnesia as a plot device, it does deserve exceptional recognition for portraying the…

Individual Reflection Throughout the production of the video and group report, I contributed in terms of ideas generation and carrying out the plans. During the initial stage of the video production, we discussed as a group on the social issue to focus on. I suggested a few ideas and shared justifications as well as some scenes I have in mind for each idea. After we finalized the social issue I participated in the discussion to form our story plot by suggested some scenes and shooting angles…

chapter 2 of Blink, “Malcolm Gladwell explores many different examples based on snap judgement, which is extremely quick, because it is based off of the thinist slice of information. One of the examples Gladwell explores that stood out to me would be priming, and the example in the book had students go through a set of five words, ten sets of them, and they were broken into two groups. In both groups, the students were suppose to make four word sentences out of the five sets of words and they…