Scales

For over a century, the question of what “causes” homosexuality has been preoccupying the minds of scientists and scholars alike. Those whose occupations range from medicine to neuroscience to cultural to cultural and behavioral studies. Is sexual orientation a factor we can determine before birth? Or is it something that is influenced your environment and surrounding factors in your life? Do people in the LGBTQIA+ community choose their identity or are they born with it? Many scientists,…

not to get demotivated when you see the scale jump a pound or two overnight. The scale probably isn’t lying to you, but these daily fluctuations have little to do with fat gain and more to do with your hydration levels, exercise intensity, bathroom habits and what you have had to eat. When you weigh yourself, always remember that your weight is more than just fat and muscles. You have many other things in your body that affect what you weigh on the scales. Daily weight fluctuations are…

A familiar proverb asserts that “power corrupts” but could corruption also signify power? The study “Breaking the Rules to Rise to Power: How Norm Violators Gain Power in the Eyes of Others” hypothesized that the act of violating a norm fuels an individual’s perceived power because it implies that an individual has the power to act according to their own volition despite societal pressure. To investigate this theory, the team authored four studies. Yielding power involves being uninfluenced by…

Narrowing down their findings from 49,000 to 905, they labeled each remaining dream in specific categories: aggression, anxiety, and intimacy. They used scales to measure each of these categories in the dream, and also to detect the source, the type, and the targets of the aggression. Aggressive dreams were scaled by The Aggressive Interactions Scale, developed by Hall and Van de Castle in 1996. It was used to record several different components of aggression: the initiator of the aggressive…

rate on 7-point scale what is my commitment to this magazine asking if I have regular subscription or do I buy that magazine rarely (Swiatkowski). Secondly, I was given a scale where I was supposed to reveal if I have any concern with dieting and fear of weight gain. This scale included 8 different items where I needed to answer if, for example, I often think about dieting or feel guilty for overeating. Another question was related to body satisfaction that included 1-5 scale where I needed…

Psychological assessment measurements are appraised based on two key measurement constructs: reliability and validity. Reliability of an assessment denotes how consistent the test scores are after repeated executions of the assessment. The reliability of an assessment is necessary and is a foundation to build upon for validity. Validity is the second key measurement construct that deals with the degree to which “the evidence exists to support the various inferences, interpretations,…

Exploration Of Tonality And The Pentatonic Scale Blossoms on a Moonlit River has been written in G major, and this is known from an author’s note written above the stave and the key signature (Fig 2a). It has been written with diatonic numerical notation using the numbers 1 to 7, and the number 0 represents a rest. The piece is tonal centred, and relies on a major pentatonic scale consisting of G, A, B, D and E (Fig 2b) and this is close to the western Mixolydian scale (Fig 2c). In Blossoms on…

The different measuring tests used in the study included, the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17), the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale (GAF), and the Flanker task. The first test to be used was the Beck Depression Inventory-II. The BDI-II measures the severity of depression an individual has. The test scores the individual from a range of zero to sixty-three…

Emotional awareness theory states that individuals with alexithymia are unable to cognitively identify feelings by recognizing physiological signs of emotions (Shishido, Gaher, & Simons, 2013). Bagby and colleagues developed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) to assess the three components of alexithymia: difficulties identifying feelings, difficulties describing feelings, and externally oriented thinking (Nowakowski,…

Introduction The Morse Fall Risk Assessment is used to identify risk factors for falls. It is most important to identify and plan care for risk factors, but the total score may also be used to predict future falls. This tool takes less than three minutes to complete and is administered by a registered nurse. It is combined with a clinical assessment and review of medications to assess the patient’s risk for falls. The tool should be administered at least once a day and also if there is a change…