The Number 23

Insta(Ad) In the past few years, users of social media websites such as Facebook and Instagram have experienced a sharp change in the layout and content of their pages. Now, when scrolling down through a person’s News Feed, one will stumble upon numerous advertisements, paid for by companies and placed on your feed because of your previous search or click history. These advertisements have been placed there simply because the tracking algorithm believes that the product or service it is…

Ryan Smith12/12/17Forensics Final Project Part 1 Task 1) What is the nature of the alleged crime, and how does the nature of the crime influence a prospective investigation? The Nature of the alleged crime is unauthorized access to 3 photos that belong to Brendan Oliver. The photos were stolen and are being sold without Mr. Oliver’s consent. The nature of the crime influences a prospective investigation because the photos contained some sensitive nature. Mr. Oliver sent the three photos to a…

communication, learning and gaining intellect. Many would rather use technology to store the information we need in place of using our minds, but the use of excessive technology can be disastrous. When was the last time you memorized somebody’s phone number? Do you remember multiple birthdays? Most would say they only remember about three or four birthdays besides their…

1. What is identity theft? Why is this a problem in society? identity theft is where someone get you ssn number or debit card and then say there you and buy stuff or do crimes. it is a problem because when someone take your identity you don’t know it and someone can take all your money and make you go broke and you have nothing. 2. What is phishing? it is where someone calls or emails someone to get there personal information buy acting like them. 3. What is the advertising technique of…

The article, “The Digit Span Backwards Task: Verbal and Visual Cognitive Strategies in Working Memory Assessment”, by Hilbert, Sven, Tristan T. Nakagawa, Patricia Puci, Alexandra Zech, and Markus Buhner, aims at investigating the differences in performance between visualizers and verbalizers cognitive strategies by using digit span backwards. The digit span backwards has been used for many decades to assess the working memory capacity. The concept of working memory initiates the way we are able…

Imagine this, you finally saved up enough money for a down payment on the new car you’ve always dreamed of owning. The big day arrives and you go to the dealership, test drive several cars and finally decide on the one you want to purchase. The sales person directs you to the finance department to complete the sales transaction. After filling out all the forms to get a car loan and anxiously waiting for what seems like an eternity, the salesperson delivers some horrible news to you, “You have…

19% percent of students graduating high school in America are illiterate and 32,000,000 adults can not read. The amount of food waste generated by the US could eradicate world hunger four times over and veterans who have had their legs blown off by IEDS in Afghanistan are waiting ten to fifteen years to receive their benefits after serving this country. Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized…

Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social media is not just one place it’s a network of many places on the internet that primary share information. People use it for many reasons some good some bad. It’s a place to share ideas and sometimes people turn it into a warzone. People use social media in many different ways, both good and bad, and through but negative aspects outweigh the positive.…

Memory is a process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. It is the total sum of who we are and what we know. It is also absolutely crucial in everything we do and affects how well we do it. A large variety of studies have already been conducted on memory and show that there are different types of memory. In their study, Luo and Craik (2008) looked at the effects of age on memory and found that aging contributes to increasing difficulty to complete complex memory tasks. There’s a…

seconds. There was a probe item that measured the participant’s memory for recall, with a total of 60 trials. Computer specific details were provided. The “n” key was used to start the next trial, the “m” key was used to answer yes when the probe number had appeared in the test trial and the “z” key if it had not. Procedure Every participant had to log onto the class’s subscription based website coglab.com and sign into their individual…