The Observer

focus of the work itself. It is also a self-portrait; Velazquez is the artist at work with his brush and palette poised with his canvas standings before him. At first it seems as though the figures and the artist are looking out at the observer and the observer…

Children exhibit a wide array of significant and fascinating behaviors throughout childhood. These behaviors are essential to their growth and can characterize their entire childhood. Studying and analyzing the behavior of children during childhood development will lead to a deeper understanding of how kids grow physically, emotionally, cognitively and socially. Observing a child in their natural setting is a superb way to examine and track specific behaviors. For this project I observed a male,…

In the article, The Science Of ‘Paying It Forward’, Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy tackles on the actions of the individuals and the corresponding relationship between the observers and receivers. They recruited over 600 participants from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for their experiment. To their surprise, they encountered what’s known as the “bystander effect.” Once someone receives help from a person, the bystander reads the situation as if there’s no need of additional help, thus leading to…

of the class and be based on the nineteen items under the Instruction, Planning, and Environment rubric. The TEAM system calls for, “at least half of all observations will be unannounced” (MeasuringTeacherEffectiveness). After each evaluation, the observer will hold a meeting with the educator where they will receive written feedback and details of the…

1-CHICKEN VISION Visual colour experience is calculated by photoreceptor neurones known as Cones. The purpose of cones is to transform different wavelengths of light into signals to simulate biological processes. Each cone confers the ability to distinguish around one hundred shades. Trichromatic organism combine Red, Green and Blue colour to achieve a total of 1003 shades. In Di-chromatic individuals the possible combinations drops a factor making a total of 10.000 possible shades. Humans hold…

recounting his time in the war to a curious college student who wished to know about his time working alongside the physicist that is attributed with the discovery of the Schwarzschild Radius. Willis uses comparisons such as temperature, what an observer would see when a black hole collapses, and the lack of information that can get in and out of the war zone and black holes as ways to connect a black hole to war. In the story, during the recounting of Rottschieben’s experience in the war his…

Many optical illusions take advantage of our perception, being a "construction project" and our brain constantly trying to estimate the best guess, leading for us to be easily tricked. The moon illusion is an optical illusion which causes the moon to appear larger near the horizon than it does higher up in the sky. One of the most famous illusion and most widely discussed has been the so called "Moon Illusion". For many years psychologists have known about this and have proposed many theories to…

We can accept the null hypothesis that the administering of Naloxone reduces the behavior of play, which represents a specific inhibition of behavior. This can further be understood by when an opioid antagonist (Nalaxone) is administered to a rat it reduces social behavior (pins), but does not produce nonspecific inhibition of behavior (rears). Evidence is consisted with a study that was conducted by Vanderschuren, Niesink, and Van Ree that examined the significance of social play behavior in…

To understand how automated behavior analysis would work, it is appropriate to first take a step back and review the basics of video surveillance. Although the application of video surveillance varies from system to system, Taha et al. (2014) cite six consecutive steps required for a general video surveillance system (p. 22). Figure 1 depicts the six steps, their relation to one another and what each step seeks to accomplish. When combined, these steps build upon the previous to…

activity session lasting 30-minutes or longer in duration. Failure to complete minimum duration required resulted in the loss of opportunity to retrieve item, two consecutive failed attempts resulted in the permanent loss of one item selected by the observer. On day 10 there was a return to baseline and the participant was informed contract contingencies were not in effect and she was free to engage in physical activity as desired. She was asked to continue logging physical activity if it…