The conflicting interaction of belief-bias and logicality in syllogistic reasoning tasks Abstract The study conducted replicated Evans (1983) experiment to investigate the presence of believe-bias in syllogistic reasoning tasks‚ using an equal number of male and female participants to avoid gender differences in the results. The findings showed there was an interaction between believability and logicality‚ suggesting that dual-processing theories influenced the results
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Shock Waves (2009) 19:453–468 DOI 10.1007/s00193-009-0220-z ORIGINAL ARTICLE Some physical aspects of shock wave/boundary layer interactions Jean Délery · Jean-Paul Dussauge Received: 9 February 2009 / Accepted: 29 June 2009 / Published online: 26 July 2009 © Springer-Verlag 2009 Abstract When the flow past a vehicle flying at high velocity becomes supersonic‚ shock waves form‚ caused either by a change in the slope of a surface‚ a downstream obstacle or a back pressure constraining the
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police-suspect interactions through language use? Word Count; 2677 Introduction Equality is a fundamental element of the English legal system yet power disparities amongst those enforcing the law and those suspected of breakingoften apparent. With Brown and Levinson’s Power and Politeness theory assessing the significant contribution language strategies have in creating such differences I have chosen to analyse how language either instils or reduces power in police-suspect interactions. The opposingroles
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Jared Wierda English 101 Dr. Brouwer April 10‚ 2011 Does the American Dream Exist? The American dream exists because everybody has a dream of what they want‚ or what they want to achieve. Americans achieve success through achieving their goals. The American dream is what gives people hope; it allows them to work hard to achieve happiness‚ and all the things that come with it. Like gaining all the things you want and need in life (Warshauer). The American dream is a big part of America’s
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NCFE level 2 Supporting Teaching and Learning in Schools WORKSHEET: URGENT MEDICAL ATTENTION; Unit 3‚ K/601/3323‚ LO 2.2; 2.3 Student’s name; Penny Nwogwugwu_______________________ List circumstances when children may require urgent medical attention: high fever MVA motor vehicular accident /multiple organ trauma burns and scald chocking eye injury e.g. black eye‚ foreign body in the eye stings and bites bleeding cardiac arrest fractures seizures (fits breathing problems
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The Role of Communication and Interpersonal Interaction in Health and Social Care Effective communication is the sending of information through verbal or non-verbal means that has not broken down at any of the key points of communication. The key points of communication are as follows: 1. Information is sent 2. Information is received through one or more of the five senses 3. Information is interpreted and understood 4. Information is returned 5. Information is received 6. Information is interpreted
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Perhaps the most complicated consequence of the interaction between the mentally ill and the criminal justice system is the reality of incarceration. Unfortunately‚ it is too often the case where a person with schizophrenia is convicted of a crime and incarcerated‚ but as a result of their mental illness negatively impacting their trial. This was the case of Theodore Kaczynski‚ a man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and accused of sending bombs through the mail. Kaczynski “continued to tell
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Technology Cannot Replace Human Interaction In our Public School System. Carolyn Mapp SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility Instructor: Thomas Reeder December 3‚ 2012 Global technological learning is restructuring and reorganizing the interacting communication skills between teachers and students. The extreme advancement of technology is causing teaching techniques to move away from the face-to-face relationship to a broader student-directed
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INTERACTION BETWEEN MUTUAL FUNDS AND MACRO-ECONOMIC VARIABLES: A GHANAIAN CONTEXT MSc FINANCIAL ECONOMICS 1 ABSTRACT This paper analyses the interaction between mutual fund prices‚ exchange rates and inflation in Ghana. The study focuses on the first and the largest equity mutual fund in Ghana known as the Databank EPACK Investment Fund. With over 50 million shareholdings and investments in 12 African countries‚ the fund is arguably the leading Pan African mutual fund. A total of
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Columbian Exchange: Chocolate (Interaction between humans and the environment) Chocolate orginated in central and South America from the cacao tree (pronounced "ka-kow"). The earliest use and cultivation of the cacao tree has been dated as far back as 1400 B.C. in Honduras‚ by the Olmecs. Chocolate was initially made into a type of beverage called xocolatl by the mesoamerican people‚ a nahuatl word meaning "bitter water" due to the cacao tree’s bitter taste when unfermented. Chocolate
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