Compare and Contrast the radio documentaries Sweet Sorrow and Island Footprints. What are their strengths and limitations as historical accounts? The radio documentaries presented by the ABC’s Hindsight program include Island Footprints‚ about the “Kanakas” or South Sea Islanders used for labour in Queensland‚ and Sweet Sorrow‚ about the Indo-Fijians and “Garmit” where Indians were brought to Fiji by the British‚ similarly for indentured labour. Island Footprints was produced to document the
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Summer reading assignment 2013 Units 1 through 3 Unit 1: Psychology’s History and Approaches What is Psychology? Psychology is the science of behaviour and mental processes. Psychology’s common questions are: How do our minds work? How do our bodies relate to our minds? How much of what we know is already present/is acquired through experience? Psychology’s Roots: Asia/Middle East In India‚ Buddha focused on how sensations and perceptions combine to form ideas. In China‚ Confucious
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process‚ they are unlikely to lead to errors. Answer: True False Diff: 1 Page Ref: 88 Objective: 3.1 10. Decision makers who "cherry-pick" information that matches what they already know are guilty of confirmation bias. Answer: True False Diff: 1 Page Ref: 88 Objective: 3.1 11. A basketball coach who takes a very good shooter out of a game because she missed
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brought up myths about what employers look for in resumes and he used interviews with current employers. It really gives a sense of what current companies look for. The most important message I thought came from the end. Kawasaki supplied his hindsights for life. Why is this the most important message for me? It comes from his real life experiences. They are battle tested opinions that can be agreed with or not agreed with. I
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Throughout his anthology Birthday Letters‚ which is an address to his dead wife Sylvia Plath‚ Ted Hughes develops a perspective which cultivates the sympathy of the responder. Conflicting perspectives are evident in the interplay between memory and hindsight‚ the opposing personas of Hughes and Plath‚ and the inconsistency between appearance and reality. The form and content of this anthology is indicative of Hughes’ attempt to publicly impose his perspective upon his relationship with Plath; a perspective
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SEP 2012 Managing Biases in Strategic Judgment Managing Biases in Strategic Judgment Professor Ilya Strebulaev © Ilya Strebulaev 2012 SEP 2012 Managing Biases in Strategic Judgment © Ilya Strebulaev 2012 SEP 2012 Managing Biases in Strategic Judgment Heuristics and Rules of thumb • People rely on various heuristics when making most decisions –Evolutionary reasonable strategy –Helpful but can lead to severe errors –Can result in biases –People are unaware of using heuristics
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school. The second part argues the difference between copies and reconstructions of an episode. Copies are clear memories of an episode that contain lots of sensual properties. Reconstrucions on the other hand‚ use interpreations with the help of hindsight to create new information and are not true to the original memory. The third part explains how memories could be specific or generic. Specific memories are recollections of certain events such as your 10th birthday. Generic memories are more vague
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Enduring Love Narrative Techniques Chapter 19 – The pre-warning Page 163 Joe uses a range of symbols in this chapter; one of the symbols used is colour. Colour is used to give the reader a clue of what will happen soon. This is shown when Joe says‚ ‘in memory‚ all the food they brought us first was red‚’ the use of a colour to remember a part of Joe’s memory gives the reader the impression that the colour symbolises a feeling or emotion that Joe may have felt. ‘Red’ in this case could represent
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Throughout crime statistics‚ crimes of the powerful‚ for example white collar‚ corporate and state crimes seem to be almost non-existent. Over the last few decades crimes of the powerful are beginning to gain some sort of emphasis with regards its recognition. Crimes of the powerful have been gaining awareness since approximately the mid 1980’s. For example legislations towards corporations have been changed‚ gradually establishing criminal categories. Relatively recently it has been recognised that
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investing should not play a role in setting securities prices; but when herding occurs‚ all individuals act identically‚ thus avoiding the comparison between the most and least successful. Subjects display less regret when the bias affects a large number of people (regret bias). Consequently‚ herding behavior will depend not only on the uncertainty present in the market‚ but also on each investor’s individual perception of the level of uncertainty surrounding them. Thus‚ in the same informational context
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