Shanice Addison General Psychology 1101 Deeper Exploration #4 April 1, 2013 The Truth behind the 10% Myth Over the years many people have developed theories on how they think the brain works, and the most popular one of them all is the idea that people only use ten percent of their brain. Yes, our brain is a complex and mysterious structure that process conscious and unconscious thoughts, but that doesn’t mean that we only use ten percent of our brain. The idea that we use ten percent of our brain is widespread between psychology students, well-educated people, and even some neuroscientist (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, & Beyerstein, 2010, p. 21). Psychologists and neuroscientists have spent time and effort showing that this myth cannot be possible. The sources of this myth are word of mouth, desire for easy answers and quick fix, but most of all it was spread through misleading films and media portrayals (Lilienfeld, Lynn, Ruscio, & Beyerstein, 2010, p. 9).
Wherever you go, the network follows! Hutch’s famous punch line which was adapted appropriately in its much loved advertisement turned out to be quite a pun as the ‘Merger&Acquisition‘ bug followed and finally caught up with Hutch! Following an entire battle of give and take, Vodafone acquired Hutch for a whopping 10 billion USD! Most of us would be wondering, that why at all a company should acquire a rival? What are the gains and risks involved in the entire transaction and how are mergers different from acquisitions?
Abstract In the article, Most People Are Not Weird, the authors discuss how the vast majority of experimental findings use participants who are from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic societies, which only makes up 12% of the world’s population. . Thus, generating theories that do not apply to diverse populations. Also, this prevents individuals to fully grasp human psychology and behaviour. Furthermore, to improve and create a broad representation it is suggested that editors should support various evidence, acknowledge researchers for comparing various groups, promote cross-disciplinary, cross cultural research and assess how the results apply to other population.
Jeri Rask Brad Bryan Written Communications January 30, 2012 The title of the article I chose was, Who gets welfare? Despite prevailing stereotype, whites, not blacks, collect greatest share of public aid dollars. This article was written in December of 1992, but the author was unclear and no where to be found. I believe that the main audience for this article would more than likely be people on welfare. Considering that welfare is in the title, which would catch many of those individual’s attention.
The Wikipedian Advantage On January 15, 2011, a revolutionary idea took hold—to allow anyone across the globe the ability to contribute to an online encyclopedia. No one knew if the idea would catch on or how reliable the information submitted would be. However, it was probably never suspected that today the Wikipedia project would boast over 3.5 million articles in English with as many as 75,000 contributors and most importantly a 96% accuracy rating. That being said, criticism of the project, mostly by academics, is wide spread. They point to the inaccuracies and unreliability of the content produced, which in turn misinforms students.
Beyond Reality: How Psychedelics Can Change the World for the better Imam Hassan ITT Technical Institute Beyond Reality: How Psychedelics Can Change the World for the Better Psychedelic substances have been used by humans for thousands of years if not since the beginning of recorded history. They have been used for recreation, meditation, healing and exploring the mind. From substances like Psilocybin Mushrooms to Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), these compounds seem to have a profound effect on human consciousness. The consumption of psychedelics has been a touchy and controversial subject for decades, especially since the beginning of the War on Drugs in 1971. Most people today go on throughout their entire lives from birth to death without knowing compounds like these psychedelic drugs even exist, let alone know how profoundly it can change their views on life forever.
Manage your health. Of these ten principles, developing a personal sense of time, and increasing personal effectiveness, are central to Adair, again highlighting his emphasis on individual characteristics. In Perspective It is perhaps unsurprising that there has been something of a backlash against Adair's thinking, given the pace and scale of changes in the work environment during the last twenty years. Adair's ideas were very new when they first appeared, and for many people their main value lay in the successful challenge they offered to the then-dominant Great Man theories. These theories, because they insisted that leaders were born and not made, completely undermined the possibility of training or developing people in leadership skills.
On account of frequent use the notion lost its meaning. Who confirmed that legalization leads to free drugs access? I think from this point they are legalized long ago. And I think for the time being the most important question in that issue is who, government or criminals would draw profit from this market. Approximate estimate of the revenue makes up from ten to twenty billion dollars per year.
Year 10-‘Contraversial Issue’ speech n Are we too dependent on computers? The controversial topic I have chosen to preach to you today is ‘are we too dependent on computers?’ this controversial issue has many different views. I am here to make you aware of them. Can you believe all this fuss started about forty years ago? People fifty years ago, were able to survive without computer.
The power of our current hardware might be ten orders in magnitude less than the power of the brain. Even the power of a single neuron in the human brain is still unknown. And replicating one is the ultimate task. Perhaps we might not even get there. It is possible that we are nearing the physical limits that hardware presents.