PERTH & KINROSS: DIVERSITY DEMOGRAPICS Q. Assess the demographic profile of Perth and Kinross as evidenced in the 2001 council census. How might this demographic profile impact on community care? The most important revelation of the Scottish Census of April 29th 2001 was that the ethnic minority population of Scotland had risen by 63% between […]
The Fallacy of the American Dream in Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” Essay
The Roaring Twenties, The Jazz Age; these were just some of the names for the 1920s. However, all those fancy names do not actually describe the essential motivations of the people in the 1920s. In actuality, the 1920s were an age of conformity, false aspirations due to the American dream, and the obsession with social […]
Petrogenesis of the Basalts From Lanjiafan Formation
Chapter 5: Petrogenesis of the basalts from Lanjiafan Formation and Evaluation of Tectonic setting Most trends on variation diagrams are the result of mixing. Below consider some of the more important mixing process. 5.1 Alteration It is observed from the field evidence as well as petrography that the studied basalts are experienced varying degrees of […]
Effect of Alcohol on Reaction Times: Experiment
The experiment tested whether alcohol had any effect on reaction time.Abstract Objective: The experiment tested whether alcohol had any effect on reaction time. Method: Subjects were required to identify the threshold at which a flickering light became constant (critical flicker fusion threshold) using a computerised flicker fusion system. Frequency increased at a rate of 4 […]
Word frequency and generation effect in free recall
The area of cognitive psychology which is interested in generation effect is quite wide. Many experiments were done but also many theories made on them. To widely examinee the whole subject about generation effect in free recall, it has to be explained what generation effect means. Very meaningful experiment was done by Slamecka and Graf […]
Cognitive Processing and The Stroop Effect
The area of study was cognitive processing. The aim of the experiment was to determine if there was a positive cognitive skill difference when a participant was given a matching variable of colours and words compared with a non-matching variable of colours and words. This is related to the Stroop Test published in 1935. The […]
Socio-demographic Characteristics of Therapy Users
Executive summary of findings There seems to be an underrepresentation of people over 60 years old when compared with the prevalence of mental health problems common for this age group and the available ethnic data is mostly consistent with data from other audit samples (NAPT). In terms of waiting time, the standard was met for […]
Social Consensus Information Influence on Helping Behaviour
In today’s context, individuals tends to display more helping behaviours towards an aid appeal program when they have strong social consensus information as it has an impact towards individuals’ pro-social behaviour (Bekkers & Wiepking, 2011). Many past research conducted on social consensus information with outcome indicating that individuals with strong consensus knowledge has an positive […]
Responding to congruent stimuli quicker than incongruent stimuli
This experiment was conducted to prove that an individual responds to congruent stimuli quicker than they would to incongruent stimuli. The hypothesis was proven wrong when it the experiment showed that the participants responded quicker to the incongruent stimuli rather than the congruent stimuli. The participants took part in the experiment via a computer at […]
Relationship between Yoga and Life Satisfaction | Methods
Criterion-related Validity: Satisfaction With Life Scale correlated with ten other measures of subjective well-being (SWB). Most measures correlated at an r = .50 and above (Diener and Pavot, 1993). Reliability The Satisfaction With Life Scale has shown strong internal reliability of 0.57 – 0.75 in a sample of undergraduate university students and from 0.63 – […]