Category: school
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Those germans
A brief quote I got last night while reading the fervently devout correspondence between Charles Peirce -u.s. scientist- and Victoria Welby – english writer. Welby to Peirce Duneaves, Harrow, England December 4th 1903 I am going to send a type-written bit of my last night’s lecture as soon as I can get it done. We…
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Fixed Response Lab Report
Yong Ho Kim March 10, 2003 1. Describe your rat’s progress during shaping. A mistake in the experimenter’s side must be firsthand explained in order to make sense of the rat’s behavior. I understood that the rat was not being given water until it pressed the lever by itself and assumed that the light was…
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life just goes
The week turned out alright. Thursday’s interview was smooth, thought it was more like “Oh my God, finally a volunteer! Please work for us” thing.. Irma invited for Coffee, and we talked about the kind of stuff done in the internship. It’s mostly white people (she calls them aglo-saxon, or aglosajones.. even though I thought…
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Personality Assessment Assignment
Yong Ho Kim, April 29th 2003 1. What are some criticisms of trait theory in general? Possible criticisms include that subjects can falsify answers because the result of a personality test can be personally important to them, that very often the questions are culture-specific, and that subjects across different cultures don’t necessarily present the same…
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Depth of Processing Assignment
April 4th, 2003 Yong Ho Kim Kalat (2002) summarizes the traditional consensus in the psychological community regarding short-term and long-term memory. Short-term memory is a “temporary storage of the information that someone has just experienced’ and long-term memory is “a relatively permanent store of mostly meaningful information”. Additionally, short-term memory stores up to seven (plus…