Priming

Li, S., & Brown, C. M. (2014). Activating Different Attributional Patterns in Chinese Bicultural Individuals with Language Cues. Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 19(4). Li and Brown focused on the how the effects of language would influence attributional patterns in Chinese bicultural individuals, who resided in Western countries. The independent variable is language and it is operationally defined as an effective cue that has commonly been used to initiate corresponding constructs…

You Are Not So Smart is a book written by David McRaney filled with many of the underlying thoughts we think we know or know about ourselves. The main theme of this book is to showcase the truth about the obliviousness that you have about yourself, action, and how that affects the things that you do. The book title and the book itself, is not meant to make you feel unwise; it’s meant to make you think and explain how your mind works and help you better understand yourself and human nature.…

Alfred Hitchcock was a film director from England who moved the United States in 1939. He was famously known as the “Master of Suspense”. Hitchcock’s golden years of his cinema career were from the 1950’s to the 1960’s. During this time, he made various famous films, such as Vertigo, North by the Northwest, and Psycho. When we compare these films it’s hard to find something they might have in common. Each film has different lighting effects, colors, and types of shots. Hitchcock utilizes mise en…

people to speak: Ask questions to get things rolling, mirror to confirm feelings, paraphrase to acknowledge the story, and if the other person continues to hold back, take your best guess at what they may be thinking and feeling. This is known as priming. It is appropriate and helpful, in the right manner, to take your best shot at identifying the thoughts and emotions that might be taking place. These are all useful skills that we can use when we need to help others express what led them to…

A Woman’s Guide to Lawn Care Outdoor work activities: everybody does them to some degree. Sometime they are unpleasant, sometime they are more unpleasant, sometime the activities are actually fun, even enjoyable. Outdoor work activities typically have a purpose, and when that purpose is personally beneficial, the work can be gratifying. Yard work has stereotypically been a man’s obligation; however what if there are no men in the household? These days it is more common for a woman to be the…

What differs from a photo of nature out in the sun with a photo of nature glared from the moon? Depth. The sun holds emphasis on light that contract to the environment which makes them glow. Therefore, the nature that is shown encaptures the distance from the camera to everything in front with the sun as its boundary. The moon works the same way except it overpowers what’s in front by censoring nature with darkness, making the photo apparent only to the moon than everything else surrounding it.…

Suppose we have a certain segment of a DNA molecule ,a gene for example that we want to amplify ,that is make many identical copies of that gene of interest, one way is to basically take that gene to integrate it into a bacterial plasmid to place that recombinant plasmid into a bacterial cell and to allow that bacterial cell to divide many times and eventually make many copies of that gene of interest. The problem with this particular method is that it is not only time consuming and not only is…

creating a link between action and outcome that gets laid down in memory. When this pleasant affective tone (or absence of an unpleasant affective tone) passes, one is left with “pain, distress and despair” of its absence, thus completing one cycle and priming the individual for the next time they encounters a similar sensory stimulus (Paticca-samuppada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of Dependent Co-arising…

Essentially, the response prepares the body to either fight or flee the threat. It is also important to note that the response can be triggered due to both real and imaginary threats. By priming your body for action, you are better prepared to perform under pressure. The stress created by the situation can actually be helpful, making it more likely that you will cope effectively with the threat. This type of stress can help you perform better…

Melissa Cavello came in for an appointment concerning a severe break out of acne covering her face and shoulders. Background information for her includes fourteen years old, no allergies, no previous diagnosis, vital signs were normal were within normal range, weight being 135lbs, and acne has become progressively worse over the past three months. Her history includes that she has visited multiple other doctors that have only ruled out any hormonally issues that may result in acne. The doctor…