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Stress In College Students
1,508 wordsCollege students all stress out about one situation / life generality or another. Some of these situations / life generalities are individuation, computer anxiety, ethnic and gender roles in student-athletes, and mathematics anxiety. There have been many studies looking at stress in college students. At one time or another, college students are forced to deal with a stressful situation. Stress, in this paper, is defined as the level of discomfort felt in response to events perceived as overwhelm...
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Individual Differences Stimulus Response
3,758 words... STRACTS UPDATED 4 /may/ 99 (Contact David Washburn for reprints and related publications) Supported by grants from NASA, NICHD, ARI, ARO, ONR, USAF Washburn, D. A. , & Putney, R. T. (1999, June). Attention Profiles of Working Memory. Paper at the meeting of the American Psychological Society. Although each construct has its own literature, phenomena, and theories, it is widely recognized that attention and working memory are integrally related. Individual differences in serial probe recognit...
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Standard Deviations Ethnic Identity
5,340 words... ences is not expected to differ as a result of group membership. To test this hypothesis, mean response selection times for correctly identifying OLD and correctly rejecting Idea Set and NEW sentences will be required. Group differences will be considered as significant if an alpha level of. 05 is obtained. Participants were tested individually and were paid for their participation. After providing written, informed consent, each volunteer was given the screening packet to determine eligibil...
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Fast Food Nation U S Food
1,677 words... bsp; A study conducted by the U. S. Food Supply series reported per capita nutrients and food available for consumption from the years 1909, 1945, 1975, and 1999 (Bente and Gerrior, 2002). Though this survey does not measure actual consumption, it serves as a useful summary of probable nutrient levels in the United States for these four years. Food was divided into categories of meat and alternatives, milk and milk products, vegetables, fruits, and grains. Some notable trends include a decre...
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Lean Body Mass Urine Samples
1,131 words... n. We conducted a non blinded study that was divided in three experiments to investigate the objectives set (figure 1). Experiment 1: Total body composition and anthropometry. Experiment 1 was designed to investigate changes of body composition and anthropometric measurements in strength athletes induced by self-administered AAS. Body composition and dimensions were assessed by taking seinfeld thicknesses and circumferences, respectively. Measurements were taken before the start of AAS use (...
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Southwest Windpower Inc Part 1
2,085 wordsSouthwest Windpower Inc. History Southwest Windpower Inc. was founded in Arizona in 1987 by David Calley and Andy Kruse, who were able to recognize business opportunities, related to manufacturing wind-power electrical turbines, intended to be used on individual basis. In 1986, Calley invented a 300 watt wind generator, called Windseeker, which Southwest Windpower Inc. began producing in 1987, to address the demand for such generators in predominantly rural areas. The production of Windseeker co...
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Testosterone Levels Aggressive Behavior
2,693 wordsSports and Aggression A Research Paper Presented to a In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for English 1 By Period 1 March 27, 2000 Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical assault based on total disre...
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Significantly Higher Gender Differences
1,971 wordsDifferences in Visual Spatial 1 Running head: The differences in visual spatial ability among females and males The differences in visual spatial ability among females and males: Does practice have an effect on performance? Scott D. Singleton Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire Differences in Visual Spatial 2 Abstract Many scientists have studied the sex differences in spatial abilities. Different designs of testing have been used to test this subject. A simple Mental Rotation Test (MRT) w...
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Fossil Fuels Toxic Waste
5,812 wordsEvironmentalism: The Next Step Broad Social Change Through Personal Commitment Introduction In the last thirty years, America has witnessed an environmental revolution. New laws like the 1963 Clean Air Act and the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act forged new ground in political environmentalism. Social phenomena like Earth Day, organized by Dennis Hayes in 1970, and the beginning of large-scale recycling, marked by Oregon's 1972 Bottle Bill, have help change the way Americans think about the environm...
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Null Hypothesis Insurance Rates
2,050 wordsABSTRACT The problem under investigation is to determine whether or not there is a statistically significant difference in the insurance rates by company and driver type. Data on the insurance rates were obtained from the Missouri Department of Insurance. The two-way analysis of variance procedure was used to reach valid conclusions. The study concluded that there is actually no difference in insurance rates among companies, but a difference in insurance rates among driver types. Therefore, ther...
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Nomadic Tribes Byzantine Empire
4,335 wordsIslamic Conquests Up To 700 A. d. Islamic Conquests Up To 700 A. d. Islamic Strengths / Roman Weaknesses? In the two decades after the Byzantine occupation of Ctesiphon in 629 the newly formed Islamic state had destroyed the Sasanian Empire whilst severely damaged the Byzantine Empire. ? These gains were by no means temporary. ? Indeed our period sees the strengthening and expansion of these gains into northern Africa and the Mediterranean Islands. Yet, before Muhammad? s extraordinary rise to p...
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Positively Correlated Heavy Drinkers
4,520 wordsAbstract In response to the need for research that incorporates multiple aspects of theory into a testable framework, this study attempted to replicate and extend the results of Cooper, Russell, Skinner, Front, and Mudar (1992). A modified stressor vulnerability model of stress-related drinking was tested in a homogeneous sample of 65 male and female undergraduate student drinkers. Total weekly consumption of alcohol was used as the criterion measure, whereas family history of alcoholism (Adapte...
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Men And Women Aggressive Behavior
2,555 wordsSport and aggressive behavior, Do sports create aggressive behavior, or simply attract people who are already aggressive? Aggression and sport have gone together as long as sports have been around, be it the players themselves, to the parents, coaches, or spectators, they just seem to be an inseparable part of each other. The term violence is defined as physical assault based on total disregard for the well being of self and others, or the intent to injure another person (2. Coakley). Intimidati...
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Young Childrens Higher Levels
2,758 wordsRunning Head: Storytelling and EmpathThe Effects of Storytelling on Expressions of Empathy in Preschool Aged Children Sarah E. Shafer Earlham Colleg Abstract The present study examined affective and cognitive empathy in preschool children. Seventeen children, ages three to five years, were given The Young Childrens Empathy Measure to determine their understanding of empathy. Participants were then read a childrens story and given the empathy measure again, to see if they expressed more empathy a...
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Young Childrens Higher Levels
2,692 wordsThe present study examined affective and cognitive empathy in preschool children. Seventeen children, ages three to five years, were given The Young Childrens Empathy Measure to determine their understanding of empathy. Participants were then read a childrens story and given the empathy measure again, to see if they expressed more empathy after hearing about a sympathetic protagonist. A second baseline score was obtained one week after the story was administered. On measures of cognitive anger, ...
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African American Students Student Athletes
1,562 wordsStress in College Students Abstract College students all stress out about one situation / life generality or another. Some of these situations / life generalities are individuation, computer anxiety, ethnic and gender roles in student-athletes, and mathematics anxiety. Introduction There have been many studies looking at stress in college students. At one time or another, college students are forced to deal with a stressful situation. Stress, in this paper, is defined as? the level of discomfort...
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