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- What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design? Does having a pet increase the owner’s lifespan?
- What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate? The lifespan of a pet owner.
- What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc) A correlational design will best suit this experiment.
- What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)A survey will be used to conduct the experiment.
- If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables? The independent variable will be the whether or not someone has a pet(s) and the dependent variable will be the person’s current or full lifespan.
- Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find. I predict that pet owners will have a longer lifespan on average that non pet owners.
- What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it? Non owners will have more of an incentive to have pets, therefore benefiting animal adoption agencies as well as current pet owners.
- Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?
- There can be some trouble defining what a pet is? A pet is usually defined as an animal companion. But companionship can be difficult to measure. Some people decide to keep dogs and cats. While others decide to keep more exotic pets such as scorpions, spiders, snakes, etc. Furthermore there are some pets that are easily capable of inflicting fatal damage to their owners. For example, the owners of alligators are placing themselves and their families in a high risk of danger. Some owners may feel unmotivated to complete the survey, therefore the results may be not be an accurate sample of the population.
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Hello my name is Victor Huang. I am currently a sophomore in Baruch college. I work part time and come to school full time. I intend to either major in accounting or finance. So far, my sophomore is going well. A bit about me is that I keep many aquarium fish.
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"1. After reading the reflection writer’s description, what do you think was happening to them during the meditation on a physiological level?
During the meditation, the circulatory system was pumping extra blood to the large muscles to meet the demands of the oxygen required to move them. In addition, the hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis or HPA acts as a catalyst for the production of the stress hormone, cortisol. The purpose of cortisol is to mobilize the body’s energy resources during times of stress.
2. Based on your readings throughout the semester, what areas of their central and peripheral nervous systems may have been affected during the meditation?
The adrenal medulla was affected due to the buildup in stress that ultimately resulted in the release of norepinephrine to increase the heart rate, respiration, and the blood pressure.
3. What questions do you have for the writer about their experience?
I want to ask how long he practiced the meditation technique. Was in it multiple sessions or in one sitting? I also want to ask whether or not he can recommend the same meditation technique to other Baruch students overwhelmed by stress.
4. Based on the description provided, would you be open to trying the same meditation exercise?
I would not be open to trying the same meditation technique because I am also a person who fidgets a lot. When I revaluate all my stressors, I am reminded of the anxiety that troubles me. As a result, I feel even more anxious about the current week and the following week."
posted on Nov 29, 2011, on the post Meditation… really? Fine… I’ll try it."1. What is your reaction to the choices made by the author of this Reflection in terms of which memories they chose to keep and which memories they are discarding?
I am surprised the author did not choose to edit out bad memories. I have many bad memories that make me feel self conscious about myself. In addition, these negative memories bring me tremendous amounts of grief every time I begin to even ponder about them.
2. How would you feel if this friend did not remember you (imagining that you are their longtime friend)?
I would not be worried at all, if I was their longtime friend, she should eventually remember because I made such an impact on her life.
3. What role might you play in helping them reconstruct their memory?
I would try to help them remember, but I will not plant any false memories.
4. Based on what you’ve learned in class and through your readings, what memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval techniques might you use or teach to help this person recover and reintegrate their memories?
I would try my best to tell the person about our past experiences together because I’m not the kind of person that takes a lot of pictures. If my stories are not accurate, I can plant false memories into the person’s conciseness. In addition, I would show the person her own facebook page."
posted on Oct 30, 2011, on the post Starting Over"What kinds of video games. Strategy, first person shooter, role playing, puzzle, action adventure, etc?"
posted on Oct 8, 2011, on the post gaming and grades"Almost all my friends come from lower income families then I do, but a good amount do better than me academically and on standardized tests."
posted on Oct 8, 2011, on the post Family Income and Grades"5 star post!"
posted on Sep 21, 2011, on the post Hi hi everyone!"5 star post! but since you wrote it, I can only give you 0 stars... sorry"
posted on Sep 19, 2011, on the post Hello!"You mean Siamese fighting fish? They call them betta fish because the scientific name is Betta splendens. I have two right now, very fun to keep."
posted on Sep 19, 2011, on the post Hello!"Hello. My name is Victor and I'm the person you bought the law1101 book from."
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