Merry and Jolly December 24, 2008
Posted by myth in Creation, Scrambled eggs, ramblings.Tags: random
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Holidays are a weird season for me. It seems all things tend to be magnified during these brief periods in our lives. The slightly funny PJ by your friend suddenly secures a howling laughter, your ever smiling neighbor starts showering hugs and merries on you, your annoying little friend seems to be Grinch personified , you get the picture right? Well if you dont, it means you are still sane and jolly, kudos my friends. People seem to embrace Holidays as the on escape from the daily mundane life, a period when indulgence and bliss are to found withough guilt tagging along the sidewalk. And Nostalgia, people seem to be in the good days and remember the good ole days. It fun to tell tales of all the fun we had for th epast Holidays, all the jokes, pranks, gifts, family outings (Yes even they turn a nice shade of pink and feel longing for, i said holidays are weird)
“Everyone likes to think that in the past everything was so quaint, so charming. Neighbors knew each other. Kids didn’t have sex. It’s a freakin’ fairy-tale. Life sucked then, too. It just sucked without indoor plumbing.”` Luke Danes
What we have to do for Grades December 3, 2008
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An excerpt from a submission that would effectively provide a grade that would be reviewed by erstwhile fat I banks to decide if i can join the frat boys club and smoke cuban cigars some day
CASE STUDY in LOGIC of GENERALIZASTION
We can observe few students in a classroom arriving at Generalizations, to understand the concept. For example a group of 8-9 year olds, working in a mathematics class provide the basis for understanding the idea of Generalization
Students are given a number sequence of the form: 1,2,4,7,11
When the question of finding the next term is put forward, they try to identify a pattern amongst the numbers present. Once the pattern is identified, they make it a general rule and apply to find the next term. Hence the facts are that the terms have a difference as such: 1,2,3,4. Once these facts are obtained the students proceed to apply the generalization and figure the next difference must be “5” and hence the number must be 16
Here, the students formulated a general concept by generalizing from the common properties of instances provided.
CASE STUDY in STIMULUS GENERALIZATION
Observing the behaviour of few people around, performing their daily activities and observing their response to stimulus can be prime examples for understanding stimulus Generalization. The main idea is to observe a pattern in behaviour and identify the stimuli associated with the pattern. Next various conditions can be stimulated to observe how the subjects react and associate new activities to the existing patterns and in turn how they generalize. This can lead to identification of various definitions of Generalization provided in the start
Subject A has been suffering from a mild case of viral fever for a week. Over the weeks period the subject is prescribed to consume only few loaves of bread and milk, by the family doctor. For over a period of seven days, the subject consumes around 3 loaves of bread every meal. Making it about 84 loaves of bread for the whole duration of his sickness. Once the patient is fully recovered and a period of 1 month has been passes since he has reverted back to a regular diet. When provided with an option of eating a sandwich, the Subject declines most of the time. This is classic example of generalizing based on the stimulus. The Subject A has associated “Bread” with “Sickness” and hence avoids any food material that provokes the thought of “Bread” and hence” sickness”. This is an classic example of TATSTE AVERSION
Findings from the case study and implications
i. Humans can recognise a common pattern by generalizing
ii. Humans tend to associate a particular stimulus with the rest of its kind by generalizing
The case studies, though minor in their sample size, are valid as they have been observed in general life by almost every one of us. The conclusions drawn are unique in nature
· We are examining the idea of GENREALIZATON while applying GENRALIZATION to the case study
· The conclusions drawn might as well be subject to the same deficiencies that the general logic of GENERALIZATION might subject it to.
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