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Gone shopping at Adams Kids
On September 17, 2007 by Donncha With 1 Comments - Abstract, Candid, Canon 20D, Cork, Cross Processed, Ireland, People, Photos, Sigma 10-20, St Patrick's Street, Street, Urban
Mom and daughter hurry past on Panna after shopping in Adams Kids.
In the background is the old Dunnes Stores which has been pulled down leaving the front facing of the building and a wide swath of destruction and deconstruction behind it extending to Emmet Place.
Cross processed in the GIMP with the curves tool.
PS. Thanks to Gamma for mentioning the exhibition in Mallow too. All links and publicity are greatly appreciated!
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Got kids to be entertained in London during a summer weekend or those long summer holidays?
Whether it's animals, art or acting, a great spot for a picnic, or beautiful walks you're after, there's plenty to fill the long break from school.
Here are ten ideas for trips ranging from activities which cost nothing to those which might need budgeting for.
And remember, although London buses no longer accept cash payments, under-10s travel free on tubes and buses.
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1/10 Little Angel Theatre
Little Angel Theatre, near Angel underground station (Northern line), Islington. London's only puppet theatre exudes charm. Everything about it is tiny so it becomes a magical experience for children of all ages (and their entranced parents). This summer's shows include The Puppet Whisperer, Three Little Pigs, A Real Fairy Story and Pinocchio. The churchyard next door is laid out as a mini-park with picnic potential. www.littleangeltheatre.com
2/10 National Gallery
Because the National Gallery is free it's useful to be able to drop in for frequent short visits rather than boring children by trying to get them to gaze at paintings for too long. My younger son fell in love with Henry Rousseau's Tiger in a Tropical Storm when very young and for years we never went to central London without popping in to say hello to 'Felix's tiger'. You can do that with any painting – art history in tiny doses. Open daily 10.00-6.00 www.nationalgallery.org.uk
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3/10 London Zoo
Always a stalwart family visit. Lots to see and do – although most of the largest animals are now (rightly) at Whipsnade where there's more space. Animal adoptions and talks are good. So is the newish penguin enclosure and the gorilla section. It's open daily from 10am to 6pm and a family ticket costs £67.90 if bought online in advance. www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo
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4/10 Greenwich
An adventure for a wet day. Take the DLR to Island Gardens and walk through the iconic 1,217 feet long Greenwich foot tunnel beneath the Thames – originally built in 1902 to get workers to the docks. Once you're in Greenwich (if the rain has stopped) you have the restored Cutty Sark, Greenwich Park and The Royal Observatory to choose from. Or try the Maritime Museum if the weather remains iffy. And you can, when you're ready, return to central London via the DLR from Cutty Sark. www.royalgreenwich.gov
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Easy to access because it is very close to Bethnal Green underground station (Central line). It's not a children's museum but because it's full of toys and evocative childhood artefacts from the past there's plenty here to interest children. The building with its central, marble tiled space with café and shop is appealing too. It's open daily from 10.00 to 5.45 and admission is free. www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/
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6/10 St James's Park
Explore St James's Park with its pretty lake, fabulous water bird population (including the famous pelicans if you're lucky) and enjoy the best views of Buckingham Palace from the bridge across the lake. There is also a small sand pit and play park for youngest children. Best to do this fairly early in the morning before the tourists arrive. Picnic brunch on a bench perhaps? www.royalparks.org.uk
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Unicorn Theatre in Tooley Street near London Bridge is the capital's only purpose built children's theatre. It presents shows and other activities for young people aged 2-21. This summer's offerings include When I Think About The Universe I Laugh For No Reason and the Watch This Space festival. www.unicorntheatre.com
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Start from Embankment underground station. Cross the Golden Jubilee footbridge. Then walk the Thames Path on the south side of the Thames to Tower Bridge (about a mile and a half). Pass, and maybe pop into, Royal Festival Hall, National Theatre, Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern, with view of St Paul's across the river, Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral. www.thames-path.org.uk
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9/10 Horniman Museum
Out of the centre, at Forest Hill (Overground or 185 bus from Victoria) but well worth the journey. Lots of activities, a hands-on aquarium, famous apostle clock (strikes at 4pm), traditional and modern displays and no child ever forgets the walrus. Horniman Gardens next door are lovely to picnic in and it's all free. www.horniman.ac.uk/
10/10 Kensington Gardens
Always a favourite with children. Talk to Peter Pan's statue, take in the Diana fountain and, of course, picnic by the Round Pond. A couple of hours in Kensington Gardens could work well with a visit to one of the South Kensington museums on the same day. You can walk from one to the other in fifteen minutes or so. www.royalparks.org.uk
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BeschreibungA large part of the research currently being conducted in the fields of materials science and engineering mechanics is devoted to carbon nanotubes and their applications. In this process, modeling is a very attractive investigation tool due to the difficulties in manufacturing and testing of nanomaterials. Continuum modeling offers significant advantages over atomistic modeling. Furthermore, the lack of accuracy in continuum methods can be overtaken by incorporating input data either from experiments or atomistic methods. This book reviews the recent progress in continuum modeling of carbon nanotubes and their composites. The advantages and disadvantages of continuum methods over atomistic methods are comprehensively discussed. Numerical models, mainly based on the finite element method, as well as analytical models are presented in a comparative way starting from the simulation of isolated pristine and defected nanotubes and proceeding to nanotube-based composites. The ability of continuum methods to bridge different scales is emphasized. Recommendations for future research are given by focusing on what still continuum methods have to learn from the nano-scale. The scope of the book is to provide current knowledge aiming to support researchers entering the scientific area of carbon nanotubes to choose the appropriate modeling tool for accomplishing their study and place their efforts to further improve continuum methods.
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PortraitKonstantinos I. Tserpes is a Mechanical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Strength Prediction of Composite Materials. Currently, he is a Lecturer of Strength of Materials at the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics, University of Patras, Greece. His research interests are in the areas of Strength of Composite Materials, Strength of Bonded and Bolted Joints, Mechanical Behavior of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Nano-Reinforced Composites, Multi-scale Analysis of Materials and Structural Parts, Development of Methodologies for Relating Data from Non-destructive Testing with Numerical Strength Prediction Models as well as Strength Prediction of Corroded Aluminum Parts. He has published 1 chapter in a book, more than 30 papers in journals and more than 40 papers in Conference proceedings. He has 14 years of research experience in the area of aeronautical structures gathered through participation in national and international research projects.
Nuno Silvestre is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST - University of Lisbon, Portugal. He holds a PhD degree in Civil Engineering and has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, researching and consulting. His research interests include Nanomechanics, Simulation at Nanoscale, Behaviour of Thin-walled Structures, Nonlinear Solid Mechanics and Numerical Analysis of Structures, Structural Stability and Dynamics, and Design of Steel and FRP Composite Structures. He has more than 70 journal publications in peer reviewed journals and about 200 communications in international conferences. Professor Silvestre participated in several funded R&D projects, supervised several PhD and MSc students and received many awards from international and national institutions in recognition for his scientific achievements. He is also an esteemed member of several scientific and management committees, member of 7 editorial boards of international journals, and also a referee to more than 30 journals.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - The Osceola County School Board voted Tuesday to extend the contract of its interim superintendent.
Melba Luciano will stay on the job until at least January 2014.
She was appointed to the job in July to replace Terry Andrews.
Andrews resigned in June after some board members called for his firing.


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"Damn, he's hot." Fuuko said, pointing to a man walking down the sidewalk.
Her companion looked at her, an eyebrow raised.
"Are you jealous?" She gave him a sly grin.
"No." He averted his gaze.
"Come on, Raiha." She let out an exasperated sigh. "I'm with you, aren't I?"
He didn't answer.
"You know, I'm confident enough about my feelings for you. I trust myself to remain faithful to you and I want you to trust me, too."
Still, there was no response. She took it as encouragement to go on.
"I know it's because I've been secretly pining after Tokiya before. I thought that he was the most wonderful guy on earth. He's so hot and bad-ass and... just perfect."
Raiha stiffened, his grip on his glass tightening. Fuuko, though, took no notice of it and continued.
"He met my ideals and he's the epitome of the dashing prince charming. I thought I'd get my perfect fairytale ending with him." She prodded her strawberry cheesecake. "But I was wrong."
Because perfection is a myth, fairytales are a fallacy and idealism is a form of suicide.
He looked up to meet her gaze and saw a myriad of emotions: happiness, content, passion, love. He'd been insecure about the intensity and honesty of her feelings for him that he'd forgotten to trust her.Trust. That's one of the foundations of a strong relationship and without it, theirs would only go downhill.
It's really unfair to her, though. And really stupid of him. How could he doubt her when she's given him everything: Her first kiss, her first time, her secret pasta recipe, her favorite scarf, her mother's locket, her heart, herself, her trust?
"Fuu—" He tried to cut her off.
"No, Raiha. I want you to hear me out." And so, she continued. "Love can't be forced. I've learned that the hard way."
"I kno—"
"Getting over him has been hard. It was a long process. Long and agonizing." She smiled a little. "Though, you made it a little less painful."
He didn't continue what he was trying to say, seeing as she wasn't going to let him.
"I still love Tokiya and I don't think that'll ever change."
He just sat there, staring at her. What she said had hurt, had stung.
"I love him. I love him like I love Recca and Domon. Like a brother. Like family." She paused. "I've learned to face facts, to accept reality. I've learned to let go. I know he'll never return my affections and I'm content with just being friends with him."
"I mean, if that wasn't the case, do you think I'd be dating you?"
"But then you'll never have your fairytale ending."
She sighed. "You know, not all stories are fairytales." Her lips were graced with a contemplative smile. "But that doesn't mean they won't have a happy ending."
"What do you mean?"
It was all Fuuko could do not to roll her eyes. How could he be this dense?
"Let's face it. You're not the perfect prince charming. You're not a broody, bad-ass hottie. And you're not my first love."
His expression darkened and his eyes lost their spark.
"But you're my knight in shining armor. You're my cheerful, passionate boyfriend."
She took his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze. What she said next had been all he needed to hear.
"And you're the keeper of my heart."
You may not be the perfect man, but you're the right one for me.
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|Reviews for The Sorcerer's Secret
| Bella chapter 1 . 3/9/2013
Well that would have been kinda funny (and a bit insulting) but you insulted Merlin, to merlin fans fuck off we are in a modern society where there is no place for you're sick views
| annie chapter 1 . 1/7/2013
SHAME ON YOU! 'I find that stuff real sick and perverted...' there is absolutely nothing wrong with being gay you homophobic prat! as long as what someone is doing is not hurting anyone else, then there is nothing wrong with it. YOU ARE A REVOLTING HUMAN BEING, THERE IS LITTLE PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR SUCH NARROW MINDED RUBBISH. _
| Lucy1234554321 chapter 1 . 10/21/2012
Okayyy... Not really sure how to react to that if I'm completely honest. It probably would have been a lot more exciting if Arthur found out Merlin had magic. But I did find it VERY funny and think it should have been included in the Goblin episode in series 3! LOL!
| Yabbit chapter 1 . 7/13/2012
so wrong...
| AnJ1989 chapter 1 . 6/22/2012
Funny story and I liked it. Although your end authors note kinda comes off a little jerkish.
| merlin chapter 1 . 10/21/2011
I hated it but I love Merlin so whatever that's just me.
| Canon Corruptor chapter 1 . 6/26/2011
This was... okay, but you came off as kind of a jerk. Yes, what you wrote was essentially a crack fic. That does not mean, however, your introductory author note should insult the fandom you're writing in. (I have a similar opinion of Merlin, and even I felt insulted.)
To make matters worse, your parting words were apparently random homophobic remarks with almost no relation to the story itself. (Unless, of course, you were implying gay men frequently crossdress while singing and dancing to crappy pop songs in front of their mirrors...)
I apologize if this review comes across as a flame, as I assure you I have no intention to offend. However, I felt these things needed to be said. You are entitled to your opinions, as is everyone else, but it might be best if we didn't put them in our stories for all the world to get annoyed at.
Otherwise, nice job! '
| xEmrys chapter 1 . 6/7/2011
Firstly; I am sure a few people may have told you that Arthur hasn't actually found out about Merlin being a wizard yet, (just letting you know ). Us fans just like to write fictions about it and speculate. Haha. :D
Secondly; I need to get off because it is 00:30 here and I am laughing hysterically. (Although, sleepiness might have something to do with that) the though of Merlin dressing in frocks goes though my brain often, (blame the episodes for that! heh-heh) but I could never have even dreamed of him singing Barbie girl! Haha. Nice one.
| EpsilonFreak chapter 1 . 5/20/2011
Well... I like it, but it is kind of lame. Especially the part where the 'secret' is Merlin acting like a girl. Like I know it's a one-shot, but it needs to be much longer for it to have any purpose. PLease in the future try to do a better job. And fix your grammar!
| Owl Watcher chapter 1 . 5/18/2011
That was...Oh my.
| Tagrea chapter 1 . 5/18/2011
I like
| Aubrey-Sky-Blue chapter 1 . 5/18/2011
Hahah loved it!


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Here in Washington, congressional Republicans are promising to scrub the government for what they say are job-killing regulations. One of their primary targets is the Occupational and Safety Health Administration, or OSHA. Republicans say OSHA enacts expensive rules without regard to their effect on business. And they propose cutting its budget this year by 20 percent. The agency's director says that reduction would be devastating to its efforts to protect worker safety.
NPR's Brian Naylor has the story.
BRIAN NAYLOR: OSHA has long been on the front edge of the divide between labor and management, and Democrats and Republicans. Where during the Bush administration the agency stressed voluntary compliance with worker safety standards on the part of business, the Obama administration stepped up enforcement. It hired more inspectors and increased OSHA's budget.
Now, Republicans in control of the House are trying to push the pendulum back. As part of their drive to cut some $61 billion from federal spending in the current fiscal year, they've targeted OSHA for a $99 million reduction.
OSHA administrator David Michaels.
Mr. DAVID MICHAELS (Administrator, OSHA): The Republicans have proposed a 20 percent cut and given half the year's over, that really means a 40 percent cut. It would really have a devastating effect on all of our activities.
NAYLOR: Peg Seminario, the safety and health director of the AFL-CIO, agrees. She says the Republicans' proposed cuts would diminish the agency's staffing and abilities.
Ms. PEG SEMINARIO (Safety and Health Director, AFL-CIO): We now have a much bigger workforce than we had 40 years ago when OSHA was started. But they would propose to slash the agency, slash enforcement, slash standards-setting, leaving the agency essentially crippled and unable to do its job to protect workers.
NAYLOR: Republicans argue that OSHA's stepped-up enforcement threatens jobs. At a recent hearing on the issue, the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, Michigan Republican Tim Walberg, questioned the agency's priorities.
Representative TIM WALBERG (Republican, Michigan): Over the last two years, OSHA has not only attempted to implement several policy changes that would have profound impact on the workplace, it has become an administration more focused on punishment than prevention. Our goal should be to prevent workplace accidents before they happen, not simply shame an employer once a tragedy has occurred on the job site.
NAYLOR: One of the biggest areas of contention has been ergonomic standards. In 2000, in the final weeks of the Clinton administration, OSHA issued an ergonomics rule to set standards for workplaces for repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome. The next year, the GOP-controlled Congress repealed the standard.
Now the two sides are scrapping over ergonomics again. This time, OSHA wants employers to record instances of repetitive motion injuries in a log most businesses already keep.
Joe Trauger, a vice president at the National Association of Manufacturers, calls the recording proposal problematic.
Mr. JOE TRAUGER (Vice President, National Association of Manufacturers): It's very difficult for an employer to discern whether or not an injury actually occurred in the workplace or if it occurred outside the workplace. Because the definitions were expanded to such a degree that if a person felt like they had a muscle soreness, that would be a reportable incident. Well, it may not have anything to do with what actually happens in the workplace.
NAYLOR: Michaels at OSHA says the repetitive motion proposal has been misunderstood and that the agency has decided to further explain the requirement before implementing it. He says the agency always looks at the cost of complying with its rules and invites comments on its proposals before implementing them. He says OSHA can protect jobs and workers at the same time.
Mr. MICHAELS: We believe we can do both. We know that OSHA doesn't kill jobs. It stops jobs from killing workers. When employers embrace safety, they actually save money.
NAYLOR: While fighting off cuts to this year's budget, the Obama administration has proposed increasing spending on OSHA in the next fiscal year by a bit more than four percent.
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Migraine with dizziness
I've been having migraine headaches since 10th std, accompanied by dizziness. The migraine headaches have come down now, but dizziness persists. Generally, it occurs when I change position, either from sitting to standing, or lying down to getting up, or moving from a brighter to darker place, and vice versa. My vision becomes completely blank or hazy, and I lose balance. It lasts only for a matter of seconds. This has been going on for almost 8 years now, and nobody has been able to diagnose exactly what the problem is and suggest the right treatment. Kindly advise.
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Hello, dizziness is a part of migraine condition since there is no complete treatment for migraine or associated dizziness it feels like a troubling disease, there are many preventive medications are available to avoid migraine headaches, consult a neurologist. And also postural hypotension which causes dizziness when you are wake up suddenly from sitting or lying down position in this BP appears normal in sitting position but decrease nearly upto 20mmhg when measured immediately after standing, don't worry which is also not a serious condition. Please visit a neurologist to check for these.
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Welcome to the forum Adrian.
People starting new threads asking for donations never goes down particularly well because if everyone who needed to raise money for VLM posted a thread, the site would be full of new threads. In addition, as it's a running forum, you can bet that lots of people that are already known and have interacted with the site have already pitched first so you are a bit late
If you want to join in the forum, look for a thread and I'm sure you'll be welcomed or find the fundraising thread and post your pitch on there or wait for April till the one thread that forumites do throw money in a pot for is started. But just spruiking for money on a forum is the same as spruiking on a street or in a pub. If you don't do it there, why do it on here?
Welcome Adrian. I do suggest you 'get the word out' to your non-running friends and colleagues though as it's a little bit like "preaching to choir" over here. I wish you well on your journey and am delighted that running is giving you a new sense of balance and vibrancy. Cheers, TD.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Ryder Cup mainstays Lee Westwood and Graeme McDowell may be on the outside looking in on Europe's team at the moment but vice-captain Sam Torrance has no doubt that both will be in the side come September.
The top nine in the points list qualify automatically for Europe's title defense against the United States in Scotland, with skipper Paul McGinley also having three wildcard choices up his sleeve to complete his 12-man team.
Westwood, who has featured in the biennial event eight times in a row, and 2010 U.S. Open champion McDowell, who has played in the last three editions and claimed the winning point in Wales four years ago, are well outside the top nine.
"Obviously we want Lee in the team," the 60-year-old Torrance told Reuters in a telephone interview from Gleneagles, the Ryder Cup venue.
"He is a fantastic player and we'd love him in there. I don't think his form over the last few months is of any concern to Paul.
"I think he should put him in the team straight away, he's a man for the big occasion. The same applies to G-Mac, I'm sure he'll be in the team," added Torrance who will be one of McGinley's deputies along with Ireland's Des Smyth.
Westwood has slipped to 32nd in the world after riding high at the top of the rankings three years ago.
The automatic Ryder Cup qualifying positions, with almost two months to go before the team is finalised, are now occupied by Victor Dubuisson, Henrik Stenson, Jamie Donaldson, Thomas Bjorn, Sergio Garcia, Rory McIlroy, Martin Kaymer, Justin Rose and Luke Donald. Continued...


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text: 5th Edition Psychology Stephen F. Davis Emporia State University Joseph J. Palladino University of Southern Indiana PowerPoint Presentation by Cynthia K. Shinabarger Reed Tarrant County College This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright law. The following are prohibited by law: any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; preparation of any derivative work, including the extraction, in whole or in part, of any images; any rental, lease, or lending of the program. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-1 Chapter 8 5th Edition Thinking, Language, and Intelligence Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-2 Thinking • Cognitive psychology is a branch of psychology that examines thinking: how we know and understand the world, solve problems, make decisions, combine information from memory and current experience, use language, and communicate our thoughts to others. • Thinking is a mental process involving the manipulation of information in the form of images or concepts that is inferred from our behavior. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-3 Thinking • Many people report that they visualize events and objects to answer some types of questions. • Visual imagery, the experience of seeing even though the event or object is not actually viewed, can activate brain areas responsible for visual perception, such as the occipital lobes. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-4 Thinking • Concepts are mental categories that share common characteristics. • We usually identify specific examples as members of a concept by judging their degree of similarity to a prototype, or best example, of the concept. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-5 Thinking • Every day we encounter a variety of minor problems; occasionally we face major ones. • Problems can differ along several dimensions; for example, some are well defined or structured, and others are ill defined or unstructured. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-6 Thinking • Well-defined problems have three specified characteristics: – a clearly specified beginning state (the starting point), – a set of clearly specified tools or techniques for finding the solution (the needed operations), and – a clearly specified solution state (the final product). Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-7 Thinking • Ill-defined problems have a degree of uncertainty or "messiness" about the starting point, needed operations, and final product. • Such problems can have numerous acceptable responses, and the criteria for judging the responses are not necessarily simple and straightforward. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-8 Thinking • One strategy you could use to solve some problems guarantees a correct solution in time (provided that a solution exists). • An algorithm is a systematic procedure or specified set of steps for solving a problem, which may involve evaluating all possible solutions. • Algorithms can be time-consuming and do not work for problems that are not clearly defined. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-9 Thinking • Heuristics are educated guesses or rules of thumb that are used to solve problems. • Although the use of heuristics does not guarantee a solution, it is more timeefficient than using algorithms. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-10 Thinking • Researchers have compared the problem solving of experts and nonexperts and have found that experts know more information to use in solving problems. • More important, experts know how to collect and organize information and are better at recognizing patterns in the information they gather. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-11 Thinking • Psychologists have found that expert problem solvers are adept at breaking problems down into subgoals, which can be attacked and solved one at a time. • These intermediate subgoals can make problems more manageable and increase the chance of reaching a solution. • Information that is not organized effectively can hinder problem solving. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-12 Thinking • Rigidity is the tendency to rely on past experiences to solve problems. • One form of rigidity, functional fixedness, is the inability to use familiar objects in new ways. • Set effect is a bias toward the use of certain problem-solving approaches because of past experience. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-13 Thinking • A common mistake in testing hypotheses is to commit to one hypothesis without adequately testing other possibilities; this is known as confirmation bias. • When we use the representativeness heuristic, we determine whether an event, an object, or a person resembles (or represents) a prototype. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-14 Thinking • The availability heuristic involves judging the probability of events by the readiness with which they come to mind. • We often make decisions by comparing the information we have obtained to some standard. • Your standards are constantly changing, and these changes can affect your judgments. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-15 Thinking • When we make decisions, we are also influenced by whether our attention is drawn to positive or negative outcomes; psychologists refer to this presentation of an issue as framing. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-16 Thinking • Creativity is the ability to produce work that is both novel and appropriate. • There is no absolute standard for creativity. • Intelligence tests were not designed to measure creativity, so it is not surprising that the correlation between measures of creativity and intelligence is weak to moderate. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-17 Thinking • Creativity depends on divergent thinking, rather than the convergent thinking assessed in tests of intelligence. • When all lines of thought converge on one correct answer, we have an example of convergent thinking. • By contrast, divergent thinking takes our thinking in different directions in search of multiple answers to a question. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-18 Thinking • Creativity typically involves seeing nontypical, yet plausible, ways of associating items or seeing aspects of an item that are real and useful, but not usually the primary focus of our attention. • Creative people are not afraid of hard work; they give it their undivided attention and persevere in the face of obstacles. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-19 Thinking • Another mark of a creative person is a willingness to take risks and expose oneself to the potential for failure. • What's more, creative people tolerate ambiguity, complexity, or a lack of symmetry. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-20 Thinking • Creativity often emerges when we rearrange what is known in new and unusual ways that can yield creative ideas, goods, and services. • A task-focusing motivator energizes a person to work and keeps the person's attention on the task. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-21 Thinking • By contrast, a goal-focusing motivator leads a person to focus attention on rewards such as money to the detriment of the task. • Creativity often flourishes with the right mix of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-22 Thinking • The business community is interested in enhancing creativity to develop and market products and services. • There is no magic in enhancing creativity; it takes the right attitude and technology in a work climate that is receptive to creative thinking and new ideas. • Among the other important organizational influences on creativity is encouragement of risk taking, generating ideas, and sharing ideas. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-23 Thinking • Adults are expected to be serious, yet playfulness and humor can help develop flexible thinking. • Injecting humor and playfulness into the work situation can stimulate a creative mind set, including the use of games and puzzles designed to enhance creativity. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-24 Thinking • Quite often people fail to develop creative ideas because they do not believe they can be creative. • The first step in developing one's creativity is to acknowledge and confront these negative thoughts and replace them with positive thoughts. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-25 Thinking • Creativity consultants aim to inject change into the lives of employees. • They encourage employees to break habits by taking a different route to work, listening to a different radio station, or reading different magazines. • These minor changes help employees break out of a rut, expose them to new ideas, and get them thinking rather than operating on automatic pilot. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-26 Language • Between birth and the beginning of formal schooling, children learn to speak and understand language. • Speech is what people actually say; language is the understanding of the rules of what they say. • Acquiring any of the approximately 4,000 languages is a remarkable accomplishment because there is so much to learn. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-27 Language • Phonemes are unique sounds that can be joined to create words. • Phonemes are the building blocks of language. • A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has meaning. • When we learn to organize words into phrases and sentences, we are acquiring what is called syntax. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-28 Language • No matter what language their parents speak (and even if the parents are deaf), babies make the same sounds at about the same time. • At about 2 months of age, an infant begins cooing. • At about 6 months of age, infants begin babbling, making one-syllable speech-like sounds that usually contain both vowels and consonants but have no meaning. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-29 Language • Toddlers who hear English at home will utter their first word that conveys meaning at about 1 year. • Vocabulary development continues at a rapid pace during the preschool years. • Psychologists are especially interested in three characteristics of the infant's language. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-30 Language • First, young children often use telegraphic speech—they leave words out of sentences, as in a telegraph message. • Second, children seem to know how to string words together to convey the intended meaning in the correct sequence for their language. • Third, children often overgeneralize grammatical rules, so the plural of mouse should be mouses! Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-31 Language • According to behaviorists, language is learned like other behaviors: through imitation, association, and reinforcement. • According to the nativist theory of language, children are innately predisposed to acquire language. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-32 Language • The major advocate of this position, Noam Chomsky, has called this innate ability our language acquisition device (LAD). • Most psychologists favor a combination of learning and nativist theories. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-33 Language • When we think of a language, we often think of an oral-auditory one—that is, one that is heavily dependent on audition. • Not all languages fit this category, however. • A prominent example is American Sign Language (ASL) or Ameslan, a manual-visual language developed within the American deaf community that is distinct from oral-auditory languages. • ASL is not a signed version of English; it is unique, separate, and distinct from English, with its own grammar and syntax. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-34 Language • People who use ASL communicate rapidly via thousands of manual signs and gestures. • Words are assembled from hand shapes, hand motions, and the positions of the hands in front of the body. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-35 Language • The linguistic relativity hypothesis suggests that syntax (word order) and vocabulary can mold thinking. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-36 Language • There are many current examples of the use of language to influence and control thinking. • The use of language by business, educational, and governmental organizations can mislead or control perception and thinking. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-37 Language • The term doublespeak describes language that is purposely designed to make the bad seem good, to turn a negative into a positive, or to avoid or shift responsibility. • One form of doublespeak is the euphemism, an acceptable or inoffensive word or phrase used in place of an unacceptable or offensive one. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-38 Language • The word he may not be intended to convey whether the person is a man or a woman, but most people assume the speaker meant that the person was a man. • The words he, his, and man refer to men, but they are often also used to encompass both men and women. • These examples demonstrate how the words we use can guide our thinking, perhaps in ways we had not intended or recognized. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-39 Intelligence • A psychological test is an objective measure of a sample of behavior that is collected according to well-established procedures. • They are composed of observations made on a small, but carefully chosen sample of a person's behavior. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-40 Intelligence • Such tests are used for a range of purposes, including measuring differences among people in characteristics such as intelligence and personality. • The primary purpose of one of the first psychological tests was to identify children with below-average intellectual ability so that they could be given schooling designed to improve that ability. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-41 Intelligence • How a person defines intelligence depends on whom we ask, and the answers differ across time and place. • Thus, what behaviors are perceived as examples of intelligent behavior is influenced in part by culture. • The Japanese place greater emphasis on the process of thinking than people in the United States. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-42 Intelligence • In Africa, conceptions of intelligence focus on skills that facilitate and maintain harmonious group relations. • The definition of intelligence used in Western cultures, especially the United States, does not necessarily match definitions used in other parts of the world. • We can define intelligence as the overall ability to excel at a variety of tasks, especially those related to success in schoolwork. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-43 Intelligence • We can trace the study of differences in intelligence to an Englishman, Sir Francis Galton. • Galton believed that heredity was responsible for human differences in intelligence and ability. • Galton contended that eminence and creativity run in families because they are inherited characteristics; he dismissed the potential influence of environmental factors. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-44 Intelligence • Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon developed an intelligence test to evaluate French schoolchildren. • They proposed the concept of mental age which compared a child's performance with the average performance of children at a particular age. • The intelligence quotient (IQ) is the ratio of mental age divided by chronological age and multiplied by 100. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-45 Intelligence • David Wechsler developed an intelligence test for adults. • Scores on this test are calculated by comparing a person's score with scores obtained by people of a range of ages rather than a single age. • The current version of this test, known as the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III (WAIS-III), is used to assess people between the ages of 16 and 74. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-46 Intelligence • Wechsler's scales have also been adapted to assess intelligence at earlier ages. • The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler intelligence tests are individual tests (one person is tested at a time) that must be administered by a qualified examiner. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-47 Intelligence • The three characteristics of a good psychological test are reliability, validity, and standardization. • Reliability is the degree to which repeated administrations of a psychological test yield consistent scores. • Validity refers to a test's ability to measure what it was designed to measure. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-48 Intelligence • Standardization refers to the development of procedures for administering psychological tests and the collection of norms that provide a frame of reference for interpreting test scores. • Norms are the distribution of scores of a large sample of people who have previously taken a test. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-49 Intelligence • Intelligence test scores are distributed in the shape of a bell curve. • The majority of the scores are clustered around the middle, with fewer scores found at either extreme. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-50 Intelligence • Intelligence test scores below 70 or above 130 occur in less than 5% of the population; people with such statistically rare scores are designated as exceptional. • Those with scores below 70 may be diagnosed as mentally retarded if they also exhibit significant deficits in everyday adaptive behaviors, such as self-care, social skills, or communication. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-51 Intelligence • Public Law 94-142 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, IDEA), includes provisions for educating all children with handicaps. • Standard intelligence tests such as the WISC-III are frequently used in the evaluation of children who are perceived as exceptional. • Exceptional children often require special attention and services, but there is no standard approach to dealing with their needs. • People with IQ scores of about 140 and above may be identified as gifted. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-52 Intelligence • Savant syndrome occurs in people who are severely handicapped in overall intelligence yet demonstrate exceptional ability in a specific area such as art, calculation, memory, or music. • Most savants are male; the syndrome occurs in approximately one in 2,000 people with brain damage or mental retardation and about 1 in 10 people with autism. • Accumulating evidence suggests that people with savant syndrome have suffered damage to the left hemisphere, which apparently results in some form of compensation by the right hemisphere. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-53 Intelligence • Charles Spearman believed that there are two types of intelligence, one called g for general intelligence and the other, representing a number of specific abilities, called s. • Robert Sternberg proposed the triarchic theory of intelligence. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-54 Intelligence • This model is comprised of: a) analytical intelligence, or the ability to break down a problem or situation into its components (the type of intelligence assessed by most current intelligence tests); b) creative intelligence, or the ability to cope with novelty and to solve problems in new and unusual ways; and c) practical intelligence, which is also known as common sense or "street smarts." Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-55 Intelligence • The third type of intelligence is one that the public understands and values, yet it is missing in standard intelligence tests. • The triarchic theory on intelligence emphasizes the processes of intelligence. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-56 Intelligence • To account for the broad range of achievements in modern society, Howard Gardner proposes the existence of "a number of relatively autonomous intellectual capacities or potentials" he calls multiple intelligences. • According to Gardner, there is more to intelligence than the verbal and mathematical abilities measured by current intelligence tests. • Each person may have different strengths and weaknesses and thus may manifest intelligence in various ways. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-57 Intelligence • The high reliability coefficients that characterize most intelligence tests should not lead to the incorrect conclusion that assessments based on such tests are always accurate (valid). • The eugenics movement proposed that the intelligence of an entire nation could be increased if only the more intelligent citizens had children. • Intelligence test scores have been used to prevent some European immigrants from entering the United States. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-58 Intelligence • The heritability of intelligence is an estimate of the influence of heredity in accounting for differences among people. • The heritability of intelligence tends to increase with age. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-59 Intelligence • Yet, even clearly inherited conditions, such as PKU, can be modified by altering a person's environment. • Although PKU has a heritability of 100%, it can be modified by changing the environment (in this case, diet). • In short, heredity is not necessarily destiny. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-60 Intelligence • Correlations between the IQ scores of identical twins suggest that intelligence is strongly influenced by heredity. • When twins are raised in separate environments, the correlation between their intelligence scores is still high. • The intelligence scores of adopted children tend to correlate more highly with those of their biological parents than with those of their adoptive parents. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-61 Intelligence • The closer the family relationship, the higher the correlation between the intelligence scores of family members. • Studies of adopted children suggest that environmental factors also have an effect on intelligence. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-62 Intelligence • In the 1930s, Howard Skeels decided that tender, loving care, and stimulation could be beneficial for two children in an Iowa orphanage. • Skeels placed these quiet, slow, unresponsive sisters in a home for mentally retarded adolescents. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-63 Intelligence • On his return several months later, he was surprised to find that the sisters' intelligence test scores had increased and that they appeared alert and active. • The attention and stimulation provided by the mentally retarded adolescents and the staff of the institution had made a difference. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-64 Intelligence • One purpose of preschool programs such as Head Start is to provide children with educational skills, social skills, and health care before they begin their formal schooling. • Head Start is aimed at children around 4 years of age, especially those in lowincome and minority populations. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-65 Intelligence • Early evaluations of Head Start were not encouraging. • Efforts to influence intellectual ability cannot overcome all other environmental influences. • Despite its shortcomings, Head Start has widespread public and political support. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-66 Intelligence • Although individual differences in intelligence are due in part to heredity, the existence of group differences in IQ scores does not necessarily suggest that there are innate differences in intelligence among groups. • Critics of intelligence tests argue that we must take a closer look at the tests themselves. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-67 Intelligence • Group differences in test scores might reflect certain characteristics of the tests themselves. • Intelligence tests reflect white, middleclass values and therefore are innately biased against members of other cultural groups. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-68 Intelligence • Claude Steele of Stanford University has proposed that students' attitudes and approach to standardized tests can also affect their performance. • The debate over differences in test scores is not merely an intellectual exercise; it has scientific, political, and social implications. Copyright © Prentice Hall 2007 8-69


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