Causality

Achievement Attributions of School Aged Australian Children: A gender based study Donna Gorgievska 43279341 Abstract The present study examines the achievement attributions of school aged Australian children. Its aim was to investigate the internal and external factors relating to the attribution of success and failure in particular academic domains. The study used Bernard Weiner’s (1974) attribution theory to foreground the ideas behind the hypothesis. A total of 13 children participated

A root cause analysis is a mechanism used to determine if procedures prompt sentinel occasions. A sentinel occasion is characterized by Cherry and Jacob as "a startling event that can cause genuine physical or psychologic damage or the danger thereof." (Cherry and Jacob, 2011, p. 444) The goal of a root cause analysis is to distinguish the components which brought on the sentinel occasion and to recognize imperfections in the framework which can be adjusted with a specific end goal to keep a rehash

Persistent pain in the dento-alveolar region of unknown cause has been named in different ways in the scientific literature. It is still worth mentioning “phantom tooth pain”, a term coined by Marbach et al. that has been abandoned in the last 15 years. Marbach considered this painful condition merely as a deafferentation problem. His opinion was that whenever a tooth was denervated (not only extracted), the brain cortex would reorganize and occasionally a phantom sensation expressed as pain would

Loneliness most commonly describes a state where someone is in the absence of another person. This is not always true, a person can be filled with interactions and be in the company of many people and still feel lonely. The same comments can be made for isolation. When a person is subject to an extended period of isolation they are prone to depression which would sink them further into the lonely state. Being lonely, idle, and absent from society can cause a person great mental strain and internal

Adrian Farrales Introduction to Philosophy Metaphysics 11/6/14 Plato’s system of metaphysics revolves around the concept of Eidos, or forms. A form is the perfect and truest instance of a particular idea. In the world, we find particular instances of each form. For example, a certain pen is a particular instance of the form of pen. Every single pen in the world contributes to the form of pen. This contribution of particulars to the forms is called mathexis in Greek, or simply

Avalon Singer 29 September 2014 Topic 1: What I Believe is the Correct View on Free Will We are raised to believe that we are the makers of our own destiny. Every decision we make is our own, and we are free citizens in every sense of the word. Although this thought is comforting, I do not consider it to be true. I think that free will is an illusion. The idea of free will is what keeps us sane and motivates us in our lives, but is not what controls our lives. I presume that our world is

1. Jackson (2012) even-numbered Chapter Exercises (p. 244). Question #2 Study and New Therapy Technique and Possible Confounds in the Study While reading the description of the study, one can easily identify various confounds within. First, the study that lasted for 9 months and had initially 50 participants had no control group. In any experimental research design, the need in two or more groups, from which one is the “control” group, is necessary to have a valid research conclusion. Next, what

Jeremy Waldron, a professor of law and society, demonstrates the institution of tort liability and the issues that arises on the desert-based system. With the example of Fate, having to pay a large amount of money to Hurt for a moment of carelessness while doing the same act as Fortune, he shows how tort liability can be unjust and unfair. Two cases present examples of how Waldron would approve and disapprove the rulings. In the first case, Brenda and Carl are playing in a basketball game on opposing

Many philosophers have posed the question: How can I prove that God exists? Thomas Aquinas attempted to prove the existence of God in a rational way through his Cosmological argument. Aquinas argued that every event as we observe it has a cause and a casual chain cannot be infinite. Therefore, a first cause is necessary and this cause is God. Aquinas’ argument is unsuccessful because it assumes that God is a necessary being, fails to prove that the world is not an infinite chain of events, and

Worldwide there is an underlying issue within search engines and social media. This issue is becoming evident as the number of people retrieving their news through Google and Facebook increases. Personalisation through searches is evolving to only show the consumer what they want to see not what they need to see. Online Organiser and Author of ‘The Filter Bubble’, Eli Pariser argues in his TED Talk about the unreliability of not being exposed to information that could broaden our worldwide view and