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Impulsivity, intelligence and P300 wave: An empirical study
No full textThe aim of this study was to analyze the relationships among impulsivity, intelligence and P300, a well-known component of the event-related potential widely studied in personality and intelligence research. Eighty-two males completed the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale and the two-subtest form of the Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence. A subsample of 45 participants (mean age=24.4, SD=4.6) performed a visual oddball task, consisting of a two-letter recognition task, during which psychophysiological data were recorded. Although no significant relationships emerged for P300 latency, overall results suggest that the P300 amplitude was positively related to IQ and negatively related to impulsivity. Those who scored high on impulsivity (high impulsives) had lower P300 amplitudes than low impulsives, but this relationship was not significant when controlling for individual differences in mental ability. The results also showed an inverse relationship between mental ability and impulsivity. That is, high impulsives demonstrated reduced cognitive performance on intelligence testing and it is reflected in their reduced P300 amplitude. These findings are likely due to high impulsives' less efficient ability to inhibit task-irrelevant information OF to ignore additional information intake. It was suggested that impulsivity exerts a disadvantageous influence on the performance of tasks (such as those used on intelligence tests) in which exclusive concentration and sustained attention are necessary. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to Prof. Harrop S. A. Freeman, College of William and Mary, April 11, 1944
No full textLetter from Ernest Besig to Harrop A. Freeman (spelled Harrop S.), informing Freeman that Wayne Collins will argue the Korematsu case.The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Factor Analysis of Some Psychometric Measures of Impulsiveness and Anxiety
No full text Two orthogonal personality traits or predispositions, impulsiveness and anxiety, have been invariant in five separate factor analyses. One of these analyses is presented here along with an item analysis of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) which has a high loading on the impulsiveness factor. The BIS has never significantly correlated with any of the various anxiety or emotional stability measures in over 50 administrations of the scale, further evidence for the invariance of these two second-order factors. </jats:p
Psychometric Properties of an Adolescent Version of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 for a Sample of Italian High School Students
No full text The purpose of this study was to extend the development of the Italian version of the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale for use with adolescents. The analyses which led to the development of this version were based on data from 563 high school students. The internal consistency was good (Cronbach a = .78), A confirmatory factor analysis identified six first-order factors which converged into two second-order factors, a General Impulsiveness factor and a Nonplanning Impulsiveness factor. The General Impulsiveness factor included motor and attention or cognition items. The second-order factors differed from those obtained with the adult Italian version as well as the American version. Possible reasons for these differences arc discussed. The new version correlated significantly with self-report measures of aggression and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as well as with frequency of alcohol use and cigarette smoking. </jats:p
Ernest Becker's Educational Legacy: A Critical Reflection
No full textThe author reviews the literature in professional education that cites Ernest Becker’s work from the 1960s-70s. Some of Becker’s main ideas from his own writing on education are also reviewed. The purpose here is to establish a sketch, not a full-study, of the importance of Becker’s educational legacy and begin some critique of the biases of professional educators in regard to utilizing Becker’s work. This critical reflectivity is an appropriate model of Becker’s own integrative approach to knowledge and learning. The aim is to ensure that future applications may be cautious to certain reductive tendencies and offer more diverse perspectives that are truer to Becker’s oeuvre and core ideas about human behavior and societies in general, and education specifically. The author concludes that the future of Education, formal and informal, would do well to take a long serious look at Becker’s work, especially as the world’s children, youths and adults are is becoming more and more vulnerable to frightening conditions, with cascading collapse of systems, including extinctions of all kinds already well underway in an era of global threats nearing extremes. Becker’s oeuvre is both realistic and idealistic, offering Education a way to radically improve to help make for a better world
Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to Prof. Harrop A. Freeman, College of William and Mary, March 23, 1944
No full textLetter from Ernest Besig to Harrop A. Freeman (spelled Harrop S.), asking for Freeman's suggestion on an attorney on the east coast who might argue the Korematsu case before the Supreme Court. Besig explains that the ACLU of Northern California does not agree with the national office with reference to the Korematsu case. He writes: "This branch is opposed to the Executive Order and is opposed on principle to any exclusion by the Military unless marital law is operative."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Letter from Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, to E. F. Bernard, Esq., February 5, 1943
No full textLetter from Ernest Besig to E. F. Bernard. Besig writes: "If you have available an extra copy of the 'Transcript of record' in the case of Minoru Yasui against the U. S., No. 10317, I would appreciate it very much if you would send it to us. There is an outside chance that this branch of the American Civil Liberties Union will file an amicus curiae brief if Mr. Collins can possibly get around to it in the next couple of weeks. In that event, of course, we would like to have a copy of the transcript."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Biographic Memoir of Ernest Ingersoll: Naturalist, Shellfish Scientist, and Author
No full textThe name Ernest Ingersoll is well-known to many shellfishery biologists as the author of two outstanding monographs on the shellfisheries of the United States and Canada in the 1880's. The first (Ingersoll, 1881a), entitled "A Report on the Oyster-Industry of the United States," was a 252-page description of historical and contemporary oyster fishing' marketing methods, and statistical data in the eastern provinces of Canada and the coastal states of the United States. The second (Ingersoll, 1887), entitled "The Oyster, Scallop, Clam, Mussel, and Abalone Industries," was a l20-page summary of the first monograph about oysters as well as a history and description of contemporary methods and statistical data of the other shellfisheries. Although Ingersoll was, by profession, a naturalist and author but only briefly a shellfish scientist, these monographs are regarded as benchmarks, providing the principal descriptions of shellfisheries in North America in the 1700's and 1800's
CHARACTERIZATION IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S HILLS LIKE WHITE ELEPHANTS
Get PDFAgnes, Ading Pradani. 2014. Characterization in Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants. Study Program of English, Department of Languages and Literature, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya. Supervisor: Sri Herminingrum; Co-supervisor: Melania Shinta HarendikaKeywords: Ernest Hemingway, short story, character, characterization.Short story is a medium to deliver the message of the author’s sense about what happened in society. Short story has the elements to reveal the author’s sense and one of them is character. Character as a sign is used to reflect the existence of the person in order to build the reader’s imagination, especially in the narrative text. Some of characters are presented by the author in direct or indirect characterization. Ernest Hemingway is a well known author who presents indirect characterization in his work. The characterization of each implicit character can be identified through the text in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants.The study of Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants applies structuralismapproach as the grounding approach; generic form, and Roman Jakobson’smetaphor, and metonymy as the theories that are used to identify each character’s characterization through the texts and dialogues. Information about Hemingway and some references about characterization are needed to complete the process of identification.The result of this study presents Ernest Hemingway’s specialty in playing indirect characterization. In Hills Like White Elephants, Hemingway presents three indirect characters’ characterization; the American, the Girl and the Woman.Each character has traits. First, the characterization of the Girl shows that she is aperson who is always pessimistic with her condition, stubborn and she can becategorized as an emotionally unstable person. Second, the American’scharacterization shows that he is fickle, egoist, and he is also an irresponsibleperson. The last, the Woman’s characterization describes that she is a politeperson. For the further researchers, it is suggested to use historical approach inother Ernest Hemingway’s works because most of Hemingway’s works were fromhis experience during he spent his life in Europe by being the volunteer in WorldWar I. Â
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