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Priming and Decision-Making
Priming and Decision-Making 150 150 Suzanne

The psychological phenomenon of priming affects a number of mental processes. Priming is like an advanced notification system, however a person is receiving notifications that affect what they think and…

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Cognitive Fridays: Priming and its Effects
Cognitive Fridays: Priming and its Effects 150 150 Suzanne

Priming is one of the most common influences upon students, and possibly one of the least discussed. Priming is a psychological reality of life – we are all primed in…

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Mathematics: Conditional Probability
Mathematics: Conditional Probability 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Probability: Probability is the chance of occurring an event in a random experiment. In an experiment, the probability of happening an event E is denoted by P(E) and is defined…

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Problem-Solving and Verbal Overshadowing
Problem-Solving and Verbal Overshadowing 150 150 Suzanne

Problem-solving is something we all do every day. In terms of what our brains are doing, there are two very distinct processes being used. We either analyze the problem or…

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Random Variables: Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation
Random Variables: Mean, Variance and Standard Deviation 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

When determining characteristics of a variable, there are a variety of data points that can be determined. For all of our examples shown today, we will let X be the…

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Core Intuitions – Why We Are All Smart
Core Intuitions – Why We Are All Smart 150 150 Suzanne

Educators have been influenced by the theory of multiple intelligences for a few decades now. This theory, which was developed by Howard Gardner in 1983, suggests that we all have…

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Fictive Learning: How and Why We Learn
Fictive Learning: How and Why We Learn 150 150 Suzanne

The brain is structured in such a way that different parts of the brain take on different roles in learning. In general, higher-order learning and thinking occurs in the frontal…

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Introduction to Probability
Introduction to Probability 150 150 SchoolTutoring Academy

Probability was introduced in seventeenth century by two French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.  Probability deals with the likelihood of occurrence of an event. If can be expressed…

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