Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment 2

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Assignment 2, Amy Joseph Heuristics are mental shortcuts that provide quick estimates for decisions about certain events. Heuristics greatly simplify one’s life and usually lead to correct decisions. There are a number of heuristics that humans use such as the representativeness heuristic, the availability heuristic and the simulation heuristic. Heavy reliance on the representativeness heuristic leads people to ignore other factors that can help shape an event such as rules of chance, independence and base-rate information as can be seen when using a person’s appearance to answer a question about them. The availability heuristic takes into account what is more salient than other events; this heuristic is evident when a person watches documentaries and attempts to judge whether the subject of said documentaries will occur in reality. Lastly, the simulation heuristic applies when more easily imagined events are judged to be more likely than other events; an example of this heuristic can be seen in the case of losing the lottery. …show more content…
The representativeness heuristic leads people to ignore other factors that can help shape events. In daily life, one may see a student with messy hair, papers falling out of his backpack, with an overall disorganized appearance. When asked if one believes that he always arrives on time on class, using the representativeness heuristic, one would probably say they do not believe that the student frequently arrives on time to class. In the representativeness heuristic, the likelihood that the disorganized student arrives on time to his classes relates to the stereotype of an on-time

NT1310 Unit 1 Assignment 2

Technical Professions class. The goal of this project was to analyze a recent technical innovation. My selected topic for the report was to analyze the effectiveness of Black Phone 2’s encryption method in protecting client’s information. AUDIENCE DESCRIPTION: While writing this research report, I kept in mind the 2 different types of readers who would be interested in it. The first type would be a person who is interested in purchasing a new cellphone, but is concerned with how safe their personal…

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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment 2

In Class Assignment #2 The iPhone 6s has an onscreen keyboard. The HP Envy Laptop has both an onscreen keyboard and a physical built in keyboard. For the HP Envy laptop, using the built in keyboard can be useful. For example, the keyboard is all in one place. The keyboard also has terminal server shortcuts. It also has a window key which can switch between the start screen and the desktop. Windows key and the letter L can help switch accounts. It also has special keyboards that can lower or brighten…

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Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment 1

Constructed Response 2 I plan to gather a team of all principals and selected teachers who will voice concerns about flaws within the present curriculum. A board meeting will be held with them to discuss these concerns. I will have a memo sent out to all principals to hold professional development meetings with their staff to discuss the new and effective curriculum initiative that the superintendent plans to have developed with teacher input. I will ensure that principals must mention that the new…

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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment 2

Assignment 2 Chapter 6 6.1) Sensor is a device that converts or measures physical property or stimulus like pressure, temperature, and force to a convenient form in order to measure stimulus. 6.2) Analog sensor is a device that produces a continuous analog signals like electrical voltage and whose value fluctuates in analogous manner with variables measured. Discrete sensor is a measuring device that produces an output that has only certain values. Discrete sensor is divided into two divisions…

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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment 2 Essay

Assignment 2 ● Why is stranded rather than solid cable used for patch cables? A Solid cable can break easily compared to a stranded cable and that is the reason why they are used behind walls and ceilings. Because patch cables are exposed, using a stranded cables for patch cables makes it more flexible and durable. ● Why is it critical not to score the jacket too deeply when stripping the cable? Because it could possibly cut the inside copper wires in the cable which will affect the connectivity…

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Nt1310 Unit 2 Assignment 1 Idiom

After homogenizing the participants, they were randomly assigned to treatment conditions as follows: Group 1: received instruction through visualization Group2: received instruction through lexical awareness Group 3: received instruction through game. Group 4: received instruction through storytelling. In the next step, a pretest of idioms consisting a list of 150 idioms was administered to all groups to check the participants' prior knowledge of the target idioms. After correcting…

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