Course Hero has millions of student submitted documents similar to the one
below including study guides, practice problems, reference materials, practice exams, textbook help and tutor support.
Find millions of documents on Course Hero - Study Guides, Lecture Notes, Reference Materials, Practice Exams and more.
Course Hero has millions of course specific materials providing students with the best way to expand
their education.
Below is a small sample set of documents:
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 11/5/07Chapter 20Business Cycle Aggregate Demand Curve (AD Curve) Aggregate Supply Curve (AS Curve) AD/AS model Recession ModelShort-Run Economic Fluctuations Economic activity varies Recession: A drop in real GDP for
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 11/2/07Bonus Points: October bls.gov update: 1.) How many New jobs created 2.) New Unemployment rateEQUATION: (Money supply) * (Velocity) = (Price level) * (measure real output) o TESTED ON EXTREME VERSION: Velocity a
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/19/07TURKEY DOES NOT INDUCE TIREDNESS THE DSM-IV-TR Descriptivive Tool and Diagnostic Guide Multi-axial system o I o II o III o IV o V Not perfectSCHIZOFRENIA Good disorder to cover in terms of the biopsychosocial model
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/16/07ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGYGOALS Discuss "abnormal" and related terms o A little background o DSM The manual tomb of disorders that give discrete categories and criteria o Multiple causation model o AssessmentHISTORICAL
Allegheny - HIST-MASH - AP Europea
Macroeconomics Class Notes - 9/17/07Goto webpages pick one that's interesting print a copy of the webpage describe some of the links that are interestingChapter 4, #3 3.) a.) Demand will shift to the right (increase in overall demand) b.) Supp
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 9/14/07HELD CONSTANT ALONG DEMAND CURVE Income Prices of Related Goods Expectations of buyers Numbers of Buyers Price of Substitute risesSUPPLY Schedule showing quantities of a good that sellers are willing and able to
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics Chapter 6 Outline 10/10/07DEFINITION OF A FIRM Basic Economic Principle People. Make purposeful choices. With scarce resources. When Applied to the Behavior of Consumers Consumers. Maximize utility. Subject ot a budget constraint Wh
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics Class Notes 10/3/07Marginal Benefit is the WTP for one additional unit. Utility is the satisfaction that results from consumption. We only care about "marginal" decisions for the rest of the semester D. Marginal Utility - Utility va
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics Class Notes 11/19/07II. Profit Maximization A. Produce as long as benefit of last unit >=, cost of the last unit 1. Cost = M.C 2. Benefit: M.R a. For a Monopoly, M.R < Price B. Profit Maximum rule FOR A MONOPOLY: * M.R = M.C Set Mar
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics Class Notes 11/30/07CHAPTER #11 MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITIONI.Characteristics A. Many Firms B. Differentiated Products Not the same products, but only slight differences this means we will get monopolistic competition Because thes
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 10/1/07CHAPTER #11 MEASURING THE COST OF LIVING (con't)Problems of CPI CPI overstates rise in cost of living (by approximately 1%) This measurement error overstates true cost of living. o Substitutions biased overstat
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 10/25/07CHAPTER 16 THE MONETARY SYSTEM 3 Functions: 1.) Medium of Exchange 2.) Stored Value 3.) Unit of Account Two types of Money Commodity Money: Has non-monetary uses o Collective/collectible coins o Ex. Gold, cigare
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 9/11/07Demand Schedule for Pizzas Price 20 15 10 5 025Quantity Demanded 0 5 10 15 ~ 202015 Price 1050 0 5 10 15HELD CONSTANT ALONG DEMAND CURVE Income Prices of Related Goods Expectations of Buyers Number of
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 LECTURE #23 MITOSIS, MEIOSIS, AND ASEXUAL ANIMAL REPRODUCTION CELL DIVISION 3 What o o o is the purpose of cell division (3 Purposes)? New cell to increase population size Use division for growth or tissue replacement (multicellular or
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 9/26/07Chapter #4: The Brain and Central Nervous System Neurons in the News She feels this is interesting. Nervous System Central Nervous System This IS IMPORTANT o (Processes, interprets, stores information; issues orders
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/7/07These classic experiments are really REALLY IMPORTANT! REALLY REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT TO HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY Classic experiments Zimbard Prison experiment Asch's Study on Conformity Milgram and Obedience to Authority N
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/5/07Social Behavior Part IPositive/Negative Reinforcement or Punishment $100 for making the Dean's List o Positive Reinforcement Pay for your own car insurance b/c bad grades o Negative punishment Get a sticker for a g
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/29/07MEMORY LECTURE #2 Assignment Essay APA format American Psychological Association On the website also on the psychology departmentClive Wearing The patient in the video Flow of events of how memories can come t
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/26/07Intelligence (continued)Introduction: Wrap-up intelligence Introduce memory Digit span demo Memory lingo Box model The case of CliveScores on intelligence tests reflect potential for rather than in-born or
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/24/07BARRIERS TO RATIONAL REASONING Heuristics are simple rules Biases Fairness, hindsight THE FAIRNESS BIAS Herbert Simon Won Nobel Prize in Economics How people make decisions based on the economics of profit take ho
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/22/07CHAPTER #7 THINKING AND INTELLIGENCE Thinking and Intelligence are two TOTALLY different subjects Today we will be talking about thinking. THINKINGAll thinking is not necessarily conscious Not all levels of cognit
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/17/07REVIEW: EXAM 2 Test will cover 4, 5, and 6 CHAPTER 4: Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain Nervous System o How the nervous system is organized (pp. 119) o The authors setup a flow chart without some of the labels (gives
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/12/07Sensation and Perception II Wednesday is the review session Friday is the exam This is exam is going to be more difficult (a lot of information) Inverted Vision o Image is passed along to the visual cortex o Pathway
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/10/07Vision Transduction Conversion Source: Photons enter the cornia, pupil, then lens photons of light energy hit retina (the specialized membrane of cells on the back of the eye rods and cones) when the photons hit t
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/8/07Altered States: Mechanisms of Drug Action (Chapter 5-End) Exam is next Friday: October 19th, 2007 Classification Reflects General Mechanism of Action Stimulants (speeds up heart rate, metabolism, Speeds up Central Ner
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/5/07WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT SLEEP? EEG o Electro EncephaloGram Piece of technology that allows us to record the electrical activity in the brain by placing sensors on the surface of the scalp. o Different types of electric
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/3/07STATES OF MIND Wilder Penfield "out of the box thinker" (thinking outside the box) he came up with the approach to help patients rid themselves of seizures he went into the brain of patients who were consciously aw
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Class Notes Psychology 10/1/07"We are what we eat: Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and mental healthy"October 17th, 2007 Review Session for ExamBernard Gesh Prison guard in a jail in England o Just a normal guy he came up with the idea that "
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics - Class Notes 10/5/07When you fix the number of imports (quota) Cutting off trade completely embargo YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO DRAW GRAPHS (SUPPLY/DEMAND) POLICY #5: CONTROL POPULATION GROWTH High population growth reduces GDP per per
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 10/8/07SAVING AND INVESTMENT IN NATIONAL INCOME ACCOUNTS Recall: o Y (national income) = National Expenditure o Y = Consumption + Investments + Government spending + Net Exports o Y = C + I + G + NX Closed Economy: o Y=C
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 10/17/07CHAPTER 14: TOOLS OF FINANCE (CON'T) Think about the present value as the amount of money required to attain the future value (FV) o It would take a lower amount to grow to the same amount of money in the future
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics - Chapter 4 Outline 9/19/07Elasticity is a measure of how sensitive one variable is to another. o In the case of the supply and demand model, elasticity measures how sensitive the quantity of a good that people demand, or that firms
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Chapter 3 Outline Demand 9-5-07 A model a simplified description of how a market works o The model economists use to explain how prices are determined in a market is called the supply and demand model. Supply and demand model (3 elements): Demand
Allegheny - ECON - 100
Microeconomics Class Notes 10/8/07E. Demand is Downward Sloping 1. 2 Effects of a change in Price a. Income effect b. Substitution effect CHAPTER 6 COMPETITIVE MARKET: We are talking about the demand of the firm, not the market demand. The firm'
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 11/14/07MULTIPLIER EFFECT MPC .5 .75 .8 .9 MULTIPLIER 2 4 5 10If the initial increase in aggregate demand was $100 billion with a multiplier of 5, the total increase is $500 billion. (Change in Government spending) * (
Allegheny - ECON - 101
Macroeconomics Class Notes 11/19/07Misery Index M = Inflation rate + unemployment rate The triangle means "change in" "Change in"Suppose Government Pushes Economy Beyond Its PotentialInflation and Unemployment Macroeconomics focuses on outp
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 10/31/07Changing officer hours on Mondays to 12 1:30 P.MLEARNING I Ivan Haslov Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience. Reflexive behavior (is innate, but possible to change)
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/2/07Learning Lecture II Essay is due: November 12, 2007 Learning is a relatively permanent change in an organisms' behavior due to experience.2 Types of LearningClassical Conditioning: Learn that one event is followed
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #12 Outline 12/14/07Antipsychotic drugs Drugs used primarily in the treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders Antidepressant drugs Drugs used primarily in the treatment of mood disorders, especially depression a
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #10 Outline 11/12/07CHAPTER #10 BEHAVIOR IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Norms (social) Rules that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions. Roles A given social position that is governed
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #10 Outline 11/12/07CHAPTER #10 BEHAVIOR IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Norms (social) Rules that regulate social life, including explicit laws and implicit cultural conventions. Roles A given social position that is governed
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #9 Outline 11/11/07CHAPTER #9 LEARNING Learning A relatively permanent change in behavior (or behavioral potential) due to experience Behaviorism An approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology class Notes 11/12/07TEST 3 (NEED TO KNOW FOR EXAM) Chapter 7 224 247 Chapter 8 264-282 Chapter 9 298 320 LOOK AT CONCEPT MAPS AT THE END OF THE CHAPTERS Chapter 10 330 353 (No ethnic identity) Talked about ethnocentrism No prejudi
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 9/28/07ASK HER IF THERE ARE ANY TIPS FOR DOING BETTER ON THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS IN TERMS OF DISCENRING WHAT THE CORRECT ANSWER IS BASED ON THE TERMINOLOGY AND INTERPRETING THE QUESTION How we know what we know about s
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #8 Outline 11/10/07CHAPTER #8 MEMORY RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST Memory refers to the capacity to retain and retrieve information, and also to the structures that account for this capacity The Manufacture of Memory Sir Frederic Bar
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter 1 9/15/07Psychology The discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's physical state, mental state, and external environment. Empirical Relying on or derived from observatio
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #7 Outline 10/25/07CHAPTER #7 THINKING AND INTELLIGENCE Thought: Using What We Know The human mind is an information processor. The brain actively alters and organizes information When we take action, we physically manipulate t
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter 6 Outline 10/15/07SENSATION AND PERCEPTION Sensation The detection of physical energy emitted or reflected by physical objects Sense organs: o Eyes o Ears o Tongue o Nose o Skin o Internal body tissues Perception The process b
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology 105 Chapter #11 Psychological DisordersDEFINING AND DIAGNOSING DISORDER Legal definition of insanity Whether a person is aware of the consequences of his or her actions and can control his or her behavior o A person may have a mental d
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter 2 9/17/07 Personality Refers to a distinctive and reliably stable pattern of behavior, mannerisms, thoughts, and emotions that characterizes an individual over time. Traits Habitual ways of behaving, thinking, and feeling. Biol
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter #4 Outline 9/30/07The Nervous System The function of the nervous system is: o To gather and process information o Produce responses to stimuli o Coordinate the processes of different cells Central Nervous System: o Receives, pro
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Chapter 5 Outline 10/14/07CONSCIOUNESS: BODY RHYTHMS AND MENTAL STATES Biological rhythm A periodic, more or less regular fluctuation in a biological system; it may or may not have psychological implications. Endogenous Generated from
Allegheny - PSYCH - 105
Psychology Class Notes 11/9/07Social Behavior Lecture Day 3 CHAPTER 10 IS REALLY IMPORTANT Milgram experiment- they were all paid to participate paid only to participate o Results not influenced by monetary incentive o Conducted on campus at Yal
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 LECTURE #22 THE NICHE CONCEPT AND COMMUNITY LEVEL INTERACTIONS FIRST MAJOR THEME: NICHE How niches work, how they are defined, what they are CONCEPT OF THE NICHE 3 Physical elements of the environment that an organism lives in: o Wind
Allegheny - BIO - 220
EXAM 3 REVIEW POTENTIAL ESSAYS1.) The Cross-Bridge Cycle how muscles move 2.) Action Potential Neurons Depolarization and Hyperpolarization 3.) Cell-Mediated vs. Humoral ResponseESSAY #1: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MUSCLE CONTRACTS?PART 1 NERVE IMP
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 LECTURE #21 ANIMAL DEFENSES 3: IMMUNE SYSTEM INTERACTIONS UNIT 2 IMMUNE SYSTEM HUMAN BODY! IMMUNE SYSTEM 3 2 Divisions of the Immune System: o Nonspecific immunity: General barriers and defenses not specific to the pathogen A gener
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 LECTURE #19 ANIMAL DEFENSES 1: INTRODUCTION AND NERVOUS SYSTEM ANIMAL DEFENSES AGAINST PREDATORS 2 When an animal is attacked by a predator, the attack is generally lethal. o Whether the attack is not directly lethal, injuries as a res
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 RECETATION 11/12/07 YOU CAN EITHER TAKE THE TEST ON THE TUESDAY AND TUESDAY AFTER BREAKTAKE THE EXAM DURING 1 PM TO 3 PM (85 MINUTES TO TAKE TEST) Take the test at the same time during recitation on both days NO RECETATION LECTURE DURI
Allegheny - BIO - 220
BIOLOGY 220 LECTURE #20 ANIMAL DEFENSES 2: SENSORY AND MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEMS NERVOUS SYSTEM 2 The Sensory system is often thought of as an extension of the nervous system SENSORY SYSTEM 3 Sensory Perception 1.) Stimulus - We have a stimulus fro
Allegheny - BIO - 220
Biology 220 Lecture #18 Plant Defenses, Herbivores, and Pathogens 11/1/07INTERACTIONS UNIT (2) Plants are susceptible to attack by a variety of enemies HERBIVORY o Roots (nematode) o Leaf level o Surface level o Destruction of the plant does two t
Allegheny - BIO - 220
Alternation of Generations (Gametophyte vs. Sporophyte) The haploid gametophyte produces gametes and they fuse into a zygote and now the zygote is diploid (diploid stage). It then grows and matures into an embryo. Then the embryo turns into the fern