Discussion: First Impressions

Confirmation bias is an interesting phenomenon; it explains people’s misplaced confidence when evaluating someone’s character based on first impressions. If people allow their first impressions to be challenged, there is a chance that subsequent information will compel a revision. However, not everyone is willing to change their first impressions; somehow, …

Assignment: Attribution Errors

Wherever you go, you will be observing human behavior, and it is difficult not to make a judgment about people after observing how they behave. You might consider three people on a crowded bus to be kind if you see them give up their seats so a mother can sit …

Biological Threats

Select one biological agent.  Define the agent and explain how it affects humans.  Then, select a Foreign Terrorist Organization and explain why this group might employ the weapon you’ve selected.  Think about our various transportation systems, places people gather, etc- how/where might the group employ the agent?  What is the …

African American History

You must complete an Electronic Presentation on Black Culture.  You will select and present on the significances of two works of black culture. The first work you select must be a work of African-American literature, poetry, music, fashion, dance, or some other cultural art form that was created and/or popularized by …