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24 Oct 2019: Activity 5 - Exercises. 1. Which of the following indifference curve for consumption choices of two goods provides. the highest level of utility, U1, U2 or U3? Does the level of utility along an indifference curve. increase or decrease moving

28 May 2019: Resource 4 – Exercises. 1. Below are listed a potential set of preference orderings for three individuals Maynard, Milton, and Milo. Can you identify whose preferences violate the assumption of transitivity discussed earlier in the resource, and

24 Oct 2019: Activity 5 – Answer Sheet. As detailed in Resource 1, we know that higher indifference curves represent higher levels of utility. In the illustration below, U1 therefore represents the highest level of available utility. Specifically, the. level

18 Feb 2019: Empathy - Activity 1:. Empathy is a word that we use a lot in popular culture. Parents talk and think about it. a lot, too! Read these parent advice articles to learn a bit more about how empathy and. empathy development are talked about in

24 Oct 2019: Activity 1 – What is an indifference curve? As has already been mentioned, economists are unable to quantify the utility that individuals gain. from their consumption choices in a single measure. However, what is possible is to identify the.

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Psychologists measure infants’ gaze to gather evidence for their studies. Come up. with a method which could be used to measure how long an infant looks at. something (which equipment would you need? Outline all the steps you would

24 Oct 2019: What are the benefits of vaccines? What are the risks? How do you evaluate a. vaccine and decide who should get it and when? Although 100% vaccination coverage would provide the best protection against disease,. vaccines are still effective when a

24 Oct 2019: Activity 3 – Identifying the Consumer Equilibrium. Indifference curves offer an illustrative solution to the utility-maximisation problem that individuals. face. While each individual will of course have their own preferences and choices that

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Do you think that having a theory of mind is important? Why? List some of the. situations in which you might have to use your theory of mind. Being able to understand what another person is thinking/feeling is extremely important in.

24 Apr 2019: Task Answers. 1. Watch this short clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jW668F7HdA. The baby in the video is given two tasks – firstly, her mum shows her a toy and then hides it. under a blanket. The baby lifts the blanket and finds the toy. How

18 Feb 2019: Activity 2 –. The development of empathy happens over time. Martin Hoffman (2000) has mapped empathy development across the following. stages:. 1. Emotion contagion and imitation- babies respond to other babies’ distress by. crying- they embody

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. Conduct your own experiment! Pick 5 brands of the same product (e.g. 5 different. brands of cereals). Ask your friends and family how much they like each product. (e.g. let them rate products on a scale from 1-10). Then ask them to

10 Apr 2019: Task. 1- Observe Figure 2 below: are the lines straight? 2- Now take a ruler or a set square and test whether you were right! Fibonacci (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Café_wall.svg), „Café wall“,

28 May 2019: Resource 5 - Answers to Exercises. 1. Milo’s preferences violate the transitivity axiom discussed earlier in the resource. Remember how transitivity was defined: transitive preferences can be thought of as consistent preferences. This means that

24 Oct 2019: Figure 1. Activity 2 – Explaining the shape of indifference curves. Despite the indifference curves in Figure 1 all representing different levels of utility, each. indifference curve has a similar shape. They are downwards sloping, and they are

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. How could the social validation principle be used to persuade young people to. reduce the amount of alcohol they are drinking? Answer: The principle of social validation suggests that people tend to do what others. are doing.

25 Mar 2019: Measuring and Improving. How do we measure respiratory function in dogs? One problem with brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome is that, until recently, the. diagnosis has been made by general clinical veterinary examination, which is

5 Feb 2019: What is the Turing Test? In order to assess whether or not the intelligence of a computer is distinguishable from a human,. English computer scientist Alan Turing introduced a test in 1950; he asked whether someone. could distinguish if they are

5 Feb 2019: In the future, it is expected that AI will become fully capable in producing cultural artefacts. But. how can AI be ‘creative’? Although AI technology has generated many new ideas in design, pharmaceuticals and various. types of computer art,

24 Apr 2019: Before we learn anything about how babies think,. let’s discuss how psychologists can even communicate. with infants. Imagine you want to test if a. three-month old baby understands the concept of. maths. You design a neat experiment to test this

18 Feb 2019: Activity 3 –. It’s important to note that there are vast differences in how empathic people are. Sometimes, people aren’t able to be empathic, or are less empathic than others. One barrier to empathy is in-group vs. out-group bias, which has

26 Mar 2019: Even in ancient times, blood was seen as some sort of “life force”, something that almost every. living creature has and cannot live without. For over a thousand years until only a few centuries. ago, the main way to treat diseases was

29 Jan 2019: Task Answers. 1. Apart from dental-care products, which other sectors might benefit from using the. principle of authority to try and persuade people to buy their products? Answer: medicine, diet supplements, weight-loss products, baby products. 2.

10 Apr 2019: Task. 1. Watch this brief video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9dAbPOR6M. 2. Is the mask ever hollow/concave? Or does it appear as a normal convex face? 3. Show this to a friend or family member: do they agree with you or not? What do they see?

24 Oct 2019: What are the basic principles of vaccinology? What are the different kinds of. vaccines? Vaccines work by eliciting long-lasting immunity – so to understand vaccines, you must have. a basic understanding of immunology. The immune system is divided

26 Mar 2019: You were introduced in the previous activity to the idea of transfusion, the taking of blood from. one person to another, that we might call a liquid transplant. At the same time, we have more in. our bodies than just blood, and the idea of swapping

14 Feb 2019: Activity 2. Aim: identify food symbolism in an example from the visual arts. Many subgenres of children’s literature place a high level of importance on visual images. such as illustrations, book covers and endpapers; therefore the study of

14 Feb 2019: Activity 3. Aim: carry out a close comparative reading of food details/scenes from sources across a. broad historical range. This activity looks at the role played by the representation of the feast. Feasts in children’s. literature – and in

28 May 2019: Resource 1. 1a – What Do We Really Mean by Rationality? The world that we live in is a complex one, and so economists tasked with trying to model the economic interactions within it face a significant challenge. In order to help make sense of it

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 1: Authority. The first tool which can be used to persuade people is authority. We naturally feel compelled to. listen and follow orders from those in a position of power. There are many reasons for this – for. example, not listening to

29 Jan 2019: Weapon 3: Liking. “People prefer to say ‘yes’ to those they know and like” (Cialdini, 1984). Do you always buy the same cereal? Or do you like to try new things every time you go to the. supermarket? Most people prefer to stick to the things

14 Feb 2019: Activity 1. Aim: reflect critically on your own childhood reading. This activity introduces some of the key debates in children’s literature criticism, including. the difficulties associated with defining children’s literature and the problems

28 May 2019: Resource 2 – Applications of Rational Decision-Making. Theories of rational decision-making are very relevant to a number of different areas of the economy. As the following section will demonstrate, we can move beyond the standard application of

24 Apr 2019: Peekaboo! If I close my eyes I can’t see you and that means you’re gone! Or does it? Babies are not told how physics work. Even if. we told them, they don’t understand language. yet, so they wouldn’t learn anything anyway. The. task is not

29 Jan 2019: That’s why using ‘plain Janes’ in adverts (especially for household cleaning items), rather than. celebrities, works so well. We’re not likely to identify with a celebrity (I totally have the same. problems as Angelina Jolie…not), but we

24 Apr 2019: Some have put forward even braver hypotheses – infants as young as 15-months might be able to pass. the false belief task, based on their gaze. A version of the Sally-Anne task was developed for infants –. someone looked at a toy being put into

14 Feb 2019: Activity 4. Aim: carry out a close comparative reading of food details/scenes from contemporary. children's literature. This activity provides an overview of some common themes of food symbolism in children’s. literature along with a sample