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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

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

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.

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,

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