Finals Reviewer Flashcards

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In Psychology, it is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can
be defined by among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy.

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Happiness

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To behaviorists, it is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do
something good or positive.

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Happiness

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To neurologists, it is the experience of a flood hormones released in the
brain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.

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Happiness

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Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can
be defined by among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy

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Psychology

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According to them, happiness is a cocktail of emotions we experience when we do
something good or positive.

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Behaviorist

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According to them, happiness is the experience of flood hormones released in thebrain as a reward for behavior that prolongs survival.

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Neurologist

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Their view is that happiness is the polar opposite of
suffering; the presence of happiness indicates the absence of pain.

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Hedonistic View

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It is the way of life, characterized by openness to a pleasurable experience.

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Hedonism

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They believe that the purpose of life is to maximize
happiness, which minimizes misery.

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Hedonist

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For Plato and Aristotle, happiness is the result of

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Eudaimonia or human florishing

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term that combines the Greek words for “good” and “spirit” to
describe the ideology.

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Eudaimonia

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defines happiness as the pursuit of becoming a better person.

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Eudaimonia

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They do this by challenging themselves intellectually or by engaging in
activities that make them spiritually richer people.

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Eudaimonists

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four cardinal virtues

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Wisdom
Courage
Temperance
Justice

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He believed that by gaining knowledge, humans will flourish.

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Aristotle

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humans through reason seek knowledge
about the world. He believed that by gaining knowledge, humans will flourish.

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Intellectual Virtue

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It enables an individual to apply the appropriate virtue in a particular situation. A
virtuous life can be attained through education and habit.

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Phronesis or Practical wisdom

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wrote a book entitled The Ten
Golden Rules on Living a Good Life where they extracted “ancient wisdom from the
Greek philosophers on living the good life” and mapped it into modern times.

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Michael Soupios and Panos Mourdoukoutas

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Ultimate medium for advertisement placements

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Television

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Almost all use this particular type of device

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Television

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Released in June 1981 by the Osborne Computer Corporation, the
Osborne 1 is considered to be the first true portable, full-featured computer

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Osborne 1

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An American inventor known for developing ‘Unimate’, the first
material handling robot employed in industrial production work.

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George Devol

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usually designed like human beings, are created to perform complex,
repetitive, or dangerous tasks.

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Robots

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who proposed the theory of Information
age in 1082, “the Information age is true age based upon the interconnection of
computers via telecommunications, with these information systems operating on
both a real time and as needed basis.

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James R. Messenger

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Invented by Samuel Morse, it revolutionized distanced communication. This works by the transmission of electric signals over the wires which wad laid or installed in-between stations.
Telegraph
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Christopher Latham Sholes invented the typewriter. It was firstly mounted to a sewing machine and only consists of uppercase
Typewriter
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Used to transmit voices or communicated in a wide range of distance through wires or even radios.
Telephone
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Known as the “Father of Television”
Vladimir Zworykin
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A space of information where links, webs, and documents are accessed online or in the internet.
World wide web
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A multifunctional search engine technology that enables people to access the internet.
Google
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It is an online free encyclopedia that contains wide range of information.
Wikipedia
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A social networking service launched founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and their fellow roommates.
Facebook
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A video-sharing website that allowed users to upload, share, and view content.
Youtube
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It is an online networking service where users post and interact with messages, “tweets”, and access news globally.
Twitter
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One of the most used and popular video sharing application in the 21 st century.
Tiktok
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The Information industry is built on a certain quantity of information flow. News can be invented readily. Information is shaped to fit the medium and the available or required size.
Media Space must Eat
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Over claims are made, or implications made in headlines or ticklers. Ever more advertising views for attention.
Exaggeration
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Our media seem obsessed with “pushing the envelope”, which often means moving to ever more excess in search of attention.
Operation one-upmanship
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In a world where information is a commodity, information that can be positioned as scarce, exclusive, or secret will have more value that common information. Thus, we see everywhere,“The 10 secrets of X, “Exclusive interview,” “What Y doesn’t want revealed.” “Tonight, A special.”
Scarcity
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The first media outlet to cover an issue often defines its terms, context, and attitudes surrounding it. The first statement often becomes the permanent concept. How the issue will be viewed, what the alternatives are, etc
The early word gets the perm
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The fallacy or false dilemma is often used, where one side is presented as highly undesirable and the other as attractive. Photographs do not speak for themselves. What happened before and what happened after? Often pictured are not worth a thousand words, the pictures are ambiguous until explained by words.
The frame makes the painting
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Selecting certain stories to report on while not selecting others or selecting certain details of a story while omitting others reflects not just the interest but the agenda of the media outlet. Whatever is ignored is seen as not important and in effect non existent.
Selection is a viewpoint
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There is an obsession with the new and different. Novelty, the unusual , will get our attention. We are a “been there done that” society and always want something new.
Newer is equated with truer
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Because information is a commodity item, it must cater to the tastes of its consumers. In other worlds, information is shaped by cultural priorities.
The media sell what the culture buys
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major ethical issues that involves the information age
Privacy Accuracy Property Accessibility
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We think by using the information given to us by others. When you make generalizations, you must do so based on the information you have received from the information inputs you make use of
You are what you eat and so is your brain
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There is a saying, “Nothing so bad that some don’t like; Nothing so good that some won’t strike”. It is probably impossible to make any assertion that will not find some supporters and some detractors.
All ideas are seen controversial
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Old master paintings are in demand, hence art fraud. Designer luggage is in demand, hence product counterfeiting
Anything in demand will be counterfieted
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Many people believe that no accusation would be made without any basis, so that if an accusation is made, it must be true, at least in part. Many people are too busy to check anything out, so they just assume that accusations are valid
To accuse is to convict
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Television is mostly pictorial, partly aural, and very little textual. Therefore, the visual stories are the ones emphasized: fires, chases, disasters.
The medium selects the message
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The information we receive comes to us filtered, selected, slanted, verbally changed, and sometimes fabricated. what is left out is often even more important that what is included
The whole truth is a pursuit
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Today, because of pressure to be first or at least not left in the dust, news media organizations pick up and often pass on many of the rumors that circulate online somewhere, together with the motivations to lie, dissemble, and slander, causes or constant churn of junk quality information to circulate.
Provenance provides probability
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prefix used in the metric scale to represent one billionth or ten raised to negative nine (10-9)
Nano
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one billionth of a meter
Nanometer
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This refers to the study of exceptionally small things that can be used across all the other fields of science, such as biology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, and engineering.
Nanoscience
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example of these is nano ceramics paint coating. This is being used as a car paint coating to provide strong protection and shield that keeps the paint of the car to took shiny and brand new.
Ceramics
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This deals with science, technology, and engineering accompanied at the nano scale, which is about 1 to 100 nanometer.
Nanotechnology
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being used in healthcare, such as imaging tools as bioengineering to detect diseases, monitoring, prevention, treatment of several diseases for instance; cancer, cardiovascular disorder; diabetes; inflammatory conditions and some infectious diseases.
Biomaterials
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A carbon nanotube is a carbon allotrope that resembles a tube of carbon atoms. Carbon nanotubes are extremely robust and difficult to break, but they are still light.
Nanotube
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These have been used to enhance and strengthen computer chips, especially its design.
Polymers
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Nanoscale materials are also being incorporated into a variety of personal care products to improve performance.
Cosmetic
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provide protection from harmful UV rays of solar radiation. This have been possible through the use of nano-size zinc oxide that reflects and absorbs UV rays and made it ultraviolet resistant.
Sunscreen
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Nanoscale materials are beginning to enable washable, durable “smart fabrics” equipped with flexible nanoscale sensors and electronics with capabilities for health monitoring, solar energy capture, and energy harvesting through movement.
Smart Fabrics
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was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. Mendel’s observation became the foundation of modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in the field of genetics.
Gregor Mendel
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structured within cells that convert food into a form that cells can use.
Mitochondria
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genetic retina disorder that causes visual impairment beginning in infancy.
LEBER’S CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS (LCA)
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Type of cancer where the bone marrow makes too many immature lymphocytes and affects the blood chemistry
BLOOD CANCER: ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA (ALL)
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 A mutation in the Dystrophin gene effects both skeletal and cardiac muscles.  Most commonly inherited myopathy in childhood
DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (DMD)