Travis Is Teaching a Course of Average Difficulty

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Essay

Travis is teaching a course of average difficulty. On the first day he informs his class that the course is very hard and that very few students earn grades higher than C. He knows that this is an exaggeration. He expects that the grades will be distributed just as they are in any other course, but he thinks that this introduction will improve his teacher evaluations at the end of the course. Given what you know about acquired motivation, what do you think Travis is up to? What would Crespi think the students will experience at the end of the course?

Distinguish between necessary and sufficient causes of disease.

Understand the role of temporality in establishing causality.

Recognize the importance of dose-response relationships in supporting causality.

Appreciate the significance of biological plausibility in causal inference.

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The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or gender.

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