From a Time

question 37

Essay

From a Time.com article entitled "Why Men Shouldn't Listen to Rock Music While Playing Board Games," published on December 13, 2016.
Researchers Fancourt, Burton, and Williamon wanted to find out whether different types of music would impact participants' performance on a mock-surgery game, "Operation." Many real-life surgeons listen to music while operating, so the authors were interested in whether this may actually help performance, and whether that differed by sex of the participant.
The psychologists asked male and female participants to play the mock-surgery game, "Operation," in which they needed to remove three different organs from a "patient" using tweezers. The experimenters played either rock music, classical music, or operating-room sounds. They found that the type of music made a difference on the performance of male participants, who were slower to complete the task (in seconds) while listening to rock music compared with classical music. The performance of female participants did not differ based on the type of music they listened to.
Consider the measured outcome variable in this study. Provide both a conceptual definition and an operational definition for it.

Describe the differences between the direct and indirect approaches in negative messages.

Understand strategies to manage and communicate bad news about transactions.

Understand the concept of a buffer in the context of negative messages and assess its ethical implications.

Evaluate the characteristics of well-composed and poorly written buffers in negative messages.

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Definitions:

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Receptor Sites

Specific locations on the surface of a cell or within a cell that are sensitive to neurotransmitters or hormones.

Amygdala

A region of the brain involved in experiencing emotions, particularly fear and pleasure.

Thalamus

A major part of the brain acting as a principal relay station for sensory information flowing to the cortex.