What Are Some General Technological Trends in the Marketplace

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Essay

What are some general technological trends in the marketplace?

Identify and critique the misuse of force by police as abuse of power.

Understand racial profiling and its implications in law enforcement practices.

Describe and evaluate the slippery slope theory related to police corruption.

Identify and understand the term describing the roles and experiences within occupational groups in an institution.

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Definitions:

Afterimages

Visual illusions that continue to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased, often exhibiting contrasting colors.

Color Processing

The neurological process by which the brain interprets wavelengths of light as different colors, a function of the visual system.

Opponent-Process Cells

Specialized cells in the visual system that are used to detect color and are thought to work by encoding differences between the firing rates of pairs of color-sensitive neurons.

Thalamus

The brain’s sensory control center, located on top of the brainstem; it directs messages to the sensory receiving areas in the cortex and transmits replies to the cerebellum and medulla.