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Schizophrenia Traits (pdf)
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Schizophrenia Traits (pdf)
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Q1. Yes, the explanation of why a person yawns according to the research is rational. The reasonbehind this view point or verdict is that human beings are social beings in nature. Empathy is acommon trait human possess. This character trait is likely to make one person feel the other toextend of mimicking him or her and since yawning is part of what a human being can do thenthis trait can be mimicked just like any other human trait a person may posses. From the researchcarried out by where a group of students watched a movie containing images of people who werelaughing, yawning or lacked expression it was found that 40% of the students who watched themove yawned in response to yawning in the movie and 60% of them did so more than once. Theresearch on schizophrenia traits that is known to lack empathy traits reveals that people whoscore highly on schizophrenia traits do not posses empathy traits just like people withschizophrenia itself. Therefore with all the above overwhelming evidence it is safe to concludethat attaching yawning to empathy is a rational and well weighted explanation. Q2. Price setting, from the article it is evident that pricing of commodities seems to defy logicand rational choice model which opines that any decision taken by individuals is based onevaluative process that takes into account various activities surrounding the commodity.Managers or business may be in need of raising the prices of their commodities but they do notraise it. If this issues is looked at rationally and in a clear-headed manner then the most logicalthing to do is to raise prices in respect to all factors that influence the cost of production of thecommodity or the service being offered. But according to the article this factors do not informthe pricing as it should rather a different set of factors such as who are you? How much are youbuying? How long have you been a customer? Do you have your frequent-shopper card?Looking at these factors critically, it becomes apparent that it doesn’t matter who the customeris, whoever he/she is should simply pay a price which will sustain the company in business and
also make some returns to the investors. Again it doesn’t matter on the quantity a customer ispurchasing because each one of them has the same cost of production so price shouldn’t beaffected by the quantity being purchased. Therefore the question of price setting or pricing defyrational choice model in its simplest definition of being evaluative and reasonable in determiningthe cause of action. In my opinion I think what explains this behavior is the emotionalattachments between the managers or owners of business and their customers. Emotionalconnections are irrational in nature. It does not follow logic to the latter therefore it is easy forpricing to be based on who the customer is and how long he/she been a customer among otherforms of emotional relationships. (Mayhew, 2011)Q2. McMilan’s line of argument can be put in terms of individual choice model. The modelpostulates that any decision that is made should be rational and evaluative such that the decisionmade should be the most cost-effective way of attaining the goal. Has claimed by McMillan,many of the advice gurus will advice against enrolling for graduate school. The reason many ofthe give is that it is not worth it. The emotional investment, economic implications and timeamong other reasons, but in the case of black people in America they face unique problems in theprocess of employment. The hiring process especially in America private sector is skewedtowards the white fraternity. It is more likely for a hiring manager who is presumably white tohire a white candidate color being the most important determinant of the end results. Thereforeaccording to the article it is more rational for black people in America to enroll for graduateschool so that they can get that overwhelming edge against white candidates eying the same job.If this is not the case, then chance are black people will struggle to get jobs in private sectorwhich is the main source of employment in American. The public sector which according to thearticle have affirmative actions see blacks get more chances that see them a times get over-
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