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A Temporal Information-Theoretic Model Of Suboptimal Choice, Paul J. Cunningham
A Temporal Information-Theoretic Model Of Suboptimal Choice, Paul J. Cunningham
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Humans and animals often make decisions not in their long-term best interest. In one example, called suboptimal choice, pigeons sacrifice food for food-predictive stimuli. The study of suboptimal choice can reveal insights into the role of reward-predictive stimuli in maladaptive decision-making that characterizes numerous behavioral disorders. However, there is currently little evidence that rats engage in suboptimal choice, thereby raising questions about the species-generality of suboptimal choice. According to the temporal information-theoretic model, developed in Chapter 2, suboptimal choice emerges when pigeons pay more attention to the bits of temporal information conveyed by food-predictive stimuli than the rate of food …
Single...Chance Or Choice, Karen Robinson
Single...Chance Or Choice, Karen Robinson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
"It is said to be the largest unrecognized minority group in America, but it has no lobbying efforts, central organization or focus. The group is singles - divorced, widowed or never married - and there is an estimated l 190,000 of them in Kansas City Area." One out of every three adults in the United States is single. That is 43 million. Yet in spite of their great numbers, single people find that social pressures still call for "settling down" and raising a family.