Birds overcome by pollution and routinely falling from the sky above Los Angeles freeways were/was prompting officials in California to devise a plan to reduce the incident- ......
Answer says it should be was. I don know why.Please explain and if possible give me similar examples.
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RC for the day :
In this age of fierce competition between Internet marketing and traditional retail, merchants want to know: Which approach stirs potential customers most?
Experiments by neuroeconomist Antonio Rangel and his colleagues suggest that the old pop song chorus-"Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby"-might have it right.
The findings could be relevant to more than shopping, however. They may give insight into the ways our brains assign value in the computational activity that is human choice.
"Whether the stimuli are physically present or not really affects the values you assign and the choices you make," says Rangel, a California Institute of Technology researcher who published the research results with his colleagues in the American Economic Review in September.
Rangel, an economist-turned-neuroscientist, is one of those people eager to find the biological basis for human behavior, including choice making. He and many others have concluded that choices are made based on the values people assign to the options they encounter.
In a series of experiments, his group set out to learn how people assign values to the same goods presented differently: as text on a computer screen, as a high-quality photograph on the same screen or as the thing itself.
They randomly presented more than 50 hungry Caltech students with snack foods such as candy bars, potato chips and other sweet and salty snacks, one by one, in three different conditions: a text condition where the food's name was written; a high-resolution picture of the food; or the actual snack in a tray. The students were asked to assign values to each of the foods.
On average, there was no difference in the subjects' willingness to pay for the foods between the text and picture conditions, but subjects were willing to pay, on average, 50 percent more for items that were physically present. Importantly, these were real decisions: Subjects purchased those items at the stated price.
Concerned that noses rather than brains were guiding these judgments, the authors repeated the experiment with something other than food. They asked their subjects to rate Caltech paraphernalia: key chains, pens and baseball caps. The students still were willing to pay about 50 percent more for the goods in the real condition, with no difference between text and picture. "We were shocked when it replicated with all of our goods, like the trinkets," Rangel says. "Somehow the brain knows it is present, and computes the value of stimuli differently when this is the case."
To gain more insight about the mechanisms in play, the team repeated the food experiment, but this time placed the actual food behind clear Plexiglas so that subjects could see the foods just as before, but could not reach or smell them. When behind glass, the real condition's advantage disappeared. The authors argue that this suggests that the original effect is triggered by the activation of automatic approach responses (often called Pavlovian processes) that strike when a highly appealing, or "appetitive," item is placed within sight and reach of a subject.
The findings reinforced questions that nag at Rangel. "We want to understand not just how signals get coded in the brain but how they are constructed at the time of choice. What are the inputs that determine what values get assigned? How is that affected by learning? How is it affected by a lot of perceptual information in the environment?" Rangel asks.
The researcher's working hypothesis is that seeing something that you know you could reach out and grab, if you really needed to, generates a larger cue in the brain than simply seeing an extrapolation of the same object.
1. According to the passage, the purpose of the experiments on Caltech students was to understand
a) which approach stirs potential customers most.
b) the way our brain assigns values to activities.
c) the biological basis of human behaviour in making choices.
d) human responses to actual objects.
2. From the information on the findings of the researchers, which of the following situations would send the strongest signals to the brain?
a) A sweater displayed on a mannequin at the store entrance.
b) A sweater displayed by a model walking on the ramp.
c) A woman knitting a sweater behind a glass counter.
d) A sweater gift wrapped attractively.
3. The passage can be best described as
a) hypothetical
b) argumentative
c) factual
d) experimental
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Hi Guys, In RC passages mostly i have seen that even if passage is simple enough, options in questions create a lot of confusion. Can someone pls share strategy solving these kind of questions. Also please provide me link to practise such passages.
Hi Guys, In RC passages mostly i have seen that even if passage is simple enough, options in questions create a lot of confusion. Can someone pls share strategy solving these kind of questions. Also please provide me link to practise such passages.
Choose the option that best captures the essence:
Among educated Gujarati families, it has generally been a matter of pride to educate children in the Gujarati medium. So, it surprised me when my mother said that since I had grown up in the modern era, she would have no option but to send me to an English-medium school. Many Gujarati-medium schools in Mumbai are converting to English medium. In an increasingly computer-literate world where English has become the lingua franca, parents face a difficult choice between maintaining cultural identity and investing in their children's future. This set me pondering over the nature of linguistic division in India. While the fear of fragmentation along linguistic boundaries was greatest in the wake of independence, somehow, we have managed to weave a nation out of multi-linguistic society. How will we face this new threat of linguistic fragmentation between urban and rural India and the central heartlands and surrounding states? Although public policy remains justly concerned with increasing income disparities across states, the cleavages along linguistic lines - command over English and computing languages seem to have been overlooked. Given the increasing importance of these skills in a globalising economy, we may well be sowing the seeds of long term regional discord by ignoring these disparities.
Mark the antonym of the word INVEIGH
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Correct the underlined portion
The English masters possessed the power in regulating their own trade, and for giving liberty to every slave in their dominions; and yet they were entirely unmindful of their duty on this subject.
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Find the synonym for the word:
Stentorian
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http://tinypic.com/r/2hsangk/8
Options -
1 EDBCA
2 DCAEB
3 ECABD
4 DBECA
Please post your reasoning as well
There are 16 boxes in a room, each of which has 3 balls identical in shape and size. Fifteen of the boxes contain 1 gm balls and one of the 16 boxes contains 2 gm balls. You are given a digital weight measuring machine and marker.
Device the strategy which will take only 2 chances to spot the box with overweight balls in above riddle?
Mark the antonym
Atrabiliousness
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Is Bullmock test series for all,do they provide post mock analysis and are they woth-attempting in comparison to CL or IMS, i mean quality is good or its just like a promotional event?
A. Though Darwin himself was not an avowed atheist, today more than ever his theory represents the embattled front line in the confrontation between religion and atheism, as espoused by neo-Darwinists like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and others.
B. However, many in India and not just those belonging to the Christian faith find themselves uncomfortable with the either/or position of the radical neo-Darwinists: choose between a Creator and Darwin;
C. In India, Darwin is not the bogey man as he is in the West.
D. You can’t have your God and believe in evolution too.
E. The Indic tradition which accommodates both atheism as well as a well-stocked pantheon of 33 million gods (including a monkey god) should have little problem playing host to evolution.
i am having a confusion..came across a word... "sempiternal."....when i searched for the meaning i found it is synonymous with eternal....as well as an antonym of it.....can any one suggest the correct usage?
In this context, the ___ of the British labour movement is particularly ___.
MOST firms consider expert individuals to be too elitist, temperamental,egocentric and difficult to the work with. force such people to collaborate on a high stake projects and they just might come to fisticuffs. even the very notion of managing such a group seems unimaginable . so most organization fall into default mode , setting up project teams of people who get along nicely.............
1)the result however is disastrous
2)the result is mediocrity
3)the result is creation of experts who then becomes elitists 4)naturally, they drive innovations
pick odd one out sentence
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