Game Theory

Please describe the following in your own words in two sentences.(look them up if you don't know)

 

Nash equilibrium- if you are married and you and your wife want to meet at home and you get home first then you wasted her time but if she gets home before you then you should just get home at the same time so nobody wastes time. So you pretty much just need to think of the best strategy no matter what you are doing. 

 

 

Game theory-  A strategic way in making your opponent try to change their strategy in trying to make your strategy win.

 

 

Prisoner dilemma- like in orange in the new black where they agree to not tell anyone and then one girl rats her out and they get out because she told the truth.

 

 

Go to the following link Serendip online interactive prisoner's dilemma

 

Describe your experience and thoughts after you have played the game a few times.(50 words)

I played it twice and I thought it was kind of confusing. I tried two different ways to play it and I won both times by 5 or 6. The last time I played it I hit cooperate all the way til the last round and I got 28  points. It was kind of odd and weird because you never really know what it going to happen but it was interesting.

 

 

Read the following blog on Game Theory and answer the questions below:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_dixit.html

 

Give an example of Game Theory/prisoner dilemma:

 

In history: Cuban Missile Crisis  

 

In Government:  When you vote for a governor

 

In economics: The USA cutting oil

 

related to sociology: Picking whether or not to break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend.

 

related to psychology:   on how I behave to my mom when I am mad at her

 

In your everyday life: Making life changing decisions like picking which college to go

 

 

 Tell me your thoughts on the oil pricing activity and the other group activities we did in class.

 

I think that you tore our class apart.

 

 

 

But it was funny and really it made me not want to trust my class.

 

 

 

 

 

 On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being great rate the activities we have done in class with the unit.  What are some things that can be done to improve the overall unit?

10, it was really fun!! Nothing I thought it was as good at it could be!

Ink Blot party

I think that the test that we took was somewhat accurate. It was kind of fun to take and see what you thought everything was. I’m really happy that I am not classified as a paranoid person or a schizophrenic or a pervert. I am surprisely normal. I think that this was a pretty cool test and I am glad we took it. I think some people in our class will actually take a real IQ test.  I think it was cool that some of the pictures could be classified as the mother picture or the picture of what you think of your father. I don’t understand how they make these slides but I think that it is kind of cool. Some of the slides were hard to tell what they looked like because I didn’t see anything in a lot of them until I looked really close. I think that it was kind of cool to listen to what everyone else saw on the pictures too. It was also kind of hard to tell some of the things that were listed on that website, because most of them I couldn’t even see. I couldn’t see the sexual things or most of the stuff that the schizophrenics saw.

Pepsi ad

Unconditioned stimulus: Being in the spotlight or being famous
Conditioned Stimulus: Pepsi
Unconditioned Response: Being in the spotlight or being famous after you drink a Pepsi or people that drink Pepsi are famous.
Conditioned response: Being famous

Teaching

I have taught my little cousin how to subtract numbers in math. When I was helping her I made her use her fingers to help her take away the numbers.  I love teaching kids how to do new and fun things. It definitely helps me because it is something I want to go to college and study for. I am glad that I have found something that I like to do by just helping the people that I love most. I can’t wait to help little kids on a daily basis after I get a job in the real world. When I was teaching her I didn’t use any steps, I just used foods or other items that were on the table. For example there were 4 apples on the table and her sheet asked what 4-3 was so I took 3 apples away and she saw that there was one left!

Phychology fun

 What is your favorite word? like

 What is your least favorite word? K

 What one thing do you like about your life? That I live in the Langford, SD.

 What one thing do you not like about your life?  Being an only child

 What profession would you like to attempt? A teacher

 What profession would you never attempt?  A doctor

 What 3 words describe you?  Laid-back, outgoing,  sarcastic

I really want to gain the knowledge to figure out how people think in their own way. I think it is really important to know how to read someone and know how they react to certain situations. It will be really interesting to figure out how everyone in this class thinks. I hope to learn from you as teacher new and interesting things that I didn’t already know. You are really good at making everyone think and also good at doing reverse physiology on our class. I hope you teach us things that will pay off in the long run and help us get through college. It will be really hard to go to a different environment (like college) and experience so many different people and their behavior and emotions. I’m really happy to be in a class like this one, because it is small and we can all figure each other out and we know each other’s personalities. Another reason why it is nice to be in a small class is because we can have one on one time with the teacher and he can help us when we are struggling.  I also hope to watch the movie Shutter Island.

Ebola

Ebola is such a scary virus-disease. I learned so much from researching this interesting topic. I learned that you can have Ebola for 20 days before you figure out that you have it. If you have it you more than likely will not know for a while.   I learned that a lot of people are blowing this subject way out of proportion. This virus- disease has been around for more than 30 years and now we are just hearing about it. Social media is taking this to a new level! Trying to think of ways to make this virus-disease go away was a pretty tough thing to do. I can’t imagine the people who actually have this as a job, because a lot of our scenarios were probably not realistic or could ever happen in this lifetime. I do believe that some of the things the groups said should happen, but things like putting a glass bowl around a country probably isn’t going to happen. I wish this Ebola breakout would just go away, but we all know that can’t happen unless some kind of change happens SOON.

 

Ebola has a lot to do with globalization because Ebola is going through our world like crazy.  If West Africa gets there Ebola virus-disease figured out, then it will help the United States because then the Africans won’t bring to other places. If West Africa eliminates Ebola it will help the United States eliminate Ebola. If this disease keeps going on and nobody fixes the problem, it could eventually kill millions of people. But if just one country finds a cure then they can help other countries find a cure.  If nobody finds a cure in our world for Ebola our future is not looking so bright. Ebola is a fatal virus- disease and has already killed thousands of innocent people.  If people don’t listen when they are told to not be around people, then this disease will NOT stop spreading. Being quarantined is a huge piece to this puzzle that is trying to be solved. If you refuse to stay away from people when you have Ebola, this disease will never stop spreading. If you are selfish enough to give a fatal disease to another innocent person while you have it then I don’t think that is fair for others.  If you look at our global health, we could really be in danger with this dangerous virus-disease.  

10 facts about Healthcare

1. Physicians and other health people are the largest source of federal campaign contributions and they contribute over 260.4 million dollars to federal candidates.
2.  Cooperative of American Physicians is almost all outside spending groups.
3. The democrats in 2009 got 800k for the Health for the senate.
4. Blue Cross splits their pay up 50-50.
5. The top recipient for the 2013-2014 election got up to 1.3 million dollars.
6. The average contributions to members of the Congress in the republicans tripled its money from 1990 to 2012.
7. Pharmaceuticals and health products are almost 74 million more than any of the other top lobbying industries.
8. The lobbying totals went really high and now they are going low again.
9. The contributions increase on election years.
10. McConnell is strongly against Obamacare.