5. A researcher is interested in whether participating

in sports positively influences selfesteem

in young girls. She identifies a group

of girls who have not played sports before

but are now planning to begin participating

in organized sports. She gives them a

50-item self-esteem inventory before they

begin playing sports and administers it

again after six months of playing sports.

The self-esteem inventory is measured on an

interval scale, with higher numbers indicating

higher self-esteem. In addition, scores on

the inventory are normally distributed. The

scores appear below.

Before After

44 46

40 41

39 41

46 47

42 43

43 45

a. What statistical test should be used to

analyze these data?

b. Identify H0 and Ha for this study.

c. Conduct the appropriate analysis.

d. Should H0 be rejected? What should the

researcher conclude?

e. If significant, compute the effect size and

interpret.

f. If significant, draw a graph representing

the data.

6. The student in Question 5 from Module 18

decides to conduct the same study using a

within-subjects design in order to control

for differences in cognitive ability. He selects

a random sample of participants and

has them study different material of equal

difficulty in both the music and no music

conditions. The data appear below. As

before, they are measured on an intervalratio

scale and are normally distributed.

Music No Music

6 10

7 7

6 8

5 7

6 7

8 9

8 8

a. What statistical test should be used to

analyze these data?

b. Identify H0 and Ha for this study.

c. Conduct the appropriate analysis.

d. Should H0 be rejected? What should the

researcher conclude?

e. If significant, compute the effect size and

interpret.

f. If significant, draw a graph representing

the data.

 

The Final Project for this course requires that you apply the material that you have studied during the term to a case study of your choice. For this Assignment, you must choose a well-known current or historical person for an in-depth analysis of personality development. Some examples of the type of person you can choose are famous politicians, philanthropists, entertainers, businesspersons, or individuals who made significant contributions to your field of study or career. You should choose a figure whose biographical information can be easily researched.

During this course, you have studied several models of personality development. For your Final Project, you will write a 5–7 page paper that describes the way in which each of the models that you studied in the course applies to the personality development of the case study that you chose. Your paper must include the following components:

1. A summary of the person’s life experiences. This section must include all relevant background, including family history, significant life experiences, and important contributions that may have influenced or resulted from the individual’s personality development. This section should be a maximum of 1–2 pages in length.

2. A discussion and evaluation of the ways in which each of the following models would explain the individual’s personality development:

   1. Psychoanalytic and Neoanalytic theories

   2. Psychosocial theories

   3. Trait, Evolutionary, Genetic/Biological approaches

   4. Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Learning theories

   5. Humanistic theories

   Be sure to include an explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of applying each model to your case study.

   This section should be 3–4 pages in length.

3. If you wanted to measure and assess this individual’s personality, what specific methods of personality assessment would you use that we have learned during this course and why? What information would you gain from each of the assessment tools that you chose? This section should be at least 1 page in length.

Include references from the text and course learning activities. Your project should be double-spaced, include a reference page, include a minimum of three resources, and adhere to APA guidelines. You can find additional help on APA in the APA Quick Reference on the Course Home Page or in the Kaplan Writing Center.

Assignment 1: Discussion Question   By Saturday, February 27, 2016 respond to the discussion question. Submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions, and continue the discussion untilWednesday, March 2, 2016. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.   Imagine you were to create a survey that examined the frequency of drug use in middle school children. Referring back to the considerations for creating surveys presented in this module and in your textbook, what specific factors would you need to consider when developing this survey? Make sure you address considerations related to age (early adolescence) and nature of the topic (drug use).

 

For this research question, one issue to consider here is honesty in responding.  So, a survey might best be complemented by other types of designs in this particular scenario.  However, in the context of the survey itself, there are *many* possible strategies and factors to take into consideration, and I would like folks to focus on how we would design the questionnaire instrument itself–what questions would be included, and how would they be worded?  I found this

http://s3.amazonaws.com/SurveyMonkeyFiles/SmartSurvey.pdf

resource that folks might want to take a look at as they consider these issues…. Enjoy!

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Assignment 2: Social Control and Criminal Deviance: Bullying

Due Week 6 and worth 65 points

Bullying is a difficult concept to understand and reconcile the consequences. This assignment focuses on the critical thinking skills that are needed to analyze an emotionally charged topic.

Student Success Tips

• Review the Student’s Guide to Research section of the textbook (Chapter 2)
• Take notes as you watch the video below.

Watch the video titled, “From school yard bullying to genocide: Barbara Coloroso at TEDxCalgary” (19 min 5 s) located below. You may also view the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkG0nssouFg.

Write a one to two (1-2) page essay in which you:

1. Identify the most important step in the student’s guide to research that you would need in order to analyze bullying.
2. Define the identified critical step of research in your words.
3. Explain how bullying relates to one (1) of the following topics:
   1. the agents of socialization (i.e., family, teachers and school, peers),
   2. formal organizations (i.e., conformity to groups),
   3. different types of deviance (i.e., everyday deviance, sexual deviance, or criminal deviance).

Provide a rationale for your response.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• To keep this essay short and manageable, your only sources for the essay should be the TED video and the sections noted in your text. For this reason, APA citations or references are not required for this assignment.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Define the basic concepts used in the discipline of sociology.
• Define the various methodologies for sociological research.
• Identify the sociological perspective to the inequalities of class, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomics, and political aspects.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology.
• Write clearly and concisely about sociology using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Answer the following multiple choice questions by highlighting the answer. There is one correct answer per question.

 

 

 

1. Which historical perspective stated that psychologists should study the different components of the mind independently, because to understand how the conscious mind works, we must understand all of its individual parts completely? 

    

   1. Structuralism

   2. Functionalism

   3. Behaviorism

   4. Gestalt

   5. Psychodynamic

       

2. Edward Titchener used a method for studying the mind that became popular during the Structuralist period. The method, called _____, required trained participants to report their conscious mental experiences to the investigator. For example, if a person was angry, they would report all of their experiences during the time they were angry. 

    

   1. empiricism

   2. functionalism

   3. contemplation

   4. introspection

   5. conscientiousness        

       

3. A potential problem with ___________ research is _____________. 

    

   1. longitudinal; cohort differences

   2. cross-sectional; subject attrition

   3. cross-sectional; cohort differences

   4. longitudinal; random assignment

   5. cross-sectional; maturation

       

4. Research by _____________  legitimized psychological science when it became the first psychological research presented as evidence to the United States Supreme Court.  

    

   1. Muzafer Sherif

   2. Irving Janis

   3. Mamie Clark

   4. Phillip Zimbardo

   5. Kurt Lewin

       

5. To determine whether changing one variable like education will produce changes in another like income, we must conduct _____________________ research. 

    

   1. survey

   2. correlational

   3. experimental

   4. statistical

   5. basic

       

6. Mary is studying the effect of high blood sugar on intelligence test performance. Which of these might be her hypothesis?

    

   1. People should not eat high sugar foods prior to IQ testing.

   2. High sugar foods increase energy and improve IQ test performance.

   3. People who eat high sugar foods before testing will have lower scores on an IQ test than people who do not.

   4. Roughly 75% of people had lower IQ test scores after eating high sugar snacks right before testing.

   5. Individuals should not be given high sugar snacks prior to IQ testing.

       

7. Which of the following research methods would be most effective in demonstrating whether the presence of others improves our performance of a task? 

    

   1. An experiment

   2. A correlational study

   3. A survey

   4. A field study

   5. An historical study

       

8. Which of the following psychological studies would you expect to have similar results cross-culturally? 

    

   1. Milgram’s study of obedience to authority

   2. Asch’s conformity study

   3. Study of the symptoms of mental illness

   4. Study of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

   5. Study of parenting parenting styles

       

       

       

      1. 9. According to the APA Ethical Standards, psychologists must inform participants of the nature of the research; and that they are free to participate, decline to participate, or withdraw from the research at any time. These requirements, among others, are necessary to ensure the participants’ ______.

          

         1. anonymity

         2. risk level

         3. informed consent

         4. debriefing

         5. risk/benefit ratio

             

      2. 10. Making an ethical decision involves 

          

         1. simply applying a clear and definitive set of guidelines for ethical research

         2. deciding that an ethical decision is effective if it makes you happy

         3. identifying what ethical guidelines are relevant in a situation and what is at stake for all parties involved

         4. maintaining the anonymity of the researchers

         5. maintaining the anonymity of the participants

             

      3. 11. According to the APA Ethical Standards, who is ultimately responsible for the ethical conduct of research done in psychology?

          

         1. The Institutional Review Board

         2. The individual researchers

         3. The sponsoring institution, such as the university

         4. The assistants who test the participants

         5. The funding agency