You have just been asked to teach the concept of adaptation to a psychology 
class. You decide to conduct the following experiments to teach the concept of 
adaptation.

Task 1: Conduct three of the following 
experiments. Record your reactions, and be specific for each experiment.

 

Experiment 1:

 

·         Rub your index fingers gently over a piece of very coarse sandpaper a few 
times and rate its coarseness on a scale from 1 (very soft) to 7 (very 
coarse).

 

·         After a minute or two, rub the same finger over the paper and again rate its 
coarseness. Did your perception of the coarseness change? How? Record your 
reaction. 

 

Experiment 2:

 

·         Prepare one cup with sugar water and one with fresh water.

 

·         Take a sip of the sugar water and swish it around in your mouth for several 
seconds without swallowing it. Gradually, it should taste less sweet. (Dispose 
of the sugar water)

 

·         Taste from the cup containing fresh water. Did the taste of the fresh water 
surprise you? How? Record your reaction.

 

Experiment 3:

 

·         Take about 15 index cards and a flashlight that is opaque on all sides (so 
that light shines only through the front) into a very dark room.

 

·         Place all 15 cards over the beam of light.

 

·         Slowly remove the cards one at a time until you can barely detect the light, 
and then count the number of cards that remain over the light.

 

·         After a few minutes, the light should begin to look brighter. When this is 
the case, add cards and see if you can still see the light.

 

·         Repeat this process of gradually adding cards over a 15-minute period. Were 
you able to detect an increasingly dim light the longer you spent in the 
dark? Record your reaction.

 

·         How many cards did it take to not see the light after time?

 

Experiment 4:

 

·         Fill 3 medium-sized bowls as follows: 

o    Bowl 1 – with very hot (but not painfully hot) tap water

 

·         Bowl 2 – with very cold tap water

 

·         Bowl 3 – with a mixture of the very hot and very cold water.

 

·         Arrange them, so your right hand is in front of the cold water, your left 
hand is in front of the hot water, and the lukewarm water is in the middle.

 

·         Submerse your hands into the water (right into cold, left into hot) for 
about 3 minutes

 

·         After 3 minutes, quickly transfer both hands to the lukewarm (middle) bowl. 
What did you sense? Record your reaction.

 

In all four experiments, you will experience adaption.

 

Task 2: Write a paper that describes adaption and how you 
experienced it in your experiments. The paper should cover the following.

 

·         Fully describe the process and results of the experiments that you 
chose.

 

·         What is sensory adaptation? Explain the concept of sensory 
adaptation. Refer to your text for the definition of sensory adaptation (this is 
not the general dictionary definition)

 

·         Explain how adaptation is evident in each of your experimental 
results.

 

·         Provide a comprehensive description of the sensory systems that are involved 
in the experiments that you performed. This description should include what 
happens from the receptors to the brain. Your discussion should illustrate what 
was experienced in each experiment.

 

·         Discuss how adaptation is important from an evolutionary perspective.

 

Be sure to document your references using APA format.

 

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and 
all course materials. Please refer to the following multimedia course 
materials(s)

 

·         Week 2 – The Sensation & Perception of Psychology

 

·         Week 2 – Sensation and Perception

 

·         Week 2 – The Nervous System

 

·         Week 2 – FAQ: Sensation and Perception

 

Please use the following guidelines for formatting your assignment.

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To begin, select a topic from the following list:

• Body art and ornamentation
• Child rearing practices
• Healthcare practices
• The use of music or dance as a form of political protest, or as a reflection of cultural issues, values, and beliefs
• Educational practices
• Elderly care
• Body language and proxemics
• Rites of passage
• Conflict resolution
• Marriage practices
• Alternative gender roles
• Alternate topics are possible, but these must be approved by your instructor at least one week before the Week Three draft is due.

For your final paper, you will compare one of the topics above across two specific cultures of your own choosing. It may be helpful to brainstorm a list of cultures you are interested in researching. Then, you will need to begin conducting research on those cultures.

For this assignment, you will expand your it into a five- to seven-page research paper (excluding the title and reference pages) that contains the following components:

1. A discussion of how two cultures (other than your own) approach the topic, including specific ethnographic examples. Be sure to choose two specific and contemporary (currently existing) cultures. Terms such as European, Asian, or African refer to continents, not cultures, and are not appropriate for this paper. Describe the culture briefly, including elements such as location, language, kinship, or other relevant information. This helps the reader understand the cultural context of your topic.
2. A compare and contrast analysis how the two cultures approach the topic from a culturally relativistic perspective.
3. A discussion on the cultural context of the topic and how it relates to symbolic systems such as religion, communication, or ritual. Here, you can use what you described in section A and discuss how it relates to your topic as it is found in the two cultures, which you discussed in section B.

 

answer in 2 paragraph to this post. APA, reference and citation need it. 

The existing instrument used to address my research will be a numerical scale from 1 through 7. This is a measurement tool of assigning numbers to perception in general from bad perception to good perception. In my research study we are assigning the numbers as response choices for the nurses to determine their perception of the interprofessional nursing rounds.  The description of this scale is that it will be a survey and include response choices of 1 is no benefit at all through 7 which would represent extremely beneficial. In other words, the response choices would be 1,2,3,4,5,6 or 7 with a choice to circle one number in each question. Descriptive statistical analysis using an excel spreadsheet with numbers and calculating percentages will be used to generate the data. According to our text this is an example of indirect measurement. This type of technique would be an example of an ordinal level of measurement since it constitutes a ranking system (Gray, Grove & Sutherland, 2017).

            My study will be formulated from the quantitative literature review titled, Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of inter specialty trauma nursing rounds to improve trauma patient care – A quality improvement project. The study used a survey technique that was handed out by an independent person in order not to draw bias and was an anonymous form. The evaluation was conducted with questions regarding nurses’ perception of the interprofessional rounds ranging with a response from one to seven (Jennings & Mitchell, 2017). This study will provide the framework for my survey questions and data collection.

References

Gray, J., Grove, S. & Sutherland, S. (2017). Burns & Grove’s the Practice of Nursing

Research: Appraisal, Synthesis, and Generation of Evidence (8th ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

Jennings, F. & Mitchell, M. (2017). Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of inter specialty

trauma nursing rounds to improve trauma patient care-A quality improvement project. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 40, 35-43. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2017.01.002

Please read this entire communication for important information about your Unit 6 assignment. Below I have included the entire Unit 6 assignment and made some notes (in blue) to help you with the assignment. I have also included the meal that you will be analyzing in the paper. To earn the most points possible, please consider the following tips as well.

 

– Follow the word minimum (1000 words) and provide a full discussion of each answer (no word max for this paper);

 

– Use APA format and include in-text citations for any and all references (APA tutorials can be found in Doc Sharing);

 

– Review the rubric for the assignment (see below) and make sure you have included all elements of the assignment

 

– Avoid using quoted material if at all possible. Put ideas into your own words to demonstrate a solid understanding of the information.  

 

Unit 6 Assignment: Impacts of a borderless society

 

We live in a world where geographic boundaries cease to exist when it comes to goods, services, and even food. We think nothing of having freshly squeezed orange juice or kiwis for breakfast, even if we live in New York City with 10-inches of snow on the ground in the middle of January. We live in an age where everything and anything is available for consumption year-round at your local grocery store. Convenience comes with potentially major ecological and economic impacts that are both positive and negative. For example, the coffee you drink may come from beans imported from Columbia, the sugar you use may come from India, or the steaks you sear on the grill may have come from Argentina. How much fuel was spent transporting these products across the ocean? Were any pesticides used? If so, was it done in a sustainable fashion? Were forests cleared to make room for grazing herds or larger agricultural fields? These are just a few of the many questions we should be asking ourselves when we make our selections at the grocery store.

 

Explore the following resources in the Kaplan Library, along with the link from the United States Department of Agriculture, to learn more about the foods we rely on and the variety of ways in which we can acquire them.

 

Roosevelt, M. (2006). The Lure of the 100-Mile Diet. Time, 167(24), 78.

 

Cosier, S. (2007). The 100-Mile Diet. E: The Environmental Magazine, 18(5), 42.

 

Cooper, C. (2007). 100 miles and counting. Food In Canada, 67(3), 7.

 

Macpherson, C. (2007). You are where you eat. Ascent Magazine, (33), 46.

 

Source: United States Department of Agriculture. (2012). The people’s garden. Retrieved from http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=PEOPLES_GARDEN

 

For this assignment, you will write an essay in which you analyze a meal provided to you by your instructor in the weekly announcement. Address the following questions as you write your assignment.

 

Meal:

 

Sirloin steak

 

Baked potato with butter and sour cream

 

Canned green beans

 

French bread with butter

 

Chocolate pudding

 

Assignment:

· If you were to purchase each item at a local chain grocery store, where would these items be sourced? For example, where were the fruits, vegetables, and/or meats grown immediately prior to sale? Do not discuss the history or origin of the item i.e., “corn or maize originated in Mexico around 2500 BC.”
To trace the source, you can decide on the brands and types of food in the meal above. For example, you can choose the brand and type of canned green beans. Trace the origins of the food back to their direct origin prior to getting to the store. You do not have to trace every ingredient! Just provide the prior location or source for main ingredients. You will elaborate on this in question 2 (below).
· Discuss the events and methods of production that allowed your local grocery store to carry these items. What farming methods were likely used to grow these items and how do these methods impact the environment around the farms as well as the employees who work within these establishments.
· Were the items grown and shipped in from another country?
· What types of processing and packaging must take place in order for you to be able to purchase the product? If you were to follow the suggestions shared within the articles provided above, where could you purchase the items (name specific local places within your community)? If a food item is not available locally, is there an alternative that you could use as a substitute?
This is really a continuation of the first question. You identified the source of the meal components in the first question… now break it down further .. how does it get it to your plate? Discuss what’s involved in production, processing and packaging and shipping. Is it from the US, or another country?
· Discuss the ecological and economic advantages and disadvantages of purchasing food items that are locally sourced versus those shipped from other areas of the country and from around the world. Use your textbook reading for this unit in order to explore the environmental impacts, and use these to further analyze the impacts our food purchases may have on the environment.
Look at the sources listed in the introduction to this assignment for some great resources. Find a few examples of each. You need at least 5 sources for this paper in the References section… this would be a good place to include some of them.
· The food choices we make have the potential to generate both local and global impacts. This can be summarized in the phrase “Think Globally, Act Locally.” Based upon your analysis of the meal provided by your instructor for this assignment, discuss how the choices you make when planning and buying meals might change in the future and how your choices, when combined with those of others, can have a global impact.
This is all your opinion, so think about this question for a bit after you finish your research, and share your thoughts about what the statement “Think Globally, Act Locally” really means to you.

This essay should be a minimum of 1,000-words in APA style format. Provide appropriate citations and references for any information you use in this paper. Your paper should include a minimum of five sources. These can include those provided within the project directions and the course materials. Be sure to avoid copying and pasting large sections of text from any given source. For help with citations, refer to the APA Quick Reference.