Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

Lab Session: Week 3 Answer the following questions. Provide citations and references when required Quantitative Experimental Research involves studying causations where one or more independent variables are actively manipulated to determine their effect on one or more dependent variables 1a) What is an independent variable? 1b) What is a dependent variable? For your research project, … Read more

Gerrymandering

Math in politics – Gerrymandering is the process of manipulating voting district boundaries in order to favor one particular party or class. Your textbook mentions gerrymandering in Chapters 10 and 11 that you studied this week, as well as in Chapter 9, Geometry (pages 476-478). After you finish your textbook readings, do an internet search … Read more

Embodied and disability

What is the most common approach to disability culture from non-anthropologists? Where does disability community come in? How does medical anthropology (and sociology?) usually approach disability? Why is this problematic? What do we mean here? “Taking a foreign field site census of people who would be considered disabled in the U.S. may tell us a … Read more

Exercise can ease anxiety symptoms, study finds

You will be required to write a critique for this article: https://www.today.com/health/mind-body/exercise-can-ease-anxiety-symptoms-study-finds-rcna10734 Author(s), title, journal, vol., date; pages(s) should be placed at the top of the reference page. Responses to each of the questions below are to be written in paragraph form, typed and double-spaced: Summarize the article in your own words. Discuss the overall … Read more

Bounded rationality and team management

The theory of bounded rationality says that, though we often act on incomplete information and possibly inaccurate or false assumptions, we are still “rational.” That is, we make the best decisions we can base on: Our values, assumptions, and interests Our beliefs about the values, assumptions, and interests of the people we are dealing with … Read more

How did that experience change your worldview? Please explain how you thought before, and how the new viewpoint changed that old thinking into something new.

vThis has been a busy but exciting week of peer discussions on metaphysical thinking! Hopefully, you know now what men and women have been discussing for eons; we are all philosophers; we all have valid opinions and judgments about the world around us. For this week’s journal, please share with me what the most interesting … Read more

Greenpeace and PETA

Greenpeace and PETA. Search the web for articles on Greenpeace. How does Greenpeace differ from the groups that are commonly referred to as “ecoterrorists,” like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)? Now, visit the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) website. What is PETA’s position on the Animal Liberation … Read more

Do we have a moral obligation to stay reasonably informed about the world around us? If so, what might this obligation consist in: us?

Please submit your essay as a Word file here. Your essay should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words including references. Please select ONE of the following prompts and answer it completely: PROMPT A: It’s 2 AM and you’re in your dorm chatting with your s/o on the phone about your plans for next year when … Read more