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Compare and contrast situational influences and dispositional influences and give an example of each. Explain how situational influences and dispositional influences might explain inappropriate behavior.

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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: CHAPTER 12 ASSIGNMENT (TOTAL = 20 points)

Instructions: Answer the following question(s) thoroughly in paragraph/essay format.

Describe the two general types of attributions people use to explain the behavior of themselves and others, and discuss key concepts in attribution theory, such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias, and the just-world hypothesis.

 

Compare and contrast situational influences and dispositional influences and give an example of each. Explain how situational influences and dispositional influences might explain inappropriate behavior.

 

Define the meaning of cognitive dissonance. Give an example (one not used in class or your text) of cognitive dissonance and how an individual might resolve this

 

Describe how seeking outside opinions can prevent groupthink. Compare and contrast social loafing and social facilitation.

 

The evolutionary theory argues that humans are motivated to perpetuate their genes and reproduce.
Using an evolutionary perspective, describe traits in men and women that humans find attractive.

 

Imagine that you work for an advertising agency, and you’ve been tasked with developing an advertising campaign to increase sales of Bliss Soda. How would you develop an advertisement for this product that uses a central route of persuasion? How would you develop an ad using a peripheral route of persuasion?

 

Explain and provide examples of how people from individualistic and collectivistic cultures would differ in explaining why they won an important sporting event.

 

Most students adamantly state that they would never have turned up the voltage in the Milligram experiment. Do you think you would have refused to shock the learner? Why? Looking at your own past behavior, explain what evidence suggests that you would or would not go along with the order to increase the voltage?

 

How do you explain these paradoxes and contradictions? How do Zitkala-Sa’s writings show her caught between two different worlds with different values? How do her writings show her both harmed by the American Indian boarding school system and succeeding in it?

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“The School Days of an Indian Girl,” “An Indian Teacher Among Indians” and “The Great Spirit” in the book American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa

 

In these stories, Zitkala-Sa describes contradictory feelings about the education system for American Indian tribal members. She feels differently about the system at different times, but the development of her feelings toward and her understanding of the system isn’t even or smooth. For example, even after she comes to certain conclusions about negative impacts of the American Indian boarding school system, she excels in that system, and even after she understands how the system’s purpose is to make its pupils less “Indian” and more “American,” she comes to teach for it.

How do you explain these paradoxes and contradictions? How do Zitkala-Sa’s writings show her caught between two different worlds with different values? How do her writings show her both harmed by the American Indian boarding school system and succeeding in it? How can her educational excellence be said to make her an example of the system even as she criticizes the system and what it’s done to her indigenous values and views? How and why can both points of view, even as they seem contradictory, be said to be valid? How does the stated educational purpose of the boarding school system for American Indians, to make its students less “Indian” and more “American” seem problematic? How does it call into question what it means to be “American”? Is “American” a cultural construction, because if not, who would be more “American” than the people who were here before European colonizers? Where does Zitkala-Sa, an “American Indian,” fit between “American” and “Indian,” and how does her experience with the boarding school system demonstrate that difficulty?

What types of studies would be most convincing regarding the effectiveness of meditation in the treatment for some type of physical or mental disorder? What advantages exist for researching the potential health benefits of hypnosis?

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STATE OF CONCIOUSNESS: CHAPTER 4 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)

Instructions: Answer the following question(s) thoroughly in paragraph/essay format.

Describe the changes/stages the human body undergoes as it shifts from deep sleep to REM sleep. What problems can occur if individuals don’t receive sleep?

 

Describe in detail the process of hypnosis. Is hypnosis effective? What are the pros and cons?

 

Freud believed that dreams provide important insight into the unconscious mind. He maintained that a dream’s manifest content could provide clues into an individual’s unconscious. What potential criticisms exist for this particular perspective?

 

Healthcare professionals often work rotating shifts. Why is this problematic? What can be done to deal with potential problems?

 

If theories that assert sleep is necessary for restoration and recovery from daily energetic demands are correct, what do you predict about the relationship that would exist between individuals’ total sleep duration and their level of activity?

 

How could researchers determine if given areas of the brain are involved in the regulation of sleep?

 

What types of studies would be most convincing regarding the effectiveness of meditation in the treatment for some type of physical or mental disorder?

 

What advantages exist for researching the potential health benefits of hypnosis?

Considering the three dimensions of job burnout, explain how various job aspects unique to being a police officer might lead to job burnout in that line of work.

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STRESS, LIFESTYLE, & HEALTH: CHAPTER 14 ASSIGNMENT (20 points)

 

Instructions: Answer the following questions thoroughly in paragraph format (complete sentences).

Provide an example of a stressful situation that may cause a person to become seriously ill. How would Selye’s general adaptation syndrome explain this occurrence?

Review the items on the Social Readjustment Rating Scale. Select one of the items and discuss how it might bring about distress and eustress.

Job burnout tends to be high in people who work in human service jobs. Considering the three dimensions of job burnout, explain how various job aspects unique to being a police officer might lead to job burnout in that line of work.

Discuss the concept of Type A behavior pattern, its history, and what we now know concerning its role in heart disease.

Consider the study in which volunteers were given nasal drops containing the cold virus to examine the relationship between stress and immune function (Cohen et al., 1998). How might this finding explain how people seem to become sick during stressful times in their lives (e.g., final exam week)?

 

What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? What additional questions do you have after reading the posting? • What clarification do you need regarding the posting? • What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

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Class discussion

Using what you have learned in your reading and supporting materials this week, create a scenario that would fall under Agnew’s strain theory. Use 1 of the following inputs as the basis for your scenario:
• Loss of the major goal • Presentation of the noxious stimuli • Removal of the positively valued stimuli
Briefly describe your chosen scenario and address the following:
• How do you believe a person in your scenario would react? • How do you believe society would react to the person’s behavior? • What steps would you take to help prevent the person from partaking in criminal behavior?
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-200 word reply about his or her Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting? What additional questions do you have after reading the posting? • What clarification do you need regarding the posting? • What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

Under what circumstances does a crime scene investigator need to obtain a search warrant before processing a crime scene? What are the exceptions to needing a search warrant for a crime scene? What are some legal issues that might arise from not setting a proper perimeter around a crime scene?

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Introduction to criminalistics

Primary Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).
Primary Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 300-500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
For this Discussion Board, please complete the following:
You are an experienced crime scene investigator who has been given the task by your law enforcement organization to prepare a short presentation for a local community college for students who are involved in the university crime scene investigations program. In this presentation, you want to provide them with useful information about the legal issues and constraints that are involved in working a crime scene. The legal areas and issues that you will be discussing are as follows:
• Under what circumstances does a crime scene investigator need to obtain a search warrant before processing a crime scene?

• What are the exceptions to needing a search warrant for a crime scene?

• What are some legal issues that might arise from not setting a proper perimeter around a crime scene?

• What is a mock trial, and how can it be used to develop the presentation skills of a crime scene investigator in the courtroom?

You must formally define and describe the legal issues and constraints that you find as well as inform the students why knowledge of legal issues and constraints is important to the job of a crime scene investigator.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2
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What is sterilization and what temperature, and pressure is used to sterilize labware? What color is Coomassie Blue- when exposed to:Anionic Compounds? And Cation compounds? How many micro liters is 1mL of water?

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Bio Lab


Pipetting techniques (2 points)
What is sterilization and what temperature, and pressure is used to sterilize labware?
What color is Coomassie Blue- when exposed to:Anionic Compounds? And Cation compounds?
How many micro liters is 1mL of water?
Why do we use a pipette? What are the advantages?
Pigment extraction (2 points)
Write the chemical reaction of Photosynthesis
Name 4pigments used by plants and state the wavelength (in nm) used by each pigment
Waste water treatment (2 points)
What is “Nitrification” and “Denitrification”
Name 4Micropollutants in water
Cell division, mitosis (2 points)
Explain the following terms
· Sister Chromatids
· Homologous Chromosomes
· Diploid
· Tetrad
Your diet and your DNA (2 points)
How many calories does an adult male need per day
Name 7 components of a healthy diet
Name 7 components of an unhealthy diet
What are Telomeres?

What is the relationship between a genome, a chromosome and genes? · Briefly describe the events that occur in each phase of interphase. · Describe the similarities and differences between the cytokinesis mechanisms found in animal cells versus those in plant cells.

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Assigment #2

CELLULAR REPRODUCTION , CELL DIVISION, MITOSIS – 3 POINTS

· What is the relationship between a genome, a chromosome and genes?
· Briefly describe the events that occur in each phase of interphase.
· Describe the similarities and differences between the cytokinesis mechanisms found in animal cells versus those
in plant cells.
· Outline the steps that lead to a cell becoming cancerous.
· Compare and contrast the roles of the positive cell-cycle regulators negative regulators
· Name the common components of eukaryotic cell division and binary fission.

MEIOSIS AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTION (3 points)
· Describe the process that results in the formation of a tetrad
· In a comparison of the stages of meiosis to the stages of mitosis, which stages are unique to meiosis and which
stages have the same events in both meiosis and mitosis?
· Animals and plants both have diploid and haploid cells. How does the animal life cycle differ from the alternation
of generations exhibited by plants?

THE DNA MOLECULE (3 points)
· Describe the structure of the eukaryotic DNA
· Discuss the similarities and differences between eukaryotic and prokaryotic DNA
· In eukaryotic cells, DNA and RNA synthesis occur in a separate compartment from protein synthesis. In
prokaryotic cells, both processes occur together. What advantages might there be to separate the processes? What
advantages might there be to have them occur together?

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· Explain DNA replication
· Discuss the role of different enzymes and proteins in supporting DNA replication
· Describe 3 different types of DNA mutations and 3 different types of DNA repair mechanisms

Write a discussion of how easy or how difficult it is to find placement in the sector. An explanation of why that particular career looks more appealing to you than the rest.

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A career in agronomy

1. An introduction to the topic of the paper.
2. A good definition of the career.
3. The thesis statement which clearly explains the focus of the paper.
• The body paragraphs:
1. The most important features of the career.
2. The nature of the job and a list of the responsibilities.
3. The minimum qualification required for the purpose. (Educational Requirements)
4. The challenges involved in pursuing the career.
5. A discussion of how easy or how difficult it is to find placement in the sector.
6. The amount of hours you will need to dedicate and the pay scale you can expect. (entry level, 5 years exp, 10+years) (Benefits provided -medical, leave, retirement, etc.)
7. The possibilities for growth in the career sector.
8. An explanation of why that particular career looks more appealing to you than the rest.
9. Your skills which complement the career responsibilities.
10. Your shortcomings which might come in the way of your career and how you plan to tackle those situations.

• The conclusion:
1. A summary of the most relevant points.
2. A reinstatement of the thesis stated in the introduction.
3. A concluding statement which effectively winds up the discussion.

What was life like for the women at the Lowell Mills and how did this compare to the images of women expressed in the prints and Godey’s Lady’s Book?

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The image of true womanhood

The image of true womanhood (also referred to as the “cult of domesticity”, or “separate spheres”) was a powerful one in antebellum America, but it often did not match up with women’s experiences, particularly if they were not born into the white middle class. Defining the interplay of myth and reality in women’s lives is a critical part of the history of this period. For this activity, you will explore the lives of women during the antebellum period and compare it to the ideology of true womanhood prevalent at the time. Provide a reply from this classmate’s response to the below question.

Question: What was life like for the women at the Lowell Mills and how did this compare to the images of women expressed in the prints and Godey’s Lady’s Book?