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Question 1: In a survey cited in the journal New Scientist (Byrne, 2000), one-sixth of drivers who described themselves as generally being mild-mannered in temperament admitted to often feeling angry when behind the wheel of their vehicles.
In what ways does driving in traffic differ from walking on a crowded sidewalk? What social-psychological factors might account for automobiles provoking negative emotions?
Question 2: What biblical principle(s) apply in the above scenario?
Before learning how to apply social psychological research and theory in real life scenarios, it is important to be able to synthesize complex information and relay this information in an understandable way. These Content Summary Assignments are a great way to learn how to take several different sources and to synthesize them into a concise and understandable way.
Just as a hint: your Content Summary Assignments will provide you with terrific study guides for the quizzes.
Create a test report based on provided information. There is not time to obtain and use actual tests in this 8-week format, so you will integrate provided information from a real client. In addition to the discussion board posts, you will complete these additional assignments:
This is a brief multiple-choice quiz, reviewing statistical concepts that you need to know to competently use psychological tests. It does not count toward your grade, but it is important to use it as a guide to determine what concepts you need to review. The Statistical Concepts Quiz Download The Statistical Concepts Quizis also located under Resources.
Quiz: Statistical Concepts
1) IQ scores tend to be fairly stable over time. This is because IQ tests have high:
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Measurement error
d) Cultural fairness
2) IQ scores correlate highly with academic performance. This is an example of IQ test:
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Discrimination
d) Parallelism
3) Knowing a test’s standard error of measurement tells us:
a) The likelihood of scoring errors
b) How test taker distractibility distorts responses
c) The likelihood that test takers will answer questions incorrectly
d) How many points test scores are likely to vary over time
4) Dr. Hathaway writes the following statement in a test report: “Jennifer’s Verbal Comprehension Index of 102 is slightly higher than her Perceptual Organization Index of 99. This difference reflects slightly stronger verbal than non-verbal skills.” This statement:
a) Accurately describes a significant VCI/POI difference
b) Is inaccurate because the score difference is non-significant
c) Is accurate because the non-significant VCI/POI difference is described as “slight.”
d) Is inaccurate because the VCI is above average, the POI is below average, and thus the difference is not “slight.”
5) Jose’s WRAT-IV Spelling score is significantly higher than his Word Reading score, at a 5% level of significance. This means that:
a) Only 5% of the population has a difference between these scores at least as large as Jose’s
b) There is a 95% chance that Jose’s Spelling score will still be higher than Word Reading if Jose is retested
c) There is a 5% chance that the Spelling/Word Reading difference is due to test error
d) Both b and c
6) Convert a WAIS-IV IQ (Mean = 100, s = 15) of 95 to a z-score:
a) -0.05
b) -0.33
c) -0.95
d) 6.33
7) A z-score of 0.5 is at what percentile?
a) 25th
b) 50th
c) 69th
d) 84th
8) Abdul obtains a score of 13 on the WAIS-IV Block Design test. If this is the only information that you have, your best estimate of his IQ would be:
a) 87
b) 113
c) 115
d) 130
9) Someone who obtains a T-score of 60 on the MMPI-II Depression scale is scoring higher than what percent of the population?
a) 60%
b) 70%
c) 80%
d) 84%
10) Factor analysis is:
a) A statistical method that shows how variables cluster, based on the correlations between them
b) A modern form of psychoanalysis
c) A way to determine if group means are significantly different
d) A way to draw causal inferences from correlations between variables
Book:
• Parsons, R., & Dickinson, K.L. (2016). Ethical Practice in the Human Services. Los Angeles: SAGE Publications.
Read Chapters:
• 13: Ethical Challenges Working with Groups, Couples and Families
Additional Reading:
• NY Times “The Ethicist” reading – choose any 3-4 columns to read and review the ethical decision making discussed: https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-ethicist
• Read Ethical Standards for Human Services Professionals: http://www.nationalhumanservices.org/ethical-standards-for-hs-professionals
PowerPoints:
• Please see one uploaded file.
In chapter 13, the authors discuss the inherent challenges that exist when working with groups, couples, and families. Specifically, the authors discussed confidentiality issues such as “Secrets as Confidential?” (which often comes up in couples or family therapy) and “Limits to Ensuring Confidentiality” (which often is a challenge in group therapy).
• Please chose 1 of these challenges and briefly discuss your understanding of it.
• Then, discuss how you see it having a potential negative impact on the treatment of the couple, family, or group?
• Do you have any ideas for how to make the issue less of a challenge?
Because the NCIC is a large data base that keeps current information used in law enforcement, would it be advantageous to have the photographs placed in that data base in a 3-D format (which would use computer space and cost more money), or will the regular photographs provide the material necessary to aid law enforcement in apprehending suspects and preventing criminal activity?
Digitized photographs produce more detail, which would not only aid the department in ruling in someone or something, but it could also be used to exclude a person or object.
Would this be advantageous to the defense as well as the prosecution? Why or why not?
Hansen’s disease; it is interesting still applies to population’s in Hawaii and the Florida Key’s would that be a happy medium?
Purpose
This paper should clearly and comprehensively identify the disease or population health problem
chosen. The problem must be an issue in your geographic area and a concern for the population
you will serve upon graduation with your degree. The purpose of this assignment is to:
• Provide learners with the opportunity to integrate knowledge and skills learned throughout this course
• Directly apply principles and knowledge learned in the course to problem solving of population health problems in their own geographic areas.
Assignment Outcomes
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
1. Define key terms in epidemiology, community health, and population-based research.
2. Compare study designs used for obtaining population health information from surveillance, observation, community, and control trial-based research.
3. Identify appropriate outcome measures and study designs applicable to epidemiological subfields such as infectious disease, chronic disease, environmental exposures, reproductive health, and genetics.
4. Apply commonly used measures of health risk.
5. Examine current ethical/legal issues in epidemiology.
6. Identify important sources of epidemiological data.
7. Evaluate a public health problem in terms of magnitude, person, time, and place.
In the accommodations market, Airbnb appears to have a significant advantage over its competitors as it relates to regulations affecting the operations of its business.
Develop a business strategy that will allow Airbnb to meet local, state, and international regulatory requirements and motivate individuals to benefit from participating in this space of the accommodations market. Address the following questions:
How can Airbnb ensure the ethical treatment of consumers?
Should there be a separate strategy for the international component of their business model?
Complete an organizational change chart, like you did in Week 1, only this time for a well-known multi-national corporation.
Choose an organization such as Samsung, Starbucks, Ford Motor Company, or Waste Management that implemented a major change. For example, a sustainability initiative at Starbucks or Apple making FaceTime available to non-Apple users.
Analyze the organization’s change process based on Kotter’s 8 Steps to Leading Change using the Organizational Change Chart. Make sure to complete a new analysis, do not copy any information from a previous week.
Consider questions such as the following as you complete your analysis:
Do you think this was a positive organizational change? Why or why not?
What strategies and tactics do you think would be effective in creating positive organizational change?
What strategies and tactics might have worked better?
You are persuading us to take action.
After everything you have learned about the self and the influences on the self, what immediate action would you recommend to improve our social circumstances? This could be community (volunteer?), educational (take a class?), personal action (go vegan?), business oriented (support a particular local business?), etc. It is entirely up to you.
Develop your claim (i.e., Take a Spanish language class), and use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMb65w9nLyo&feature=emb_logo to convince us of your claim. Then, write your formal outline (attached).
Prepare your digital presentation. You choose the format. Make your choice based on your knowledge and proficiency in the technology. This should be your best work, so which ever you choose, take it to the next level.
Record and edit your presentation. You may insert titles, images, slides, graphics, captions, etc.… It is up to you and your skill level. The main measurement is of your professionalism. A significant portion of the video must be a “headshot” of you presenting. Save your presentation as a video.
How does the habit win-win along with the concepts of exclusivity diversity help to grow an organization and help to increase growth mindset