E. D. Hirsch, in his book Cultural Literacy, has developed a list of things that all American students should know to be "culturally literate." Review Hirsch's book to determine the criteria for inclusion and exclusion on this (www.goodreads.com/book/show/76884 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.). What person(s) or group(s) should have the authority to create such a mandate?  

what is the benefits of caffeine, does it outweighs its risks?

List five characteristics/traits that you think define who you are. Then, try to determine how those characteristics/traits might have been caused by operant or classical conditioning.

This question is more complicated than it seems. You would think that with more time, more leisure, and more luxuries, that compared to our ancestors, we would have more time. In ancient societies like among those in the Roman Empire, leisure time was generated because the slave class did their work. Even a few generations ago, your great-grandma scrubbed clothes on a scrubbing board, cooked on a coal or wood burning stove. Now, we are able to push washing machine buttons, use microwaves, and even have food delivered to us in minutes. So, you would think we would have more time to do what we want? But do we? It seems unlikely.

Philosopher Peter Kreeft of Boston College contends that "we want to complexity our lives. We don't have to, but we want to. We want to be harried, hassled, and busy. Unconsciously, we want the very thing we complain about. For if we had leisure, we would look at ourselves and listen to our hearts and see the gaping hole in our hearts and be terrified, because that hole is so big that nothing but God can fill it."

Kreeft claims:

"So run around like conscientious little bugs, scare rabbits, dancing attendance on our machines, our slaves, and making them our masters. We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this is unendurable to us, like a dark empty room without distraction where we would be forced to confront ourselves, the one person...whom we fear the most, yet need the most, and the only person...whom we are constantly trying to escape, yet the only person who we can never escape, to all eternity."

Kreeft continues, "If you are typically modern, your life is like a rich mansion with a terrifying hole right in the middle of the living-room floor. So you paper over the hole with a very busy wallpaper pattern to distract yourself. You find a rhinoceros in the middle of your house. The rhinoceros is wretchedness and death. How in the world can you hid a rhinoceros? Easy: cover it with a million mice. Multiply diversions."

Pascal puts it this way:

"If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it."

That is why Pascal famously stated:

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Kreeft goes on to say:

"Therefore the society or individual which has the most diversions and amusements is not the happiest but the unhappiest. Therefore our society is the unhappiest. All the social indicators bear out this conclusion: depression, divorce, suicide, drugs, violence--you name it. The point is simple: we never want to divert ourselves from happiness, only from unhappiness. If life felt like a holiday, we would not want holidays from it.

Later, Pascal puts it this way:

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces. We must get away from it and crave excitement....Man is so unhappy that he would be bored even if he had no cause for boredom, by the very nature of his temperament, and he is so vain that, though he has a thousand and one basic reasons for being bored, the slightest thing, like pushing a ball with a billiard cue, will be enough to divert him."

Therefore, after reflecting upon these statements by Peter Kreeft and Blaise Pascal, do you think they are onto something? I mean, why are so occupied with business? Is it because, at some level, we are diverting ourselves from our state unhappiness? Is business a type of diversion from seeing how unhappy we actually are?

Researchers must protect participants and be aware of appropriate methods for obtaining information. What ethical considerations are important to research? In about 2 pages, write an analysis of the ethical concerns in the 3 diverse psychological research studies below. Be sure to include a paragraph of overall ethical consideration.

This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and use APA formatting (cover page, paper body formatting, citations, and references: see Rasmussen's APA guide in the Resources tab, or by clicking here. Prior to submitting your paper, be sure you proofread your work to check your spelling and grammar. If you use any outside sources, please cite those sources in APA citation format.

Haslam, S. A., & Reicher, S. D. (2012). Contesting the 'nature' of conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's studies really show. Plos Biology, 10(11), doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001426

Larsen, K. S. (1974). Conformity in the Asch experiment. The Journal Of Social Psychology, 94(2), 303-304. doi:10.1080/00224545.1974.9923224

Mischel, W., Ayduk, O., Berman, M. G., Casey, B. J., Gotlib, I. H., Jonides, J., & ... Shoda, Y. (2011). 'Willpower' over the life span: Decomposing self-regulation. Social Cognitive And Affective Neuroscience, 6(2), 252-256. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq081

In about 300 (4 paragraphs) words explain the Communication Theories and how they impact communication with peers, family and in the work place – use in text citations

• Make a list of characteristics that describe who you are (your self-concept). After looking at the list, see if you can come up with a few words that summarize the list to narrow in on the key features of your self-concept. Go back over the first list and evaluate each characteristic, for example noting whether it is something you do well/poorly, something that is good/bad, positive/negative, desirable/undesirable. Is the overall list more positive or more negative? After doing these exercises, what have you learned about your self-concept and self-esteem?
• Discuss at least one time in which you had a discrepancy or tension between two of the three selves described by self-discrepancy theory (the actual, ideal, and ought selves). What effect did this discrepancy have on your self-concept and/or self-esteem?
• Take one of the socializing forces discussed (family, culture, or media) and identify at least one positive and one negative influence that it/they have had on your self-concept and/or self-esteem.
• Getting integrated: Discuss some ways that you might strategically engage in self-presentation to influence the impressions of others in an academic, a professional, a personal, and a civic context.

1. Discuss self in human communication
2. Explain the Johari Window
3. What are factors that influence self – disclosure
4. Discuss the stages of perception.
5. What is the Pygmalion Effect?

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topic: "postpartum depression"

in a ApA style,

A new coprophagia deterrence medication has been developed by scientists. On average coprophagic dogs consume 8 ounces of stool in a day (SD = 1). After one week of the new treatment, 12 dogs who were treated consumed 5 ounces of stool per day.

a) What is the IV?

b) What is the DV?

c) What is the research question?

d) What is the Null Hypothesis in symbols and in words?

e) What is the Research Hypothesis in symbols and in words?

f) Is this a directional or a non-directional hypothesis?

g) Compute the z-score for the sample’s mean.

h) What is the critical z-score for rejecting the Null hypothesis?

i) Do you reject or fail to reject the Null hypothesis?

j) What would be your conclusion about the new production methods given your results?

• What might motivate younger adults to maintain social relationships that are not emotionally positive?

Important notice: Your initial post and your subsequent post should have a minimum of 150 words each.

Please type down (easy to copy and paste) your response (agree or disagree why?) 150 word +

In this ted talk video, “The era of blind faith in big data must end”, Cathy O`Neil discusses about algorithms and how they do not make things fair at all. Cathy O`Neil is a Mathematician and a data scientist that also talks about the big data, and showing how algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias. In the beginning of this video, she talks about all of the bad data science things. At the end, Cathy O`Neil talks about the good data science and talks about the features of a good data science. You can find so many bad and good examples of everything. What really matter is the big picture of the good and bad things. I agree that big data has many drawbacks but all the examples and the “thought experiments” were either gender or race based (O`Neil, 2017).

Algorithms can be very useful in different aspect. Algorithms are useful by giving people an idea of how to reach a particular goal. For an example, algorithms would not function without online dating and book recommendation or even travel websites. Algorithms are most invisibly aids, augmenting human lives in incredible ways. There is so much science that is so good out there that we don't even realize it. In general, to use science and data science usefully we all need to have a better understanding of it.

Psychological principles are theories and beliefs about major areas of our lives, like cognitions, intelligence, social groups, habit, behavior, and many others. Let’s explore how we identify and utilize psychological principles in daily life. In a 2 page paper, please analyze the following:

How do psychological principles affect the study of the behavior of individuals and groups?

What are the parameters of behavioral deviance and its various therapies?

How do psychological principles affect the study of individual differences?

Last, explain the role of psychology in such areas as industry, complex organizations, law, and education.

This paper should be 2-3 pages in length and use APA formatting (cover page, paper body formatting, citations, and references:

What is a personal justification system and how do we put this into practice (perhaps every day) in our lives? How do serial killers do this?

How does deforestation tie into climate change?

Optimal State of Pollution (Baxter)

Singer’s argument for animal rights