Why were Tolman’s radial arm maze experiments important for cognitive psychology? Which result of these experiments could not be explained from a purely behaviourist perspective?
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Compare and contrast the melting pot, cultural pluralism, and bi-cultural model.
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ethics paper. Content: Introduction; Body , and Conclusion You must state clearly the purpose of this ethics paper.
For example, the purpose is to identify one ethical principle. reviewing the literature on a specific ethics dilemma.
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Why was Charles V's control of such a large Empire a mixed blessing?
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Discuss the purpose of calculating measures of association. Pick any 5 measures of association and discuss the purpose of the analysis, the type of data used, and how the results are interpreted.
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Utilitarianism:
The Case of the
Cheating Law Student
The Case
You are a pre-law student who will graduate at the end of the current semester. Your academic record has been impressive. You have not only earned excellent grades but have accumulated a variety of scholastic merits as well as glowing accolades from professors and fellow peers.
Recently, you were informed from a highly selective law school that you have won a very prestigious scholarship. Although your tuition, books, and living costs will be covered by the scholarship, the benefits of this award reach far beyond the walls of the law school campus. Since the early 20th Century, the same New York City law firm has sponsored this scholarship with the ultimate goal of identifying and fostering new, young talent within the arena of jurisprudence. The winner of the scholarship is, upon graduation from law school, guaranteed a position in this well-known, established law firm.
Unfortunately, however, the last semester of your undergraduate career has proven to be an exhausting one. While you are doing well in three of your classes, your last pre-law required course – Introduction to Legal Ethics – is giving you great difficulty. You are very much in jeopardy of earning a grade in this class that will pull your grade average below the scholarship requirement. In order for you to successfully secure the scholarship, your final term paper must be of ‘A+’ quality. Despite all your hard work and the extra help you have received throughout the semester, it is apparent that your term paper is not quite good enough to earn you the needed grade.
Moreover, your situation is compounded by the fact that your family cannot afford to put you through law school. Therefore, without this scholarship, your goal of becoming a lawyer will never be fulfilled. What is more, your mother is extremely ill and your younger brother, due to a serious learning disability, is in dire need of a private tutor. Both your mother’s medication and your brother’s tutorials will cost more than your family can afford. However, if you receive the scholarship, it is very likely that you will be able to help your father acquire what your mother and brother need.
After a great deal of thought, you make the decision to purchase an ‘A+’ paper from someone else and to submit it as your own work. In the end, the paper you handed in earned you the required ‘A+’, thus guaranteeing that you will win the prestigious law school scholarship.
Things to Consider:
i. How would an Act Utilitarian construe the moral acceptability of your actions?
ii. How would a Rule Utilitarian construe the moral acceptability of your actions?
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does the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution) give criminal defendants too much power thereby diminishing the needs and rights of the victim?
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During the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century more Americans than ever embraced organized religious activities. Evaluate how this came about. Was more religious choice developing? Was it in some ways parallel to what was happening politically during the same period?
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During the 1820s-30s the United States was evolving into an increasingly democratic society. Evaluate how this happened. What role did the public perception of Andrew Jackson and his subsequent presidency play in this process?
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1, Who is the Dalai Lama and why is he living in exile?
2, What is the concept of dharma in Buddhism? Compare this with dharma in Hinduism.
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summarize the five ethical approaches
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What is the value of assessing personality types for the development, formation, and management of project teams and how does it help a project manager and motivate the project team? What are the shortcomings?
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Describe what our class motto, “democratizing research” means to you. This
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