What role does culture or genetics play when we consider individuals from lower socio-economic backgrounds?
•   How does this correlate with lower IQ scores, lower achievement scores, higher risk of high school drop-out, and the lower likelihood of success?

Have you ever found yourself in a heated debate over a memory dispute with a friend or family member where both you and the other person swear that their details of a memory are accurate? This week we are going to take a closer look at this phenomenon. After reading about memory in your textbook, discuss the following points:

Describe the processes of memory consolidation, recall, and reconsolidation.

Based on your understanding of these processes, what happens to older memories that are recalled and then reconsolidated multiple times?

In the above scenario, why do both people feel so strongly that their version of the event being recalled is the correct version?

If the memory of the event being recalled is 20 years old, can either person be 100% accurate in the recall of the details? Why or why not?

Explain in five paragraphs how and why modern Caribbean Families are still defined by the history of  Plantation Slavery.

Before you write your paper, conduct this simple experiment on classical conditioning.

You will need a bell (a set of keys works too, a hand-held mirror, and a room that becomes completely dark when the light is turned off. Hold the bell while standing in the room near the light switch. Once in position, ring the bell and then immediately turn off the light. Wait in total darkness for 15 seconds, then turn the light on. Wait another 15 seconds with the light on, then ring the bell and immediately turn the light off again, waiting another 15 seconds in the dark.

Repeat this procedure 20 to 30 times, making sure that in each case the bell is rung immediately before the light is turned off. Now, with the light on, watch your eyes closely in the mirror and then ring the bell. Your pupils should dilate slightly even without a change in light!

Cover the following items in your paper:

Share your experience with this experiment.

Identify the neutral stimulus (NS), the unconditioned stimulus (US), the unconditioned response (UR), the conditioned stimulus (CS), and the conditioned response (CR). (You must identify these five elements to receive full credit.)

Identify two to three real-life examples of classical conditioning that you are aware of in your life.

This paper should be one page.

Critical Thinking of Current Affairs

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Select a major current national or international news event. Apply your sociological imagination and your critical thinking skills, using the six rules of critical thinking described in Chapter 1, to explain the event. Thoroughly discuss several reasons why this event is occurring (or had occurred). In your response, be sure to demonstrate your ability to become a "critical consumer" of this information by looking beyond common sense and critiquing the information available to you.

How could you define operationally and measure the variables if Hypothesis: H0: p=0 (there is no linear relationship between playing video games and aggression). H1: p not equal to 0 (there is linear relationship between playing video games and aggression)?

Three Sociological Paradigms

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Let’s assume that a “welfare stigma” exists in American society. Many people have a perception that welfare recipients are “lazy” and that they “steal” the tax money. People also believe that welfare recipients make babies to stay on welfare instead of working. In fact, most welfare recipients are children, the elderly, the sick, the mentally and physically handicapped or young mothers with few skills. Explain why this “welfare stigma” exists by using TWO of the three sociological paradigms, structural functionalism, social conflict paradigm, and symbolic interactionism.

How Social Darwinism play a role in the debate over the annexation of the Philippines?

do an essay is open ended related to your major (atleast on page)

Apply two sociology concepts to a topic related to your major

Provide two examples

my major is Bussiness Managment and Marketing

Demonstrate your understanding of the NINE forms of nonverbal communication by taking a photo to represent each. Do not use photos found online. Get creative and use your imagination; ask friends or family to help stage scenes, take candid shots, use Lego figures, etc. The possibilities are endless. Start looking at the world around you through the lens of these forms of nonverbal messages. Insert each photo into your word document and discuss in depth how each relates to the specific type of nonverbal communication.
1. KINESICS

2. HAPTICS

3. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

4. ARTIFACTS

5. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS

6. PROXEMICS

7. CHRONEMICS

8. PARALANGUAGE

9. SILENCE

RESPONSE:
a. What did you learn about nonverbal communication as a result of this activity?

“Several versions of the FFQ exist, but they all use a similar technique: Ask people how often they eat particular foods and what serving size they usually consume. But it’s not always easy to remember everything you ate, even what you ate yesterday. People are prone to underreport what they consume, and they may not fess up to eating certain foods or may miscalculate their serving sizes.”

“When I tried keeping a seven-day food diary, I discovered … it’s surprisingly difficult to capture a record that reflects normal eating patterns when you collect only a few days’ worth of data. It so happened that I was traveling to a conference during my diary week, so I ate packaged snacks and restaurant meals far different from the foods I usually eat from my garden at home. My diary showed that before dinner one day, I’d eaten only a doughnut and two snack packs of potato chips. And what did I have for dinner? I can tell you that it was a delicious Indonesian seafood curry, but I couldn’t possibly begin to list all its ingredients.”

When asked to report their behavior, people may not have access to the information (forget or never knew it) or they may deliberately lie. Fill in the following blanks with either 'no access' or 'lie'

          1) “it’s not always easy to remember everything you ate”

                 A) no access

                 B) lie

           2) “People are prone to underreport what they consume”

                 A) no access

                 B) lie

         3) “they may not fess up to eating certain foods”

                 A) no access

                 B) lie

   4) "may miscalculate their serving sizes."

                 A) no access

                 B) lie

           5) “I can tell you that it was a delicious Indonesian seafood curry, but I couldn’t possibly begin to list all its ingredients.”

                 A) no access

                 B) lie

Summarize developmental milestones: fine and gross motor skills, cognitive skills, and language skills that are typically expected to develop (at age 5-8 months, 9-12 months, 13-18 months, 19-24 months, and from 2-6 years of age). Include a description of Piaget’s stages of development during this period of life – skills and ages at which skills develop.  

Did the founders intend the United States to be a Christian nation? Describe both sides of the argument.

The process of amending the U.S. Constitution is an intentionally difficult one. Yet those in each branch of government have found ways in which the Constitution can be changed informally. Describe the methods, both formal and informal, of constitutional change.

Describe the significance of the Declaration of Independence. What was its immediate practical significance versus its more lasting significance? What philosophies influenced the ideas it contained?