Compose a five-paragraph persuasive speech (approximately 400-600 words), Why should a teacher be the most well-paid job?

3. Discuss the relations between “Lessor” and “Lesser” with reference to Lease Agreement? In support of your answers make reference to relevant legal authorities.

general psychology eleventh

Chapter 5 "Article 2 Summary"

Instructions:

Write your second article summary for the research project following the instructions in the research rubric and summarizing a research article document

Competency Lifespan Development

Marijuana- is typically smoked in cigarettes or pipes, although it can be cooked and eaten. The effects of marijuana vary from person to person, but they typically consist of feelings of euphoria and general well-being. Sensory experiences seem more vivid and intense, and a person’s sense of self-importance seems to grow. Memory may be impaired, causing users to feel pleasantly “spaced out.” Marijuana does not seem to produce addiction except for a small number of heavy users. Furthermore, there is little scientific evidence for the popular belief that users “graduate” from marijuana to more dangerous drugs. On the other hand, some research suggests that there are similarities in the way marijuana and drugs such as cocaine and heroin affect the brain, as well as evidence that heavy use may impact negatively on cognitive ability in the long run.

Many people with drug and alcohol problems deny that they have them, and even close friends and family members may fail to realize when occasional social use of drugs or alcohol has turned into abuse.

Certain signs, however, indicate when use becomes abuse (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2000). Among them are the following: Pick 5 and give your opinion. Example what is your opinion of someone who drives while they are high and was involved in a motor vehicle

accident?

• Always getting high to have a good time
• Being high more often than not
• Getting high to get oneself going
• Going to work or class while high
• Missing or being unprepared for class or work because you were high
• Feeling badly later about something you said or did while high
• Driving a car while high
• Coming in conflict with the law because of drugs
• Doing something while high that you would not do otherwise
• Being high in nonsocial, solitary situations
• Being unable to stop getting high
• Failing at school or on the job
• Thinking about liquor or drugs all the time
• Avoiding family or friends while using drugs

Reflection on how Bicycle Thieves film and ugly dirty and bad film seen portray poverty, and in which ways do these different representations of poverty compare?

The police, their practices, and community relationships have all been under close scrutiny after numerous controversial cases. We learned about the hiring process for police officers, which includes psychological testing, as well as how police are provided with on-the-job psychological services. Create a personality profile in a descriptive paragraph, that a police agency could use in their selection process and explain why you included those traits.

Case Study 5–5 All in a Day’s Work

Sarah Goodman, senior manager of network development for Holy Managed Care Company, looked over her calendar for the day and sighed deeply. It seemed as if there would be no time at all to work on the project she’d been putting off for most of the week. Circumstances seemed to be such that she simply didn’t have any control over her own time anymore.

Well, first things first, she determined. At 9:00 she was due at a meeting of senior managers who were involved in trying to devise a strategy for counteracting a threatened unionization drive by the company’s nonexempt employees. As Sarah thought about the people working for her, she began to wonder exactly what they wanted. They had a pleasant working space, good benefits package, and secure employment. She heard the laughter and chatter drifting into her office as people came into work and thought what a pleasant and congenial group they were. What more could they want?

Then at 10:30 there was another meeting. This one could be very exciting! In six months Sarah’s office was scheduled to be moved to a new industrial park on the west side of town. The plans she’d seen so far had all kinds of great perks for employees: on-site day-care center, fitness center, ample parking, great facilities for training. The company was certainly spending a lot of money on this new site. Sarah certainly hoped it would help increase productivity; it certainly would make the employees happier
and make recruitment easier.

She’d have to hurry to her lunch meeting with the adviser for the MHA program at Saint Thomas University. Sarah had decided as a part of her New Year’s resolution that she was finally going to begin her graduate degree. She felt she was simply stagnating in her job and, after looking around at positions in her company that looked interesting, she realized she needed a graduate degree if she were going to progress. The only problem was that she wasn’t sure how enthusiastic Richard, her husband, would be about the whole idea. And her mother certainly wouldn’t be happy! The hints about grandchildren had become an outright discussion over the holidays.

Discuss the various motivation theories reflected in this case study.

These include:

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory

Alderfer's ERG Theory

Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory

Hackman and Oldham's Job Design Theory

McClelland's Three-Needs Theory

Discuss an attitude you had about a group of people prior to having direct contact with them. Describe the process you went through. How long did it take you to change your mind? Did you have any feelings about your former attitudes?

What was the primary financial advantage that Caribbean and Latin American sugar plantations had over competing regions such as Europe and the Middle East?

Discuss the two major divisions of the nervous system (central & peripheral). What is included in the central nervous system?

Many stories, whether from the oral tradition of the past, literary works of fiction or nonfiction from any time period, or current blockbuster movies follow the story of a Hero/Heroine.  The story usually presents challenges faced by the individual with the idea that overcoming adversity defines them as hero/heroine and perhaps persuades us to think differently.

Please write 8-10 sentences about an individual, real or fictional, that YOU feel is a Hero/Heroine in some way.  Why are they heroic, what about them do you like, do they inspire you in some way?

Do you feel that we as humans share a universal desire for a Hero/Heroine?

One of the earliest crimes under English common law was larceny. Today, larcenies much the same as it was under English common law. What are the elements of larceny under modern statutes? Today, we have a new law called identity theft. What are the elements for identity theft how do they differ from the elements of larceny?

Describe how Xavier manipulates the independent variable and the moderating variable in this study.

The moderating effect of involvement in product placement effectiveness

Xavier Gonzalez Garcia is a Business Administration student at a big, reputable university in England. Xavier loves to play soccer and tennis, he very much enjoys listening to music (he is a big fan of Muse), and he is fond of watching movies. He is a student with excellent research skills as evidenced by his academic record and the quality of his bachelor thesis.

The topic of Xaviers bachelor thesis was “product placement”. Product placement has been defined as the marketing practice in which a firm pays to have its branded product included in entertainment media, such as video games, movies, and television programs. This relatively new form of marketing took off in 1982 with the movie E.T., in which the alien is offered a piece of Reeses Pieces. Since then the number of product placements has increased rapidly.

After having spent the summer in his home country Spain Xavier has just started with his first year as a master student. During his holiday he has read more research papers on product placement which have further fueled his interest in this topic. Based on these papers and several discussions with his former bachelor thesis supervisor, dr. Casey Finneran, Xavier has decided to take on further empirical research into this issue. He has already discussed a research proposal and the theoretical background of his study with dr. Finneran, who has agreed to help him with this study. Now, he is ready to discuss the design of his study. Because he wants to establish causal connections between the variables in his study and because he wants to control for extraneous factors, Xavier has decided to set up an experiment. He has handed in the following outline for an experiment.

Introduction

Many researchers in the marketing field have examined the effect of product placements on memory, attitudes, and behavior. These studies have shown that product placements affect brand recall, brand recognition, and consumers attitudes toward the brand. The current study aims to investigate the moderating role of product involvement on the effects of visual and auditory product placements on brand preferences. The results of this study build on prevailing knowledge in marketing and help marketing practitioners who want to place their product in a movie, television program, or video game to decide whether they should do this visually or auditory.

Research question
How does involvement influence the effect of auditory and visual product placement on brand choice?

Hypotheses
Hypothesis 1: Auditory product placements are more effective for high involvement products than for low involvement products.
Hypothesis 2: Visual product placements are more effective for low involvement products than for high involvement products.
Method
Participants. The sample will consist of 80 to 100 university students. The participants are divided into four groups, with 20-25 students per group. They are randomly assigned to one of the experimental conditions. Participants age is measured in terms of years, and gender is measured as 0 and 1 where 0 is male and 1 is female.
Design. The study has a 2 (visual versus auditory product placement) x 2 (high versus low product involvement) experimental design. Participants are told a cover story; they are told that the goal of this study is to evaluate whether brand choice depends on the mood people are in. They are informed that mood is manipulated by a video clip, which will be either funny or sad.
Manipulations and manipulation check. Four short movies have been selected for the experiment, with four types of product placements. Each participant will only see one of these movies. One of the following movies will be shown to the participants of the study: (1) visual product placement of a low involvement product (a candy bar); (2) visual product placement of a high involvement product (sneakers); (3) auditory product placement of a low involvement product (a candy bar); and (4) an auditory product placement of a high involvement product (sneakers). The short movies will all come from episodes of the television show Seinfeld. To ensure that the involvement manipulations (candy bars versus sneakers) elicit the intended amount of involvement, this manipulation was carefully pre-tested with a separate sample of 77 respondents. Whats more, a manipulation check of involvement is also included in the study. Involvement is measured with a 7-point, multi-item scale adapted from Zaichkowski (1985). The scale is introduced with the following question: “How involved are you with this brand?.”
Control variable. Because the product placements in the four video clips differ in terms of prominence, we will control for band prominence. Prominent placements are those in which the product is made highly visible by virtue of size or position on the screen or its centrality to the action in the scene. Subtle placements are those in which the brand is not shown prominently, for instance, small in size, a background prop outside the main field of visual focus, lost in an array of multiple products or objects, or low time of exposure (Gupta and Lord, 1998). Following Gupta and Lord, brand prominence is measured with a 7-point, multi-item scale.
Dependent variable. Brand preference is measured by providing the respondents with a shopping list. The shopping list mentions twelve product categories (including those under study) and the participants are asked to pick one of the brands from each product category. They are instructed to act like they will need an item from each product category in the near future.
Discuss the principles of control and manipulation.
Describe how Xavier manipulates the independent variable and the moderating variable in this study.
Although Xavier has pretested the manipulation of product involvement, he has also included a manipulation check for involvement in his study. Why would he have done that?

You have just found out that the candy bar that features in the Seinfeld episode is very popular among women (92% of the consumers of this specific candy bar are women) but not among men. Hence, you suspect that gender is a nuisance factor in this study.

Based on the afore-mentioned research finding, please provide a detailed explanation of why and how gender might affect the results of the study if Xavier would not control for gender?
Explain (in detail) three possible ways in which Xavier can control for gender in this study.
Discuss the type of experimental design that Xavier is using.
Which factors affect the internal validity of Xaviers study given the experimental design he is using? Please provide justification.
Are the findings of this study generalizable to other settings. In other words, how do you justify the external validity of this study?
Xavier has indicated that he wants to give the participants a cover story. What could be the purpose of this cover story?
Do you believe that telling a cover story is ethical or not