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The use of animals in research is controversial. Investigate this controversy using at least five resources from the South University Online Library. Do you think it is ethical to use animals in research? Explain your reasoning and support your answer with at least three sources from the South University Online Library (these sources must be different from the ones you already used in this assignment).
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Why does Bjorn Lomborg think we need to be more realistic about climate change? How have current governments failed with respect to their past promises to reduce emissions?
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Provide an overview of kinship-related demographic changes in the United States and Canada. How have kinship arrangements changed? How do these changes relate to other cultural changes in society?
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how do we know that the "unconscious" exists and how does it impact our personality? Feel free to use arguments, theories, or hypothesizes from both Freud and Carl Gustav Jung as well as any examples you can come up with.
Note ; If you believe the unconscious does not exist,
explain why and refute the theories of Freud and Carl Gustav Jung
(Carl jung was a Swiss psychiatrist )
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What is an area of cognition that could be studied effectively by viewing the structure or function of the human brain? Describe how a researcher might use the techniques mentioned in the readings this week to study that area of cognition.z
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a.)What is meant by trait level and item difficulty in IRT? Provide an example with two items to illustrate. If an item has a difficulty level of 2.0, then what is trait level for someone who has a .50/.50 probability of getting it correct? Explain.
b.) Continuing with your example above, explain the three primary item parameters that could be modeled in IRT analyses. Clarify by explaining how your two items could be the same on one parameter but vary on another.
c.)Returning to question b.) demonstrate how 2 items with the same difficulty but different discrimination parameters can lead to different probabilities of a correct responses for individuals 1 standard deviation apart on the tested attribute? Show your work and explain the difference.
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conclusion to be a psychologist therapist as a person in the therapeutic relationship. answer should be supported by empirical evidences
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1. What is efficient market hypothesis? Explain the difference between technical and fundamental analysis and indicate which one is rendered useless if markets are weakly efficient?
2. What is the major source of financing investments in corporate America? Has there been more debt or equity issuance overall in recent years?
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Design a survey with at least 10 questions, within the topic of any criminal justice topics.
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List and define the theories of gender? Explain the difference between race and ethnicity, prejudice, discrimination and racism. Describe the characteristics of minority groups and dominant groups. What are the theories of prejudice and racism? What is meant by the social construction of sexual identity?
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