and analyze each of these experiments. You will prepare two separate analyses; for each analysis, include the following:

A brief summary of the study

A one paragraph explanation of   the background in the field leading up to the study, and the reasons the researchers carried out the project.

The significance of the study to the field of psychology

A brief discussion of supportive or contradictory follow-up research findings and subsequent questioning or criticism from others in the field  

A summary of at least one recent experiment (within the past two years) that is related to the seminal experiment (Hint: Excellent sources for recent research summaries are the American Psychological Association’s Monitor on Psychology and the Association for Psychological Science).

Your own evaluation of whether the breakthrough experiments of Drs. Gardner and Loftus were examples of genius, the zeitgeist, or some other factor. Use their own autobiographical accounts as well as your analyses of their experiments and personal stories to support your opinion.

Compare scholarly sources and peer reviewed sources, what are the similarities and differences

Discuss the role of Christian imagery in Ben Hur and Spartacus. How well does this Christian imagery fit in the story of a Jewish revolt against the Romans (Ben Hur) or the story of a slave uprising almost 70 years before the birth of Christ (Spartacus)?

1Identify three advantages to studying development from a lifespan perspective.

2From a theoretical perspective, why do you think most Developmental Psychologists take an eclectic approach?

3Pick one psychological paradigm and discuss how it may be used to study development.

Discuss the impact of race, gender, and socioeconomic status on physical and psychological health.  To what extent should individuals be held responsible for their health and actions if these are shaped by their opportunities and circumstances?

Do you think the suffragists were actually willing to die for their cause?

What does "ontological" mean?

In the excerpt from the encyclopedia entry on Feminist Ethics, the authors used the term "ontological" in describing the foundation of the various feminist approaches.

"Ontology" is a branch, or field, of Philosophy. In this field, philosophers investigate "reality" or "existence."

To do so, they attempt to answer questions like: What is the nature of reality? What exists fundamentally? What is the "bottom-line" of all that is?

We can ask these ontological questions about specific things, too, like human beings.

Feminist argue that the ontological question "What is a human being" has been answered as if it were actually the question "What is a man?" In other words, men answered the question about what is real by examining their experiences and then universalizing this for all human beings. As a result, women were ignored and/or found to be morally deficient.

For example, Aristotle claimed that women had barely enough reason to handle household matters, like knowing how to keep food stocked(!). Contrasting men an women, he wrote "a man would be thought a coward if he were only as brave as a brave woman..." Politics,1227b.

You can see why feminist thinkers challenged this idea of "reality." They sought to correct the "ontological status" of men and women.

Write short notes on the following classifications of law: a. Case law b. Civil law c. Criminal law d. Public law

Explain why the distinction between BICS and CALP is important. Which takes longer to develop?

Describe the philosophy of rationalism .What are the basic differences between empiricism and rationalism? Choose a philosopher from chapter 6 whose ideas you think are important to the birth of scientific psychology  

a. What is a constitution? b. State any three (3) three features of a constitution. c. State three (3) disadvantages of case law. d. Explain the following legal doctrines: i. Stare decisis ii. Orbiter dicta.

Ethics is basically about right and wrong but what is right or wrong is relative to certain principles or theories. Discuss the view that no one theory of Ethics is complete by itself.

How does the concept of selective attention relate to learning?