1. As part of their class requirements, the students in Dr. Taylor’s Research Design and Analysis class are sent over to Trumbull Mall to observe interactions between mothers and their toddler-aged children. They are told not to interact with the moms at all, but just record certain behaviors, like the number of times they speak harshly to their children and the number of times the children whine or cry.

One of the mothers notices that the students are watching people and complains to mall security. The manager of the mall asks the students where they are from, then writes a letter of complaint to Dr. Taylor. Here is an excerpt:

”I am requesting that you do not engage in any more observational research at Trumbull Mall. I don’t think it is right to allow students to observe people’s behavior without getting their permission first. It is a violation of privacy and is wrong even if they don’t realize they are being watched. People come to the mall to shop, not to be watched.”

Reflection Questions:

1. What are some good reasons for the manager’s concerns? Explain.
2. What are some good reasons why the students should be able to do this type of research? Explain.
3. If you were in Dr. Taylor’s position, how would you handle the situation?

how would you explain racial disparity in the criminal justice systems?

USING LETTER FROM A BIRMINGHAM JAIL- MLK

1. Was Dr. King effective in achieving his purpose for his given audience? What would you have done differently to improve his chances of efficacy? What would have been a worse response in your mind? Find moments in the text to support your claims.

1. Should test results be kept confidential from other family members who are directly affected (as in examples B & D)?

2. Should a client be given information that will lead to a decision that the counselor believes is unethical (as in examples A&C)?

3. What would you do? (Note: The answers to the first two questions can/may be different from the third).

Thinking Like A Scientist
One of the most difficult parts of being a scientist is knowing how to use information so it does not harm others. Consider these cases:
A. A pregnant woman and her husband both have achondroplastic dwarfism, a dominant condition that affects appearance (very short stature, large head) but not intellect. They want genetic analysis of the fetus; they plan to abort if the child would be of normal height.
B. A 40-year-old woman is tested and is told that she has the BRCA1 gene. That means she has about an 80% chance of developing breast cancer and is at high risk for ovarian and colon cancer. She does not believe these results and wants no one to tell her mother, her four sisters, or her three daughters, some of whom may be I the early stages of cancer.
C. A 30-year-old mother of two daughters (no sons) is a carrier for hemophilia. She requests in vitro fertilization (IVF) and pre-implantation analysis so that only male zygotes without the hemophilia-carrying X chromosome will be implanted. Female zygotes, all healthy but half of them carriers, would be destroyed as would the hemophiliac half of her male zygotes.
D. A couple has a child with cystic fibrosis. They want to know if they both carry the recessive gene, in which case they will have no more children, or if the child’s illness was the result of a spontaneous genetic change, as my happen at conception. The test results make it apparent to the counselor that the couple will not have a child with cystic fibrosis, because the husband is not the child’s biological father.
Answer the following questions in your Blog:
1. Should test results be kept confidential from other family members who are directly affected (as in examples B and D)?
2. Should a client be given information that will lead to a decision that the counselor believes is unethical (as in examples A and C)?
3. What would you do? (Note: The answers to the first two questions can/may be different from the third).

Do you think that a sustainable environment should be a goal of the world's societies? Why or why not? If so, what practical steps do you think we can take to produce a sustainable and ecologically sound environment? Feel free to include any thoughts from the web links provided for this week.

Imagine you are a museum tour and you are responsible for conducting an international tour of foreign visitors and students through a museum exhibit exploring Abstract Expressionism. In your own words, describe how you would define the movement and explain the style and meaning of Abstract Expressionism art. Your essay should be no less than two paragraphs.

what other groups are experiencing voter suppression in the U.S.or in another country? Explain your findings.

Give a brief summary of the stakeholder theory of corporate responsibility as outlined by Freeman in both his essay and the video segments we watched on this issue. Briefly, what is the legal argument and the economic argument for the stakeholder view? Who are Two of the stakeholders that Freeman notes explicitly has having rights that must be considered by corporate executives, other than stockholders? As one example, explain why Freeman thinks that one of these groups has an investment in the company that gives the executives the fiduciary duty to consider their well-being in corporate decisions.

Write a narrative essay on A time that you experienced something spooky within 300 words.

respond to the following questions about the Columbian Exchange:

1. What were the two most important items exchanged that came from the Old World to the New World? Why were they so important?
2. What were the two most important items exchanged that came from the New World to the Old World? Why were they so important?
3. What was the most significant problem caused or liability introduced in the Old World and in the New World by the Columbian Exchange? Explain.
4. In your opinion, was the overall impact of the Columbian Exchange positive or negative? In other words, would the earth have been better off without this exchange? As you discuss your perspective, explain both the major positive and negative effects that guide your opinion.

Your assignment this week is to locate a relevant, appropriate journal article for your critique. The journal article critique focuses on peer-reviewed, empirical journal articles. Your journal article critique must focus on one of the theories of personality covered in this course (I encourage you to browse ahead in the course to overview all the various theories of personality that we will cover).

Utilize the UMUC library (www.umuc.edu) to locate a peer-reviewed, empirical journal article; you must select an article from a scholarly journal. Articles must meet the following criteria:

Primary research – Articles should report the results of an original research study (no meta-analyses, summaries, editorials or theoretical articles).

Refereed – Articles must come from peer-reviewed journals; you may not use articles from blogs, popular press books, magazines, textbooks or non-academic publications.

Personality focus – Articles must examine one of the theories or measures of personality covered in our course.

What are the basic principles for just ownership in Nozick's "entitlement theory" of justice? What methods of obtaining property does each of the first two principles cover? What does his third principle reveal about any claims about the right of poor people to goods now held by others as a matter of justice? What does the principle of rectification add to the basic principles? Describe the Wilt Chamberlain story used by Nozick to illustrate libertarian justice. What is this story meant to show?. Explain why you find Nozick’s arguments convincing or not regarding the definition of a just economic system.

Explain how our identity based on essentialism, social constructionism, Gender Identities and Sexuality impact our life ?