Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of societies and environments in which they operate. Other believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the boundaries of law, is to make more money.

Write a response, not more than 150 words, based on the critical thinking concepts learnt in class, in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with you own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing your position; you should address both of the views presented

Answer the following questions after reading The Saints and The Roughnecks article. Explain labeling or social reaction theory. Explain self-fulfilling prophecy. Discuss how labeling influenced the lives of these boys and resulted in self-fulfilling prophecy. Give specific examples. What role did economics or social class play in the labeling? Compare your high-school experience with those at Hannibal High. In what ways did your "reputation" either protect or harm you. Think of a time when you were labeled negatively or positively by an authority figure, a parent, or someone else significant to you. How powerful was the label? Did it influence how others responded to you? Did it affect your perceptions of and feelings about yourself Give an example. If it was negative did you do something to try to counteract the label or its effects Did you eventually overcome, transform or shed the label? How and why?

Campare between Chartes Spearman theory and Robert Sternberg (Triarchie theory) of intelligence

Explain and evaluate Reid's argument that psychological characteristics are not sufficient for personal identity.

Exercise 5: Physical/Cognitive/Social Health + Longevity - This assignment is designed to focus on various strategies that young adults can use to enhance or improve their physical, cognitive, and social health in terms of positive contributions to their longevity.

After conducting research on the internet, provide two strategies for enhancing or improving the physical, cognitive, and social health of young adults in order to positively contribute to their longevity.

Would you suggest dopamine agonists as a primary treatment of depression? Why or why not?

Explain the behavior of workers of any of the largest companies.

Why do you think our visual system evolved to have its strenghts/weaknesses in processing light/dark environments? thinks of the conditions of the environments we evolved in and what we would have needed to survive in those environments...how did the mechanisms of our vision evolve to meet those needs?

What makes each job either prestigious or lacking prestige - be very specific regarding your motivation in classifying each occupation...why would you want this job or not want the job based on the social perceptions associated with each or the social benefits, etc.

Using any organisation of your choice, actual/fictitious analyse, comprehensively and critically discuss the nature of teamwork in the organisation and clearly show the functional and dysfunctional aspects of the team work.  Discuss, comprehensively and critically, the nature of teamwork in the organisation.

Chapter 14: Put It in Writing Activity:

Suppose that a survey reveals that first-graders from various ethnic groups in a local school hold prejudiced attitudes toward one another. Imagine that you have been hired to develop a program to help these children become less prejudiced and more accepting of members of other ethnic groups.

Write a one-page description of two or three classroom activities that would help you accomplish this goal and tell why you think they would work. Do you think these activities could be successful in eliminating all prejudiced thinking in the children? Why or why not?

Exercise 3 - Listening Styles

In your text, you learned that Geier and Downey (1980) believe that there are six styles of listening: leisure, inclusive, stylistic, technical, empathic, and nonconforming. Each style of listener "hears" only communications that are consistent with his/her style. The purpose of this exercise is to provide you with an opportunity to practice communicating in different ways to different types of listeners.

For each of the situations below, indicate how you would speak to each of the six styles of listener.

What are the main differences between Psychosis and Neurosis disorders? Bm