Do you think that it is more fruitful to concentrate on the attempt to understand how people live their lives rather than on the apparently diverse images and concepts that they hold? If so, why? If not, why not?

Discuss a time in your life that you were certain of a thing, but later found out that you were wrong. What was this experience like? Thinking back on it now, were there any signs that could have alerted you that you were wrong about that thing? If so, why were you unable to recognize them at the time? What beliefs do you currently hold about yourself and/or the world around you that you might be wrong about? Discuss in at least a paragraph.

Using the scientific method, design your own simple psychological research study and describe it. In your description, please identify:

1. What is your theory? What is your hypothesis?  Make sure your theory/hypothesis relates to psychology and involves human participants.

2. What kind of sample will you use? Why? How will you recruit them?

3. Which research design you’ll be using to test your hypothesis (experimental or correlational)? Why did you choose this design?

4. How you will split your participants into groups (if you are conducting an experiment)?

5. What are your independent and dependent variables?

6. How you will measure or manipulate your independent and/or dependent variables? What research methods might you use to measure any variables you intend to measure (e.g., observation,surveys/questionnaires, archival research)?

7. What will you do to make your study as generalizable as possible?

8. How you will minimize bias (e.g. observer bias and experimenter bias)?

9. How you will determine whether your hypothesis is supported or rejected?

10. What are the strengths and weaknesses of your study? Specifically what are the strengths & weaknesses of the research design and research methods you chose (from questions 3 & 6 above)?

Please note: If one of the above questions/concepts is not relevant to your study, the there is not need to include it (e.g., if you are using survey methods, there is no need to discuss observer bias).

Formatting Your Assignment: There are 10 questions listed above (labeled 1 - 10). Make sure you label each question as it is labeled above. For example - for question 3, label it as "3)", "3.", "Question 3" or something similar.

Explain the meaning and significance of the quotation. Summarize it within the context of the author's broader argument (etc.) and indicate how it functions within this course (i.e., when set alongside other readings or ideas); be as specific as you can. Do not merely restate the quotation in your own words

"I should think, myself, that Minimally Decent Samaritan laws would be one thing, Good Samaritan laws quite another, and in fact highly improper." (Thomson)( this if for a Religion course)

How does the prevalence of bilingual (Spanish and English) contemporary albums and new styles such as “nortec” reflect the contemporary cultural situation of Mexican Americans? What elements in the legendary career of Carlos Santana illuminate this situation?

Read the following case and answer the question at the end:

As Zappos made its push toward holocracy, Hsieh decided to ramp up the efforts to an even higher level: Teal. Hsieh sent out a 4,700 word e-mail to all employees entitled “Reinventing Zappos: The Road to Teal.” Teal, supposed to be the next stage of development after holocracy, is characterized as “A new kind of organization designed to enable ‘whole’ individuals (not narrow professional selves) to self-organize and self-manage to achieve an organic organizational purpose.” In the memo, Hsieh essentially told the remaining employees to get on board or get out. Hsieh was not happy with the progress that had been made up to that point and wrote, “in order to eliminate the legacy management hierarchy, there will be effectively no more people managers.” John Bunch, the employee in charge of the move to teal says, “Teal is the goal; holocracy is the system.”
Hsieh even went as far as to offer the equivalent of three months’ worth of salary to employees who would quit the organization if they didn’t feel they could fit in. Over 200 employees (14 percent) took him up on the offer—a massive number of people given Zappos’s normal turnover rate of 1 percent annually. Clearly, not everyone felt comfortable in an organization with no clear leadership structure and very little to no legitimate power. One departed employee called holocracy “a social experiment [that] created chaos and uncertainty.” Others felt like “more employees are feeling like favoritism [and management issues are] becoming a bigger problem.” CEO Tony Hsieh remains undaunted. Hsieh says, “The one thing I’m absolutely sure of is that the future is about self-management.”
The move has not been bad for everyone. Less experienced individuals with less expertise have felt energized by their ability to speak up and have a voice. One employee whose prior boss blocked a job transfer stated that as soon as he figured holocracy out, “I was like, ‘Actually, my boss can’t tell me that.’” Jake McCrea, who teaches new hires about Zappos culture, states, “Holacracy is like a sport or a new language. You can read about it, you can hear people tell you about it, you won’t understand it until you start using it.” Even through all the issues, Hsieh stated, “I’ve been surprised at how hard it is to let go of the psychological baggage. In retrospect, I would have probably ripped off the Band-Aid sooner.”

Can an organization run effectively without leaders having some form of organizational power?

The National Partnership for Action (NPA) to eliminate health disparities has as its mission to increase the effectiveness of programs that target the elimination of health disparities through the coordination of partners, leaders, and stakeholders committed to action. NPA defines health disparity as "a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social or economic disadvantage. Health disparities adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social and/or economic obstacles to health and/or a clean environment.

Based on your readings and discussions in the course, how would you say that the social determinants of health are related to the existence of health disparities? Give at least one example to support your response.

what is neuroimaging what 3 general methodological approaches are taken when discussing the neuroscience of aging ?

I POST IT TWICE DO NOT COPY THE SAME ANSWER TO BOTH, THANKS

#1

Discussion: What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years?

1010 unread replies.1010 replies.

What to do:

What Will Humans Look Like in 100 Years?

Please watch the TED talk

LINK: https://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_what_will_humans_look_like_in_100_years?language=en

and post you find most interesting about what is discussed about how humans will look in the future and if you agree with the talk and if not, how do you think humans will look like and evolve the future.

Explain what it means for a therapy to be evidence based or empirically supported. Briefly describe one of the following therapies: Enhanced Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Couples, Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy, Emotion Focused Couple Therapy.

What is the validity to the assumption that migrating to the United States from other parts of the countries will have a profound effect on the cultural integrity of the kid growing up. **Basically I know the question maybe be confusing to understand but what I want to explore in this topic is the assumption people have with Americans having no culture and like other countries Pakistan or India, they have a sense of family hood here in the states sometimes we see kids become distant from parents etc, and I want to explore what is the reason behind it. Even in TV commercials sometimes they openly joke about marital couples not hanging out with parents etc. Which is kind of sad to some degree so this is something I want to possibly discuss about and try to make sense of whats exactly going on could be technology advancement people having less interaction with each other etc.