2. Chandler and his current roommate, Alex, were both transferred to a new city and needed to find a new apartment. They carefully considered every apartment within their price range and finally, rented one that met all of their criteria. Complete A and B, below, with regard to their experience. For each of the concepts, define the term and then, apply that term/concept to the specific situation.

A. For each concept below, define it, and then explain how the concept might relate to their decision to buy a home:

• one of the three steps to problem-solving we learned about (choose a specific one!)
• classical conditioning
• confirmation bias
• divergent thinking

B. For each concept, below, define it and provide an example that explains how the concept could relate to life in their new home and new neighborhood.

• extrinsic motivation
• proactive interference
• observational learning.

The term gender and sex are frequently confused as they are used interchangeably in our society. In an effort to avoid using the word sex, we now ask people for their gender on surveys and questionnaires. The choices are Male and Female which is incorrect for gender identity. If you are asking me my gender you should use Masculine and Feminine. It is a common issue in our society. How can society be helped to change their understanding of the words?

Addictions, substance abuse, and how they affect the physical and mental health of native Americans.

1. Causes of alcoholism and drug abuse?

2. Consequences of alcoholism and drug abuse?

3. How do alcoholism and drug abuse affect the mental and physical health of native Americans?

4. Treatments that could help indigenous people to overcome this type of issues?

5. Treatments that are specific to indigenous ways of healing?

Define psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). Provide two examples of study findings arising from PNI research.

• What global forces are affecting the U.S. economy nowadays?

• What consequences are they having?

• How are these global forces affecting your life?

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.