Read and respond to the Communication Skills, critical thinking question below:

1. Clearly, women and minorities were held back from employment opportunities in the past. So shouldn't we give them special consideration today (like giving them jobs when they are qualified even though there are better qualified white males)? Should we be increasing or decreasing affirmative action programs?

How do you understand what Creativity is?

What comes to mind when you think of a creative person?  

What is your relationship with food like currently? How do you expect that bringing the practice of mindfulness to eating will affect it?

Does the idea of creativity being a positive factor in the evolution of human culture make sense to you? Why or why not?

Reflect on the tension between Conformity and Creativity, and the distiction between healthy vs. pathological conformity and healthy vs. pathologicla creativity. Site examples from your own life.

Choose a famous fairytale.

Rewrite the story as if the main character had one of the psychological disorders you have learned so far in this course (a summary of story is acceptable).

Evaluate the character as his or her counselor.

Describe which counseling modalities you could use on this character.

Interpreting ANOVA

(Please use the attached document, bold the questions, and include your answers in non-bolded font).

An Industrial Organizational psychologist is interested in examining the relative effectiveness of three leadership styles on worker productivity. A sample of N = 15 assembly line workers is obtained. These individuals are randomly assignment to each of the three leadership conditions: Authoritarian, Democratic, and Delegative. The number of units workers produced in a 10-hour shift is recorded. The data are as follows:

ANOVA

Productivity

Multiple Comparisons

Productivity

Tukey HSD

*The mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level.

a. Why is the one-way ANOVA, rather than the independent samples t test, appropriate for this study?

b. Study the table and comment on whether the means for the three leadership styles differ significantly. In other words, does leadership style influence worker productivity? Explain.

c. In terms of these data, discuss why it is appropriate to conduct post hoc tests after the initial analysis of variance? Under what circumstances would it be inappropriate to conduct post hoc tests after performing a one-way ANOVA?

d. Discuss what these post hoc tests tell you that you could not determine from the initial analysis of variance. e. Using the information in the tables above, write an APA style results section.

Are there steps you can take to develop more stress resistant personality traits?

How are the elements of family, pop culture, and political music similar to your current culture/life to those Marley experienced in the chapters you read this week? How are they different?

Explain what are the rights of suspects and what is the Miranda ruling (1966)

What are the different approaches to understanding Human Behaviour in Organisations

How does the stress resistant personality differ from the stress producing personality?

write an essay analying reasons you have become a good writer or explaning why you are not as good as you like to be, begin by considering some factors that may have influenced your writing ability

defense mechanism, adaptive defense mechanisma, maladaptive defense mechanism

Critique sociological explanations of terrorism. Do they adequately explain the causes of political violence? If so, how so? If not, how not?

Critical Thinking

Speculate on the Implications of the following behaviors:

- Continuing to date someone who puts you down in front of his/her friends.

- Not dealing with a problem in a class as soon as you realize it’s a problem.