1-) Answer the followings;

a-) whenever they live together rather than apart there's more similarity in IQ scores between identical twins, siblings, biological parents and children, and even unrelated individuals. These findings suggest that _______________________ contributes to intelligence.

b-) The _____________ effect refers to the tendency for absolute intelligence to increase over successive generations.

c-) All psychological tests, including intelligence tests, must meet three criteria. Those include ___________, ______________ and __________.

d-) A physchologist administer an intelligence test to a representative group of 500 adults to determine the average performance and develop a set of norms for the test. This will help establish the test criterion of _________________________.

e-) A psychologist administers a personality test to group of college students in September and then has the students take the same test again in November. She then correlates the September scores with the November scores and observes a strong positive correlation between the two set of scores. In terms of the three test criteria, this personality test is ______________________________.

f-) When teachers expect that particular students will excel academicaly, the teacher may unintentionally treat these students in ways that will eilicit high academic performance. Similarly, when teacher expect that particular students will perform poorly in class, the teachers may unintentionally treat these students in ways that will elicit poor academic perofrmance. The process by which these epxectations become reality is called a ________________

g-) In attempting to explain group differences in intellgence scores, Steele had male and female students take a test composed of difficult math questions. When the students were infromed that the questions were an accurate test of mathmetical abilities and limitations, women performed worse than men. However, when the students were told that the questions were simply part of a psychology experiment, men and women performed equally well. These results illustrate a phenomenon known as _______________________________.

Instructions: Write your responses to the following 5 questions for at least 5 of the 7 example news stories about correlational studies:

1. Identify X and describe how it is being measured
2. Identify Y and describe how it is being measured
3. State the direction of the correlation (+ or –)
4. Identify a possible Z (third) variable
5. Fully interpret the relationship between X and Y (in plain English)

Example 5: Internet use in class leads to lower test scores  

You are approached by a 3^rd year health sciences student who is trying to recruit you to participate in a study of student mental health.  You are told that it involves an online survey, and covers topics like your current mental health, whether or not you access campus resources for mental health care, past experiences that may have been involved in the determination of your mental health experiences, and how your mental health relates to your academic outcomes during first year.

The 3rd year student is a research assistant on this project that is led by a new faculty member.  He is being paid to recruit students, and he tells you that he gets $25 for each successful recruit.

He explains the survey protocol in detail to you.  The protocol involves having you sign in to a web-based survey platform, provide a bit of information about yourself and your background, then answer questions about your mental health.  You will fill out the survey and provide your student ID number which will be linked with your academic record over first year (provided by the University Registrar), and also your health care visits to Student Health Services over the year (provided by Student Health and Wellness Services).  

Once the survey is completed you will receive a coupon for Tim Hortons, and also be eligible to enter a draw for a new iPad.  The study data will be kept by the student on his laptop, as well as the faculty members’ server.  Your name will be provided as part of the survey, but will never be used in any reporting.

In a one page response (maximum), please describe the types of questions you would ask the person recruiting you for study, in order to determine whether this research meets ethical standards.

Review of Current Accounting Issues

In your accounting career you will be required to analyse current accounting issues and communicate your theoretical understanding to your professional colleagues and your clients. For this assignment assume that you are the senior accountant working for a major firm.

Question (1,500 words)

The CEO has forwarded to you an interesting article and requires you to provide her with a deeper theoretical understanding of the issues discussed so that she can fully engage in the lively discourse at an upcoming conference.

You are required to find a newspaper article or web page report of an item of accounting news, i.e. it refers to a current event, consideration, comment or decision that has been published after the 1st of January 2018. Your article could also come from one of the professional journals. The article should not come from an academic journal. Academic journals generally do not contain news articles or articles of less than one page and are usually only published 2 or 4 times a year. If you are having a problem ensuring that your article is from an appropriate source contact your subject coordinator.

You then need to explain the article that you have found in your own words and clearly relate the concepts, ideas and facts within the article to one or more of the theories or topics that you have studied this session. Support your analysis of the assumptions and implications of the topic or theory as appropriate with reference to sources in APA 6 style. For example, this article from the Sydney Morning Herald in April 2016 could be linked to the topics of accounting regulation and measurement (and perhaps others). You must provide a copy of the article or web page, with details of the source, date and page number with your answer.

(News, Issues Need to be searched on internet)(And link of the article needs to be inserted)

Should Parents Pay Their Children When They Earn High Grades in School?

We all probably recall knowing someone in school who got $5 for every “A” they earned in school. Research has found that encouragement of autonomous functioning, individual challenge, and positive feedback stimulates an intrinsic motivation to achieve (Deci & Ryan, 1985). If the environment is highly controlling, however, the internal forces for mastery-achievement may be undermined. Parents who use surveillance and frequent rewards socialize their children to be motivated by, and desire, extrinsic rewards. Two specific parenting behaviors were related to extrinsic motivation and lower school performance. They found that over controlling parents (those who engaged in extreme supervision of homework completion) had children who were more likely to rely on external sources for evaluation. Their grades and achievement scores were lower as well. Parents who relied on external rewards also had children with extrinsic motivation and lower school performance. Ginsburg and Bronstein speculate that extrinsically rewarded children use external criteria to assess their performance, which alters the children’s perception of themselves. This may undermine their ability to self-regulate and choose appropriate work. These children do not learn how to judge their own performance. Encouragement of intrinsic motivation, which is bidirectional and reciprocal, will foster independent self-evaluation and academic success. The goal is for the child to develop the ability to self-regulate and take responsibility for academic success; thus, the parents are not solely responsible for their child’s outcome. So, does paying our children for good grades motivate them to do well in school? Do you see how these children are not able to learn how to judge their own performance? Elaborate. What are some ways that parents can foster the development of intrinsic motivation?

When 2A (g) <-----> B(g) + C(g) [exothermic] is at equilibrium the concentration of B

a. increase

b. decreases

c. is unchanged

d. changes randomly

e. cannot predict

Concentration of C is increased, concentration of A

a. increase

b. decreases

c. is unchanged

d. changes randomly

e. cannot predict

Concentration of C is increased, concentration of B

a. increase

b. decreases

c. is unchanged

d. changes randomly

e. cannot predict

If temp is raised the concentration of C

a. increase

b. decreases

c. is unchanged

d. changes randomly

e. cannot predict

If volume of reaction is decreased concentration of A will

a. increase

b. decreases

c. is unchanged

d. changes randomly

e. cannot predict

when reaction is at equilibrium

a. [a]=[b]=[c]

b. [a],[b]&[c] depend on Kc

c. Kc < Qc

d. Kc > Qc

e. cannot predict

Please briefly explain each

Market Research

• Describe what the concept is and how it functions.
• Explain how it molds the beginning stages of a marketing plan.
• Describe how it changes throughout the course of marketing plan’s “life”.

Segmentation

• Describe what the concept is and how it functions.
• Explain how it molds the beginning stages of a marketing plan.
• Describe how it changes throughout the course of a marketing plan’s “life”.

Pricing

• Describe what the concept is and how it functions.
• Explain how it molds the beginning stages of a marketing plan.
• Describe how it changes throughout the course of a marketing plan’s “life”.

Targeting

• Describe what the concept is and how it functions.
• Explain how it molds the beginning stages of a marketing plan.
• Describe how it changes throughout the course of a marketing plan’s “life”.

Positioning

• Describe what the concept is and how it functions.
• Explain how it molds the beginning stages of a marketing plan.
• Describe how it changes throughout the course of a marketing plan’s “life”.

Question Three

A has contracted with B to construct a factory in Oman. The first payment has been received by B and started working for three months. Oman has adopted new regulation relating the security in the factories. This regulation required new materials and changes in the construction of the factory. All of this has raised the price of the actual contract. A has asked be to include the materials and the do the changes according to the new regulation adopted by the government at the same price and conditions according to the contract signed. B has decided to stop the work and asked to renegotiate the contract and the prices. A has no budget to finance the new materials and the changes in the factory and asked B to continue work and do the changes.

.5. What action A should take to make B start work even it doesn’t have the budget for the changes adopted by the government?

6. In your conclusion, you should provide a good solution for A and B to continue to work together and build the factory with the new government requirements.