1. Come up with 3 topics about which you might be interested in writing a research paper.

a. These topics can be very general: carnivals, Nicola Tesla, cartoons, special education, etc. Try to pick three subjects that interest you, about which you might actually enjoy learning more.

b. You don't necessarily need to know anything about those subjects yet, so it's fine if you pick subjects that are new to you.

2. For each topic, generate a question (or a few questions) you would like to ask.

a. The answer to this question, which you will only fully discover during your research, should eventually help you form your thesis statement.

b. I suggest generating questions by going online and getting a general sense of what information is available about your subject--especially if it’s a new subject for you!

3. Find one source that you feel is trustworthy and would be useful for researching each topic. For each source, write a paragraph about how this source would be useful in answering the question(s) you generated in Step 2. Be sure to include whether the source is popular or academic and whether it’s primary or secondary--and address why you chose the type of source you did!

According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Apply the General Principles and Ethics Codes Standards to the following dilemma:

Case Study: In 2014, investigators from several academic research institutions collaborated with Facebook to test whether reducing the number of positive or negative messages people saw made them less likely to post positive or negative content themselves (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014). The experiment was carried out by manipulating the algorithm by which Facebook sweeps posts into members’ news feeds. Participants were not informed they were a part of this research. Investigators involved in the study defended the absence of informed consent for a study designed to influence emotions, arguing that the manipulation was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users must agree at the time they join Facebook (Goel, 2014). However, Facebook policy only mentions “research” in general terms (e.g., “We may use the information we receive about you…for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement” (Waldman, 2014). The investigators also argued that they were using “archival” data collected by a business entity, despite the fact that they were involved in the initial study design. According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Support your decision with relevant General Principles and Ethic Code Standards.

A researcher investigates the factors that are associated with the salaries of professors who teach courses at a major university. The researcher gathers data about the subject area and the salary per course for a random sample of professors. Data are found in the file Academic Salaries by Subject Area.

a) State the null and alternate hypothesis we would run to determine if the average salaries of the professors is the same across all subjcet areas.

b) Run the appropriate test in Excel and show output. What conclusions can you make?

c) Obtain boxplots for these data, each individual data NPP, and a NPP for all residuals.

d) Are the assumptions of an ANOVA reasonably satisfied? Explain & Discussion in reference to the plots.

e) If there is a difference in salaries run a Tukey’s test to show how the salaries for the different subject areas compare to each other. Describe what the results of the Tukey’s test tell you.

The state workers’ compensation board that governs workers’ compensation for the state that your company resides and performs all of its business in, has decided to reject the four exceptions to the governing classification and single enterprise rule in your state. Understanding this is a very big issue, your company’s legal team has elicited your help to write an argumentative paper that will be presented to the workers’ compensation board during the public hearings scheduled for next week. Compose a paper that defends the following list:

1. the Standard Exception classifications,

2. the Interchange of Labor rules,

3. the General Exclusion classes, and

4. the use of the Multiple Enterprise rule.

The legal department is depending on you to ensure that to help the board understand why the rejection of these exceptions would be so detrimental to your business. Make sure you argue your points based on a company with 8,000-plus employees, within seven different manufacturing sites and two major administrative buildings that are separated geographically from the plants. Your EMR for the trailing 36-month period is 0.94 and the gross revenue for your company is $1.3 billion. Your paper must be a minimum of three pages (not including the title and reference page) and include at least two academic resources. All information from outside resources should be cited in APA format. Please include an abstract that summarizes the key points of your defense and/or argument.

In addition to treating students differently based on social class, schools also convey implicit messages about gender, sexual orientation, religion, language, country of origin, and disability. Like the messages about social class, these implicit messages are also forms of the hidden curriculum. Often these messages reinforce the status quo that is discriminatory towards non-dominant groups (females, sexual minorities, immigrants, non-Christians, low-income people, and people with disabilities). In general, the hidden curriculum helps to reinforce and reproduce the social hierarchy that is already present in the adult world. Remember: The hidden curriculum is not the “regular” academic curriculum. It is “taught” both overtly and covertly through behaviors, words, and the school structure.

The example provided by Johnson and Rhodes focuses on how schools provide differential learning environments that prepare students to remain in the social class into which they were born. Jeff Sapp (article in this module) illustrated the hidden curriculum by describing the ways his school “taught me I was poor.”

Discussion Assignment: Reflect on your K-12 education and identify the hidden curriculum in your school related to one of the following variables: gender, race or ethnicity, language, country of origin, religion, social class, or disability. In your response, be specific about what messages you received about the variable you chose and how those messages were conveyed.

• Make a list of characteristics that describe who you are (your self-concept). After looking at the list, see if you can come up with a few words that summarize the list to narrow in on the key features of your self-concept. Go back over the first list and evaluate each characteristic, for example noting whether it is something you do well/poorly, something that is good/bad, positive/negative, desirable/undesirable. Is the overall list more positive or more negative? After doing these exercises, what have you learned about your self-concept and self-esteem?
• Discuss at least one time in which you had a discrepancy or tension between two of the three selves described by self-discrepancy theory (the actual, ideal, and ought selves). What effect did this discrepancy have on your self-concept and/or self-esteem?
• Take one of the socializing forces discussed (family, culture, or media) and identify at least one positive and one negative influence that it/they have had on your self-concept and/or self-esteem.
• Getting integrated: Discuss some ways that you might strategically engage in self-presentation to influence the impressions of others in an academic, a professional, a personal, and a civic context.

1. Discuss self in human communication
2. Explain the Johari Window
3. What are factors that influence self – disclosure
4. Discuss the stages of perception.
5. What is the Pygmalion Effect?

An investor owns a bond with a modified duration of 0,5. At the moment YTM for that bond is equal to 3,28%. What will be the magnitude of bond price change if YTM for the bond changes to 3,58%. Explain how can you improve accuracy of estimation of a bond price change resulting from the change of market interest rates

A stock has a required return of 16.00%, the risk-free rate is 8.20%, and the market risk premium is 12.20%.
a) What is the stock's beta?
b) If the market risk premium changes to 5.50%, what would happen to the stock's required rate of return? Assume that the risk-free rate and the beta remain unchanged.