Consider, analyze, and explain why general education courses should be a significant part of every student’s education.

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Prepare: As you prepare to write your answer to the discussion question, think about the general education courses that you have taken as a university student. To help you address the prompts, carefully read the Week One required resources that address the purpose of general education courses. 
Reflect: After reviewing the required resources, and in light of what you discovered in preparing to write your answer to the discussion question, consider, analyze, and explain why general education courses should be a significant part of every student’s education.
Write: For this discussion, address the following prompts:·         Provide at least three reasons why every student should be required to take general education courses. Explain your rationale. Support your rationale with evidence from at least one scholarly source.·         Describe what you have learned from at least three specific courses (e.g., philosophy, history, English, math, psychology, etc.) that has proved its usefulness in your daily life. For instance, what did you learn in history classes beyond just names, dates, and places? In literature courses, what did you learn about life, the university, and everything beyond the literary work itself?

Employ the theories to explain why Natalie and her brothers have chosen different paths in life.

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Natalie will be one of the first in her family to earn a college degree. She is determined to earn her bachelor’s degree in psychology and then possibly go on to a master’s degree, or even a doctorate. However, these dreams need to deal with reality. She has two children to raise on her own, and has to stay active with work as well as her children’s lives. She is proud of her accomplishments and hopes that her children will go as far, if not further with their education.

Natalie’s two brothers did not seem to have the same chances. Her oldest brother seems to have the most difficult time. He was always angry as a teenager and got suspended from school on a number of occasions due to fights. Once, he got into an altercation with a teacher and hit the teacher pretty hard; he was expelled from school. He took his GED at a boys’ boot camp run by the sheriff’s office. When he was released at the age of eighteen, he had a difficult time landing a job and worked on and off as a day laborer. He was later arrested for stealing tools from a construction site and sent back to jail. This only seemed to increase his anger towards everyone. Natalie stopped visiting him and now keeps in touch sporadically. The last she heard, he was working odd jobs and relying on alcohol and drugs.

Natalie wonders why her brother has turned out so different. Of course, they all had the same childhood, and their father was an abusive alcoholic. But all the more reason, she thought, her brothers would choose a different path. She wondered if they had the same choices as she did. Did being a male make life harder? She always thought men had it easier in life. She wondered if her brothers were to blame for their decisions and life choices, or if they ever had a real choice at all. She felt frustrated that, with all her psychology courses, she still could not tell why her brothers turned out so differently.

Research theories related to gender and crime using the textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Identify scholarly, peer-reviewed sources for use in this assignment.

Based on the scenario, your readings and research, respond to the following:

Select at least two different, contemporary theories that would apply to the case.

Employ the theories to explain why Natalie and her brothers have chosen different paths in life.

Give reasons in support of your responses.

Write your response in 1-page. Apply APA standards to citation of sources

Discuss your understanding of the media effects of the campaign

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You will be attending an upcoming psychological conference on psychology and mass media. While packing for the conference, you are struck by a particular advertisement you see on television. You have seen this same product advertised in magazines, on the radio, on billboards, and on the Internet. This commercial has you thinking more about the interplay between psychology and mass media. You decide to analyze the advertising campaign and use it as an example during the conference. This analysis will form the Key Assignment for this course.

As your final project (Key Assignment), you will analyze a product campaign to fully demonstrate your understanding of the effects and impacts of propaganda using a psychosocial perspective and media research, social influence, persuasion, and attitude change on society. You will also examine how your own behaviors are influenced by popular media and mass communication.

For this week’s assignment, you will write a paper (5–7 pages) in APA format (including at least 2 scholarly references) on the following:

Discuss your understanding of the media effects of the campaign, and include information on the following:

Micro-level effects: How does the campaign affect individuals?

Macro-level effects: How does the campaign affect groups or communities?

Identify a minimum of 2 research articles on related media effects that have been studied in the past as they relate to individuals, groups, and your product or similar products.

Include any media research and available data that are specifically related to your product and the advertising campaign

How do the 3rd grade boys’ weight in Principal Ben’s school compare to the national average

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Question 1.1. How do the 3rd grade boys’ weight in Principal Ben’s school compare to the national average (mean weight = 90, sd =15)? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 2.2. Are the student final exam scores in classroom A significantly different than the average of classroom B, 80%? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6)  Question 3.3. Is there a significant difference in the mean height between the Eastern and Western Conference National Basketball League players? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6)  Question 4.4. Is there a significant difference in depression symptoms measured before and after attending a 10-week group therapy program? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 5.5. It took 10 minutes and 5 seconds for Hal to run a mile last week when it was sunny but windy. Hal wants to compare his time to his friend’s running time of 9 minutes and 45 seconds, completed in perfect conditions. The day Hal ran, the mean time was 10 minutes and 50 seconds with a standard deviation of 15 seconds. The day his friend ran, the mean time was 10 minutes and 10 seconds with a standard deviation of 10 seconds. Who had the higher percentile score? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 6.6. Are graduate students in psychology getting significantly less sleep than the recommended 8 hours? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 7.7. Is there a significant difference between first year post college incomes of graduates from public versus private institutions? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 8.8. Did student SAT scores increase significantly after attending a SAT prep course? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6) Question 9.9. The GRE Verbal section mean = 500 and standard deviation = 113; Math section mean = 525 and standard deviation = 135. Sam scored 600 on Verbal and 680 on Math: Which GRE section did Sam do best on when comparing to others who took the same test? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6)  Question 10.10. Are the children in Archie Elementary School who are targeted as needing remedial reading classes watching significantly more than the recommended maximum of 10 hours of television weekly? Provide the IV, DV, and best method of analysis. (Points : 6)