What are the differences between: needs assessment, program assessment, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and efficacy assessment? Why is program evaluation important to the field?

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1. What are single-case designs and when are they most useful?

2. How may a researcher enhance the generalizability of the results of a single case design?

3. What is the relationship between quasi-experiments and confounding variables? Provide an example

4. Provide examples of: one-group posttest designs and one-group pretest and posttest designs. What are the limitations of each?

5. Provide examples of non-equivalent control group designs. What are the advantages of having a control group?

6. What is a quasi-experimental research design? Why would a researcher use a quasi-experimental design rather than a true experimental design?

7. What is the difference between a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study? What is a sequential study? Which of these designs is most vulnerable to cohort effects? Which design is most vulnerable to the effects of attrition?

8. What are the differences between: needs assessment, program assessment, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, and efficacy assessment? Why is program evaluation important to the field?

 

9. A researcher wants to investigate patriotic behavior across the lifespan. She samples people in the following age groups: 18–28, 29–39, 40–50, 51–60, and 61 and above. All participants are interviewed and asked to complete questionnaires and rating scales about patriotic behavior. This type of developmental research design is called __Cross-Sectional______________. What is the primary disadvantage of this type of design? Explain.

Briefly describe the different types of reliability and validity, including why it is important to conduct a study that is reliable and valid.

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Discussion Board Question #7

In chapter 6, you learned about the various explanations on the acquisition of grammar. Several accounts have been proposed to explain how grammar comes to be, including semantic bootstrapping, the principles and parameters theory, constructivist approaches and as you saw in Video – Words and Rules (by Steven Pinker), Pinker’s Rules and Memory Theory.

PROMPT: Of the various theories listed above and/or in your textbook, which theory do you believe best explains how grammar comes to be? In your response, briefly describe the theory you have selected and then provide at least two (2) reasons why you believe your chosen theory best explains grammar acquisition. Feel free to choose a particular aspect of grammar of interest (e.g., making words plural; phrase structure; word order; past tense) if it helps you respond to the prompt.

REFERENCES: Your answer should appropriately use/cite research; you should have a reference for each reason/argument for a total of 2 references. For this assignment, only peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters or edited books are allowable references. You may not use your textbook or websites as a reference.

For each DQ elaborate within 250-300 words, provide reference(s) as well.

DQ1) Define reliability and validity in your own words. Briefly describe the different types of reliability and validity, including why it is important to conduct a study that is reliable and valid.

DQ2) Stanley Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment is one of the most controversial studies in psychology’s history. Access and read the GCU Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work. Considering this example, how might a person with a Christian worldview approach these types of experiments from an ethical standpoint?

Discuss your findings about how the drug interacts with the neurotransmitters in the brain.  Please make sure that you include citations  for the sources.  Please make sure that you write your paper in your own words.

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Recreational drugs are prevalent in the college scene.  The chapter on biological foundations of behavior discusses the importance of the neurotransmitters that carry neural messages.  These drugs can enhance the effects of some neurotransmitters, by increasing the production of, or blocking the reuptake of neurotransmitters. Alternately some drugs depress or reduce the effects of neurotransmitters by blocking the receptors or decreasing their production.  The title of this assignment is from a commercial about drug use and brain effects from the 80s.  I have included it below.  Please watch it prior to doing the assignment.

video links:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtNm9CgA6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qS83wD29PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09eVouoCLaw

Now that you know more about neurons and neurotransmitters, I would like you to consider how drugs affect our brains and functioning.

Use one of the search engines (preferably psych articles) on our school library web site ( http://www.pasadena.edu/library/ ) to get information about how recreational drugs affect the brain.  Look up a drug that may have been used by your peers or family members at some point. Make sure that you use sources that are peer reviewed.  These are professional writers, writing for professional readers in scholarly journals like Journal of Abnormal Psychology.  Note that magazines like Psychology Today are NOT scholarly and peer reviewed.  While you might read (and reference) an article from there, they do not count toward your scholarly source requirement.

Your research paper should be at least three full pages, double spaced and should respond to all of the issues below. The text of the document only is included in the three full pages, the reference page will be the 4th page, and you should use at least 2 peer reviewed sources.  The paper may be longer, it may not be shorter.  Citations and references should be in APA style.

  1. Discuss your findings about how the drug interacts with the neurotransmitters in the brain.  Please make sure that you include citations  for the sources.  Please make sure that you write your paper in your own words.
  2. How does the drug you studied affect memory? Discuss both the long term and short term memory effects.
  3. What happens when you stop taking the drug? What are the short term and long term effects of taking this drug.
  4. Does it have addictive properties?  If so, how do the addictive properties evidence themselves.
  5. Finally conduct an in depth critical analysis of the personality and functionality impact of the drug use on those who you know that have been affected by the drug, or on what you had heard about the drug in the past.
  6. Turnitin score no higher than 10%

Critically reflect upon your own positionality and the relationship of individual, and their positionalities, to their experience, history and the issue. What they bring to the work? How might you “move them to act”?

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Paper has to be based on the attached document (Please read). Paper must be 2 pages.

A one-to-one conversation (or a one-on-one or an organizing conversation, as they are sometimes called) i Critically reflect upon your own positionality and the relationship of individual, and their positionalities, to their experience, history and the issue. What they bring to the work? How might you “move them to act”?s a crucial organizing skill. In this section of the assignment you will plan a one-on-one conversation, practice having one and then write up an outline of your conversation and your reflections about it. You will complete the written part of this assignment individually, but you will do the organizing conversation practice (so that you can write about it) with one of the other members of your team (or another person of your choice). Your one-on-one write up should be approximately 2-4 pages and should include:

● The purpose of your one-on-one (what do you want to know about your campaign/ what do you want to win?)

● The questions you asked and how they relate to each step of the one-on-one (introduction, issues, agitation, plan to win, the ask, and follow up)

● Critically reflect upon your own positionality and the relationship of individual, and their positionalities, to their experience, history and the issue. What they bring to the work? How might you “move them to act”?

● Reflect on your own experience of the one-on-one conversation and self-assess areas for your own improvement

● It is best to do this after your team has written your campaign plan. You can also do this assignment in tandem with the development of the campaign to help gather data about your campaign issues.