Customer service is another strategy that works well. Being kind and willing to go above and beyond your competitors will go a long way in today’s market. 

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RESPOND TO STUDENTS POSTS

Juanita post

There is a saying “A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes merry; But money answers everything (Bible KJV).” Researchers said winning the lottery will not make you happier. Research hadn’t found any conclusive evidence that people who won large sums of money were happier afterward. Researchers in this study research on lottery winners suggests there is a negative correlation between winning the lottery and happiness. The study measured life satisfaction by asking about participants feelings of their overall life quality. To a certain extent money will give satisfaction for life but after it crosses a limit, money will not be a source of happiness. However, money will give pain through different situations. It may give stress to the person who won the lottery. Money can give a person inspiration to do things that you can succeed. Money alone will not give a meaning of satisfaction, safety and security. When a person is a winner of a lot of money, they may become afraid and worried because your safety is in jeopardy. If I won the lottery, I would ensure my positive outcome by giving to those who are unfortunate, help my community and give to children medical research. These are the things that I was doing before I won the lottery. This is my happiness.

Dayna post

 

Research talks about the negative correlation between lottery and happiness and how many winners felt like losers because it had an insignificant effect of the lottery winner’s happiness. The implied effect for happiness was substantially lower as well. Some lottery winners blow their wealth through reckless spending. The temporary happiness can have a negative effect six months after winning the lottery. The happiness is very short lived and does not affect their well-being or quality of life. They can have a temporary happiness increase and increase in their well-being. But it depends on what they do with the money for example with positive and negative wealth shocks. Being able for something like the lottery to have a positive effect on you would mean that you were already measuring your happiness before you won the lottery. If you were already happy and then if you have an achievement like winning the lottery it wouldn’t necessarily affect you because you were already well rounded when it came to being happy. You didn’t need the lottery money to have fulfillment and your health and happiness was broadly being measured prior to winning. If I won the lottery, how I would ensure a positive outcome would be I first wouldn’t let it change me. I would also not allow it to bring me instant happiness and end up blowing all of it. I would invest it and donate some it so that overtime it could only add to my already happy life.

Sandra post

 

A few key strategies to growing a small business is outlined below.

Marketing the service or product for a small business is magical to get the business plan out to the public. One way to market is to advertise on your car or truck. I have received many customers with my husband’s business by having his business name, phone number, and contact information on the trucks that he and his crew drive. Small business owners must realize that they are always representing the company that they are growing when driving vehicles with their name on them. The drivers of the cars need to be courteous and kind to other drivers on the road.

Advertising a small business helps others to identify who is doing the work at a location. When looking for contractors, most people do not just like finding them on social media; the consumer wants to see the jobs being worked on, and they also want references from their friends and neighbors.

Customer service is another strategy that works well. Being kind and willing to go above and beyond your competitors will go a long way in today’s market.

Managing builders of custom homes were challenging and slow, and we started over thirty years ago. Today we have many customers and much business it is hard to keep up with the demand of our customers. Our company has an excellent reputation and is still a mom pop shop. We manage the projects from start to finish, we hire all the subcontractors, and we have a great working relationship with our partners. Managing the projects and bringing them in on time is critical to all concerned with the build.

My suggestion for small business owners is marketing, hiring the right people for the right jobs. And training all employees to be respectful of the company name; remember they are always in the spotlight and represent the company they work for.

Vanessa post

 

A business strategy that could bring in business is to implement an advertisement campaign that focuses on the targeted customer base. This can be done by taking into consideration the demographics of the area, the location of the business and the product, or products offered, and the competition. For example, for a food business, it would imply to research the area of operations to be aware of potential existing competition, the needs of the customers. One way to promote the business would be to offer samples of the products to consumers, as a way to let people try your food before they buy it.

Offering samples of your product let potential customers try your product and form an opinion of its quality and what can be expected. Another effective way is to utilize the power of social media to your advantage. Once you get people to try your product and they start to spread the word in social media and word of mouth, that will give an enormous boost to your brand and it won’t cost you too much.

What funding options are available? Consider examples like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income.

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Special Interest Groups

Groups advancing specific viewpoints or interests use lobbying and other methods of persuasion to influence political policies and decisions. They often have the financial resources to make contributions.

 

Research special interest groups in U.S. politics using your textbook, the Argosy University online library resources, and the Internet. Based on your research, respond to any one item below:

 

  • Many successful interest groups are associated with highly educated, upper-income groups. Which voices of less educated and lower-income groups do you think have the strongest impact on American opinions and on decision makers?
  • Compare the political parties’ impact on the government with the impact of interest groups.

 

Write your response in 150–200 words. In APA style with References and intext citations

Identify a need for an educational program for older adults and research this identified gap in services.

 

Write a 350- to 500-word summary of your research that answers the following questions:

 

  • What programs are currently offered?
  • What ways do they fail to meet the needs of the population they serve?
  • What funding options are available? Consider examples like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Supplemental Security Income.
  • What resources are available to the stakeholder who manages the program? For example, identify potential partners such as hospitals, senior centers, and the state health department.
  • How could existing local, state, and federal programs assist with the identified gap in services?

Format your summary consistent with APA guidelines.

Identify who will be the participants and their major demographic characteristics (e.g., sex, age, etc.). Explain how participants will be selected for the study.

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Mini Research Proposal ANOVA

This written assignment is based on the work conducted in the “Basic ANOVA Study” discussion forum.  Based on this initial work, feedback received, and additional research, you should submit a mini research proposal that calls for the use of a one-way or repeated measures ANOVA.

Please include the following in the research proposal:
Introduction (1-2 paragraphs)

  • Present the research question of interest.
  • Explain how the chosen statistical test applies to this research question.
  • Provide the statistical notation and written explanations for the null and alternative hypotheses.
  • Explain the types of errors that can occur.
  • Methods
    • Participants (1 paragraph)
      • List how many participants will be selected.
      • Identify who will be the participants and their major demographic characteristics (e.g., sex, age, etc.).
      • Explain how participants will be selected for the study.
    • Procedures (1-2 paragraphs)
      • Identify the variables in the study.
      • Describe each variable’s scale of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio) and characteristics (i.e., discrete vs. continuous, qualitative vs. categorical, etc.).
      • Provide an operational definition for each variable, explaining how the variables will be measured.
  • Results (1-2 paragraphs)
    • Describe the statistical test that will be conducted. Be sure to include why the test was chosen and why it is appropriate for this study.  Also, describe the role of post-hoc tests in the analysis.
    • Identify the information that will be obtained from the results of this test and what will be needed to draw conclusions regarding the hypotheses.
  • Discussion (1 paragraph)
    • Identify any expected biases, assumptions, or faults with the proposed study and the use of the identified statistical test.
    • Explain what conclusions can and cannot be made for this study using this statistical test.
    • Describe the practical significance or importance of the results.

The paper should be APA formatted as a research proposal, and approximately 1000 to 1350 words of content. Include a title page, and a reference page that includes any resources utilized.  Students should submit their paper by Day 7.

Based on your understanding of the three-term contingency, and operant behavior, design a behavior intervention plan for Jessie.

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A new student has recently been assigned to R. Dailey’s 1st grade classroom. Read the following scenario to inform you regarding the best approaches to take in returning the classroom to its usual, learning-centered environment.

Scenario

Jessie has just moved to “Everyone’s Town” and was registered in the local public school, Jackson Elementary School. It is now the middle of October and school has been in session for approximately 8-weeks. Jessie is 6-years-old and in the 1st grade – R. Dailey’s classroom.

Things have gone very well in Ms. Dailey’s classroom since “ Back to School Night” that was held one week before school began. Students are learning and there has been enthusiastic support from parents on “Everybody’s Special Day,” – a program Ms. Dailey designed to increase knowledge of, and appreciation for, the different cultures represented in the classroom.

Almost immediately, Ms. Dailey encountered Jessie’s “tantrum behaviors.” These behaviors primarily consist of falling to the floor and screaming. Needless to say, these behavioral incidents cause a lot of chaos in the classroom. At first, the other children seemed unsure as to how to respond to the behaviors. After a few episodes, some would laugh, point, or put their hands over their ears. The first few weeks that Ms. Dailey encountered these behaviors, she tried to identify why Jessie was upset. She went to her, put her arm around Jessie’s shoulder, and asked her what was upsetting her. Consoling her, she would prompt Jessie to go get some water and come back to the desk. This would end the current behavior episode, but the behaviors continued throughout the day. Finally, after several weeks of these behaviors, Ms. Dailey decided to utilize a “time out” procedure in which Jessie was required to sit in a desk just outside the classroom. The hallway had many pictures on the walls and there were always people walking to and fro. Ms. Dailey would occasionally hear Jessie humming while in time out. Once Jessie was calm for 6-minutes, she would be allowed to return to the classroom. Still, the tantrums continued and seemed to be increasing in frequency.

Dailey realizes that it is important to conduct a FBA to identify the probable function of Jessie’s “tantrum behaviors” in order to design a BIP based on that function.

Instructions

Conduct a Functional Behavior Assessment according to the following steps: (See Table 10.1: Trinity of Behavior Management in your textbook for guidance).

  1. Conduct an indirect assessment (Interview and Intake Forms can be downloaded in Doc Sharing)
  2. Conduct direct observationin the classroom: You will need 3-5 days of data at different points in the school day.
    • Operationally define the target behavior.
    • Conduct an A-B-C Assessment (A-B-C Data Sheet can be downloaded in Doc Sharing)
    • Chart the rate of the target behavior according to date (Chart can be downloaded in Doc Sharing)
  3. Based upon the A-B-C data, hypothesize the function of the target behavior. (See Table 9.2: Functional Motivations in your textbook)
  4. Based on your understanding of the three-term contingency, and operant behavior, design a behavior intervention plan for Jessie.
  5. Continue to collect data and evaluate the effectiveness of your intervention after 1-week and after 2-weeks by comparing the intervention data with the baseline data with regard to the frequency of occurrence.

Once you have completed the Functional Behavior Assessment, created your behavior plan, and evaluated its effect on the target behavior, write a summary, in essay form (minimum of 3 pages), of the steps in your process and the purpose and importance of each step. Include the following forms (to be attached to your paper after the reference page):

  1. Interview and Intake Forms
  2. A-B-C data sheets
  3. Rate chart of the target behaviors during baseline, Week 1 Treatment, and Week 2 Treatment

You will have to use “creative license” and fabricate your data when developing your A-B-C analysis with regard to the antecedents and consequences. Remember, these important variables will determine the function of the target behavior!

If you use outside sources, remember to cite them in the body of your paper (in-text citations) and then again in your references (reference page). Use APA style; 12-point, Times New Roman font; and double-spaced formatting.

Submit Your Assignment

Your Assignment will be in Word format. Save it in a location and with a name that you will remember. When you are ready to submit it, go to the Dropbox and complete the steps below:

  • Click the link that says, “Submit an Assignment”
  • In the “Submit to Basket” menu, select Unit 7: Assignment Dropbox
  • In the “Comments” field, make sure to add at least the title of your essay
  • Click the “Add Attachments” button
  • Follow the steps listed to attach your Word document
  • To view your graded work, come back to the Dropbox or go to the Gradebook after your instructor has evaluated it

Make sure that you save a copy of your Assignment.

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