Summarize your personal reaction(s) to the reality of psychology professionals violating the ethical code in your peer’s selected complaints. Critically examine your peer’s recommended course of action to avoid these complaints.

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Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the Grenyer & Lewis (2012) “Prevalence, Prediction, and Prevention of Psychologist Misconduct” article and the APA Practice Central’s Professional Health and Well-being for Psychologists , Tips from Practitioners on Finding Work-Life Balance , and Tips for Self-Care online articles.

Select two complaints presented in the Grenyer & Lewis article (see Table 1) and explain the ramifications of these violations applying the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct to each situation. Assess the role of the APA in assisting psychology professionals in the identification of potential areas of misconduct. Describe and recommend a course of action to avoid these areas. Evaluate the contemporary role of psychology professionals and elaborate on the relationship between self-care and the issue of maintaining ethical principles and professional standards. Identify one or two self-care tips, tools, or suggested courses of action provided on the APA’s Self-care resources for psychologistswebsite that might address the issues which lead to the chosen complaints.

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers who selected different complaints from those you chose by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion.

Summarize your personal reaction(s) to the reality of psychology professionals violating the ethical code in your peer’s selected complaints. Critically examine your peer’s recommended course of action to avoid these complaints. Do you agree or disagree? Support your rationale with evidence from the required readings. Suggest any changes that you think might improve the efficacy of your colleague’s plan. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. MST on Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial.

Carefully review the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate this Discussion Thread.

Explain what the researcher can conclude about the relationship between amount of sleep and reaction times. Include a description of the direction (positive, negative, or no relationship) and strength (weak, moderate, or strong) of the relationship.

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Assignment 2: Correlation

As a consumer of research, you know that relationships are of critical importance. You must first know if a relationship exists between two variables before you can determine if one variable may account for another. In this week’s Learning Resources, you learned about correlations, which are used to determine if two variables are related to one another. You also learned that you cannot infer causation from a significant correlation alone. For example, you might find that years of education and salary are related, but that does not tell you if more education causes your salary to increase. In correlational studies, you cannot show that one variable causes a change in another variable. To determine causation, an experimental design is needed. However, correlations can demonstrate that as one variable increases, another tends to increase as well (positive relationship). You also may find that as one variable increases, the other tends to decrease (negative relationship). You may even find that there is no relationship at all between variables.

Recall the researcher who investigated the relationship between hours of sleep and reaction times in the Week 4 Application. As a follow up to that study, the researcher wants to conduct a correlation to investigate further if there is a relationship between hours of sleep and reaction time. For this experiment, participants are allowed to sleep as much as they would like (that is, they are not assigned to sleep any specific number of hours). When 20 participants come to their appointment time, they report to the researcher how many hours of sleep they had the previous night. The researcher then tests their reaction times. You can find the data for this Assignment in the Weekly Data Set forum found in the Discussions area of the course navigation menu.

SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENT FOR DATA SET

By Day 7

To complete this Assignment, submit your answers to the following. Use SPSS to determine if amount of sleep is related to reaction time.

  1. Before computing the correlation, state the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis in words (not formulas).
  2. Based on the hypotheses you stated, explain whether the researcher should conduct a one-tailed or two-tailed test.
  3. Identify the correlation coefficient (r) for this data set using SPSS and report it in your answer document.
  4. State the degrees of freedom and explain how you calculated it by hand.
  5. Identify the p value using SPSS and report it in your answer document.
  6. Explain whether the researcher should retain or reject the null hypothesis.
  7. Are the results statistically significant? Explain how you know.
  8. Explain what the researcher can conclude about the relationship between amount of sleep and reaction times. Include a description of the direction (positive, negative, or no relationship) and strength (weak, moderate, or strong) of the relationship.

Be sure to fully explain the rationale for your answer to each question, including evidence from the text and Learning Resources.

Provide an APA reference list.

Submit three documents for grading:

  • Your text (Word) document with your answers and explanations to the assignment questions, your SPSS Data file, and your SPSS Output file.

Provide a brief overview of the job description and the requirements, including previous work experience(s) (if needed) and/or any particular skills (e.g., research) and other preferences (e.g., bilingual). Also give the salary range if provided.

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a response to the following:

  1. Provide a brief overview of the job description and the requirements, including previous work experience(s) (if needed) and/or any particular skills (e.g., research) and other preferences (e.g., bilingual). Also give the salary range if provided. Share the URL webpage link for the actual job opening so that your colleagues can go directly to the posting for the job.
    Important Note: Be sure that the job opening you report on states within the description requirements that the employer is seeking someone who has earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology; and is not a job that requires an advanced degree, such as master’s or doctorate (Ph.D.) degree. (e.g.  avoid discussing a job for a Clinical Psychologist, or School Psychologist, as these jobs require and an advanced degree.)
  2. Identify which of the job requirements you presently possess. Other than obtaining a bachelor’s degree in psychology, which of the other requirements would you need to obtain? In addition to noting job requirements you currently possess; briefly list a few initial steps you would take to obtain the skills or competencies required for the job that you do not currently possess.
  3. Analyze and discuss the pros and cons of this job as they relate to your lifestyle. Consider variables such as salary, geographic location, work hours, etc. Explain why you envision yourself in this position.
  4. Review the Callahan et al. (2012) article and discuss how this employment opportunity could potentially lead you to contribute to Walden’s mission of positive social change.

Note: Be sure to support the responses within your initial Discussion assignment post (and in your colleague reply) with information obtained from the assigned Learning Resources, including a Reference list for sources used. For information regarding how your Discussion assignment will be evaluated, please review the Grading Rubric located in the Course Information area of the course.

Respond to your colleagues by Day 5.

Note: You are required to create a thread for your initial discussion post before you will be able to view other colleague’s postings in this forum.

What type of research method is this? What conclusions can we make from the results of this study?

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  1. In a study, researchers wanted to learn the impact of television viewing on grades. Researchers discovered that as the number of hours spent watching television increased, grades decreased.
  • This study is an example of what type of research method?
  1. Researchers conducted an experiment on test anxiety with two groups. They hypothesized that studying for an hour would result in lower anxiety than studying for only 20 minutes. In the first group, the students studied for only 20 minutes and then took an exam. The second group studied for one hour and then took an exam. Before the exam, the students’ level of anxiety was measured.
  • What is the independent variable?
  • What is the dependent variable?
  • Which group is the experimental group?
  • Which group is the control group?
  1. In order to examine the social behavior of chimpanzees, researchers spent several years observing them in their native habitat.
  • Which research method was used in this example?
  1. Simone is doing research with head injury victims who are in physical therapy. She believes that the addition of music to their physical therapy routine will enable them to better coordinate their motor skills. She randomizes the patients into two groups. Group A will get the regular physical therapy sessions. Group B will get the identical physical therapy sessions while listening to music.
  • What is the independent variable?
  • What is the dependent variable?
  • Which group is the experimental group?
  • Which group is the control group?
  1. A study randomized school-aged children into either a small class or a large class. The researchers believed smaller classes size would result in better grades. When tested years later, children who had spend their K-3 years in small classes scored better on all tests of academic performance than did the students in larger classes.
  • What is the independent variable?
  • What is the dependent variable?
  • Which group is the experimental group?
  • Which group is the control group?
  1. Rats are randomized into two groups. The rats in Group A are fed an adequate diet of food pellets. The rats in Group B are given an identical diet but are also fed an antioxidant supplement each day. Once the rats are elderly, the rats in Group B show significantly better performance on tests of memory than rats in Group A.
  • What type of research method is this?
  • What conclusions can we make from the results of this study?
  1. Oxytocin is a hormone thought to play a role in relationship formation and love. In a study, members of the experimental group receive injections of oxytocin while members of the control group receive injections of saline solution, an inactive substance.
  • In this study, the saline solution serves as a  ___________.
  1. Andrew is asking public school teachers a series of questions about the types of problems they encounter most in their classrooms and about their attitudes and perceptions toward their work and communities.
  • What type of research method is he using?
  1. Dr. Schrute and his colleagues studied a woman who claimed to have over 16 personalities. After neurological tests and extensive interviews, they discovered that she indeed suffered from a condition known as DID.
  • What type of research method is this?
  1. Using a descriptive method, a researcher finds a strong negative correlation between emotional stress and immune system functioning.
  • What does this mean?
  1. Young kids in an experiment watch various types of TV programs. Some of the kids watch a violent TV show while others watch a non-violent show. They are then observed while playing outside with others to determine the number of times they behave aggressively.
  • What is the independent variable?
  • What is the dependent variable?
  1. An experiment is done to determine a new medicine’s effect on depression. Half of the patients ingested the new medicine and half of the patients ingested a placebo pill?
  • What is the independent variable?
  • What is the dependent variable?