Consider also your own interests and career aspirations and identify a problem of interest or relevance to you and amenable to a social psychological solution.

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Prior to completing the summative assignment, consider the various topics studied by social psychologists:

  • Social thinking (attitudes, the self, judgment and decision making, etc.),
  • Social relations (attraction, aggression, prosocial behavior, etc.)
  • Social influence (conformity and obedience, persuasion, group processes, etc.)

Consider also your own interests and career aspirations and identify a problem of interest or relevance to you and amenable to a social psychological solution.  (For example, those interested in healthcare might consider programs that aspire to get kids moving or help adults stop smoking, enhance caregiving practices amongst the elderly, or encourage safe or healthy habits.).  For ideas—and/or to increase awareness of the broad range of applicability of social psychological insight—browse the solutions catalog available via Stanford SPARQ  at https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.; you may also contact your instructor for specific suggestions.  Next, evaluate contributing social factors in light of theoretical principles and design an ethical, feasible intervention program.  (Refer to “Writing a Review Article for Psychological Bulletin” (Bem, 2016) for advice regarding academic writing of this nature.  In addition, review the guide for Graduate Writing (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., available through the Ashford Writing Center, including information on Writing a Literature Review (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..).

Your final paper should encompass the following:

  • Assess social behavior, including factors that influence social behavior as well as the role behavior plays in producing and perpetuating social issues and problems.
  • Describe a resulting social problem in the context of social psychological theory and research.
  • Interpret relevant theoretical perspectives derived from social psychology.
  • Distinguish scientific methods for studying this specific social problem.
  • Develop an original intervention strategy based on social psychological theory, research, and your evaluation of this specific social problem.
  • Suggest, propose, or assess career paths to which this insight may be applicable.

The Final Paper

Identify the independent variable and dependent variable. Indicate the number of levels in the independent variable and describe each level.

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  • Read the following study scenario:Researchers are interested in the effectiveness of a particular treatment for insomnia. They contact 50 insomnia sufferers who responded to a newspaper advertisement to participate in the study. Each participant is given a pill with instructions to take it before going to sleep that night. The pill actually contains milk powder (a placebo). The participants are randomly assigned to receive one of two sets of instructions about the pill. One half of the participants are told that the pill will make them feel “sleepy,” and the other half are told that the pill will make them feel “awake and alert.” The next day the participants return to the lab and are asked to indicate how long it took them to fall asleep after taking the pill. The individuals who were told that the pill would make them feel sleepy reported that they fell asleep faster than the participants who were told the pill would make them feel alert.
    Think about the concepts you read about this week about one-way experimental designs and analysis of variance (ANOVA), and how they apply to the above study.

The Assignment (1–2 pages):

With the study scenario in mind, complete the following:

  1. Identify the independent variable and dependent variable. Indicate the number of levels in the independent variable and describe each level.
  2. Indicate whether the research used a between-participants or a within-participants research design and how you determined this to be the case.
  3. Presume a third condition was added to the study. In this condition, the participants are not given any information about the effects of the (placebo) pill. Next, suppose an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was conducted. Briefly interpret, in your own words, what it would mean if the F was significant as applied to this study.

 Reply to at your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. 175 word minimum.

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Reply to at your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses. 175 word minimum.

 

Jasper Harmon

4:44 AM

Hey class,

I learned about this event when I was younger, and reading it now is still sad to know that these astronauts lost their life for an unethical situation. What I learned about this event was that it was a simple fix. The O-ring is used to aid in the attachment of the different sections of the rocket to the shuttle (Stanwick & Stanwick, 2013). The O-rings were manufactured by a company known as MTI (Morton Thiokol). The National Aeronautics and Space Administration knew there was something wrong with the O-rings at low temperature. Before the launch the shuttles temperature dropped to freezing temperatures. MTI’s engineers wanted to wait to launch the shuttle and NASA engineers wanted to launch but advised they did not want to override their decision to not launch (Stanwick & Stanwick, 2013). The division leader for MTI did not want to risk losing the business, so they launched the shuttle regardless of the safety issues and those 7 astronauts lost their lives.

What I learned from this event was that standard safety protocols and guidelines were not followed. They made a greedy decision to choose business over safety and it ultimately was a fatal decision. This story taught me to never act out of fear and to act for what’s right. If I know there is a 50/50 chance something will not work out, or I am making the wrong decision, I will not move forward with the idea. As a leader you made that oath to protect your subordinates and in this situation the employees were not protected and their lives were taking for a senseless decision to not follow the proper safety protocols and fix the O-ring before launching.

Reference

Stanwick, P. A., & Stanwick, S. D. (2014). Understanding Business Ethics (3rd ed.). Retrieved from SAGE Publishing.

· Describe the specific roles of two family members and explain if the various roles work well together for the benefit of this family.

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Submit a 2- to 3-page paper in which you analyze a family that is familiar to you. Support your analysis by using the Kirst-Ashman and Hull text and at least 2 to 3 additional peer-reviewed articles to do the following:

· Describe the structure of a family that is familiar to you.

· Identify the strengths in the family.

· Explain where in the life cycle this family is located and how that may influence family dynamics.

· Analyze one form of communication used by this family and how this communication style influences family dynamics.

· Describe the specific roles of two family members and explain if the various roles work well together for the benefit of this family.

· Explain how understanding cultural values will help a social worker working with this family.

· Analyze this family using systems theory or the ecological perspective.

Support your paper with references to Kirst-Ashman and Hull, in addition to other resources used to complete this assignment. Paper should include appropriate APA citations and a reference list. You are expected to demonstrate your understanding and ability to apply concepts from the course by paraphrasing resources and providing specific examples of how a concept is evident in the family system you identified for this paper.

 

STRUCTURE OF THE FAMILY

The family I selected for this assignment is the Alston family. The Family consist of Claude Alston (Husband) 45, Marylou Alston (Wife) 46, Colette Alston (Daughter) 23, Claude Alston Jr. (Son) 17, and Rhonda Alston and Wanda Alston (Twin daughters) 15. The family currently resides in Washington, DC in the ward 8 community. The Alston family identify themselves as African Americans who practice Christianity.

IDENTITYFYING FAMILY STREGTHNS

As a future clinician I understand that using strength-based perspective is what differentiate social workers from other social science disciplines.  After carefully assessing the family, some of the strengths that I was able to identify as a family unit are spending quality time with each other, having faith, the ability to cope and handle crisis,  being supportive to each other, having musical talent to sing and play instruments. This family presented a well round of family strength perspective. It is important for a social worker to acknowledge that all families have strengths, challenges and areas of potential growth. However, if one looks only for problems in a family, one will see only problems. If one also looks for strengths, one will find strengths (Cardwell, PSYD/ family jrank,n.d).

WHERE IN LIFE CYCLE IS FAMILY LOCATED HOW THEY INFLUENCE FAMILY DYNAMIC

The family life cycle consists of a series of stages such as independence, coupling, parenting (infants through adolescents), launching adult children, and retirement/ senior years (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2018, p. 360. The Alston family is currently in the parenting stage of adolescents. This stage consists of the parents devoting much of their time, energy and resources to nurture and support the growth of their children. The  The children in high school

Analyze one form of communication used by this family and how this communication style influences family dynamics.

The Alston family One form of communication that used by the Alston family is

References

Cardwell, PSYD/family jrank, J. (n.d.). Family strengths perspective. https://family.jrank.org/pages/593/Family-Strengths-Family-Strengths-Perspective.html

Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018). Understanding generalist practice (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.