Please read the instruction carefully and answer all the questions. Also, make sure to use course materilas. All the readings are in attachments.

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If you choose to handle my essay please make sure this is 100% original work.

 

Here are my requirements of this essay:

 

Word counts: 400-600 words

Format: This is going to be graded automatically by the system, so please provide a 5-paragraph format which includes an introduction, 3 paragraphs of discussion, and a conclusion.At the beginning of each paragraph, please clearly indicate main points of that paragraph.

Contents: Please read the instruction carefully and answer all the questions. Also, make sure to use course materilas. All the readings are in attachments.

Grammar: There should be as few grammar errors as possible.

Quality: Please provide a 80%+ work.

 

Instruction of this essay:

There are several classes of psychoactive drugs. Different classes of drugs may have different impacts on behavior and different physical effects. Two common classes are stimulants and narcotics. Consider the implications of a person who abuses stimulants and one who abuses narcotics. Describe the adverse effects of both categories.

To help ensure the auto-feedback system will function properly, your response must contain a minimum of 100 words and a maximum of 1000 words, though individual prompts or your instructor may provide a more precise target range for word count. Your response will be automatically reviewed by the system, and you will receive your grade after your instructor reviews and returns the scores. Your response should not contain in-text parenthetical citations or other special headers or formatting.

Accurately identifies the research method used and why it was well suited for the study.  (10 points) Accurately identifies and describes the participants in the study. (10 points)

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To complete the attached worksheet, download and save a copy of it with your first and last name in the document title, answer the questions and attach your completed copy here. Also attached are the article which must be used for completing it and a completion tip sheet.  The tip worksheet can be used both for preparation review before beginning the worksheet and as a checklist after you have completed the work to make sure you didn’t miss anything.

The worksheet guides you through the process of unpacking the key elements of the published scholarly journal article attached to this screen and demonstrating APA source citation skills, activities you will engage in frequently in the completion of a variety of assignments including essays, research papers and literature reviews in future courses.

Quoting is not permitted.  All answers must be written as paraphrases, meaning that you must restate what you read in your own words, with the exception of technical terms such as the names of diagnostic tests. You are not required to source credit the article in your answers to the Section I. “Key Article Components” questions.  Section II. “Source citing and reference listing in APA format” is where you will demonstrate knowledge of how to correctly format source crediting in APA style.

Answers will be graded for accuracy, thoroughness, clarity and correct grammar and spelling. Your typed responses beneath each section of the worksheet should be double spaced and the total page length when completed should be at least 7 pages.

enlightened Content of the worksheet document may NOT be removed or reordered.  Answers must be inserted in the spaces provided under each question.

 

Assignment Grading Rubric

 

Content: Maximum of 80 points

  • Thoroughly and completely describes previous research and authors’ rationales for conducting their study. (10 points)
  • Accurately identifies the research method used and why it was well suited for the study.  (10 points)
  • Accurately identifies and describes the participants in the study. (10 points)
  • Correctly and complete describes all measures used in the study (10 points)
  • Correctly and complete describes all data analyses used in the study (10 points)
  • Thoroughly summarizes the results of the study. (15 points)
  • Thoughtfully describes the conclusions reached by the authors, the implications of the results, and the limitations of the study. (15 points)

Citation: Maximum of 20 points (10 points each)

  • Accurately presents how to give credit to published authors with in-text source citing
  • Accurately presents how to give credit to published authors with a Reference listing

What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable and how is it measured? 

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Case 1: A certain psychologist was looking for the cause of failure among college students. She took a group of former students who had flunked out and a group of students who had received good grades. She gave both groups a self-esteem test and found that the group that flunked out scored lower on the test than did the group that received good grades. She concluded that low self-esteem is one of the causes of college failure and suggested further that a person with low self-esteem probably expects to fail and exhibits defeatist behavior in college, which eventually leads to failure.

What was the independent variable? What was the dependent variable and how is it measured?

Discuss the study’s design. What kind of design was used? Was this design appropriate? Why or why not?

Was the experimenter justified in her conclusions? Why or why not?

Case 2: In an effort to determine the effects of the drug chlorpromazine on the performance of schizophrenics, two clinical investigators randomly selected 20 acute schizophrenics from a mental hospital population. The patients were asked to order several stimuli along some dimension, such as ordering eight stimuli by weight. There were several tasks of this sort. All subjects first performed the tasks after being injected with a saline solution (Placebo) and then performed the tasks again several hours later after being injected with chlorpromazine. The results indicated that fewer errors were made in the chlorpromazine treatment, which suggested to the investigators that the drug facilitates more adequate cognitive functioning in this type of patient.

 

 

What do you think the hypothesis might be for this study? Is the hypothesis you selected directional or nondirectional? Why did you select a directional or nondirectional hypothesis?

Next, discuss this study’s design. What was the design? Was it appropriate? Why or why not?

 

What was the purpose of random selection in this study?

 

What is the independent variable? What is the dependent variable and how is it measured?

 

Are there possible confounds in this study? If so, how would you control for them?

 

 

Case 3: Recently, an association that represented police in New Jersey complained that the incidence of cancer was unusually high among police officers who used radar guns in tracking the speed of drivers. The association brought suit against the state, claiming that those officers who used these radar guns had an incidence of cancer 18 percent higher than a comparable group of government workers from the state park service who were randomly selected for comparison purposes. The comparison sample and the police officers were matched on educational level, age, gender, and years of service. The sample was large: 283 police officers and 231 park workers.

Was the case justified? Why or why not? (Be sure to support your answer with reference to the strengths and weaknesses of the design, and consider possible confounds.)

 

What kind of study is this? What are the problems associated with this kind of study?

 

How would you improve the study?

 

Please respond to the posts of at least two of your classmates.

Search the Internet and/or the Walden library for at least two scholarly articles related to the impact of social media on relationships and socialization

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Week5 discussion question 1

Some experts believe that a healthy self-esteem is crucial to success, but what impact does digital technology have on the self-esteem of today’s young people? Stories of adolescents struggling with self-esteem, loss of confidence, or poor body image dominate media that, these days, exists heavily in digital format. Young people are online more than ever before and are bombarded with marketing and other elements that challenge or weaken the development of their self-esteem. The number of followers an adolescent has on social media can define his or her level of popularity and social acceptance.

In this Discussion, you will examine the development of self-esteem in adolescents and how digital technology might impact that development.

To Prepare for this Discussion:

· Review this week’s Learning Resources and consider how digital technology might impact the self-esteem in adolescents

· Search the Internet and/or the Walden library for at least two articles related to the impact of digital technology on the development of self-esteem in adolescents

By Day 3

Post an explanation of the impact digital technology has on the development of self-esteem in adolescents. Explain the advantages and disadvantages digital technology has on that development. Include at least one scholarly source. Use proper APA format and citations.

By Day 5

Discussion question 2

Social media is highly debated these days. One criticism is that it deprives people of human interaction, but the other side of that argument posits that those who frequent social media—whether adolescents or adults—are reaching out for more interaction. What do you believe?

For this Discussion, you consider the two sides of this debate and take a stance. You then find research that focuses on the impact social media has on relationships and socialization.

To Prepare for this Discussion:

· Consider the two statements: “social media gives you a sense of community” and “social media isolates you from others”

· Take a stance and select one of these statements to support

· Search the Internet and/or the Walden library for at least two scholarly articles related to the impact of social media on relationships and socialization

Please review the readings attached to assignment only need a couple of paragraphs for each question.

Agosto, D. E., Abbas, J., & Naughton, R. (2012). Relationships and social rules: Teens’ social network and other ICT selection practices. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(6), 1108–1124. DOI: 10.1002/asi.22612

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Junko, Y., & Ananou, S. (2015). Humanity in the digital age: Cognitive, social, emotional, and ethical implications. Contemporary Educational Technology, 6(1), 1–18.

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

O’Sullivan, L. F. (2014). Linking online sexual activities to health outcomes among teens. New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development, 2014(144), 37–51. DOI: 10.1002/cad.20059

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Owens, E. W., Behun, R. J., Manning, J. C., & Reid, R. C. (2012). The impact of internet pornography on adolescents: A review of the research. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 19(1/2), 99–122. DOI: 10.1080/10720162.2012.660431

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Underwood, M. K., Ehrenreich, S. E., More, D., Solis, J. S., & Brinkley, D. Y. (2015). The BlackBerry Project: The hidden world of adolescents’ text messaging and relations with internalizing symptoms. Journal of Research On Adolescence, 25(1), 101–117. DOI: 10.1111/jora.12101

Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Knorr, C. (2015). How girls are seeking (and subverting) approval online. Common Sense Media. Retrieved from https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/how-girls-are-seeking-and-subverting-approval-online#

Document: Final Project Overview (Word document)

Required Media

Turkle, S. (2012). Connected, but alone. TEDTalk. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together

Note: This media program is approximately 20 minutes.