What are the primary assumptions each author makes?

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Analyzing Basic Applied Research. There are very different views of what types of evidence are most credible in evaluating the effectiveness of psychological treatment research. In this discussion you will analyze basic applied psychological research as well as evaluate how researchers applied a research process in the development of specific components. To begin, read the following articles (which can be accessed through the ProQuest database in the Ashford University Library):

• “Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology: Implications for Research and Research Training”

• “Practice-Based Evidence: Back to the Future”

• “Psychological Treatments: Putting Evidence into Practice and Practice into Evidence”

After reading the articles listed above, select two of them. Analyze the basic applied research within each of your two selected articles by answering the following questions:

• What is the main point-of-view in each article?

• What are the primary assumptions each author makes?

• Which author are you inclined to agree with? Support your choice with scholarly reasoning and cite your evidence.

• Describe the theory of operant conditioning.

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1,050- to 1,200-word paper in which you examine the theory of operant conditioning. Address the following items:
• Describe the theory of operant conditioning.
• Compare and contrast positive and negative reinforcement.
• Determine which form of reinforcement is the most effective. Explain your reasoning.
• Select a scenario in which you would apply operant conditioning to shape behavior.
• Create a reinforcement schedule for your selected behavior

Making Difficult Ethical Decisions.

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Karen is a Latina, lesbian woman who decided to come out to her family and classmates when she started her second year in her psychology doctoral program. She thought that things would be easier now that she could be her “true self” around her family and friends. However, several people were not as accepting of her as she would have liked, including her parents and four siblings. As a result, she struggles to keep up with schoolwork, is tearful during class, and becomes upset while in conferences with professors. The faculty at her school are talking about requiring her to start psychological treatment to deal with these issues, and are even considering removing her from the program.

What does the code say about what suggestions of the faculty? What are the cultural implications of doing what they are suggesting? Apply the ethical decision-making model discussed in Fisher (2013) to this situation and make a decision about how to handle Karen’s situation.

Response Guidelines

Examine the work of at least two other learners and comment on the following elements:

  1. Their perspective on what the ethical code says about the scenario.
  2. Their analysis of the cultural implications of doing what they are suggesting.
  3. Their application of all steps of the ethical decision-making model discussed in Fisher (2013) to this situation.
  4. Their resulting decision on how to handle Karen’s situation.

Your response may include comparing and contrasting several elements of the components or the outcome of your initial post.

Note: Remember, all of your discussion posts are expected to be written at a graduate level, be free from typos and spelling errors, and follow standard English grammar. You will need to support your points with in-text citations and references in APA style. This may include your readings for this course, but also outside scholarly sources that you obtain relevant to this discussion from our library.

What is (are) the independent variable(s) in this study? Type your response into the box below 1 point)

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Assignment #3 – APA Formatting Assignment (10 points)

 

Instructions: Read the following paragraph. Questions 1-4 refer to this paragraph.

 

Smith, Jones, & Terry 2008 investigated the effects of death-qualification on jurors’ confidence.

A “death-qualified” juror is one who is willing to give the death penalty. 60 college students

were randomly assigned to one of 2 different conditions. In both conditions, participants

completed a short questionnaire that asked them whether they would or would not be willing to

give the death penalty. In the first condition, participants reported aloud their response, and those

participants who were not willing to give the death penalty were asked to leave the experiment.

In the other condition, participants handed in their response on a written survey. Again, the

researchers told participants who were not willing to give the death penalty to leave. After

participants unwilling to give the death penalty left, the researchers told the remaining 45 “death qualified” participants to fill out surveys regarding how confident they felt in their original

death-qualification answers. The researchers found that, “participants in the verbal response

condition were more confident in their death qualification status than participants in the written

response condition”. The researchers concluded that making public commitments about death-qualification status makes participants more confident in their death-qualified status.

 

1. The paragraph above has several APA formatting errors. Your job is to spot at least four

errors, which you will describe. In each box below, type in the error and the correction for

that error. (If you see less than four errors, then type “no other errors” in the remaining blank

spaces). Assume that the paragraph above is in the literature review of a paper (in the

introduction). You can also assume that it has 1 inch margins and is double spaced 1 point for

each error spotted, or 4 points total)

 

a. _______________________________________________________________

b. _______________________________________________________________

c. _______________________________________________________________

d. _______________________________________________________________

 

 

2. What is (are) the independent variable(s) in this study? Type your response into the box

below 1 point)

 

a. _______________________________________________________________

 

3. What is (are) the dependent variable(s) in this study? Type your response into the box

below 1 point)

 

a. ________________________________________________________________

 

 

4. This paragraph is actually fictional, but imagine that you want to reference the William

Smith, Beth J. Jones, and Bennett Terry article, and that it was published it in May, 2008 in

Law and Human Behavior, volume 8, pages 234-267. Their title was, “Death Qualification:

The Question Format Matters.” In the box below, write out the correct reference in APA

format. Note – there is no doi for this journal article. (2 points)

 

a. ______________________________________________________________

 

 

5. Correct the following references – type in the correct format in the box below each incorrect

reference (1 point each reference – total of 2 points)

 

Greenberg, Jeff, Schimel, Jeff, Martens, Andy, Solomon, Sheldon., & Pyszcznyski, Tom. (2001).

Sympathy for the devil: evidence that reminding whites of their mortality promotes more

favorable reactions to white racists. Motivation and Emotion, 25(2), 113-133. doi:

10.1023/A:1010613909207

a. __________________________________________________________________

 

Leander, N. P., Chartrand, T. L., and Wood, W. 2011. Mind Your Mannerisms: Behavioral

Mimicry Elicits Stereotype Conformity. Journal of experimental social psychology, volume

47, issue 1, 195-201. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.09.002

a. _______________________________________________________________