Social Heuristics, Social Roles, Prosocial Behavior, Decision Making

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2 Questions (read carefully, they have different delivery dates)

1st question:

What is the most significant influence of social heuristics on social roles? Why? Are heuristic strategies more likely than controlled deliberate self-control in prosocial behaviors? Explain. Are these strategies more likely in situations that require time or money? Why or why not?

350-400 words

Due 6/6/2020 at 11.00 am eastern time (Florida time)

At least 2 citations not older than 2015.

Do not plagiarize

2nd question:

Rather than using heuristics, people will use other shortcuts that may result in error. Provide an example of when we might use an alternative shortcut to efficient decision making and argue for why that shortcut would be the most likely shortcut. What is the potential source of error? Justify your response.

350-400 words

Due 6/8/2020 at 11.00 am eastern time (Florida time)

At least 2 citations not older than 2015.

Do not plagiarize

Six Steps Of Ethical Decision Making

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Dr. Martin Lux, an applied developmental psychologist, has created his own community consultation and program evaluation business. He specializes in helping communities and service organizations set up day care programs for children aged 1 to 3 years. He wants to advertise his services on the Internet and is beginning to develop the following plan: To gain maximum exposure on search engines like Google, he will name the website “SuccessfulDayCarePrograms.org.” As a service to potential community clients, he will put links on his website to other online information about infant mental health and social and legal services available in different communities where he might find clients. He is currently under contract with a city agency. He helped the agency design a day care program for children of employees and is now in the process of evaluating its first year of implementation. He would like to ask a few parents whose children go to the day care program to endorse his new consultation service. He would use a picture of the parent and place the endorsement in quotes under the picture. The website will include a question-and-answer blog. Individuals can post questions to the blog about their preschool child’s development (e.g., toilet training, language development, social development, “terrible twos,” etc.), and he will post answers. Ethical Dilemma Dr. Lux is aware that he will have to ensure his website and blog have appropriate firewalls and other privacy and security safeguards. Beyond the technical aspects of implementation, however, he is unsure whether his plan requires additional ethical considerations. Discussion Questions Identify an ethical challenge for each element (a–d) of Dr. Lux’s advertising plan. Which APA Ethical Principles best help understand why these elements may create ethical problems? Who are the stakeholders in the advertising plan, and how will they be affected by how Dr. Lux handles each of the advertising elements? Is the name of Dr. Lux’s website potentially misleading? What ethical responsibilities does he have when he creates the website and sets up links to other service websites? Will the parents of children in the city day care center feel free to refuse Dr. Lux’s invitation to provide a testimonial? What professional risks and ethical problems might Dr. Lux have when answering parents’ questions on his blog? How are APA Ethical Standards 2.01b, 2.04, 3.05a, 3.06, 3.08, 5.01, 5.04, and 5.05 relevant to this case? For each aspect of the plan (a–d), generate ethical alternatives for creating an effective website to advertise Dr. Lux’s new community consultation service. Which alternative best reflects the Ethics Code aspirational principles and enforceable standards, legal standards, and obligations to stakeholders? Can you identify the ethical theory (discussed in Chapter 3) guiding your decision? What steps should Dr. Lux take to ethically implement his advertising plan and monitor its effect?

Apply the six Steps to Ethical Decision Making to the Case Study “Web-Based Advertising for a Community Program Development and Evaluation Consulting Service” (See Case 5. in textbook, page 437) to help Dr. Lux decide whether his plan requires additional ethical considerations

Global Psy

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  • Define the ratchet effect and generate an example for it (excluding the example of the hammer in the textbook). (Chapter 2.)
  • There are three explanations posited to explain how primates developed such big brains. Name the three explanations and generate a study design that tests these competing explanations. (Chapter 2).
  • (250 words)

Research Investigation

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As you study human life-span development, you will learn about all the factors that affect people throughout their life. These factors include physical, social, and environmental influences. While we understand how many of these factors affect a developing child and continue their influence into adulthood, our knowledge is still developing. The same factors may affect two different people in very different ways, and many variables come into play. Research also gives us new insights; for example, as we learn more about genetics, we get more answers on the nature versus nurture debate. The final project is meant for you to propose a hypothetical study. You are not and should not be conducting human subjects research for this project. It is not necessary for the purposes of this assignment. All human subjects research requires written approval from the SNHU COCE Institutional Review Board in order to protect the welfare and ensure ethical treatment of the subjects. For the final project, you will prepare a research investigation, which includes a literature review and a proposed research design. You will examine research on one of two topics presented in the first three modules of this course (see further information in the prompt below) for how developmental psychology has changed, and you will investigate a potential gap in the research that has not been addressed by the provided articles. This assessment will allow you to foster and improve your skills at reading, interpreting, and writing psychological works. It will also help you to learn your place within the field and how to combine both your personal perspective and opinions with established, empirical research to make original claims. This project is divided into three milestones, which will be submitted at various points throughout the course to scaffold learning and ensure quality final submissions. These milestones will be submitted in Modules Three, Five, and Six. The final product will be submitted in Module Eight. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes: • Describe foundational research regarding the human life span by examining the historical evolution of the field of developmental psychology • Determine appropriate research designs used in developmental psychology for application in the study of aspects of the human life span • Examine issues of ethics in foundational research in developmental psychology for informing appropriate conclusions • Interpret claims made by foundational research in developmental psychology for conveying appropriate conclusions that are supported by peer reviewed evidence • Develop basic research questions supported by peer-reviewed evidence by identifying gaps in the research of developmental psychology

Prompt For your final project, you will conduct an investigation of the foundational research in developmental psychology using the provided Literature Worksheet and Research Design Worksheet. You will choose one of two tracks of provided articles to conduct your literature review and develop your research design.  You will analyze the research presented in the course for how knowledge around the human life span has changed over time, as well as how researchers have approached the study of the human life span. You will also consider the issues of ethics that are or are not addressed in the research. Following your review of the research, you will identify a gap and develop a research question designed to further explore that gap. This will include how the research supports your research question and how you would approach addressing your research question.