January 2021

You have been hired as the Chief Compliance Officer for Livelong Corp., a global health food company that has just gone public through an initial public offering (“IPO”). The Company is headquartered in Upper Montclair, NJ, and has operations in 30 countries around the world.The CEO created your position recently as a result of pressure […]

A teacher can differentiate instructions to accommodate English language learners by using corporative learning languages: He or she can make the lectures visual by giving presentations on the multimedia. The linking of new information to the previous information can be helpful. Modification of vocabulary will play a key role in English language learners. It would

A psychotherapist is interested in evaluating the effectiveness of the new therapy she has invented. It is called pet therapy and involves convincing depressed people to keep a dog as a pet, with the hope that caring for a dog will cheer them up. To evaluate the therapy, the therapist gives each of her patients

Milgram’s (1963) research on obedience to authority was harshly criticized by a number of psychologists. One of the most vocal critics, Baumrind (1964), argued that the long-term, psychological risk to participants outweighed any potential contribution to psychological science. Milgram conducted follow-up sessions (immediate and 1 year later) to determine whether participants had suffered any long-term,

Verbal reports are likely to be more useful in some areas of psychology than in others. For each of the following topics, discuss the pros and cons of using verbal reports. For those cases in which you think verbal reports cannot be used, suggest better methods: a. Studying strategies by which people remember their childhood

The reward system in science discourages replications of other people’s work. Researchers are re-warded much more for novel contributions than for “merely repeating” the work of others. Some have argued that this reward system tends to create fragmentation and disarray in many areas of psychology, because people are rewarded for going their own way and

A researcher in the biology department of your university has just demonstrated extrasensory perception (ESP) in rats. The rats were placed in a maze, where they had to choose between two possible runways, one of which led to food. The rats could not see or smell the food at the place in the maze where

In each of the following cases, tell whether it would be best to examine the independent variable in a within-subjects or a between-subjects design. Justify your answer in each case. a. A social psychological study of helping, in which the researchers are interested in how group size affects whether or not an individual will help

An oil company is offered a lease of a group of oil wells on which the primaryreserves are close to exhaustion. The major condition of the purchase is that the oilcompany must agree to undertake a water-flood project at the end of five years tomake possible secondary recovery. No immediate payment by the oil company

SOCW 6121 Week 5 Discussion Post: Group Dynamics and Family Dynamics When working with families and groups the priority is for the social worker to understand the process that is taking place.  In both situations there is the overt (clearly stated) dynamics and the covert (hidden) dynamics.  The content (what is being said) in both