Jerome Said:

Psychology homework help?

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1. Smiling is to feeling as _____ is to _____.
A) evolution; natural selection
B) behavior; mental process
C) structuralism; functionalist
D) nurture; nature

B – smiling is a partial indicator of how you feel, whereas behavior indicates what you’re thinking.

2. Innate ability is to learned skill as _____ is to _____.
A) observation; introspection
B) psychohistory; psycholinguistics
C) nature; nurture
D) functionalism; structuralism

C – Innate ability is something you’re born w/, so it’s the opposite of what you learn; nature and nurture are generally viewed as opposites in science.

3. Complementary accounts of the same behavior that can supplement one another represent different:
A) statistical functions
B) unconscious motives
C levels of analysis
D) natural selections

C – levels of analysis can reveal such things.

4. Which perspective is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychological traits?
A) cognitive
B) behavior genetics
C) social-cultural
D) psychodynamic

Oooh tough one. It could be B or C. B is concerned w/ nature, while C is concerned w/ nurture. Don’t know this one!

5. Nature is to nurture as the _____ perspective is to the _____ perspective.
A) social-cultural; neuroscience
B) cognitive; neuroscience
C) evolutionary; behavioral
D) behavioral; social-cultural

D – kind of like what I said in #4.

6. Which perspective is most concerned with the unique ways in which individuals interpret their own life experiences?
A) behavioral
B) cognitive
C) neuroscience
D) behavior genetics

A – that is kind of a guess.

7. Which perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers and the limits of human reasoning?
A) cognitive
B) behavioral
C) neuroscience
D) behavior genetics

A – cognitive deals w/ thinking / thoughts.

8. The scientific attitude of humility is most likely to be undermined by:
A) the hindsight bias
B) hypothetical evidence
C) replication
D) operational definitions

B – you can’t operationally or tangibly prove that someone is conceited, therefore it’s speculative at best, therefore it is confined to the hypothetical.

9. Overconfidence is best described as:
A) the I knew-it-all-along phenomenon
B) critical thinking
C) a positive hypothesis
D) intellectual conceit

D – Guess.

10. Alicia insists that Dr. Phillip's theory of aggression be checked against observable evidence. She is demonstrating the scientific attitude of:
A) pride
B) skepticism
C) practicality
D) enthusiasm

B – she wants to be sure his theory is accurate. She has her reservations, therefore she is displaying skepticism.

11. In a written report of their research, psychologists specify exactly how anxiety is assessed, thus providing their readers with a(n):
A) hypothesis
B) replication
C) operational definition
D) experiment

C – an operational definition is the best answer. Although it is also the answer to #12 so now I’m not so sure…

12. The process of replication is most likely to be facilitated by:
A) the hindsight bias
B) intuition
C) operational definitions
D) critical thinking

C – an operational definition defines a variable so it can be replicated.

13. The postmodernist viewpoint suggests that science:
A) leads to increasingly closer approximations of objective truth
B) has very little influence in contemporary culture
C) provides the best approach for making moral and legal decisions
D) is a reflection of the cultural assumptions and personal values

D – post modernist incorporates cultural assumptions and personal values.

Wow I must have been bored to do this!

Bessie Said:

MATH PROJECT STATISTICS I need your age, sex and how much you drink as well as smoke if you do at all?

We Answered:

45, m, rarely drink, smoke 1 1/2 packs a day

:)

Ray Said:

"Castle Doctrine" statistical help?

We Answered:

Do you mean burglary (which involves breaking and entry), or robbery (which is essentially theft by force or threat, regardless of where it takes place)? It is important to know which crime you're refering to, because otherwise you may be looking at the wrong statistics.

You may find it difficult to get statistical support as to what actually took place during a burglary, because the charge of burglary can arise from breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony (at common law, so this may be different in your jurisdiction). So, something recorded as burglary could be a typical theft-burglary, or it could be breaking and entering in order to attack someone sexually or otherwise - and unless you are able to find statistics showing more than just the charge or conviction, you would be unable to distinguish the two.

One issue you may want to consider with regard to castle doctrine is this: you appear to arguement that the householder should not have to prove that he was at risk, because statistically, you think he is very likely to be at risk. The problem is that in removing the requirement for some danger to the householder, you not only allow him to kill an ambiguous intruder, but also an obviously harmless intruder. Consider this:

In the early morning, a farmer hears two intruders breaking into his property. He has been burgled before and has taken to keeping his shotgun by the bed. He takes his gun and goes downstairs, firing a warning shot as he goes. He enters the living room to see that the intruders are two teenagers. One is in the act of climbing out through a window, and the other is running away across the field. He shoots the first boy in the back. They boy is badly wounded. He crawls into a ditch and dies.

That is clearly not the sort of behaviour you want to protect - there is no real question that a teenager trying to escape through a window is not a threat to a man armed with a gun, yet, strictly, the boy is still an intruder, and by your law, the farmer has done nothing wrong in shooting him in the back.

Even if you try to limit the actions protected by the law, to burglary by night, to killing only those who are facing you, or excluding intruders who are trying to escape, ultimately, your genuine concern is still whether the householder was at risk, is it not?

Marc Said:

How do I answer this Statistics Question? It is supposed to be a table with 3 columns.?

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I would assume it would be with 2 columns, as X is marks in statistical methods I, and Y is marks in econometrics I.
This question can be tricky, but if you have a graphics calculator that in the statistics option has one first column, that has no title just labelled numbers 1+, then just has list 1, list 2 and so on, this makes it a lot easier, but you ignore the student number, as it doesnt contribute to a result.
Once the x results have been punched in in list 1, and y results have been punched in list 2, you need to find the regression line.
Somewhere in your statistics section of your graphics calculatar, there should be an option to calculate a whole bunch of regression lines, from linear to logistic etc.
Go through this, depending on your course and what content is needed, some courses only require linear or quadratic to be used, but go through all of these until you have the best fit line
Lets just say this line has a best fit regression line that is linear.
This best fit regression line will have an equation, which if linear will be y=0.706x + 2.614

a) Because we want to find the econometrics I grade with a score of 86 in statistical methods, we have x and y. x is statistical methods and y is econometrics so in the equation, subsitute 86 for x which becomes y=0.706x86 +2.614
y = 62.88
which is the econometrics I predicted grade