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Researchers must protect participants and be aware of appropriate methods for obtaining information.
What ethical considerations are important to research? Write an analysis of the ethical concerns in the 3 diverse psychological research studies below. Be sure to include a paragraph of overall ethical consideration.
Social psychology examines the behavior of others. Unlike many of the other perspectives we’ve studied, social psychology looks at how other people impact why we do what we do. Key theorists in this field included Gordon Allport, Dr. Philip Zimbardo, Solomon Asch, and Stanley Milgram.
Some areas of interest to social psychologists include: conformity, obedience, groupthink, why some people work less in groups, why do people stand in lines, and why do people follow rules.
While social psychology has grown in recent years, so have the experimental studies that fueled the research to support it.
Experiments and Studies
This brief article outlines the highlights and flaws of the Stanford Prison Experiment and discusses why it is still controversial.
Solomon Asch’s study examines conformity. Consider what you would have done in a similar situation.
Below are the NMB Company financial statements for the last four years. You are to review and use each sheet to complete the assignment.
Answer all questions, perform all calculations and submit in one Excel Spreadsheet.
Q1-1 Prepare a Balance Sheet
Prepare a balance sheet for the NMB company as of December 2020, based on the following information:
cash = $110,000; patents and copyrights = $750,000, accounts payable = $200,000, accounts receivable =
$300,000; tangible net fixed assets = $2,000,000; inventory = $400,000; notes payable = $300,000;
accumulated retained earnings = $2,500,000; long-term debt = $175,000.
Q2-2: Using Income statement
Given the following information, calculate the depreciation expense; sales = 10,000, costs = 6000,
additions to retained earnings = 1000; dividend paid = 625; interest expense = 500; tax rate = 35 percent.
Q2-3: Calculating Total cash flows
NMB Company shows the following information on its 2020 income statement; Sales = $50,000; costs =
$30,000; other expenses = $2,500; depreciation expense = $2,500; interest expense = $5,000; tax paid =
$3,400; dividends paid = $3,200. In addition, you are told that the firm issued $500 in new equity during
2020, and repaid $1,000 in outstanding long-term debt.
What is the cash flow from operation?
What is the cash flow to creditors?
What is the cash flow to stockholders?
If net fixed assets increased by $2,900 during the year, what were the addition to MNB?
Q2-4 Four Year Use of Debt
Below are the MNB financial statements for the last four years.
You are to review the firm revenue, gross profit, operating income, and net income trends over the last four years.
The firm may need to raise additional capital in the near future, and you need to review the firm’s past financing decisions using both the firm’s balance sheets and its statements of cash flows. Specifically, you need to summarize the assessment of the firm’s use of debt financing over these four years.
The concept of personality has evolved through many theorists. Some state that traits are what make you who you are, others rely on the unconscious, while others consider genetics and your thought process. A variety of theorists have contemplated how personalities are shaped and what aspects of growth are most important. The five key theories of personality are reviewed below.
Psychoanalytic Basis: The psychoanalytic school of personality offers a logical perspective of stages, motivational forces, egos, understanding identity, and beyond. Freud is a major forefather from which many other theorists have developed their theories. The compelling theme amongst theorists in this school is that the lack of stable, consistent environments can impact our future. Erik Erikson is another theorist in this school.
Biological Basis: A variety of theorists have contemplated how personalities comes about, whether through nature or nurture. Reviewing biological bases of behavior, in addition to learned and generational patterns,
provides insight into personalities. Genetic theorists subscribe to the theory that nature and nurture work together to create an individual. Child rearing is impacted by the behavior of the caregiver. Hans Eysenck is an important theorist in the biological perspective of personality development.
Trait Approach: This approach examines specific characteristics that can make up your personality. Are you introverted? Extroverted? What are your main traits in most situations? These were some of the questions explored by trait theorists like Gordon Allport and Raymond Cattell. The five factor model is generally the most common concept in trait theory, spelling out OCEAN: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism. Critics of trait theory argue that it cannot predict behavior accurately.
Behaviorist Basis: Behaviorist felt personality was a result of the interaction of the environment and the person. They measure behaviors that are observable. Theorists in this field include John B. Watson and
B.F. Skinner.
Humanist Basis: Humanists felt we were all striving to be our best, towards what they often refer to as Self
Actualization. Our personalities are developed by how we see ourselves. Many of our decisions involve free will. Theorists in this field include Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.
The past is an essential component of understanding the self; however, the impact of genetics versus personal choice is an ongoing debate. Consider which approach you feel best describes personality
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development.
The purpose of this assignment is to perform k-Nearest Neighbor classification, interpret the results, and analyze whether or not the information generated can be used to address a specific business problem.
For this assignment, you will use the “Adult Incomes” data set from the Topic Materials.
ABC Survey Company collects data via surveys that it then sells to marketing departments. Marketing departments typically do not like missing data. Since survey takers typically do not like to answer questions regarding their salary, the one question usually missing from the survey results is, “Is your annual salary $50,000 or more?”
You are the analyst who has been tasked with finding a way to impute (i.e., fill-in) the answer to the question, “Is your annual salary $50,000 or more?” This information can best be imputed based upon how individuals answer other survey questions related to their marital status, educational level, occupation, and familial relationship status. If this important question can be accurately imputed, then the worth of the survey data provided by ABC Survey Company increases dramatically.
Question 1: Using only “Marital_Status,” “Education,” “Occupation,” and “Relationship” variables, find the number of neighbors (k) that minimizes the error rate. Use a range of k between 3 and 10. Include the “k Selection Error Log” output when submitting the answer.
Question 2: Using the same variables and the k selected in Question 1, rerun the nearest neighbor model using the feature selection option in the IBM SPSS Modeler. What is the set of variables that minimize the error rate? Include the “Predictor Selection Error Log” output when submitting the answer.
Question 3: Using the value of k and the set of variables that minimizes the error rate, rerun the k-Nearest Neighbor model. What is the classification table? Include the pivot table output when submitting the answer.
Question 4: Consider the following individual: Marital_Status=Never-married, Education=Masters, Occupation=Sales, and Relationship=Not-in-family. Based on the k-Nearest Neighbor model from Question 3, how would this individual be classified? Provide the predicted income level (“>50K” or “<=50K”) and explain the process that you used to determine the income level. Include the table illustrating the data when submitting the answer.
Question 5: Describe the model building process you used to determine whether or not a particular survey taker earned an annual salary of $50,000 or more. Include discussion of the accuracy of the k-Nearest Neighbor model and how it can be used in practice to impute the answer to the question, “Is your annual salary $50,000 or more?”
Differentiate the executive and legislative branches of the U.S. government.
This notion of a modern, expansive presidential power, stands in steadied contrast to Congress Constitutional ability to check the executive branch.
The U.S Congress has three, broad powers that, as per the founding fathers, act as a check against the executive branch:
Lawmaking Power. Only Congress can propose and pass legislation.
An example of Congresss lawmaking function is the . More information about Congresss ability to declare war can be found on the official .
Budgetary Power. Only Congress has the authority to pass and fund the federal budget. Whereas the president request monies for the federal bureaucracies, Congress actually controls the purse strings.
An example of Congresss budgetary function is the . More information about the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 can be found on the official .
Oversight Power. As per Whitehouse.gov, Oversight of the executive branch is an important Congressional check on the Presidents power and a balance against his discretion in implementing laws and making regulations. A major way that Congress conducts oversight is through hearings. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs are both devoted to overseeing and reforming government operations, and each committee conducts oversight in its policy area. (Whitehouse, 2019)
An example of Congress oversight function is the and the resulting . A more detailed explanation of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution can be found at the . A more detailed explanation of the War Powers Resolution of 1974 can be found at the .
So, is there an imbalance of power between the legislative and executive branches? If so, who has the upper hand? Inquiring minds want to know!
Directions: Using the following and requirements, craft a full sentence, two page outline that analyzes the legislative and executive branches. has an excellent example of a full sentence outline. Please include the following:
As per the U.S. Constitution, how does the legislative branch act as a check against the executive branch?
Support your answer with information obtained from the text, supplemental academic research, and the U.S. Constitution.
As per the U.S. Constitution, how does the executive branch act as a check against the legislative branch?
Support your answer with information obtained from the text, supplemental academic research, and the U.S. Constitution.
Explain how either the executive or legislative branch wields more power at the expense of the other branch.
Support your answer with at least two Congressional legislation and/or executive orders.
Why does this example interest you?
Why is this example important to you?
We will often give the moon a glance on dark nights when it catches our attention, but rarely (if ever) do we notice the changes that the moon exhibits on an hourly or monthly basis. This is an opportunity for you to get out, look up at the sky, and observe the subtle changes that happen night after night. You will create a moon journal to record observations of the relative position of the Moon, how the moon changes appearance over several hours and several days, and then interpret the observations based on calculations and predictions.
Conduct research on the motion of the moon.
Based on your research predict what your moon observation will look like when conducted over a single evening. Include features such as
The rise and set time
Moon phase
How many degrees the moon will move during the observation time
Next, predict what your moon observation will look like over the course of several days. Assume you are viewing the moon at the same time each night, for several nights.
How will the rise and set time change from day-to-day?
How will the position of the moon change?
Disproportionate incarceration. What are the socialimplications of having many more minority men and women in prison or havingcriminal records? How does it affect their families, employment, income, andthe larger communities? How do social movements, like Black Lives Matter,affect disproportionate incarceration?
Try to focus on the following:
What is tourism, what are different forms of tourism, why is tourism a concern from a sustainability point of view?
How do the impacts of tourism relate to some of the key themes from ecological economics?
What is Ecological Footprint analysis and how is it used?
How can EF analysis be used to evaluate tourism? Has this been done before and what was learned?
Based on EF analysis results, what are the key environmental issues of concern for tourism? What are some recommended ways to improve?
What are the limitations of EF analysis for assessing tourism? What are some things we care about in terms of sustainability that EF doesn’t cover? What about social and economic issues?
Prompt: Assume there is a well-known terrorist group with strong ties to a government that is not friendly to the United States. The terrorist group has agents within the United States. The intelligence community is monitoring the activities and communications of those agents. U.S. government officials learn that the group is planning to use large quantities of small, autonomous drone aircraft in a swarming attack to try to damage a nuclear power plant near the U.S. Canada border. Using these facts, discuss the following: (1) Is this a matter of national security, homeland security, or both? Explain your response in detail. Does it matter what label this situation is given? (2) Is U.S. security policy sufficiently well-developed in order to allow government agencies to respond to the threat? In what ways could the policy be improved? (3) What are the main constitutional and legal principles governing how U.S. government agencies can react in this situation? (4) Other than security policy, what other national policies are implicated by this situation, and how? Be specific