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What got you interested in your current career?

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Topic 4: Influence of Gender and Sexual Orientation Interview Sheet
Directions:

Find an individual with a gender different than your own in a career that interests you. In a brief interview find the answers to the questions listed below. Include proper in-text citations as well as a reference note below as appropriate. Please note that for personal communications, you will only need to include an in-text citation and not a reference note.

Note: American Psychological Association (APA) ethical guidelines indicate that interviewees have the right to refuse to answer any question posed to them by an interviewer. Please ensure that your interviewees are aware of this, and do not force them to answer where the opportunity to reply has been refused.

1. What got you interested in your current career?

2. How did your gender influence your career choice?

3. Did you have any same gender models or mentors that encouraged your career development? If not, was this problematic?

4. Did you observe any barriers in your education, employment, or advancement based on your gender?

5. Which gender appears to have an easier time getting into and establishing a career in this area?

6. Which gender most often holds the positions of power/influence/authority within this field? How does this compare to the male/female ratio?

7. Have there been any changes that have impacted the employment of males/females within the career?

8. How does sexual orientation impact a career in this field?

9. Have you observed any overt or covert discrimination based on gender/sexual orientation? Is it a common or rare occurrence?

10. With regard to gender/sexual orientation, what is the one thing you would like to change within the field?

References

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Descriptive Statistics Worksheet


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Descriptive Statistics Worksheet
Directions: Answer each question completely, showing all your work. Refer to the SPSS tutorials located in the Topic 4 materials as needed. Copy and Paste the SPSS output into the word document for the calculations portion of the problems. (Please remember to answer the questions you must interpret the SPSS output).

1. A researcher is interested to learn if there is a linear relationship between the hours in a week spent exercising and a person’s life satisfaction. The researchers collected the following data from a random sample, which included the number of hours spent exercising in a week and a ranking of life satisfaction from 1 to 10 ( 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest).

Participant Hours of Exercise Life Satisfaction
1 3 1
2 14 2
3 14 4
4 14 4
5 3 10
6 5 5
7 10 3
8 11 4
9 8 8
10 7 4
11 6 9
12 11 5
13 6 4
14 11 10
15 8 4
16 15 7
17 8 4
18 8 5
19 10 4
20 5 4


2. Find the mean hours of exercise per week by the participants.

3. Find the variance of the hours of exercise per week by the participants.

4. Determine if there is a linear relationship between the hours of exercise per week and the life satisfaction by using the correlation coefficient.

5. Describe the amount of variation in the life satisfaction ranking that is due to the relationship between the hours of exercise per week and the life satisfaction.

6. Develop a model of the linear relationship using the regression line formula.

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Theories of Personality (Active Learning Activity)

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Chapter 13: Theories of Personality (Active Learning Activity = 15 points)
Page 1 of 6
Use the crossword puzzle to fill in the blanks on the next page(s). (You do NOT need to actually write your answers in the boxes here).
Part 1—Knowing Key Terms (4 points) :
Fill in the blanks from the crossword puzzle above using key terms from the textbook and/or lecture notes.
Across
1. one of the five factors, willingness to try new things and be open to new experiences.-
3. defense mechanism involving placing, or “projecting”, one’s own unacceptable thoughts onto others, as if the thoughts actually belonged to those others and not to oneself.-
4. the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave. –
6. part of the personality that develops out of a need to deal with reality, mostly conscious, rational and logical.-
7. value judgments of a person’s moral and ethical behavior.-
8. method of personality assessment in which the professional asks questions of the client and allows the client to answer, either in a structured or unstructured fashion.-
9. Jung’s collective, universal human memories.-
11. archetype that works with the ego to manage other archetypes and balance the personality.-
13. part of the personality present at birth and completely unconscious.-
16. defense mechanism in which a person tries to become like someone else to deal with anxiety.-
19. part of the superego that produces pride or guilt, depending upon how well behavior matches or does not match the ego ideal.-
20. a consistent, enduring way of thinking, feeling, or behaving.-
21. the care a person gives to organization and thoughtfulness of others, dependability.-
22. the instinctual energy that may come into conflict with the demands of a society’s standards for behavior.-
23. people who are outgoing and sociable.-
24. fourth stage occurring during the school years, in which the sexual feelings of the child are repressed while the child develops in other ways.-
25. degree of emotional instability or stability.-
Down
2. Freud’s term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based upon it.-     
5. dimension of personality referring to one’s need to be with other people.-
10. disorder in which the person does not fully resolve the conflict in a particular psychosexual stage, resulting in personality traits and behavior associated with that earlier stage.-
12. in behaviorism, sets of well-learned responses that have become automatic.-
13. people who prefer solitude and dislike being the center of attention.-
14. the enduring characteristics with which each person is born.-
15. dimension of personality in which people tend to withdraw from excessive stimulation.-
17. the emotional style of a person which may range from easy-going, friendly and likeable to grumpy, crabby, and unpleasant.-
18. part of the personality that acts as a moral center.-
Part 2—Comprehending and Applying Concepts (3 points) :
Instructions: Decide which type of psychologist would be most likely to make each statement listed below:
Psychoanalytic
Behaviorist
Humanistic
1. I think people in our profession should put more effort into trying to understand mentally healthy people and prosocial behavior.
2. Aggression is a human instinct. Society can control it to some extent, but we will never eliminate aggressive behavior.
3. Your student may be under a lot of pressure from his parents, but that is no excuse for cheating. We are responsible for what we do.
4. If you want to understand why she did it, look to the environment for clues instead of at inferred internal forces such as impulses and motives.
5. We humans are products of evolutionary forces that have preserved selfishness, pleasure-seeking, and a tendency to deceive ourselves.
6. It doesn’t seem to me that you need to dig into a person’s past in order to understand the person’s current problems and concerns.
 
7. There aren’t any values inherent in human nature. Values are acquired in the same way we learn to say “please” and “thank you.”
8. If we wanted to improve the character of people in our society, we would need to start when they are very young. By the time a kid is five years old, it’s probably too late.
9. You may think your choice of chili and ice cream for lunch was freely made, but your perception of free choice is an illusion. Choosing chili and ice cream is predictable from the consequences of past behavior.
10. General laws of behavior and experience that apply to all people are not very helpful if you want to understand a particular individual.
11. You say people are inherently good, and he says they are inherently pretty bad. I don’t think people are inherently either good or bad.
12. The sex drive is with us at birth. People just don’t want to believe that infants get sexual pleasure from sucking and exploring anything they get in their hands with their mouths.
Part 3—Understanding and Analyzing Concepts (3 points) :
Read each statement and decide whether it is TRUE or FALSE based upon your knowledge from the textbook and/or lecture notes.
1. Sigmund Freud proposed that his patients’ disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to sex.
 
 

Social Psychology (Active Learning Activity)

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Chapter 12: Social Psychology (Active Learning Activity = 15 points)
Page 5 of 7
Use the crossword puzzle to fill in the blanks on the next page(s). (You do NOT need to actually write your answers in the boxes here).
Part 1—Knowing Key Terms (4 points) :
Fill in the blanks from the crossword puzzle above using key terms from the textbook and/or lecture notes.
Across
2. technique for getting a commitment from a person and then raising the cost of that commitment.-     
3. kind of thinking that occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which the group is concerned.-
4. changing one’s behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change.-
5. behavior intended to hurt or destroy another person.-
7. a set of characteristics that people believe are shared by all members of a particular social category.-
11. changing one’s behavior at the command of an authority figure.-
13. prosocial behavior that is done with no expectation of reward and may involve the risk of harm to oneself.-
14. the process of explaining one’s own behavior and the behavior of others.-
15. any group of people with a particular religious or philosophical set of beliefs and identity.-
16. negative attitude held by a person about the members of a particular social group.-
Down
1. type of love consisting of intimacy and commitment.-     
6. the process by which one person tries to change the belief, opinion, position, or course of action of another person through argument, pleading, or explanation.
8. physical or geographical nearness.-
9. changing one’s own behavior to match that of other people.-
10. a tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation.-
12. treating people differently because of prejudice toward the social group to which they belong.-
17. type of love consisting of intimacy and passion.-
Part 2—Comprehending and Applying Concepts (3 points):
Answer each of the following questions by: (1) Underlining the correct options for multiple choice items, or (2) Providing the correct short answer where appropriate
1.       occurs when people begin to think that it is more important to maintain a group’s cohesiveness than to objectively consider the facts.
2. Selena is trying to get her boyfriend to wash the dishes for her. To start with, she asks her boyfriend to cook dinner for her. When her boyfriend refuses, she asks, “Well, will you at least wash the dishes then?” To which he readily agrees. Selena has just used the      .
a) foot-in-the-door technique
b) door-in-the-face technique
c) lowball technique
d) that’s-not-all technique
3. Changing one’s behavior due to a direct order of an authority figure is referred to as      .
4. Imagine 100 individuals are asked to take part in a replication of Milgram’s famous study on obedience. How are these 100 people likely to respond?
a) The majority would administer 450 volts as instructed.
b) The majority would immediately realize the use of deception and leave.
c) Most of the women would refuse to obey, whereas almost all of the men would obey.
d) Most of the participants would work together to force the experimenter to end the experiment.
5. Ashley has practiced her drum routine over and over. When she gets up to play it at the recital in front of 100 people, she performs it better than she ever has. Her improved performance is an example of      .
6. Which of the following is NOT a factor that influences attitude formation?
a) direct contact with an individual
b) DNA inherited from your parents
c) instructions from your parents
d) observing someone else’s actions
7. Which communicator would likely be most persuasive?
a) an attractive person who is an expert
b) a moderately attractive person who is an expert
c) an attractive person who has moderate expertise
d) a moderately attractive person who has moderate expertise
8.       describes the situation in which people attend to the content of a message.