Discussion
Part 1
When children are adopted, they are sometimes taken from one cultural group and transplanted to another. In some cases, the adoptive families ignore or overlook the former culture. In other cases, families learn about the former culture and teach children the best that they can.
Using the Internet, conduct research on the topic of adoption and how it relates to culture, particularly with respect to parents who adopt children from dissimilar cultural groups.
In your response, address the following:

• The process of enculturation starts early and is often learned incidentally. Let’s say that an adoptive family adopts a child from a drastically different cultural group. If the family makes an effort, would it be able to teach the child about the culture of his or her biological family? Using some of the terminology from the course, elaborate your answer. Include the challenges that parents might face as they try to teach the child about a culture that is foreign to them.

• Would the educational process be more difficult for cultures that have an oral tradition? What about all of the customs and practices that are taught through demonstration and imitation?

• Consider what happens as the child grows up and interacts with others in the society. Does the age of adoption or physical appearance (e.g., the child has skin color and hair that is different from his adoptive family) play a role in whether the adoptive family should make an effort to teach the child about his or her former culture? Explain your answer.

Part 2
SWB is based on how the quality of a person’s life is and how satisfied a person is with his or her life. When determining a person’s level of well-being, a person factors in things such as moods, emotion, general satisfaction, and specific satisfaction into his or her mental equation. Studies show that SWB is positively related to health, and healthy people tend to report that they are happier than unhealthy people as they do not live with pain or serious physical limitations. To some extent, SWB is also tied to wealth. However, there are other variables that are important to SWB.
In your response, address the following:

• Research SWB and wealth. Do wealthier people report greater SWB than the people who are not wealthy? Discuss the relationship between SWB and wealth—consider the spectrum of socioeconomic levels from those who cannot meet their basic needs to those who have an abundance of material possessions. Is the relationship between SWB and wealth positive and linear, or does it become less linear as people become extremely wealthy? In the context of this course, discuss whether there are cultural differences in SWB that do not seem to be simply related to wealth.

• Happiness is one way to measure SWB. Search the South University Online Library and the Internet to find scholarly research articles on happiness and well-being. Discuss your findings. Some studies indicate that there is another variable that is important for maintaining a high level of SWB. State the variable and discuss whether there is some universal aspect to this finding. (Does the outstanding variable stay relatively consistent across cultures?)

• Some societies have a relatively even wealth distribution. Discuss how the societal wealth distribution impacts the SWB of a cultural group.

Submission Details:

• Cite all sources in APA format, and attach a Turnitin.com Report.

Question – the corect formating is in the attachment
Motor-Dexterity Test – Research Methods
Motor-dexterity tests are often used in psychological studies, especially in neuropsychology. For this task, we are going to test motor-dexterity while looking for signs of frustration. First, take a clean pair of rolled-up socks or some other soft item. Then, have the participants throw it into a hoop you make with your arms. The objective is not to see how well they do the task but to see which hand they use; you are trying to determine dominance. After doing this task, ask the participants which hand they prefer to use when writing. While most will prefer the right, some will prefer the left. If a person says both, ask that individual to write a sentence with both hands, one at a time and the two of you can decide which hand to call dominant. In most cases, people will report they use the right hand more, and they will also unintentionally pick the right hand to throw the object with. If they report left and use the right hand to throw, then record that as mixed, but select the hand they choose as dominant. In the end, you will go with what the participant decides. You are required to record all information on the data sheet.
This study involved ten participants. The researcher timed how fast each person put fifteen toothpicks into a mug with each hand. To reduce a significant difference being caused by practice effects, five of the participants started with their dominant hand (DH) and the next set of five started with their nondominant hand (NDH). While they were doing the task, the researcher rated the level of frustration while performing with one hand and then the other one. The researcher was careful not to allow experimenter bias to influence what he or she recorded. Here is the scale used to rate frustration:
Very Frustrated
Not Very Frustrated
5
4
3
2
1
Look at the data sheet:
Participant#
Start with
NDH(seconds)
FL-NDH
DH(seconds)
FL-DH
1
Right
7
3
6
1
2
Right
10
4
8
2
3
Right
9
3
8
2
4
Left
6
2
7
3
5
Right
8
4
6
1
6
Left
12
5
9
1
7
Left
8
1
7
1
8
Right
11
3
10
2
9
Left
8
2
8
2
10
Left
13
5
9
3
The hypotheses for the study were:

• People will perform the motor-dexterity task faster with their DH as compared to their NDH.
• People will show more frustration while using the NDH.

Determine the average time with the motor-dexterity test, along with the standard deviation, and then use Minitab to analyze the data with a paired t-test to see if there is a significant performance difference between the two hands. Run another paired t-test to see if there is a difference in frustration while using the DH versus the NDH. Obtain the results and decide if the hypotheses are supported. Write a summary of the findings. Submit the results and summary of the findings in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document.
Support your responses with examples.
Cite any sources in APA format.
Submission Details
Save your Minitab project and name it SU_PSY2061_W8_A1_LastName_FirstInitial.mpj
Submit your report to the W8 Assignment 1 Dropbox by Week 8, Day 3.
Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Determined the average time with the motor-dexterity test of the participants along with the standard deviation.
5
Analyzed the data using Minitab with a paired t-test to explain if there is a significant performance difference between the two hands, and conducted another paired t-test to see if there is a difference in frustration while using the DH versus the NDH.
5
Summarized the findings and submitted all the results.
5
Used correct spelling, grammar, professional vocabulary, and APA format.
5
Total:
20