The paper should not be a summary of the article, but rather your personal thoughts, feelings, and reactions to one or more key ideas in this article. You may discuss what you found helpful, true, or useful ideas, or you may explain your disagreement to certain things suggested. 300 words, double spaced, APA style
Description of the research project
This research is called secondary data analyses. Your research project, which constitutes 20% of your grade is a secondary analyses of data from the General Social Survey.
Lit Review & Final Report
After finalizing your intro, methods and results, you have one more task to complete: Please compare your results to the findings in the current literature. Search the literature and identify three references that are on the same topic or related. You will find details on compiling your literature under the lit review and final report tab. Compare their findings to your findings. If your results are different than theirs, speculate on potential reasons for it. Present the information on one or two slides with the title "Place in Literature."
Final Paper: Instructions
Instructions
The final paper is a team paper—that is, it will be written by all members of y
What is Groupthink? Explain this phenomenon using research on conformity, obedience, and group polarization (explain what these are and how they are different from one another). Provide at least one example of how Groupthink led to a bad decision. How can Groupthink be prevented?
This is is a discussion question
Read the following anecdote:
Yuri, an exchange student from Russia, was gratified by the warm reception he got upon his arrival in the U.S. He was greeted by broad smiles and was frequently invited into homes for meals. He was invited to stay in American homes several times. At cultural events, people would say to Yuri, "You must drop by and see us sometime."
Yuri called home and enthusiastically told his family, "Americans are so friendly! We are going to be close friends and see a lot of each other."
When researching this topic, some questions to consider in your response may include:
What is Yuri's view of Americans, and on what does he base this perception? (Before you answer this…think of how many times you tell someone to “stop by anytime” but really anticipate that someone would call first.)
Is Yuri's perception accurate? Will the friendly Americans remember the invitations for Yuri to stop by? How durable are friendships with strangers in the U.S.?
Are the signs of fri
Anthropology 105: Questions on Chapters 1-5 of De Waal (2016) Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
Due in class on November 2nd
Using the book, say something about (give a definition and/or example of) each of the following terms. What is the relevance of the term to understanding animals? If you use any external sources, you must cite them fully. It is fine to discuss this assignment with others or work in teams as long as you answer each part
in your own words. Please type your responses.
- Umwelt (page 6, 12)
- Ecological Niche (6)
- Behaviorism versus Ethology (27)
- Instinct/innate behaviors (4,40)
- Trial and error learning (56)
- Operant conditioning (31)
- Cognition (69)
- Human exceptionalism/saltationist view versus evolutionary continuity/connection (13, 26, 43, 121-122)
- Anthropomorphism versus anthropodenia
Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing an informal learning experience you have had. You may describe, for example, how you became afraid of heights, why a particular food or smell moves you emotionally, or why you dislike elevators. The experience must be concrete and can be singular or an experience that occurred over a longer period.
Describe the experience by applying learning theories from this week's readings to the steps involved. Include the following:
- Identify what you learned from the experience.
- Describe how your learning could have occurred through classical conditioning. Identify the unconditioned stimulus, the unconditioned response, the conditioned stimulus, and the conditioned response.
- Explain how your learning could have occurred through operant conditioning. Describe the behavior, consequence, and reinforcement. Indicate the schedule of reinforcement, if applicable.
- Address how your
