Questions and Answers

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Q1

What element of the energy sector needs further efforts to make it more resilient? Be specific in your selection and explain your reasons. 

Q2

Compare and contrast major theorists and their theories presented in the readings/lesson content (  Piaget’s theory, Vygotsky’s theory). Explain how genetic factors and environmental influences play a role in cognitive development.

Q3

Define psychology in your own words and what it means to you. How is psychology relevant in your daily life as a health care aid

Q4

Imagine that you have been a member of a research team conducting an Institution Review Board (IRB) approved study of interpersonal aggression among preschoolers for more than a year. In that time, your team has repeatedly employed a consistent set of procedures to study preschoolers’ behaviors. The procedures involve volunteer mothers bringing their children to your university’s child development lab for an observed “play session”. So far your young study subjects have been fairly racially homogenous (alike), from middle-class families and recruited (via contact with their parents) from a university preschool, affluent parts of town day-care centers, and a pre-kindergarten program being offered in the neighborhood school district. This means that, much to your frustration, you can’t claim that your study results are useful in understanding the behaviors of different race/ethnicity preschoolers and those from varying socio-economic status (SES) and education level families.

But wait…now you have learned that a friend of a friend can help you gain research access to a group of unusually racially diverse preschoolers from varying SES and education backgrounds and you can do observations of these children really soon and at their daycare facility. Several of your team members want to pursue this option and move on it quickly, arguing that there is no time to prepare a formal research proposal before embarking on the study in a new setting. “Besides the time issue,” they argue, “except for happening in a different place, our procedures should go just like all the others we’ve done and we already had them reviewed and approved by the IRB.

· Discuss how your team would be leaving itself open to problems by moving ahead with no revised formal study proposal.

· Explain two problems you might encounter with this approach.

· Then, provide a possible solution for each of the problems you have listed.

Q5

All of our readings this week are focused on drug-taking behavior and the effects it can have on our bodies, our minds, our lives, and our societies. Considering each of the various factors discussed in the reading, which 
two topics you would argue are the most important things you learned in terms of understanding the impact of drugs in society and in people’s lives?

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