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    Op-Ed: Focus on Evidence

    Give the APA reference for the op-ed piece, followed by a brief overview of the issue and of the author's position on the issue. Then offer your evaluation of the Op-Ed piece for the strengths and weaknesses of its evidence. Justify your evaluation, and provide an example of evidence that could strengthen the communicator's argu

    Evidence in Academics

    Give a description of your experience with and your perceptions of the relative merits and disadvantages of each of the following types of information as evidence for academic arguments: primary research sources, secondary research sources, oral history (cultural note), and blogs.

    Qualitative and Quantitive Methodological Approaches

    Discuss the two methodological approaches, qualitative and quantitative. What do you see as the main differences between these two approaches? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach? How might you identify whether a journal article is qualitative or quantitative?

    Prejudice and stereotypes in the media

    Give a brief interpretation of the events in the media. Describe any prejudiced behavior you observed: Explain two ways the emotions of the people in the media may have impacted their prejudiced behavior and why. Explain how stereotypes may or may not have influenced the prejudiced behavior you observed. Please give s

    Impact of Mood on Decision Making

    Please provide an explanation of three possible reasons why the person in the media made his or her decision. Be specific. Explain two ways mood/emotion may have impacted this person's decision. Describe one life or death situation and explain how mood/emotion could impact decision making in this situation. Support

    Logical Fallacies in an Article

    Find an article and give a brief overview of the issue and of the author's position on the issue. Then, identify any logical fallacies evidenced in the article and explain to what degree, if any, the fallacies might succeed in persuading an audience or in encouraging skepticism.

    Logical Fallacies - Lazy or Lack of Critical Thinking Skills?

    Give an explanation of whether you believe that people employ logical fallacies due to laziness or lack of critical thinking skills. Then state other reasons, besides imprecise reasoning, that might lead someone to resort to basing arguments and conclusions on logical fallacies.

    Religious Influence and Value Assumptions on Stem Cell Research

    Explain how ones religious affiliation may influence his or her value assumptions. Do any of these facts tell how ones value assumptions may have been forged? What do they indicate? How do they affect his/her position on the issue on stem cell research? What kinds of generalizations can you make about the extent to which certain

    Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Perspectives

    Cara is a 14-year-old girl from Austin, Texas, who regularly smokes tobacco, drinks alcohol, and smokes marijuana with her friends. Cara was recently arrested for breaking and entering, and, as part of her sentence, participated in a case study on teenage substance abuse and deviant behavior, which has grown exponentially over t

    Overview of stem cell research

    Give an overview of Stem cell research as an issue that is happening outside the Unites States. Explain what interests you about this topic and why you selected it. State the position you intend to advocate. Identify a few resources that can be use to explore this topic.

    Leadership Effectiveness and Gender

    Male and Female Leadership: Think for a moment about the people you may know who are effective leaders. Consider the characteristics they possess that make them effective in their roles, as well as the leadership styles they employ. Now that you have conjured the vision of effective leaders in your mind, consider their gender.

    Social learning theory and crime

    I need help to get this assignment going. I am not expecting the expert to complete this assignment for me but at the same time I am not expecting two paragraphs without a reference either. This is not a college level assignment, it is a graduate level assignment. This assignment is on social learning theory and I was asked to w

    Cognitive Impairment

    Give a comparison of two cognitive impairments that includes a description of the similarities and differences in their causes and consequences.

    Op-Ed: Focus on Value Assumptions

    Give the APA reference for each Op-Ed piece, followed by a brief overview of the issue and of each author's position on the issue. Then compare and contrast the value assumptions held by both authors and explain how both individuals were able to logically come to different conclusions.

    Conflict Value and Assumption

    Give an explanation of the role of value conflicts and assumptions in arguments, why it is important to locate and analyze them, and why it is not enough to rely on the explicit reasons and conclusions offered by a communicator.

    Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments

    1. Have you ever changed a strongly held attitude? What caused the change for you? 2. Do you believe that you are free of prejudice? Which of the many factors that cause prejudice do you think is most important to change? 3. How do Milgram's results, particularly the finding that the remoteness of the victim affected obe

    Stereotype and Social Identity Threat

    Stereotype or social identity threat can be construed as an internal, cognitive state in which the individual is aware of negative stereotypes against his or her group and which can impact individual thoughts and/or behavior (Aronson & McGlone, 2009, p. 154). Considerable research demonstrates that stereotype threat can impact r

    Intergroup Bias and Dual Processing

    Research on stereotypes is relatively new; however, it constitutes a sizable body of research with emphasis on stereotype formation, accuracy, measurement, and implications. Stereotypes can be defined as expected traits within a group of people based on some prior knowledge of, or assumptions about, groups of people. Intergroup

    Comparison Matrix

    Using the attached comparison matrix file, complete the table, it has two columns and eight rows. The columns are titled: Article 1 and Article 2, and the rows are titled: Title, Author, Purpose of the Study, Research Question(s), Literature Review, Sample Population(s), and Limitations, Results/Conclusions. Provide the appropri

    Negative Feedback and Changing Self

    Since the self is malleable and dynamic (Sedikides & Gregg, 2003), would you agree that it is possible for a person to change through feedback received from others? Similarly, if a person receives negative reactions to their stories or interactions with others, would that person change the socially unacceptable behavior, or not

    Interaction Difficulties with Culturally Different People

    This is a discussion of personal strengths and weaknesses in interacting with culturally different individuals and how shortcomings might be addressed. Some of the topics discussed are personal education and experience in order to see how they affect strengths and weaknesses.

    Focus on Ambiguity and Negative Rhetorical Techniques

    Give the APA reference for the op-ed piece, followed by a brief overview of the issue and of the author's position on the issue. Then identify and evaluate the effects of ambiguity and negative rhetorical techniques in your chosen Op-Ed piece. If there are no such instances of ambiguous or loaded language, please note that, and

    Central Route and Peripheral Processing

    The elaboration likelihood model of persuasion echoes the heuristic-systematic model of attitude processing by offering two paths to attitude change/formation. The central route of processing requires humans to use active and deliberate thought, whereas the peripheral route of processing occurs through nondeliberate processing n

    Goal Setting in Relation to Social Cognition and the Decision Making Process

    1) Analyze differences between goal setting and goal striving. 2) Analyze factors influencing goal setting. 3) A brief description of a recent goal you set for yourself. 4) Consider all the steps you took in setting that goal and consider how this process might differ from goal striving. 5) Describe two factors whi

    Heuristics and Representativeness Heuristics

    Describe the heuristic and the representativeness heuristic you selected. Describe one example in which you used the heuristic you selected and one example in which you used the representativeness heuristic and explain the outcome. Explain two ways you might recognize your use of these heuristics in the future. Be sp

    Applying Personal Metrics to Reasons

    Give a description of a time when you either delivered an argument or listened to an argument where the reasons offered in support of the conclusion initially seemed sound, but on further inspection were seen to be flawed. Explain how you came to this realization. Also include what personal metrics you applied to the argument to

    Op-Ed: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes

    Give the APA reference for an Op-Ed piece,followed by a brief overview of the issue, and of the author's position on the issue and note whether the argument is descriptive or prescriptive. Then, identify and analyze the issue and conclusion, and describe what indicator words helped you identify them. To conclude your post, descr

    Critical-Thinking Community View

    Explain the similarities and differences between how the lay public and the critical-thinking community view argument. Then explain the implications for public discourse.