Emotions, Attachment, and Social Relationships

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Do not cite the textbook in your post at all. Also, label topic section that focuses on a specific topic such as perceptual salience but only focus on this narrow topic. Provide a brief description in your own words of the topic that is just a few sentences. Then, in a separate paragraph, label it as application. You should then apply the topic that you discussed with your own examples (not from the book and do not refer to the textbook). Do not put at the end of your post the citation.

Read chapter 14 in your life span textbook called intelligence and creativity.

Make sure that you give a title in the subject section such as the topic of the assigned question.

A summary of the discussion assignments (see syllabus under discussion section for a more comprehensive explanation)

1a) Choose any topic discussed in the assigned chapter and state the exact topic (see below for example)

b) Begin with a short description of the topic prior to applying the info. Make sure you read the textbook info on the topic so that it will be clear to me that you understood and digested the information (do not use other sources on the topic)

c) Provide your own examples of application of the topic. Note that the application needs to be different from the textbook. I want to see your ability to apply the info. (#1b and 1c together need to be at least 200 words or more)

2) Respectfully comment on another student’s post by providing additional application examples (different from the textbook) by clicking on a student’s comment and then pressing reply to that student’s post. Students can post this as soon as students’ post their original application, but students will have the ability to go back the following week to reply to another student. See directions in announcement each week which will make this clearer (#2 needs to be at least 150 words or more)

Discussion comment example on the reading for chapter 1.  Notice that the topic and application are labeled and separated by paragraphs.  Notice that everything is in my own words and not copied from the textbook or another source. I begin with a short description of the topic prior to applying the info. Note that the application needs to be different from the textbook because I want to see your ability to apply the info.

Topic: Correlation 

Correlation has to do with relationships between variables.  Just because two or more variables are correlated it does not mean that one causes the other.  Correlational research consists of looking at the strength of the relationship (0 to 1.0) and the direction of the relationship (positive and negative). 

Application: An example of a positive correlation is height and weight.  Generally speaking, as people’s height increases their weight also increases which depicts a positive relationship because they are going in the same direction.  An example of a negative relationship is absences in a class or on-line course is negatively correlated with the grades of the student, which means as more absences take place, the grades tend to go lower, which are opposite directions. Regarding the strength of the relationship, height and weight in some studies of groups of individuals have shown to be about +.80 correlation, which is considered a strong relationship based on the number being close to 1.0.  Absences and grades are negatively correlated which might end up being at around -.50 which makes it a moderate negative correlation.  Of course, there are other factors that influence grades and absences is only one of them.  How much familiarity a person has with the material, natural intelligence, amount of time studying for the exam, etc. are not considered when one looks only at absences and grades on an exam or the course.  It is important to remember that just because two variables are correlated it does not mean that one causes the other because there even could be a third variable causing both of them.  For example, violent video games are positively correlated with violent acts of aggression.  In a correlational study, we could not say that one causes the other.  We would have to conduct an experiment to determine causes and effect.  It may be that people with a biological predisposition for aggression like to play violent video games and also act out violent acts or it could be that violent acts cause people to play violent video games.  The point is this question of cause and effect cannot be answered in a correlational research design but only in an experimental design.

Textbook: https://account.cengage.com/login?

Email: hpalermo807 @gmail.com (Delete the space before the @)

Password: Sonic288

Click PSY 210 - spring 2021

Select 14

Click the third option to read the book

After this assignment, I will commission you for a follow up which will be responding to a classmate's assignment. Same chapter.

I put the level at school but it should be college