1. Discuss a plan that you would create to modify the child’s behavior using one of the theories from classical or operant conditioning-and discuss which type of operant conditioning technique would work best (positive or negative reinforcement, positive or negative punishment, or some specified combination of these).
2. Be specific about what role each of the two parents would be responsible for in creating this plan to permanently change the inappropriate behavior.

What is the difference between t-tests and ANOVA versus regression (one big difference)? Explain it as if you were teaching someone.

How many groups are you allowed to have in an independent samples t-test? How many groups are you allowed to have in an one-way ANOVA?

What are some of the advantages of Multiple Regression?

How is regression with a single variable the same and different from a correlation?

1. Which perspective on how to decide matters of sexual morality is most convincing to you: Utilitarianism, Kantianism, or Natural Law? Why? If you believe that more than one of these three (or any other perspective) ought to be used to judge sexual behavior, which do you consider most important? Why?
2. Is there such a thing as sexual perversion? What would you mean by that?

Karen is in her first year of seminary. Prior to joining the seminary, she was a teacher in a small catholic high school. She loves to work with the groups of people she knows in class; but she is always concerned about whether she is doing a good job and whether her peers see her as doing a good job. When she is studying, she gets up and rings her hands, her palms sweat, and she finds that her heart is racing. She spends endless hours studying to make sure she gets things right. With class projects, she begins to feel overwhelmed and sick to her stomach when she has to stand up in front of other people. As she prepares herself to do her presentation the day before, she is either awake till late in night or if she goes to bed, she has problem in sleeping. Joann is a 73-year-old, retired architect who recently went to Japan. While in Japan she fell and broke her femur bone and knee cap. She spent eight weeks in the hospital recovering. She traveled back to the United States and the pins came out of her knee, which meant she had to have more surgery when she returned. She spent six months in physical therapy and seemed to recover nicely. However, in the past few months she has stopped sleeping well, experiences ruminating thoughts about the accident and repeatedly checks to see if her leg works. She also refuses to leave home because she is afraid of falling. On the basis of your understanding of the above scenarios, answer the following: Name and describe the symptoms of the difficulties experienced by each of these women.

“But newcomers (it was feared) had beliefs and loyalties and customs that seemed ‘un-American’ and might pose a threat to democracy. What if immigrants did not embrace American life and culture? Can any nation safely harbor millions of people who do not share its basic ideals? These were sobering questions for many Americans by the end of the nineteenth century.” (p. 139-40)

What continuities and what discontinuities (similarities and differences) can you see between this nineteenth century apprehension about immigrants and the attitudes of many people towards immigrants today? Is there anything you think we can or should have learned from the nineteenth century immigrant experience?