1)Psychological research can raise concern on ethical issues. Most issues are fo
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1)Psychological research can raise concern on ethical issues. Most issues are focused on the use of deception with human subjects and the use of harmful or painful testing with animal subjects. Describe how experimenter design can minimize these concerns.
2)What is the nature vs. nurture conflict in psychology? which side do you feel has more influence? Why do you feel this way?
3)Choose any developmental time period discussed in Chapter 9 (prenatal, infancy, early childhood, middle and late childhood, adolescence, middle adulthood or late adulthood) and discuss two terms (theories, vocabulary words, concepts) associated with that time period, relating them to your own experiences and/or the experiences of those around you in your day-to-day life.
4)Think of a time you
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1) minimization of ethical concerns related to human as well as animal subjects can be done as follows:
-By understanding the animal species and knowning facts about them, improved welfare, using animal subjects only when the researcher is expecting valuable results.and studying issues only which can not be studied on human subjects.
2) nature vs nuture conflict discusses whether a person's development is assigned through its genetic makeup and biological entities (NATURE) or through its environmental factors and social behaviour and upbringing(NUTURE). Nature plays a larger role in influencing development. I feel so because, consider the distinction in males and females, the development of paricular hormones in fetus makes it a male or a female.
3)adolescence is the time when the child is experiencing drastic changes both physically as well as psychologically. The person experiences great urge to try new things in life. Maturity by the end of adolescence makes the person more understanding, developed.
4) consider the following example: it is similar to a famous example performed by Ivan Pavlov. But this is my personal life example, I have pet cats at home, when I have to feed them I usually use the same food bowl for them to eat. Initially they would not respond to the presence of the bowl. But after a few round of servings in the same bowl, the cats recognize the bowl more better than their food smell. even an empty bowl makes them think their food is being served. So here, conditional stimulus is the 'bowl' and conditional response is cat's 'curiosity on seeing the bowl' or rather 'salivating in presence of the bowl' . Unconditional response and stimuli is when the person is not trained to respond in a certain way. Example: when you smell a perfume, for me it would be smelling Elizabeth Arden would make me feel happy.... in this example"Elizabeth Arden" is unconditional stimuli and ''my feeling of happiness'' is unconditional response.
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