Career Development: Why is understanding yourself important in your career development? How can you ensure that an employer will realize that you have a clear grasp of who you are and what you have to offer? 1) 2) 3) Why is understanding yourself important in your career development? How can you ensure that an employer will realize that you have a clear grasp of who you are and what you have to offer? 1) 2) 3) Tech, Society and Culture: If the scientific test of a scientific theory is accepted by the community of men and women who are called scientists, does that mean that anything is acceptable as long as enough of the right people agree with it? Does that mean there is no such thing as scientific truth? How, if at all, does science differ from politics, art, or religion, in that case? 1) 2) 3) Baase states that it is not just technology that changes so quickly, but also the impacts which they have upon society. Do you agree? How does that align with the assertion in the lecture that we are now living in a third great technological transformation called the Knowledge Revolution? Have computers truly changed our lives so much that we can call this a revolution like the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century? 1) 2) 3) Social Psychology: Discrimination is a behavior rooted in a preexisting attitude: prejudice. In the textbook, social and motivational sources of prejudice are covered (see pp. 319-331). We will begin by considering prejudice as it relates to older people. Please follow this link (Representations of Aging in the Mass Media), and read the article on the power of the mass media to define how we perceive aging Americans. According to the article, what are the typical representations (words and images that are used) of older people in the mass media? 1) 2) 3) This discussion references TCO 2, on factors contributing to aggressive behavior in young children. The textbook reports that studies have found that violent television content tends to elicit aggressive behavior by young children although there are other factors of importance (See below Table 1). This example clearly indicates multiple causality, as discussed in the Week 1 Lecture. What other independent variables, in addition to graphic violence in television content, may contribute to childhood aggression? (Do not forget to think about both personal and situational causes.) 1) 2) 3) TABLE 1. Picture this scene from one of Bandura's experiments (Bandura & others, 1961). A preschool child is put to work on an interesting art activity. An adult is in another part of the room, where there are Tinker Toys, a mallet, and a big, inflated “Bobo” doll. After a minute of working with the Tinker Toys, the adult gets up and for almost 10 minutes attacks the inflated doll. She pounds it with the mallet, kicks it, and throws it, while yelling, “Sock him in the nose…. Knock him down…. Kick him.” After observing this outburst, the child is taken to a different r ...