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A study was conducted to measure an individual’s attitudes towards homosexuality, attitude scales have been devised from Larsen et al in 1980 to LeMar and Kite’s 1997 attitude scale, to reflect modern day attitudes towards homosexuality a study was conducted using a new scale as the old one is outdated, using this new scale and additional study was conducted into the attitudes of an individual and the participant’s levels of religiosity to test the relationship between the two topics. Various…

Method Participants We collected data from a sample of undergraduate students at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The students were all in an upper division course titled Research Methods in Psychology. The participants were between the ages of 18 to 32, with a mean age of 20.99 years and a standard deviation of 1.82 years. Out of the 208 students that we collected data from, 80 were male and 128 were female. In terms of class year, one was a freshman, four were sophomores, 98 were…

Introduction The article relates to the assessment instrument I will be presenting, Motor-free Visual Perception Test. The purpose of this correlational research study of adult stroke survivors in occupational therapy is to show the relationship between basic visual function and higher-level visual perceptual processing skills. Development After sustaining a brain injury, a person is often left with varying degrees of cognitive and perceptual dysfunction as well as the more obvious motor and…

Purpose and Hypotheses of the Study The study by Mercedes Stanley and Deborah Pollard (2013) had three purposes. One was to examine the pediatric nurse’s ability and level knowledge to assess the management of pediatric pain. The second purpose of this study was to examine how a nurse’s prior experience would affect the attitude and ability to competently administer pediatric pain management to patients. A third purpose was to observe the level of self-efficacy among a group of North…

Given that mental health plays a leading role in ensuring dynamism and efficiency in any society, the present study aimed to investigate the correlations of alexithymia and perceived stress with mental health among the medical students. The present work was a descriptive and correlational study, and the statistical population comprised all students in the 18-31 age range studying at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2013-2014 (N=3730). Then a sample of 591…

Hypothetical Portfolio Our equally weighted portfolio includes Apple (AAPL), Whole Foods Market (WFM), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Citigroup (C), and Nordstrom (JWN). All of the companies chosen are paying dividends quarterly, and make up to 6.557% of S&P 500 as of today. From 2011 until today we see that our portfolio has had, return-wise, a similar performance to the S&P 500 with around 11% annual returns. Also, the correlation coefficient of 0.85 tells us that our portfolio is highly…

In the Chi-Square test table below, the “Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed)” determines the level of confidence. This particular level of confidence is less than 0.5, which means the difference is statistically significant. The null hypothesis is thus rejected. Chi-Square Tests Value df Asymp. Sig. (2-sided) Pearson Chi-Square 12.747a 6 .047 Likelihood Ratio 13.057 6 .042 Linear-by-Linear Association 5.178 1 .023 N of Valid Cases 742 Correlation and Regression with SPSS Pearson’s r value and…

Each participant’s global competence score and the motivation score were calculated by adding the scores of the 15 items. The scores could range from a low of 15 to a maximum of 75. Upon analyzing the result, the Spearman rank-order correlation test shows that there was a significant positive relationship between the participants’ global competence score and the language learning motivation score. For the four categories of motivation, the correlation for integrativeness…

Summary The paper “Observant, nonaggressive temperament predicts theory-of-mind development” by Wellman, Lane, LaBounty, and Olson (2011) reports on their longitudinal study, that was run to test the connections between a child’s temperament and their development of a theory-of-mind. Temperament is a multi-layer concept that influence a child’s personality, which influences how they interact with the world. The way that children interact with society and the way society interacts with the child…

One of the biggest reasons for revisions of the GDO was to increase the validity and reliability of the test. Original versions based their sampling off of a small group of Caucasian, middle class children (Dalton, 2005; Guddemi et al, 20142; Gesell, 1925) resulting in high criticism. The Gesell Institute made an effort to make the findings of the GDO-R more generalizable. The following information concerning sampling, reliability and validity are based primarily on the findings by the Gesell…