Economic Theory

Economic Theory

The post is of three assignments

1:Traditional economic theory holds that all people work rationally to maximize profit. From an anthropological perspective, do you believe this is true? Why or why not?

2:Write a 5 page Essay on Spanish and Mexican Era′s of California

3:Dr. Methods is interested in how parents can help obese children lose weight. She has 2 different persuasion tactics she will test to see if the tactics work on kids. The tactics are: Direct intervention and indirect intervention. A direct intervention requires parents to talk with their child once a week about eating properly. The indirect intervention requires parents to NOT talk with the kids but instead to role model healthy eating and lifestyle behaviors. Your tasks are: (1) Design a pre-test/ post-test control group design to assess the efficacy of the direct intervention; and (2) answer the following specific questions.

In this homework assignment, you should

1. Indicate your hypothesis/hypotheses (2 points)

2. Indicate how you would measure your dependent variable
example: outcome lose weight

3. Describe your independent variable (e.g., direct or indirect intervention. Think about how many message interventions you would do (e.g. would the parents talk to their kids 1 time or once a week for a month or….how long). How many people in each condition? (8 points)

4. Describe your control condition. What is your control condition? What will the parents/kids do in the control condition? (5 points)

5. Describe your manipulation check. How will you know if the parents did only the direct or only the indirect manipulation? How will you know if kids heard/noticed? (5 points)

6. Describe your sample. Where will you obtain these children? How will you get permission? How will you ensure parental participation? Make sure this is realistic and doable. If I can’t see how YOU personally could pull it off, you will lose points. (8 points).

7. What issues of external validity might be problematic with the first design and why? What issues of internal validity might be problematic with the design and why? (10 points).

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