Your paper should include the following:

• A brief description of the organization and industry they selected
• At least four key concepts relevant to Operations Management in your organization
• An explanation of how these elements directly relate to Operations Management
• An analysis of how these concepts work together to resolve business problems
• An analysis of how these (4) concepts reflect effective management and efficiency
• An evaluation of operations concerns in global markets
• An evaluation of corporate social responsibility issues with regards to quality and industry standards.

Your paper must 7 – 8 pages long besides a cover page and a reference
page. It should demonstrate a strong thesis statement supported by
research from at least 3 scholarly sources. Both a references page and
in text citations must be in APA format.

(Attached is the Annotated Bibliography, and other reference List, paper is in regards to WALMART)

In this unit, you will prepare your draft addressing the following competency based on your topic. Note: Use a library tool, such as RefWorks, to track your sources for the duration of your Criminal Justice Capstone Project.

Integrate theoretical, scientific, and practical methods in application to solve problems relevant to criminal justice.

1. Integrate theory into your policy or program proposal (for example, to justify the need or to justify the approach) to solve the problem identified for your capstone focus.
2. Integrate scientific methods into your policy or program proposal to solve the problem identified for your capstone focus.
3. Integrate practical methods into your policy or program proposal to solve the problem identified for your capstone focus.

Requirements

• Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
• APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.
• Number of References: 3–5 peer-reviewed references.
• Length of paper: 4–5 typed double-spaced pages.
• Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Read the teacher scenarios in reflective Exercise 2.5 Assessing Other Educators’ Attitudes Toward Students’ Families. Chose one of the following teachers to respond to: Teacher 1, Teacher 2, or Teacher 3. Summarize and critique what you would expect from this teacher if you were a parent of a student in their class. Then respond as if you were the principal/administrator of this teacher. Create a 3-5 page plan to include the following: How would you sway this teacher to understand the importance of a family/school partnership? What suggestions would you make to encourage your teacher to make positive change? What resources would you suggest to this teacher? Include ways to support this teacher as well. You must include at least two resources to support these suggestions to encourage a positive family/school partnership.

Assignment: Social Cognition and Perception

Social cognition is the study of the ways people think about themselves and the social world, including how they select, interpret, remember, and use social information. Two types of social cognition are controlled thinking and automatic thinking. Controlled thinking is thinking that is conscious, intentional, voluntary, and effortful, such as when you are weighing the pros and cons of an issue to make an important decision or are learning a skill for the first time. Automatic thinking is just as it sounds—thinking that happens without conscious thought—and it is this type of thinking that you will concentrate on this week.

Schemas, one example of automatic thinking, are mental structures that organize our knowledge about the social world and influence what we notice, think about, and remember. Schemas are important for making sense of the world. They help us to create continuity to relate new experiences to old ones and are especially helpful when information is ambiguous. We also engage in a second type of automatic thinking when we use mental strategies and shortcuts, or heuristics, that make judgments and decisions easier, allowing us to proceed with our lives and not turn every decision into a major hurdle. Examples of heuristics include availability, representativeness, and counterfactual thinking. Schemas and heuristics significantly influence our impressions of a social situation and facilitate our social cognition processes. Schemas are highly determined by the cultures in which we grow up, and they strongly influence what we notice and remember about the world.

Think back to this week’s Introduction. When you meet someone new, you no doubt use many different kinds of information available to you and process that information in a way that allows you to make sense of their behavior. You may see if a person fits into some group with which you are familiar and then try to make sense of the person’s behavior in light of others in that group. In addition, you probably have your own goals for relating to the person, which also influence your impression. If your goal is to form a long-term relationship with the person, you will process the information differently than you would the information from a store clerk with whom you don’t plan to have any kind of relationship.

The information you focus on, the strategies you use in processing the information, and the resulting impressions and preconceived ideas you form about a person make up what is called person perception. Since social psychology is all about relating to others, be it an individual or a group of people, person perception is an important topic.

In addition to understanding how people form impressions of others, it is helpful to dig deeper into why people might behave as they do. In doing so, you can more easily predict how people will behave and then control the environment accordingly. By having a better understanding of why people behave as they do, you also can understand your own emotions and feelings toward the situation, which impact your own future behavior. The simple question of “What causes what?” is essential in understanding those around you and your social environment. And, since it would be cumbersome to constantly ask the question “What causes what?”—people tend to ask and answer it automatically. The social psychology term for this concept is causal attribution. There are many related social psychological theories that you can use to understand why people behave as they do. This understanding in turn, helps you to better understand how people relate to one another and to the environment, predict behavior, and partly control social situations—all major goals of social psychology.

To prepare:

• Review Chapters 3 and 4 of the course text, Social Psychology.
• Review the article, “Person Perception” found in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Watch the video on selective attention.

The Assignment (4-5 pages):

• Select one person in each category below:
  • A person you do not know and who you probably will not see again (clerk at the grocery store, etc.)
  • A person you have known for some time and for whom you can remember your first impressions (acquaintance, friend, spouse, etc.)
• Briefly describe each person including his or her specific behavior at your first meeting, the context of your interaction with each person, and your first impression of each person.
• Explain whether you made external (situational) and/or internal (dispositional) attributions for each person’s behavior during that first meeting.
• Did you engage in automatic thinking or controlled thinking in forming your first impression of each person? Explain. What, if any, schemas or heuristics did you use?
• With which culture(s) do you identify? According to the information in this week’s readings, how does your culture influence your impressions of others? For example, how does your culture influence your impressions of others? For example, (a) how does your culture influence the content of a particular schema (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, p. 70), (b) which culturally-specific display rules influence your impressions (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, pp. 90-91), or (c) when have you engaged in holistic or analytic thinking as your culture would predict (Aronson, Wilson, & Sommers, 2016, p. 110)?

Please use the resources provided and provide thorough detailed information with understanding. Thank you.

Resources to be used:

Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., & Sommers, S. (2016). Social psychology (9th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.

• Chapter 3, “Social Cognition: How We Think About the Social World”
• Chapter 4, “Social Perception: How We Come to Understand Other People”
• “Social Psychology in Action 3: Psychology and the Law” (pp. 496–506 on Eyewitness Testimony)

Boeree, C. G. (1999). Person perception. In Social psychology basics.
Click on the Person Perception link above to access a PDF copy of the article.
Credit: Boeree, C. G. (1999).Available from http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/socpsy.html

Required Media

Simons, D. (2010, March 10). Selective attention test [Video file]. Retrieved from
This video shows selective attention task to demonstrate social perception and misperception. [1:21 minutes]

Na, J., & Kitayama, S. (2011). Spontaneous trait inference is culture specific: Behavioral and neural evidence. Psychological Science, 22(8), 1025–1032.

1. Research Design

   You have been approached by a pharmaceutical company that has
   developed a new drug that is supposed to be effective in the treatment
   of schizophrenia. Before mass producing the drug they want to be sure
   that it is more effective than the drug they are currently producing.
   They have offered you an opportunity to pitch your design of a research
   study to determine the effectiveness of the new drug compared with the
   old one. The company will hire the person with the most effective
   research design.

   To begin, create a PowerPoint presentation (refer to the PSY326 Research Design Template for formatting).  Your presentation should be a minimum of four to five slides and it must include the following elements:

   • Compare and contrast the characteristics of non-experimental (descriptive and correlational) and experimental research designs.
   • Specify whether the aim of the implied research question is to describe, predict, or explain.
   • Choose a research design to evaluate the relative effectiveness of the two drugs.
   • Provide a brief overview of the study you would design.

   Then, using Screenr.com,
   you will create a screencast of your presentation. Please include a
   title for your presentation in the description box when you publish your
   screencast.  Refer to the Screenr.com instructions above for
   assistance.

   The pharmaceutical company has limited your presentation time to 3
   to 5 minutes, so you will need to incorporate as many characteristics of
   an effective speaker as you can within this timeframe. These
   characteristics may include, but are not limited to, humor,
   storytelling, facts only, pace, and volume. Since there is no video of
   the presenter (just the presentation itself), you will not have the
   benefit of body language, so be sure you create a convincing screencast.

   Copy and paste the URL link to your screencast in your discussion
   forum response section. Your presentation must utilize at least two
   peer-reviewed sources, in addition to your textbook, cited in APA format
   as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. All sources used within the
   presentation must be cited properly within the slides and included on
   the required reference slide, which will be the last slide of the
   PowerPoint presentation. Due to the time limit of your presentation, you
   are not required to speak or read through the reference slide. However,
   you must include your reference list within the discussion post along
   with your screencast URL link and submit your PowerPoint presentation
   file via the Doc Sharing link located in the top right-hand corner of
   the course’s navigation (near the Gradebook icon).  

2. Hypothesis Testing

   Based on the study you designed in the Research Design discussion,
   apply the scientific method by specifying the five steps of hypothesis
   testing for your study.

   • Step 1: State the hypothesis.
   • Step 2: Collect the data – For the purpose of this discussion, you will state how you would collect the data.
   • Step 3: Calculate statistics – For the purpose of this
     discussion, you will indicate the statistical analysis technique(s) you
     would use.
   • Step 4: Compare to a critical value – For the purpose of
     this discussion, you will indicate where you would set the alpha value
     and why. Note: This step is hypothetical, as you are not actually
     conducting a statistical analysis. Consequently, you will choose if the
     results of your hypothetical analysis are above or below the critical
     value.
   • Step 5: Make a decision – For the purpose of this
     discussion, you will create a conclusion based on the hypothetical
     results from Step 4. Be sure to include a recommendation on the
     effectiveness of the new drug based on the results.