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P.T.
(a)The Approach-avoidance conflict might hinder Micah from being successful in
conducting his campaign or presenting his speech by causing him to focus too much on the
negative and having that negative influence his actions, leading to an undesirable outcome.
(b)External locus of control might affect him if something has already happened or “fate”
has predetermined that he is to do poorly on either the campaign or presenting of the speech.
(c) Erikson’s stage of identity vs. role confusion could hinder Micah’s ability to run the
campaign, due to how his developed sense of self has already occurred, he might lose faith in
his ability to run for class president.
(d) The Sympathetic NS or his fight or flight response could kick in and he might choose
flight, meaning that he determined that this wasn’t a threat that he felt as though he could
overcome and chose not to run for class president all together.
(e) The concept of Positive Punishment might relate to Michah after the loss of the
election by if his father would have told him that if he lost the election then there would be
repercussions, adding something negative as a result of the loss.
(f) The concept of defense mechanisms of displacement might relate to Michah after the
loss of the election through trying to win a spot as a lesser position because he couldn’t win the
presidency.
(g) Micah might not be able to fall asleep well after the loss and therefore lead to
insomnia.
(h) After being stressed out from the election and then losing the election, Micah’s body
has reached its limit and is no longer able to fight the stress.
W9UY0051
P.T.
(a) The independent variable is the which classes in which participation points are given for
speaking in class.
(b) The control group is the classes that remain the same or are not receiving participation
points for speaking in class.
(c) “Enjoyment of Classes” is a term used to describe whether or not the students liked the
new system more so than the last, or the control.
(d) Random assignment would help establish cause and effect in this experiment by
minimizing bias and increasing chance of equal representation. It would also help to
eliminate confounding variables or variables that cause a change in the dependent
variable.
(e) It would be difficult to use a double-blind procedure for this study because then the
teacher/ experimenter wouldn’t know which class they could apply the participation
points to.
(f) The overjustification effect might account for this finding because there could already be
a class that likes to participate and speak often in class, but now that they are getting
rewarded for doing such, they no longer participate as often or speak up.