Week 4 Assignment 1 Submission

Assignment 1: The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid
Due Week 4 and worth 200 points

***Use the Internet to research one (1) developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of the effects that war and peace have on the distribution of foreign aid, as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 1 through 3.

Write a three to four (3-4) page research paper in which you:

***Assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.

***Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Support your response with examples.

***Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor’s discretion. Resources must also be within the last seven (7) years.

When referencing the selected resources, please use the following format:
Webtext Format:
Name of the author. Name of title. Retrieved from website url.
Example:
Soomo. Understanding Development [Webtext]. Retrieved from http://www.webtexts.com/courses/9218-cathey.
Lecture Format:
Name of the Author. Name of the lecture [lecture type]. Retrieved from lecture url.
Example:
Strayer University. (2013). Understanding Development [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from /bbcswebdav/institution/SOC/300/1136/Week1/lecture/story.html.
Internet Resources:
Author’s Name. (Date of publication). Title of the resource. Retrieved from website url.
Example:
Wuestewald, Eric. (2014). Portraits of people living on a dollar a day. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/04/living-on-a-dollar-a-day-photos-renee-byer-thomas-nazario.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Analyze how funding in the form of aid, investment, and loans moves from industrialized nations to the developing world to alleviate the problems caused by warfare.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in sociology of developing countries.
Write clearly and concisely about sociology of developing countries using proper writing mechanics.

PLEASE SEE GRADING RUBRIC BELOW
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.
Points: 200
Assignment 1: The Effects of War and Peace on Foreign Aid
Criteria

Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D

Fair
70-79% C

Proficient
80-89% B

Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited. Weight: 20%
Did not assess the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Did not support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited.
Insufficiently assessed the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Insufficiently supported your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited.
Partially assessed the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Partially supported your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited.
Satisfactorily assessed the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Satisfactorily supported your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited.
Thoroughly assessed the positive and negative effects that peace and war, respectively, have on the distribution of foreign aid in the developing country that you have selected. Thoroughly supported your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you cited.
2. Analyze the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare. Weight: 25%
Did not submit or incompletely analyzed the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Insufficiently analyzed the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Partially analyzed the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Satisfactorily analyzed the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
Thoroughly analyzed the specific actions that the leadership of the selected country has taken, through the use of its foreign aid from donor nations and international lending institutions, to relieve the severe problems caused by warfare.
3. Discuss whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Support your response with examples. Weight: 25%
Did not submit or incompletely discussed whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Did not submit or incompletely supported your response with examples.
Insufficiently discussed whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Insufficiently supported your response with examples.
Partially discussed whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Partially supported your response with examples.
Satisfactorily discussed whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Satisfactorily supported your response with examples.
Thoroughly discussed whether or not the extension of foreign aid has successfully reduced poverty and the incidence of warfare in the selected country. Thoroughly supported your response with examples.
4. Writing / Support for Ideas
Weight: 6%
Never uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Rarely uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Partially uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Mostly uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
Consistently uses reasons and evidence that logically support ideas.
5. Writing / Grammar and Mechanics
Weight: 6%
Serious and persistent errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Numerous errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Partially free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Mostly free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Consistently free of errors in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
6. Writing and Information Literacy / Integration of Sources
Weight: 6%
Serious errors in the integration of sources, such as intentional or accidental plagiarism or failure to use in-text citations.
Sources are rarely integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, using in-text citations.
Sources are partially integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, using in-text citations.
Sources are mostly integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, using in-text citations.
Sources are consistently integrated using effective techniques of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing, using in-text citations.
7. Information Literacy / Crediting Sources in APA
Weight: 6%
Lack of citations and / or lack of reference section and / or citations don’t correspond to listed references.
In-text citations and references are given, but not in APA format.
Partially shows correct (or approximately correct) use of in-text citations, with matching references using APA format.
Mostly shows correct use of in-text citations with matching references using APA format.
Consistently shows correct use of In-text citations with matching references using APA format.
8. Information Literacy / Research
Weight: 6%
Quantity and / or quality of sources are unacceptable
Too few references and / or references are of poor quality
Number of sources is less than expected and/or the quality of sources is questionable.
Number of sources is sufficient and the quality of sources is mostly good.
Number of sources is sufficient and the quality of sources is good.

Complete exam
Perception PSYCH 308
Mid-Term Exam
Name:____________________________________________
Part I Multiple Choice (38 points)

1. When thinking about vision, this process is important to focus light rays.
a. Sensation
b. Photoactivation
c. Accommodation
d. Refraction
2. The retinal ganglion cells are primarily involved in which of the following?
a. firing electrical potential
b. changes in contrasts
c. maintaining neutral ph
d. discriminating a change in a feature
3. Joan is interested in understanding how the threshold of hearing a target sound in the midst of ongoing distractive environmental sounds might be different between age groups: children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults. Which sensation and perception experimental method would be best?
a. Neuroimaging
b. Method of adjustment
c. Method of constant stimuli
d. Signal detection theory
4. Participants are presented with tones of varying hz levels. After the first trial, they are presented with tone pairs and are asked to determine which one is louder. This is an example of which method?
a. Two-point threshold
b. Method of adjustment
c. Absolute threshold
d. Qualia
5. All of the following involved during visual system’s management of light variation except…
a. receptive fields decrease
b. influences form the rods and cones
c. adaptation of pupil size
d. removing photons that are not needed
6. The smallest level of a stimulus that can be detected refers to which term?
a. Two point touch threshold
b. Absolute threshold
c. Weber’s fractions
d. Sensitivity
7. The belief that the mind is a representation of what the brain does refers to which term?
a. Dualism
b. Materialism
c. Vitalism
d. Eccentricity
8. A ________ is a depiction of the true positive rates against the false positive rates for the different possible cutpoints during a test.
a. Sine wave
b. Cross modality matching
c. Magnitude estimation
d. Receiver operating characteristic curve
9. The ________ asserts that specific nerves are allocated for specific sensory functions.
a. Cross modality matching
b. Doctrine of specific nerve energies
c. Vitalism
d. Minimum resolvability acuity
10. This researcher is considered the first to assert that communication between neurons cannot be explained by neurons touching.
a. Ramon y Cajal
b. Muller
c. Weber
d. Fechner
11. This neuroimaging technique captures neuronal activity by looking for increased metabolic movement while engaged in different cognitive tasks (such as encoding, recalling, reading) after inserting a small amount of radioactive material into the bloodstream.
a. fMRI
b. PET
c. MRI
d. MEG
12. ______________ are more sensitive than ______ and are therefore more crucial during visual processing at night.
a. M ganglion cells; P ganglion cells
b. P ganglion cells; M ganglion cells
c. Amacrine cell; Horizontal cell
d. Horizontal cell; Amacrine cell
13. Robert accidentally hit a raccoon that ran into the street while riding his bicycle. The raccoon was sitting on the side of the road in the midst of several garbage cans and trees found in his periphery. This error in judgement is an example of which term?
a. Orientation tuning
b. Agnosia
c. Visual crowding
d. Tilt aftereffect
14. When the visual system takes a tally of all the features of two regions in the midst of highly similar stimuli, this is exhibits …
a. Illusory contour
b. the Feed forward process
c. Texture segmentation
d. Ocular dominance
15. Jane is studying perceptual processes involved during object recognition and found that when she gave her subjects incomplete images depicting a familiar object, she found that they most frequently were able to select the image it was meant to represent, despite its visual ambiguity. This phenomenon is best referred to as ….
a. Viewp01oint invariance
b. Double dissociation
c. Relatability
d. Naïve template theory
16. When studying retrieval processes in humans, researchers found areas in the brain that show greatest neural activity were the same as had been found in previous studies with pigeons. This best reflects which term?
a. Eccentricity
b. Critical period
c. Homologous regions
d. Dualism
17. The phenomenon _____________ is strong evidence that there is a neural mechanism underlying facial recognition.
a. Global superiority effect
b. Congenital prosopagnosia
c. Illusory contours
d. Agnosia
18. True or False: The process of transduction is necessary for the brain to interpret visual stimuli.
19. True or False: The P and M ganglion cells decrease in size with greater retinal eccentricity.
20. True or False: High frequency of spatial grating leads to the strongest response.
Part II. Short Answer (25 points)
21. A 7 month old child is fed a creamy, green substance. His face before the substance is fed to him is neutral; his face after looks like disgust. This is an example of which type of perceptual process (bottom- up or top-down)? Explain your answer.
22. What is the purpose of neuroimaging techniques in terms of furthering the field of human sensation and perception?
23. Briefly explain the process of process of color detection (including the role of the cones).
24. Briefly explain why variations in light levels are not overwhelmingly problematic for typically developing individuals.
25. Briefly explain how the striate cortex neurons act as filters during spatial vision.
26. How do lesions help us to better understand brain functioning? Provide an example.

Part III. Essay Questions (35 points)
27. Describe how neurons communicate between one another.
28. Explain “selective adaptation” as a method of measuring spatial functioning and why it has been especially useful in understanding visual processing and perception in humans.
29. Compare and contrast structuralism and gestalt theory in perception and recognition processes.