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Explain the relationship between dominant and minoritized groups. Based on your definition, explain how this relationship influences the learning experience of a student in a minoritized group. Please provide an example that integrates content from course readings and lectures.

Total Possible Points: 50

In the perception module, we learned that there are perceptual illusions which we perceive same color as different colors (such as the cylinder on a checkerboard image below). Why? 

Matt, Mandy, and Will are seniors at the same high school who decide to form a band.  Matt and Mandy have been playing their instruments since they were five years old and are exceptionally good. They make very few errors when they play their band’s songs in rehearsal. Will only started to learn his instrument in the past six months. While he can usually make it through the band’s songs without making too many errors in rehearsal, he usually makes a few.  Matt, Mandy, and Will are asked to play a song for a school pep rally.  Matt and Mandy play their parts flawlessly – better than they ever had in rehearsal.  Will on the other hand, struggles a ton – making more errors than he typically did in rehearsal.  This scenario is most consistent with what psychological phenomenon?   

John’s daughter is in the Girl Scouts. He’d like to encourage her to go to as many houses in the neighborhood as possible to try to sell cookies. John tells his daughter that for every 10th house that she goes to, he’ll give her $1.  This is an example of what type of reward schedule?

Given the description above, which of the following treatments would Sarah’s mental health professional be MOST likely to suggest as a first step in treatment?

Naomi and Rebecca often play pickup soccer together after school. Naomi has played soccer with Rebecca for over five years and knows that Rebecca is almost always incredibly kind and courteous to both her own teammates and to the opposing team’s players.  One day Naomi is walking to the soccer field with Brandi, who just started at the school that day and hasn’t yet met anyone at the school or seen anyone at the school play soccer. As they approach the soccer field, they see that a pickup game has already started. As they get closer, they can hear Rebecca screaming at another player in anger. Rebecca looks like she’s about to physically hit the other player, but a teammate pulls her away before she does so.  In this scenario, Brandi is likely to use _______________ information to make an attribution about Rebecca’s angry behavior. Because of this, she’s likely to make a ____________ attribution.               

Use the text below to answer questions 21-22 Nicole (biological sex: female) and Jason (biological sex: male) are camping in a tent in the Northwoods region of Wisconsin. In the middle of the night, they both suddenly awake to a crashing sound.  Nicole whispers to Jason, “I think there’s a bear outside our tent!”  21) What is the correct order in which key biological areas will become active in Jason’s body in response to this stressful situation?

Angie takes a drug for a heart condition that completely blocks her sympathetic nervous system. Despite this, she still has subjective feelings of emotion. For instance, if she is approached by a snarling angry dog, she’ll have the subjective internal experience of fear.  However, her heart rate and breathing rate won’t increase.  The fact that Angie’s sympathetic nervous system is blocked, but she still has subjective feelings of emotion is INCONSISTENT with what theory of emotion:  

Use the text below to answer questions 1-2 Mary-Anne is asked to write a short description of her college roommate, Marie, for her first-year English class. Mary-Anne wrote that, “Marie is very creative and curious. She is almost always working on a new painting or writing a new short story. Whenever she leaves the room, it’s to go see a new art exhibit or to hear new poetry being read.  When she goes to those types of exhibits or readings though, she always stands alone in the back of the room and never talks to anyone else. I can never get her to go to parties or to meet new people. She prefers to just stay in our room most nights and look up ways to improve her art.”  1) Based solely on the description above, Marie would most likely score HIGH along what Big-5 personality dimension?