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Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) When thinking about how people get ahead and move to higher social classes, people have different ideas about luck. What do conservatives and liberals each think about luck? (2 pts) (b) Given what we know about situations with high income inequality, what is the role of luck in achieving a higher social class in the United States? (1 pt) (c) Given what we know about situations with high income inequality, what factor is the most helpful in being in the highest classes (top 20% or higher) in the United States? (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) In Haidt’s Moral Foundations Theory, he discusses the importance of Purity to both liberals and conservatives. Please give an example of how this foundation would be important to each of these groups. (2 pts) (b) Related to purity, many people feel disgust when they think Purity has been violated. If so, how does this relate to the Theory of Dyadic Morality, specifically the new form of harm added with this theory? (2 pts)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) Based on our debate material, what are 2 steps that research says should be included in bias training for large companies but aren’t? (1 pt each) (b) Describe in depth one competing method for reducing bias (i.e., an alternate approach that doesn’t include what’s usually present for implicit bias training). This can be from any of our debate material or any of our material this semester. (2 pts) (c) Based on our debate material or anything covered in our Bias module, describe 2 research findings showing racial bias in the justice systems. (1 pt each) (d) Based on our debate material, describe 2 ways of reducing racial bias in the legal and justice systems. (1 pt each)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) According to research we discussed on political psychology, under what circumstances do we trust in people from the opposing political party from us? (1 pt) (b) How does this change our liking for them? (1 pt) (c) Describe how this trust across the political aisle relates to morality. (1 pt) (d) If you wanted to use this research to make friends with people with differing views than you, how should you act? (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. (a) According to research we discussed on political psychology, under what circumstances do we trust in people from the opposing political party from us? (1 pt) (b) How does this change our liking for them? (1 pt) (c) Describe how this trust across the political aisle relates to morality. (1 pt) (d) If you wanted to use this research to make friends with people with differing views than you, how should you act? (1 pt)

Please label your answers with the appropriate letter for each part of the question. Much research has been conducted on the so-called shooter task or shooter paradigm. (a) What did they find when they compared regular participants to police officers on this task (for both of the dependent variables)? (2 pts) (b) Explain the role of expertise in these studies? (1 pt)  (c) And when did expertise fail? (1 pt)

A mall food court manager wants to find out if hot drinks in the winter increases time spent in the mall. To that end, she measures how long the average shopper stays in the mall on a particular day. The next day, she and her team hand out hot drinks at all of the mall entrances and then measures how long the average shopper stays in the mall that day. In this study, what is time spent in the mall considered?

A mall food court manager wants to find out if hot drinks in the winter increases time spent in the mall. To that end, she measures how long the average shopper stays in the mall on a particular day. The next day, she and her team hand out hot drinks at all of the mall entrances and then measures how long the average shopper stays in the mall that day. In this study, what is time spent in the mall considered?

How many daughter cells are formed at the end of mitosis? And meiosis? 

The genetic make up of an organism is referred to as the _______________________.