Question 1: Watch the Youtube video, and answer the following questions (200-250 words):
What did you think about the process that this family went through?
Could anything be done differently?
Is the process of interviewing family members and videotaping a funeral, crossing the line?
What if anything would you have done differently?
Source:
Question 2: Now that you know about the different types of information that investigators try to get about their victims, what do you think about the victimology assessment? (3 paragraphs)
Source:
Adcock, J. M., & Chancellor, A. S. (2016). Death investigations. James M. Adcock & Arthur S. Chancellor. p.147-209.
Question 3: Watch the following video entitled Death Investigations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and read the accompanying article on the website to answer the following questions: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-ne
Answer the following questions (at least 2-3 full pages, New Times Roman 12 font, and double spaced):
What did you learn about the actual process of a death investigation?
Based upon what youve learned so far, what would you do differently and why?
Were you aware that this is actually how death investigations are conducted?
Was it evident that many different people and departments are involved in the process?
What did you learn that was the most interesting?
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/us/shawn-parcells-s
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/john-oliver-death-investigation-last-week-tonight-837420/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/us/shawn-parcells-sentenced-illegal-autopsies/index.html
Question 4: Directions: Read the article by Carnahan and McFarland (2007) and answer the following questions.
Reference: Carnahan, T., & McFarland, S. (2007). Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment: Could participant self-selection have led to the cruelty? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33(5), 603-614.
1. What is the main research question investigated in the study? Hint: you can probably infer it from the abstract.
2. Where did the study try to recruit participants? Hint: see p. 607 of the article.
3. What were the two different ways the authors used for recruiting participants for the study? Hint: see p. 607 of the article.
4. What type of sampling would you say this is? Hint: was there a random selection from a list (sampling frame) representing the population of interest? If yes, its probability sampling. If not, its non-probability sampling. To answer this question, identify the specific type within the probability or non-probability sampling.
5. Which psychological characteristics of the participants have the authors measured (that were not measured in SPE)? Hint: see p. 606 of the article for descriptions.
6. Choose one of these psychological characteristics and describe it in your own words (DO NOT copy and paste the description from the article). How was it actually measured in the study? Hint: descriptions of traits being measured are on p.606 but the description of the actual way they were measured are on pp. 607-608, at the end of the Method section.
7. Looking at the results of the study now, which three psychological characteristics would you say differed the most between the two groups of participants? Hint: see Table 1 on p. 608 of the article. Traits that differed most substantially have the largest absolute value of t (last column of the table).
8. How does the article explain the SPE results? What is different about this interpretation compared to Zimbardos original interpretation?
9. Has your opinion about Zimbardos Stanford Prison Experiment changed after reading Carnahan and McFarlands article? What do you think about it now?
Question 5: Use the article by Tremblay and his colleagues (2004) and evaluate its sampling and measures.
Reference: Tremblay, R. E., Nagin, D. S., Séguin, J. R., Zoccolillo, M., Zelazo, P. D., Boivin, M.,
& Japel, C. (2004). Physical aggression during early childhood: Trajectories and predictors. Pediatrics, 114(1), e43-e50.
Apply the guidelines from Chapters 6 and 8 and rate each one of them (listed below) on a scale of 1 to 5 (or N/A not applicable, or I/I insufficient information). Again, put your rating on the dotted line in front of each guideline and briefly explain each of your ratings in a sentence or two.
Chapter 6 guidelines
____ 1. Was random sampling used?
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____ 2. If random sampling was used, was it stratified?
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____ 3. If some potential participants refused to participate, was the rate of participation reasonably high?
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____ 4. If the response rate was low, did the researcher make multiple attempts to contact potential participants?
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____5. Is there reason to believe that the participants and nonparticipants are similar on relevant variables?
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____ 6. If a sample is not random, was it at least drawn from the target group for the generalization?
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____ 7. If a sample is not random, was it drawn from diverse sources?
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____ 8. If a sample is not random, does the researcher explicitly discuss this limitation and how it may have affected the generalizability of the study findings?
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____ 9. Has the author described relevant characteristics (demographics) of the sample?
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____ 10. Is the overall size of the sample adequate?
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____ 11. Is the number of participants in each subgroup sufficiently large?
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____ 12. Has informed consent been obtained?
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____ 13. Has the study been approved by an ethics review board (Institutional Review Board (IRB) if in the United States or a similar agency if in another country)?
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____ 14. Overall, is the sample appropriate for generalizing?
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