Assignment: reality and perceiving
Assignment: reality and perceiving
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Assignment: Difference between reality and what we perceive to be reality
Neo wakes up and asks Morpheus why his eyes are hurting, to which Morpheus answers that his eyes hurt because he has never used them before. There are two worlds, reality and what we perceive to be reality. One is real, but people in the simulation cannot realize there is a real world out there. “The matrix is all around us. It is a world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth…that you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage…a prison for your mind.”
* You may ONLY use our textbook “Does the center hold” and the movie as sources for your essays.
* Use two textbook citations: Palmer, Edition number, page numbers (in parentheses at the end of the relevant quote or paraphrasing), to provide some foundation for your topic
* Use two scenes from the movie. When using the required movie scenes provide the relevant scene times (e.g. The Matrix, 00:45 to 01:15
* essay must be between 750-1000 words
A clinical psychologist would like to determine whether there is a relationship between observer ratings of children’s externalizing behaviors and scores on an established diagnostic interview assessing externalizing disorders (like ADHD, CD, etc.). He administers the diagnostic interview to 28 children and records these scores. He then trains an observer to independently rate carefully-defined externalizing behaviors for each of the 28 children. These scores are totaled for an overall “externalizing behavior index.” On both the interview and the behavioral ratings, a higher score indicates higher levels of externalizing behavior. These scores are listed in the table below. Conduct a Pearson correlation coefficient analysis to determine whether there is a relationship between the interview scores and behavioral ratings for this group of children.
The steps will be the same as the ones you have been practicing in Part One of the assignment—the only difference is that you are now responsible for creating the data file as well. Remember to name and define your variables under the “Variable View,” then return to the “Data View” to enter the data.
| Interview (Range 0 to 9) | Externalizing Behavior Index (Range 0 to 25) |
| 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 4 | 6 |
| 9 | 22 |
| 7 | 20 |
| 6 | 12 |
| 4 | 10 |
| 8 | 9 |
| 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 7 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 1 | 3 |
| 6 | 16 |
| 8 | 19 |
| 7 | 21 |
| 7 | 22 |
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 5 | 13 |
| 8 | 19 |
| 7 | 16 |
| 4 | 12 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 6 | 18 |
| 5 | 14 |
| 3 | 9 |
a) SPSS output (2 pts)
b) Create a simple scatterplot of the relationship between these variables (define interview scores as the x-axis and behavioral ratings as the y-axis). (2)
c) Write a current APA-style Results section based on your analyses. All homework “Results sections” must follow the example given in the SPSS tutorials and the Course Content document “Writing Results of Statistical Tests in APA Format” (note: you do not have to refer to a figure). Remember to include a decision about the null hypothesis. For a correlation analysis, also be sure to include the direction of the relationship between the variables (positive? negative? none?) in your section. (2)
