Your cousin asks you to pledge $5.00 for a school charity one year. The next year, she asks you to pledge $20.00. And the following year, she asks you to pledge $50.00. Even though you would have never agreed to pledge $50.00 the first year, her “gradual buildup approach” is successful. In social psychology, this approach to persuasion is known as the ____.

The cost of a bicycle is $[c]0. Suppose you can afford to pay $[d]0 now and can afford to pay at most $[w] per week. How many weeks will it take to pay off the bicycle? Give your answer as a whole number of weeks. Hint: Remember to check your work and avoid an easy mistake to make. Whatever your answer is, check to see if the bicycle would be paid off after that number of weeks. If, after checking, the amount paid up to that point is less than the cost of the bicycle, then your answer is incorrect (but may be close).

Suppose that you are going to purchase ten grocery items, with prices: $[q].[qq], $[r].[rr], $[s].[ss], $[t].[tt], $[u].[uu], $[v].[vv], $[w].[ww], $[x].[xx], $[y].[yy], and $[z].[zz]. Estimate the total cost by rounding each item’s value to the nearest dollar and then computing a sum from those rounded amounts. Do not form your estimate in any other way. Input your you answer in whole dollars.

Use the bar graph to solve the next two problems. Estimate the yearly increase in average atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide in parts per million (ppm). That is, compute

Consider the following conjecture: Multiplying both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same (nonzero) number never changes the fraction’s value. Is this conjecture true or false?

A set has 256 subsets. How many elements does it have?

Which of the following survey questions would best be answered as an “open-ended question?”

A set has 1024 subsets. How many elements does it have?

For her dissertation project, Wonjin examined the extent of relationships between neighborhood greenness and the psychological well-being of residents within the 77 neighborhoods of Chicago, IL. What is the independent variable in this study?

Please read the following scenario: Imagine a researcher named Olivia from an RST department. She studies risky leisure behaviors and hopes to learn about alcohol consumption among adolescents. To do this, she will study adolescents who have experienced binge drinking, their teachers, and/or their parents. Olivia’s supervisors are Professors Larson and Kim. These fictitious professors demonstrate two very different approaches to her study. Professor Larson believes that one strength of the research is that engages with people’s subjectivity and that Olivia should be transparent about her own subjectivity to enable readers to make judgments about it. Professor Larson advises Olivia that she will be recording and studying multiple perspectives, descriptions, interactions, and the dynamic way in which people bring issues and problems to life by talking about them or acting around them. Professor Kim’s beliefs are very different. He argues that Olivia’s proper task is to understand the reality of alcohol consumption among adolescents in a way that is as generalizable as possible. Professor Kim believes that Olivia can access participants’ real beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge: that Olivia can, for example, elucidate the essence of the experience of alcohol consumption or that she can determine what teenagers believe about drinking risks by measuring them. Professor Kim disagrees with Professor Larson’s position about subjectivity and transparency in research; in contrast, he strongly advises Olivia to avoid introducing bias and thus inaccuracy to her study. Please answer the following questions:  What are the philosophical worldviews that represent each professor’s beliefs? (2 points) Identify a worldview with which you are most comfortable as a researcher. Explain your reasoning and discuss if your worldview is aligned with your group’s research design (5 points).