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Investigating Attitudes Toward Age Groups

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For this assignment, you are going to gather some data and discuss your results. Interview or survey 10 people and ask each person the first three terms or words that come to mind when they think of each of these age groups (so each interviewee will give you 12 words):

Children Teenagers Middle-Aged Adults Senior Citizens

After completing your survey, you should then have 30 words for each age group (some will be repeats). Look at each word and determine what kind of connotation it has: Is it positive (P), negative (N), or neutral (O)? Mark each word. Look at the frequency of the most used terms and also the distribution of P, N, & O.

Discuss the results of your survey. Include answers to the following questions:

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Sep 1, 2019 12:00 AM

Due Date

Oct 13, 2019 11:59 PM

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Which words were mentioned most frequently for each age group? Were they mostly P, N, or O? Do the words get more negative as you move from children to senior citizens, or more positive? Or is there no change as you move up each age group? Many of these words will be stereotypes to describe each age group. Where do these stereotypes come from? Cite from your readings and/or outside sources (include APA- formatted in-text citations) to support your statements. How do negative stereotypes affect individuals in each stage of life? Provide an example and cite your source(s) with APA- formatted in-text citations.

Your assignment should consist of one page with your survey results and another 2 pages in which you discuss your results, for a total of 3 pages, double-spaced. You also need to include an APA- formatted reference page.

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Criteria

Survey results

Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 / 6

Level 4 6 points

Complete survey results are submitted, including 30 words for each

age group (120 words total). Each word is marked as P, N, or O.

Analysis of P, N, & O

Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 / 4

Level 4 4 points

Student provides a thorough and detailed analysis of the types of

words that were mentioned most frequently for each of the four age

groups, and notes any trends or patterns.

Origin of Stereotypes

Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 / 5

Level 4 5 points

Student provides a thorough and detailed explanation for how

stereotypes tend to originate, describing at least 3 ways that

stereotypes develop. At least one source is cited.

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Effects of Negative Stereotypes

Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 / 5

Level 4 5 points

Student provides a thorough and detailed explanation for how

negative stereotypes affect individuals, describing at least one

example for each of the 4 age groups. At least one source is cited.

Mechanics

Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 / 5

Level 4 5 points

Submitted paper is at least 2 pages (in addition to the survey

results). All sources are cited within the paper using APA-formatted

in-text citations, and an APA-formatted reference page appears at

the end. Few to no spelling and grammatical errors.

Total / 25

Overall Score

Level 4

19 points minimum

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14 points minimum

Level 2

9 points minimum

Level 1

0 points minimum

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