Module 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2

Modules 5.1 and 5.2

5.1

How useful is affective creativity in resolving recurrent daily interpersonal (social) issues? Why? Is affective creativity more important than cognitive learning or rational thinking in solving this type of problem? Why or why not?

5.2

John is required to take a professional development course to learn a new work function in order to keep his job. The course is offered by his company’s employee training division only as an online course that requires significant amounts of reading and writing. He is finding it difficult to learn in this manner. In his quest to find ways to help himself learn, he has taken a learning inventory and found that his prominent learning style is tactile/kinesthetic. He takes the results of the learning inventory to HR and requests accommodations under ADA because of his learning style. What is the most significant strategy the company can invoke to accommodate John and other employees like him? Defend your answer.

Module 6.1 and 6.2

6,1

Inductive statistics concerns drawing conclusions based on a sample of data available for analysis and the use of appropriate statistics, such as the mean and standard error of some variable in the data set. For a conclusion to be generally useful, the sample must be representative of the population of interest. Give an example of how sample design can be illogical. Will an illogical design automatically sabotage the usefulness of results? Why or why not? 

6.2

Emotional motivation can both improve and impair logical decision making. When the consequences of a bad decision are very great, risk aversion may become greater, and the same applies when uncertainty becomes greater. Compare the advantages of heuristic versus algorithmic decision-making for situations when great losses (such as total destruction of a city) are possible. Which would be the best decision-making method? Why?