The final homework assignment for the quarter is now posted; you can find it at the link below. It is due Wednesday 6/6.
The final homework assignment for the quarter is now posted; you can find it at the link below. It is due Wednesday 6/6.
The readings are listed on the Class Schedule. You can find the prompts (and submit your own reading response) here:
Need for Cognition Scale (short form)
Cacioppo, J. T., Petty, R. E., & Kao, C. F. (1984). The efficient assessment of need for cognition. Journal of Personality Assessment, 48, 306–307.
For each statement below, indicate how well it describes you as follows:
2 = extremely characteristic
1 = somewhat characteristic
0 = uncertain
-1 = somewhat uncharacteristic
-2 = extremely uncharacteristic
Scoring
Items 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 12, 16, and 17 are reverse scored.
Need for Affect Questionnaire (Maio & Estes, 2001)
Strongly disagree | Strongly agree | |||||||||||
(1) | If I reflect on my past, I see that I tend to be afraid of feeling emotions. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(2) | I have trouble telling the people close to me that I love them. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(3) | I feel that I need to experience strong emotions regularly. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(4) | Emotions help people get along in life. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(5) | I am a very emotional person. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(6) | I think that it is important to explore my feelings. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(7) | I approach situations in which I expect to experience strong emotions. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(8) | I find strong emotions overwhelming and therefore try to avoid them. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(9) | I would prefer not to experience either the lows or highs of emotion. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(10) | I do not know how to handle my emotions, so I avoid them. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(11) | Emotions are dangerous – they tend to get me into situations that I would rather avoid. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(12) | Acting on one’s emotions is always a mistake. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(13) | We should indulge our emotions. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(14) | Displays of emotions are embarrassing. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(15) | Strong emotions are generally beneficial. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(16) | People can function most effectively when they are not experiencing strong emotions. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(17) | The experience of emotions promotes human survival. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(18) | It is important for me to be in touch with my feelings. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(19) | It is important for me to know how others are feeling. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(20) | I like to dwell on my emotions. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(21) | I wish I could feel less emotion. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(22) | Avoiding emotional events helps me sleep better at night. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(23) | I am sometimes afraid of how I might act if I become too emotional. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(24) | I feel like I need a good cry every now and then. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(25) | I would love to be like “Mr. Spock,” who is totally logical and experiences little emotion. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
(26) | I like decorating my bedroom with a lot of pictures and posters of things emotionally significant to me. | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
Items 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 21, 22, 23, 25 are reverse scored
They are available through the class schedule on the web page, and you can also link to them here:
You can go them directly using the link below.
As I mentioned in class today, we’re going to start conducting user testing sessions next week for the Volunteer Center web site. The process keeps evolving as I work out more of the details; here’s the current plan:
1) I have requested a Sona researcher account that we can all share.
2) Once that is created, I will set up all the study info in Sona.
3) Each of you can then go in and post your own time slot, and periodically monitor the account to see if someone has signed up for it. If there are a lot of studies running right now, your time slot may not fill. If that happens, you can just post a new one a couple days farther out. We can keep repeating that process until everyone is able to get a participant. I recommend putting up your initial slot for early next week.
4) I will post this information as well as necessary documents, procedures, etc. on the class web page, under “Class Project”, then “User Testing”.
You can now find the readings we’ll be discussing Friday listed on the course web page in the class schedule.
The prompts you should respond to in your reading response are also now posted, and you can find them here:
Feel free to go ahead and do the knowledge check now (it’s due Wednesday by the start of class). You can link to it directly here:
https://wwu.instructure.com/courses/1180022/quizzes/1041062