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Identify the factors, levels, and total number of groups for each of the following research examples. State both the number of levels for each factor and describe each in words.A consultant is hired by a business concerned about their low sales the previous quarter. She notices that this business has a large number of part-time employees and that not all employees went through the orientation training. She believes that these factors may be contributing to the low productivity. To test this, she measures productivity (as number of units sold) among part-time and full-time employees who did or did not receive orientation training upon to being hired.Dependent variable:  _______________________________________Factor A:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor A :  _______________________________________Factor B:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor B:  _______________________________________Number of groups:   __________A psychologist believes that perception is influenced by a motivational bias (a bias to satisfy an individuals personal needs, such as their desire for control or power). The psychologist believes this bias is especially present in the context of sports. To test this, the psychologist had a group of sports fans watch a recorded football game where many penalties were called on each team. The participants were fans for either the home team, the away team, or were not a fan of either team. The number of penalties that each type of fan (neutral fan, home fan, away fan) disagreed with during the game for each team (home team, and away team) was recorded. It was expected that if fans showed a motivational bias, then they would disagree more often with penalties called against the team they were rooting for; whereas neutral fans should show the least disagreement overall.Dependent variable:  _______________________________________Factor A:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor A:  _______________________________________Factor B:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor B:  _______________________________________Number of groups:   __________A professor suggests that her college students will attend class more if quizzes were given in every class. To demonstrate the need for this change, the professor records the attendance of students (as the number of absences) in morning versus evening classes in which quizzes are given every class or just once a week. She hypothesized that attendance would be highest in the classes with quizzes in each class.Dependent variable:  _______________________________________Factor A:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor A:    _______________________________________Factor B:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor B:   _______________________________________Number of groups:   __________A researcher notes that male-female pairs of fraternal twins share a similar environment in a mothers’ womb. This exposes the female twin to higher levels of the hormone testosterone during prenatal development. This hormone is thought to be responsible for masculinizing the brain (it leads to male-typical behaviors). Likewise, the male twin is exposed to higher levels of the hormone estrogen. This hormone is thought to be responsible for feminizing the brain (it leads to female-typical behaviors). To test whether exposure to testosterone and estrogen may influence male and female typical behavior, the researcher selected a sample of female-male fraternal twins and compared them to identical twins of each gender (male, female). She measured tendencies toward aggression using an aggression assessment where higher scores indicated greater aggression (a male-typical trait). It was hypothesized that if hormone exposure influenced behavior, then aggression scores will vary among the groups.Dependent variable:  _______________________________________Factor A:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor A:    _______________________________________Factor B:  _______________________________________Levels of Factor B:   _______________________________________Number of groups:   __________

Read “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez (in the course textbook and attached below). Reflect and respond to the story in a 3- to 4-page reader-response essay. Remember that reader-response essays are less formal than other types of academic writing. You may use the personal pronoun “I” and may write about whatever strikes you from the story. You may also choose to write from one of the following prompts:Explain how “good” and “evil” co-exist in this story, and which one you think wins out in the end. Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.Was the old man with the enormous wings truly an angel? Why or why not? Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.Gabriel García Márquez is said to have fathered the genre of “magical realism” with this story. What parts of the story felt magical to you and what parts felt real? How do they work together to convey the overall message of the story? Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion.Does the fact that Márquez is a South American writer have any influence on the developments of this story? Does its international setting have any impact on the reader’s potential understanding of the story?For a successful paper:Have a strong thesis statement at the end of your introduction paragraph.Use a “hook” in the introduction paragraph to grab your readers’ attention.Use specific textual support from the short story in the body of your paper.Finish with a strong conclusion that summarizes your main points, restates the thesis in some way, and possibly returns to the initial “hook.”Proofread for errors in spelling, grammar, and writing mechanics. Vary sentence structure and sentence length to add interest.Follow correct APA guidelines found in CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements with regard to font style, size, margins and spacing.Use APA when citing the text; include a reference page citation at the end of the paper for the short story in the anthology.