RLG100Y1 Lecture : Lecture on Shinto-November 19th

It is important to consider factors influencing physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development long before the baby arrives. In this discussion, you will examine the relative roles of genetics and the environment. Environmental effects on development include both macrocultural and microcultural influences. Macrocultural influences are the broader influences on a child’s development, such as mass media, religious denomination, societal rules, or educational norms. Microcultural influences are those on a small scale, such as family eating habits, traditions, hierarchical structures, and routines.

Based on the principles of behaviorism, John B. Watson argued, tongue-in-cheek, that he could take a healthy baby and make him into a lawyer, doctor, or thief. Sandra Scarr argued that often a child’s genetic predispositions override the influence of the environment. Based on what you have learned so far about development, select a well-known movie that addresses the nature-versus-nurture question. Some examples are: The Blind Side, Rudy, and A Beautiful Mind. With reference to the film, respond to the following:

How influential is the role of genetics in the child’s development?

What about the role of the environment, temperament, and teratogenics, among others?

Teratogen: Any agent that can disturb the development of an embryo or fetus. Teratogens may cause a birth defect in the child. Or a teratogen may halt the pregnancy outright. The classes of teratogens include radiation, maternal infections, chemicals, and drugs.

Do you agree with Watson, Scarr, both, or neither?

Support your arguments with research, citing sources.

Write your initial response in 3–4 paragraphs. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.

Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. makes two types of industrial component parts—the B300 and the T500. An absorption costing income statement for the most recent period is shown below: Hi-Tek Manufacturing Inc. Income Statement Sales $ 1,780,400 Cost of goods sold 1,234,191 Gross margin 546,209 Selling and administrative expenses 560,000 Net operating loss $ (13,791) Hi-Tek produced and sold 60,400 units of B300 at a price of $21 per unit and 12,800 units of T500 at a price of $40 per unit. The company’s traditional cost system allocates manufacturing overhead to products using a plantwide overhead rate and direct labor dollars as the allocation base. Additional information relating to the company’s two product lines is shown below: B300 T500 Total Direct materials $ 400,400 $ 162,400 $ 562,800 Direct labor $ 120,600 $ 42,800 163,400 Manufacturing overhead 507,991 Cost of goods sold $ 1,234,191 The company has created an activity-based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Hi-Tek’s ABC implementation team concluded that $55,000 and $104,000 of the company’s advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500, respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was organization-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company’s manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Manufacturing Activity Activity Cost Pool (and Activity Measure) Overhead B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) $ 203,091 90,500 62,200 152,700 Setups (setup hours) 143,500 70 280 350 Product-sustaining (number of products) 100,600 1 1 2 Other (organization-sustaining costs) 60,800 NA NA NA Total manufacturing overhead cost $ 507,991 1. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company’s traditional costing system. 1b. Compute the product margins for the B300 and T500 under the company’s traditional costing system. 1c. 3. Prepare a quantitative comparison of the traditional and activity-based cost assignments.