Write a detailed description of a significant life event that has shaped how you think about other people or yourself. Describe your thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and explain why this experience was so important. Be sure to choose a life event that fits well with at least one of the perspectives.
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Identify and share two important learning opportunities you have had at your site. What do you feel has been your biggest hurdle? What has been your biggest success?
Biggest hurdle – lack of confidence when interviewing clients( worry about making errors, or saying the wrong thing)
Success – performing the intake, more comfortable
COLLAPSE
Every Monday morning, a friend would bring Lauren her favorite latte and a doughnut from a coffee shop by her house. And every Monday morning, her stomach would growl right before her friend rang the doorbell and handed her the weekly treat. She noticed a month later that her stomach growled each time the doorbell rang in the morning even if it was not Monday.
Given what you have learned about learning processes, which type of learning has Lauren experienced? What do you think is the best way to get her to “unlearn” her behavior? What implications does this understanding of the learning process have on our ability to make changes in our lifestyle? Support your reasoning with information from the text and other course materials.
Reply to 2 people:
#1 Samantha: Hello Everyone,
I think the type of learning process that Lauren experienced is latent learning because it is something learned and how she could unlearn her behavior is to maybe get up earlier and going to the donut shop on her own. This learning process can help us to realize that things in life happen because we get so wrapped up in everyday life and everyone has their own routine but changes can be made if we chose to because this is just something that we do normally. Just like the dogs in the videos and the rats in our text books.
#2 Dana :
Lauren has learned Classical Conditioning because, as mentioned in our 3rd week lecture video, Lauren has two unrelated stimuli; the doorbell and the her favorite latte and doughnut. These unrelated stimuli when paired together formed a trial. I think the best method for Lauren to “unlearn” her behavior would be through extinction. When we have an understanding of our learning processes we will be better equipped to handle our behaviors through positive and negative reinforcers. Positive reinforcer is a stimulus added to an environment that brings an increase in a preceding response. Negative reinforcer is an undesirable stimulus when removed leads to the increase in the probability that a preceding response will be repeated in the future (Feldman, 2017)When a person is positively or negatively affected by their behaviors, the results of those effects will direct them in their future behaviors.
Feldman, Robert S. (2017). Understanding Psychology 13th edition. New York, NY: McGraw Hill Education.
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By the due date assigned, go to the Discussion Area and post responses to the discussion question.
Use the Argosy University online library to locate and read the following article:
Lafantasie, G. W. (2006). Oldest living TA turns professor. Chronicle of Higher Education, 52 (46), 65.
Respond to the author’s experiences described in the article. Justify your opinions using references to relevant sources. Would you agree that age discrimination is an issue in higher education? Explain your response.
Support your responses with relevant citations, using proper APA format, both from the course materials, as well as outside resources. All discussion questions should be posted to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area. Be sure to use vocabulary that is relevant to the topic.
Through the end of the module, comment on at least two of your peers’ responses. You can ask technical questions or respond generally to the overall experience. Be objective, clear, and concise. Always use constructive language, even in criticism, to work toward the goal of positive progress. All comments should be posted to the appropriate topic in this Discussion Area.
All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.
Grading CriteriaMaximum PointsResponse CriteriaProvided an in-depth explanation or analysis of subject or topic.4Used a clear, logical, and organized line of reasoning.4Provided adequate justification and evidence that supports the opinion expressed.4Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.4Used vocabulary relevant to the current modules topics.4Participation CriteriaUsed vocabulary relevant to the current modules topics.4Participated in the discussion by asking a question, providing a statement of clarification, providing a point of view with rationale, challenging a point of discussion, or making a relationship between one or more points of the discussion.4Displayed consistent sensitivity when working with individuals from varied backgrounds.4Justified ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from texts, Web sites, and other references or personal experience.4Submitted on time; wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources, displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.4Total:40
News Reflection Paper Guidelines General Psychology (PSY 101) Fall 2018 Read and follow these guidelines carefully! See me if you have any questions about this assignment. General Information Your News Reflection Paper (NRP) and your news article are due by the beginning of class time . Both your paper and your news article must be submitted to the News Reflection Paper assignment link in Canvas. If you only have a paper copy of your news article, please submit the article in class. What is a News Reflection Paper? In your paper, you should find a current news article (published since August 2018) and analyze how the news event relates to specific concepts in psychology (covered in your textbook). Write approximately three double-spaced pages in which you do the following:
1) Specify the source information (title, author, newspaper or news magazine, date of publication) for your news article and summarize the content of the article;
2) Specify at least two fields of psychology that your article content falls into and explain why it relates to these fields. In your explanation, be sure to describe the focus of your two selected fields in general and use specific content from the new article to illustrate the connection.
3) Explain in detail how your news event connects to at least THREE distinct course concepts, theories, or research findings (you must use your textbook for these connections). Be sure that you make your connections to specific—rather than more general—course concepts. For example, conditioning is a general concept, operant conditioning is more specific, and negative reinforcement is even more specific. The more specific you make your course concept connections, the better. Also be sure to provide the page number from the text for the course concepts you use in your paper.
4) Explain why the topic you selected is interesting to you and important in general. How you organize this information in your paper is up to you, but keep in mind that this is a more formal writing assignment than the homework. Part of your grade will be based on your writing clarity, grammar, and organization (which was not the case in your homework grades). What is an appropriate news article?
• Your news article should be current (something reported since August 2018). • Your news article should be from a reputable print (or online) news source. By reputable, I mean
sources such as The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, or other major newspapers or news magazines. Popular magazines (like Vogue and Essence) and tabloids (like The National Inquirer) are NOT acceptable sources.
• Your article must be from a news source and NOT from an academic journal (such as The Journal of Psychology or The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology). Also note that popular magazines about psychology (such as Psychology Today) are NOT acceptable sources.
• I strongly recommend that you begin searching for your news article right away and that you show it to me for approval before you turn in your paper. You will lose a significant number of points if you analyze an article that is not appropriate for this assignment.
Searching for Appropriate News Articles In your search for an appropriate news article, you may wish to explore Newspaper Source Plus, an online database that can be accessed via the MU Library website. To access Newspaper Source Plus:
• Go to the MU Library main page (http://www.marymount.edu/Academics/Library-Learning- Services).
• Under Quick Links, select Articles & Databases. • Select the News/Current Events tab and then select Newspaper Source Plus. • If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to login with your MU username and password. • Be sure that the Advanced Search tab is selected. • Enter the psychology search term(s) that interest you (e.g., anxiety, amnesia, gender stereotypes,
aggression, etc.) in the search boxes at the top. • In the Search Options – Limit Your Results – Publication Date section, enter the relevant dates
(August 2018 – present). • Click Search to obtain your results. • Feel free to explore other ways of searching Newspaper Source Plus or other news databases such
as LexisNexis Academic. • See me for help with your searching if you need it.
Other good online sources include:
• Chicago Tribune (https://www.chicagotribune.com) • The Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com) • The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/) • The Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com) • The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/)
Grading The News Reflection Paper is worth 50 points, to be distributed as follows:
Summary of News Event (+ Source Info) 5 points Connection to Course Concepts 30 points Importance of Topic/Personal Interest 5 points Clarity/Grammar/Organization 10 points Total 50 points
Note that late papers will be accepted within one week of the original due date, but the late penalty will be applied (see syllabus).
Avoiding Plagiarism Pay careful attention to this information—it is important! You must avoid ALL forms of plagiarism in your News Reflection Paper. It is essential that you summarize the information from your news article and textbook without plagiarizing. Even if you are taking definitions from your textbook, it is not OK to use them word-for-word without quotation marks. What is plagiarism? There are many forms of plagiarism, which range from intentionally using someone else’s work as your own to borrowing ideas, wording, and sentence structure from a source without proper attribution. The information here focuses on this latter type of plagiarism. As a general rule, to avoid this type plagiarism, you should never include any exact phrase from your sources that is five or more words in length without quotation marks and you should use your own sentence structure. Examples of this type of plagiarism include: • copying word-for-word without quotation marks. • leaving out occasional words to avoid word-for word copying. • substituting different words in a passage, leaving the sentence structure largely intact. • changing only the voice, tense, person of the original text. • rearranging phrases both within and across sentences (leaving the phrases intact). For information that you are using from your news article and your textbook, either quote it directly (put it in quotation marks) or paraphrase it properly (use your own wording and sentence structure). Quoted material should also be accompanied by a page number (or paragraph number if a page number is not available).
According to the article, obesity has reached epidemic proportions among children. What responsibilities should parents have if they know their children are obese? What measures should parents take to protect their children from becoming obese? Does the government have an obligation to protect children from foods, chemicals, and ingredients that are known to be correlated with obesity? Support your position coherently and reasonably.
In popular music, a bridge is included, usually after the second verse. The bridge is an instrumental section. It is followed by a third verse or the chorus.
Find a piece of music (popular music is fine) and, using the timer in YouTube, tell us where each verse, chorus, and bridge begins. Discuss how well the bridge works and why you think it is included in popular music but not during the Baroque.
DISCUSSION 2 100 words count
What do we mean by, art is a sensory experience? How does this relate to craft or the practical art of writing? Can you describe a sensory reading experience you have had in your life?
DISCUSSION 3 100 word count
Writing from a place of visual, mental focus….Explain what it means to be visual. Why are images so key to writing? Do you ever think in images? Why or why not? How does focus come into play
DISCUSSION 4
Stress, Health, and Anxiety Disorders
Proceed with this week’s Discussion by locating one credible source to answer the following question.
According to the psychological perspective and research, how can early childhood stressful experiences (e.g., neglect, abuse, or lack of a secure attachment) influence the developmental of behavioral problems?
Next, referring directly to the textbook, briefly explain all three elements of the Integrated model.
Last, select one form of an anxiety disorder and explain how one of the elements of the integrated model can be used to explain the origins of that disorder. Anxiety disorders to choose from include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety phobia, specific phobia, separation anxiety disorder, selective mutism, and agoraphobia.
The strongest answer will refer to the textbook and concepts from the Reading material Essential of Abnormal psychology
Popular usage of the word “theory” may sometimes imply a singular, often grand idea. The world, however, is complex, and the systems designed to understand it, such as theory, are often intricate in order to sufficiently explain the world as it is. Indeed, as you will learn this week, theory is nuanced, and it can also be viewed as a combination of variables, ideas, or constructs to test or advance a research question. In addition, theory tends to play a different role in qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research.
For this Discussion, you will consider the role of theory in research and the relationship between theory and philosophical orientations. You will also familiarize yourself with a theory in your field so that you may become more conversant in your discipline’s theoretical foundations.
Post an explanation of the role of theory in research. Next, identify a theory in your discipline and explain its basic tenets. Then, with this theory in mind, consider your answer to the following question posed by Dr. Burkholder in last week’s reading: “What do I have to believe about the world and about human beings in order for me to accept or use this theory?” Finally, describe the extent to which the epistemological and ontological assumptions of your chosen theory align with the philosophical orientation that reflects your worldview.
Be sure to support your Main Issue Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.
de Vaus, D. A. (2001). Research design in social research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Research Design in Social Research by De Vaus, D.A. Copyright 2001 Sage Publications Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., via the Copyright Clearance Center.
· Chapter 1, “The Context of Design”
Babbie, E. (2017). Basics of social research (7th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
· Chapter 2, “Paradigms, Theory, and Research”
For this assignment, do some preliminary research into sleep disorders. Select one sleep disorder that you find interesting and address the following points in your paper:
Incorporate a minimum of two scholarly sources in your writing. Include evidence from recent studies (published within the past five years).
Use APA format to style your paper and cite and reference your two sources.
Your paper should be 2-4 pages long, in addition to a title page and a reference page.
Refer to the rubric for more information on how your assignment will be graded.
Points: 100
Assignment Instructions
In this case study, you will analyze a testing scenario using your knowledge of testing and ethics.
Part A: Review the Case
A psychologist is redesigning a website to make it more appealing to clients. On the website, she lists several tests she learned about in graduate school. She also posts images of the tests, including the Rorschach inkblot cards.
Part B: Case Analysis
In a 5-6 page paper, addressing the following information:
1. Describe your immediate reaction to the scenario. What are the details you immediately noticed? What questions did the scenario raise about testing?
2. Identify and explain 3 factors that impact performance on projective tests.
3. Identify and discuss 3 reliability and validity concerns with the scenario.
4. Identify and explain at least 3 ethical concerns as per the APA Ethical Codes and how you would resolve the concerns.
Integrate academic sources on psychological assessment to support your position.
Please ensure that your paper is in APA format, using 12 pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with a title and references page. An abstract is not necessary. The paper should integrate 5-6 scholarly resources.
