This week’s required and recommended materials will cover topics on neurotransmitters, receptors, neurotransmitter systems, and their role in cognition and behavior (both normal and abnormal).  After reading Chapters 3 and 4 in your course text and viewing Brain and Nervous System: Your Information Superhighway, The Nervous System:  Nerves at Work,  and The Influence of Neurotransmitters complete one of the following options for your discussion:     […]

Choose a job you would be interested in pursuing to prepare for this assignment (choose a job in either the psychology field or where psychology could be of some use however please) – a psychology reference Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you address the following:     Conduct a job analysis for your selected job using one of the job analysis methods and […]

    Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.   Option A: Compared to a non-healthcare organization, a manager must have a special skill set for communicating with health professionals and non professionals within a health care organization. What do you believe are those particular skill sets? What are the ethical, financial, and legal implications for […]

    Select either Option A or Option B and indicate in your post which option you have selected.   Option A: Compared to a non-healthcare organization, a manager must have a special skill set for communicating with health professionals and non professionals within a health care organization. What do you believe are those particular skill sets? What are the ethical, financial, and legal implications for […]

One responsibility of professionals when working with children is offering support for families by sharing information with them about developmentally appropriate strategies for their children and the availability of resources in their community. Recall that during Week Two you developed a flyer that taught the families that you work with about the role of working memory, attention, and executive function in learning and development. Now, […]

Now that you have introduced yourself to your fellow learners, share your area of specialization and topic of interest for your Integrated Project. The topic you select will be one that you develop into a research proposal. You will only propose the research; you will not actually collect data. (See the description of the final Integrated Project in Unit 10). Your discussion post should include […]

Unit IV Research Paper Outline For your Unit IV assignment, you will need to submit an outline of your research paper, including the following:  the introduction and a brief outline of the body of the research paper,  a brief annotated bibliography of at least three peer-reviewed, scholarly sources from the Online Library, plus the one you identified in Unit II (The information from […]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please read Chapter 1: Differential Diagnosis Step by Step in DSM-5: Handbook of Differential Diagnosis and review the same case study you used to write your Weeks One and Two discussion forums and Week Three Assignment. For this assignment, you will create a differential diagnosis for the patient in your chosen case. This assignment continues the work you started in […]

Patients with schizophrenia or mood disorders may be somewhat resistant to taking their medication.  Schizophrenic patients often take meds for a while, get better, start to believe that they don’t need the meds and then stop taking them.  Eventually their symptoms come back and they end up back on their meds again. Those with mood disorders often resist taking meds from the beginning due to […]

Gender stereotypes influence and perpetuate what is known as patriarchy. Patriarchy is a concept that considers men the holders of power and authority resulting in domination of all sectors throughout society. Men have held the most powerful positions in the world and have guided our laws, policies, and culture. Patriarchy not only impacts society on a global scale through structural oppression but also our daily […]