For this assignment, you will apply analytical reasoning and identify strategies for self-assessment to reconsider your decision-making patterns. You will need to complete a table with four columns to complete this task. In the first column, you will provide two personal examples where you acted in accordance with one or more of the patterns of irrational or unethical decision-making. In the second column, you will […]

Create a 2 page word document that utilizes the planning, monitoring and evaluation stages of Self Regulated Learners. The planning and monitoring stages will be for Unit 4, while the evaluation stage will relate back to your performance on any and all assessments of Unit 3. Answer the questions below for each of the stages. You are welcome to create an actual schedule for the […]

Looking Ahead: Final Project: Psychological Aspects of Offender BehaviorNot all mentally ill individuals exhibit violent behavior and commit violent crimes, and not all criminals are mentally ill. The mental health of the offender, however, does play a role in the execution, investigation, and prosecution of a crime.For your Final Project, you analyze a current or historical mass murder case. This could be any case involving […]

This project helps you to think in terms of how someone was raised impacts their development over time. You will be interviewing another person, other than yourself, based on the list of questions which are below. The person being interviewed must at least be in early adulthood. It is important to keep the person as anonymous as possible, so pseudo names are a must. Do […]

Keith is a consultant residing in Centervale, U.S.A., a friendly, predominantly middle-class community with a diverse ethnic make-up.   He works closely with other professionals such as speech therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, and school administrators.  As a licensed psychologist, one of Keith’s job duties is to conduct psychological and psychoeducational assessments. Results from assessments can help make decisions related to placement in special education or gifted […]

Select 1 of the following community problems in your choice of community (real or imagined): illness and health, homelessness, drug abuse (including alcohol and tobacco), domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and neglect, violence among youth, elder abuse, poverty, or the impact of divorce. Describe the community and the community problem in specific detail. Discuss who and how this community problem would impact the whole […]

Each student will interview an early childhood teacher and analyze the interview content in terms of the teacher’s philosophy of guidance and classroom management.  This assignment will support students in developing their own philosophy of guidance and classroom management.  Students will apply this interview content to any one early childhood theory they choose. The write-up will include student analysis of the interview, and application to a theory. This should be 500 […]

Post a description of the reward network of the brain, including the brain regions and neurotransmitters involved. Provide at least one example of how this reward network is beneficial to the survival of the individual or the species. Next, describe how this reward network is misappropriated by addictive substances or behaviors. Then, specifically, describe how at least one addictive substance or behavior makes use of […]

 ( Learning about psychological, biological, and social development across the lifespan is essential to competent, ethical practice. To prepare for the final project, in which you write up and analyze a biopsychosocial assessment, begin thinking about how you will apply concepts of human behavior and the social environment that you are learning in this course. This assignment supports that process by asking you to engage […]

In chapter 3 you learned about the early “tuning” of speech perception in young infants (see pp.87-89) and the film, Early Learning, the Brain and Society by Patricia Kuhl, Dr. Kuhl introduced you to her mechanism underlying this critical period in language development. What mechanisms support infants’ ability to perceive the sounds of language during the first year of life? Some argue that that infants […]