By the due date assigned, respond to the discussion question. Submit your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the same Discussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions, and continue the discussion through the end of the module.The current workplace is different from what it was 100 years ago and different from what it was 20 years ago. We work in a global economy, using various technological […]

Steve has asked his girlfriend Nadia to marry him. They dated for a year after meeting in college at a fraternity party. Nadia has been sexually intimate with one other boyfriend, while Steve has had multiple partners.  Both are American, but Nadia’s grandparents are originally from Egypt. Despite different religious backgrounds (Steve is Methodist; Nadia was raised as a Muslim) and cultures, they have a […]

Think of recent decisions you have had to make. They could be something big, for example, related to your education or career, or something simpler, like finding a place to eat. Select two decisions that you have made using different processes, and describe those decisions using terms from this week’s readings. For example, did you use heuristics for one decision and deductive reasoning for another? […]

Listen to the short podcast lecture on the assignment page of your online course to get helpful tips for completing this assignment. This week you will select a case study you want to examine throughout the course. Each case study presents a topic and area of psychology. These topics will be used to study specific areas of psychology and will provide you with an opportunity […]

Child-rearing presents as a set of culturally bound practices that can complement or conflict with research and health promotional practices. The practice of co-sleeping and the risk reduction practices for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) have become conflictual in recent years. In preparation for this discussion, review Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory and SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment for information […]

Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.  Psychologists utilize the scientific method to test their ideas.  There are many different types of research studies.  In this interactive learning activity, your original post will explain the basic precepts of scientific approaches to the study of psychology; your responses will focus on descriptive and correlational methods. Be sure to use your own academic voice […]

This week’s discussion touched on changes in perception regarding psychopathology in response to shifts in societal attitudes toward specific behaviors. Now, let us look critically at treatments in general. A number of treatments for currently diagnosable disorders have been discontinued, such as trepanning and lobotomies, because they were discredited and are now considered crude and/or barbaric. A number of disorders have been completely removed from […]

In this module, you learned about the most important ethical standards in human services. Boundaries, competence, and accountability through documentation and program evaluation are the foundation of the effective practice of direct service providers and the stable functioning of human service agencies. The agency administrator has the responsibility for ensuring the ethical delivery of services, accountability of agency employees, and sustainability through funding and best […]

FAMILY INFLUENCES AND HUMAN DIFFERENCES Every person is like every other person. Every person is like some other person. Every person is like no other person.  (Adapted from Kluckhohn & Murray, 1948, p. 35)  Take a few moments to consider this poem.  Based on what you have learned in the study of human development across the lifespan, and especially focusing on parenting styles and family […]

The beginnings of oral language develop from birth. However, during the preschool years, the child’s language growth makes great strides, and language acquisition is one of the young child’s most amazing accomplishments. Vocabulary increases rapidly from a few hundred words to several thousand during the preschool years. Oral language also develops from one or two word utterances to complex expressions of abstract thought. The development […]