Consider a difficult event you have experienced in your own life. Suppose you are working with a client who is having that particular experience. Using the hybrid model of crisis intervention, pick two of the tasks and explain how you would apply to helping someone who had a similar experience. The post Consider a difficult … Read more
Lesson 03 – Discussion Respond to the following: Based on your own personal experience and beliefs, please fill in the blanks. My earliest memory of being different than the majority culture was ____________ The group of people I understand the least are _______________ The minority group I most identify with is _______________ Sometimes I do … Read more
Reading Assignment 1 (Section 1) Defining Deviance Introduction, Tammy L. Anderson, Rules for the Distinction of The Normal and the Pathological, Emile Durkheim / Notes on the Sociology of Deviance, Kai T. Erikson / Definitions of Deviance and Deviance and the Responses of Others from Outsiders, Howard S. Becker / Defining Deviance Down, Daniel Moynihan … Read more
After watching the two videos below, discuss the role of higher-level or “cognitive” processes in perception. Then describe a situation in which you initially thought you saw or heard something, but then realized that your initial perception was in error. What was the role of bottom-up and top-down processing in this process of first having … Read more
Current Events Paper The assignment is to write a typed paper describing a non-felony, abnormal behavior from a current news story (within the last year, USA). News magazines, newspapers, Internet news stories, etc., are all acceptable sources for this paper. A copy of the article (or link to it) must be included with the paper. … Read more
Watch the video and review the information about Crisis Intervention Teams and then respond to the following questions: What do you think about law enforcement getting into the mental health business? What do you think can be some of the benefits of these teams? What can be some of the drawbacks? Defend your ideas with … Read more
19th Century Reforms Evaluate the importance of 19th-century religious revival on social reform. How did religion influence abolition, women’s rights, and/or the temperance movement? How are these reforms related to each other and how did they influence the changing culture of the United States? Pose a question for your peers and professor that relates to … Read more
Biopsychology uses both human and nonhuman subjects, and there are different sorts of ethical issues associated with the use of each. Write at least 350 words answering the following two questions: Balancing Act: Ethics in Animal Research Read this article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6826930/Links to an external site. How can researchers effectively balance the pursuit of scientific knowledge … Read more
Shaping is defined as the differential reinforcement of successive approximations of a target behavior until the person exhibits the target behavior. Briefly provide a personal example of shaping. Also, review a recent empirical study that incorporated shaping in its methods for behavioral change. The post PSYC320 Discussion Thread: Shaping first appeared on Nursing StudyMasters.
Summarize a video and read an article 1) View this talk Love Sense: The Dance of Attachment by Sue Johnson, psychologist and couples therapist, and Ed Tronick, developmental psychologist, on how infant bonding affects our future relationships (4 pages maximum). — Summarize briefly the main points — How does attachment in childhood affect one’s patterns … Read more