What type of development will this post be focusing on? How would someone studying child development expect the child to develop? How did the child in your situation actually develop?

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Child’s life

For this discussion, you will write about a situation (either in real life or in media somewhere) that portrays changes that occur during the first three years or a child’s life. You can focus on physical development, cognitive development, or psychosocial development. For example, you could discuss how a child perhaps didn’t meet typical growth patterns, wasn’t able to talk in the generally accepted time frame, or experienced abuse at the hands of the caregivers

In your original post, answer the following:

Briefly describe the situation (g. is this a personal example, what television show/movie is this from?)
What type of development will this post be focusing on?
How would someone studying child development expect the child to develop?
How did the child in your situation actually develop?

In your responses to your classmates, address the following:

How does your classmate’s example compare to the example you shared in your main post? What are the similarities? What are the differences?
How does your classmate’s example relate to the lecture and reading material for this week?
What questions do you have for your classmate about their example?

Outline the business and describe the types of products it sells in a brief summary. Describe their business practices or procedures and how they market their products or services. Include examples to support your description. Explain the psychological aspects of their marketing that may influence people to buy their products or services. Provide examples to support your rationale. Explain why you believe the company has acted either ethically or unethically in their business practices.

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E-commerce Businesses

E-commerce businesses have an obligation to serve their customers with some transparency and ethics. This week you examine an organization of your choice to evaluate how it addresses ethical concerns. Select 1 of the following imaginary scenarios:

Scenario 1: You have an issue with an e-commerce company and question their ethical practices in marketing and selling their products.
Scenario 2: You want to recommend an e-commerce company because you feel they have ethical business practices.

Draft a 700- to 1050-word formal letter to the Better Business Bureau regarding their practices and explain why you feel they are ethical or unethical. Complete the following tasks in your letter:

Note: You may choose to create a fictitious company or create a fictitious company that is an amalgamation of several real companies.

If you are evaluating a real company, first change the name of the company to a fictitious name in your assignment.

Outline the business and describe the types of products it sells in a brief summary.
Describe their business practices or procedures and how they market their products or services. Include examples to support your description.
Explain the psychological aspects of their marketing that may influence people to buy their products or services. Provide examples to support your rationale.
Explain why you believe the company has acted either ethically or unethically in their business practices.

Demonstrate your ability to communicate ideas clearly about Positive Psychology. Submit a 3-5 minute video of yourself speaking on any subject matter related to the course. Feel free to include anything of relevant value in your discussion.

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Positive Psychology

As a requirement for this course, and to demonstrate your ability to communicate ideas clearly about Positive Psychology, you will be required to submit a 3-5 minute video of yourself speaking on any subject matter related to the course. You are free to include anything of relevant value in your discussion. However, you must include important concepts, research findings and concepts from the book and other relevant academic sources. This is a personal presentation, therefore you should reflect on the topic in ways that are meaningful for you. The presentation is worth 20 points of your total grade. Please submit a media upload of your presentation in canvas, as this is much easier than attempting to create a youtube video.

Analyse one of the two case studies with regards to two personality theories of your choice. Choose one of the two case studies (Rachel or Michael) outlined below to analyse. Link the characteristics of the case studies to two personality theories of your choice.

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You need to complete a 1000 word analysis of one of the outlined personality cases as per the assignment brief below

Guidelines

In this essay, you will analyse one of the two case studies with regards to two personality theories of your choice. The length should be no more than 1000 words (-/+10%), including in-text references/excluding the reference list).

Essay Overview

Choose one of the two case studies (Rachel or Michael) outlined below to analyse. You need to link the characteristics of the case studies to two personality theories of your choice. You do not have to restrict yourself to theories from the lectures. Anything that is of interest/can be applied as long as it is of psychological origin and relevant in this essay.

You can choose two theories from a broader umbrella theory (e.g., analyse two trait theories). You can also choose two theories from different approaches (e.g., use one theory from the nomothetic, and another one from the idiographic approach). You will need to be critical and analytical in your approach, so do make sure that the theories you choose are suitable for this. You also need to back up your observations with relevant research.

Structure

Always begin an essay with a couple of lines to set the scene – what is the essay about and what will it discuss?

After you have chosen the personality theories, write an introductory paragraph outlining the characteristics/importance of the theories. The introductory paragraph should lay groundwork for the main body, where you analyse the case studies in relation to the theories. Introduce the same theories that you will use later in the analyses.

In the main body, outline how the case study relates to theories and research. You should use recent research to convince the reader about the links between the case and the theories. For example, you may want to analyse Rachel with a reference to theory X. You could have a look at the literature for theory X and some aspects of Rachel’s behaviour/attitudes/history (e.g., X and friendships, X and entrepreneurship, X and creativity, X and manipulativeness, X and bullying, X and strive to succeed etc etc). You could then make a case for theory X and applicability to Rachel via the empirical literature.

It is important that you identify how your two chosen theories explain the behaviour differently. This can feed into your brief conclusion. Are the two theories sufficient in explaining the person in the case? Is there a need for additional theories?

Note that you don’t have to analyse every single feature of the case study as this is only a short essay. You don’t have to explain the case study again- just write about each feature you will be talking about briefly, and then look at how the theories have been tested in research, linking the case study to the theories. The main aim of this essay is for you to illustrate that you can take the theory and research and apply it to people and real behaviour.

Case study 1 – Rachel

Rachel is a successful entrepreneur in her mid-forties. She runs clothes stalls in popular indoor markets in London and Manchester. Because of Rachel’s hard work, perseverance, and creativity, she was able to build her business with very little resources. Indeed, Rachel is from a working-class background, left school at the age of 16, and worked in several unskilled labour jobs before starting her own company. She is meticulous in her approach to work, and is determined to be more successful than her parents were.

Some of Rachel’s success could be attributed to her somewhat ruthless attitudes towards others. She knows what she wants, and will achieve her goals, even if it is at the expense of others. As an example, at the beginning of her career as an entrepreneur she befriended one of the people who was responsible for organising stall rental agreements in London. As a result of this befriending, Rachel obtained a good rental deal that allowed her to start the business. She is no longer friends with this individual, as they fell out after a seemingly minor argument.

Rachel can be very charming when she meets new people. She is the life and soul of any party and knows how to have good time. Others are initially attracted to her because of her good looks and quick wit. However, she also has a nasty streak, which makes her behaviour unpredictable at times. This has resulted in very few long-term friendships, and a string of short-term sexual partners rather than serious relationships.

As a child, Rachel could be described a bit of a loner. Indeed, she often blurted out things that could be thought of as unkind, which alienated other children. She liked to be in control and see how far others would go obeying her commands. Rachel was a popular, but also a somewhat feared character in school.

Case study 2 – Michael

Michael is in his early thirties. He is a father to two young children and married to his first girlfriend who he met while in college. Due to loss of customers, Michael has been recently laid off from his job as an IT manager in a small company. Michael has always been a kind, considerate individual, putting others before himself. However, since the redundancy, his wife has noticed that Michael has started to act somewhat out of character. He has stopped helping with the household chores and is often moody and impatient. His wife has started wondering whether she really knows the person she has been married to for more than a decade.

Deep inside, Michael has always felt a little bit shy, but has managed to mask it from other people by forcing himself to behave in a sociable manner. If given the choice, he would rather stay at home and watch series on Netflix than socialise with people. While Michael was still in work, he did get pleasure from occasional after-work drinks with his colleagues. They always thought that he was sympathetic and funny, in a quiet kind of way.

Michael has always been obsessed with order. Even as a child, he made sure his room was in immaculate condition, with his numerous toy cars coordinated according to colour. His parents were active members of the local branch of the Pentecostal church, and Michael was often allowed to help with the ceremonies because of his reliability and organisational skills. His meticulousness and attention to detail translated later into success in the realm of study and work. However, since being made redundant, Michael has become unorganised, untidy, and careless. This has surprised people who are close to him, as orderliness always seemed like a big part of his personality.

Grading

This activity will be graded and you will receive feedback on it. The following rubric is provided to help you understand how you will be graded:

Introduce your emotion. Offer a minimum literature review informing from what kind of perspectives your emotions has been studied and what have other researchers found about it. You can also discuss what are the limitations on the study of such an emotion? What would psychology gain from a deeper, better, or different understanding of this emotion? Analyse your emotion using the 3 theories. Imagine how the principles of each theory could be used to study your chosen emotion and reflect on what are their resources and limitations on exploring such an emotion. Offer examples, even if speculative, on how each theory would address your emotions. What kind of questions they would ask?, what procedures will they implement?

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Psychology of emotions

Essay guidelines

The assessment for PY6014 Psychology of Emotions is a 3000-word essay and it represents 100% of your final grade. It is due on Thursday May 12st and you will submit it through a Turnitin link that will be set up early on April. The task is to write an essay analysing one emotions from three different theoretical perspectives.
This is a theoretical essay. The propose of this essay is that you learn to identify the main principals of a theory and use them to imagine and speculate how different theories would approach the same phenomena, in this case, an specific emotion. The three theories that you will combine in your essay will be covered on the lectures and are: The Social Construction of Emotions (Harré, 1986), Theories of Affect (Massumi, 2002; Clough, 2007; Lara 2020), and the Theories of Feelings (Cromby & Willis, 2016). You will use these theories to analyse your chosen emotion from these three different perspectives. Your emotion options will also be covered during the lectures and are: Happiness, Love and Hate.

You are free to organize your essay in any way you want, just make sure the following three elements are explicitly present somewhere in your essay:

1. Introduce your emotion. Offer a minimum literature review informing from what kind of perspectives your emotions has been studied and what have other researchers found about it. You can also discuss what are the limitations on the study of such an emotion? What would psychology gain from a deeper, better, or different understanding of this emotion? Etc.

2. Introduce your theories. Explain what are the main theoretical principals of each of the three theories you will use in your essay. Offer notes on the philosophical bases of the theories, their empirical approach and political commitments. In this point is very important that you cite, quote, paraphrase the authors we had covered on the Lectures.

3. Analyse your emotion using the 3 theories. Imagine how the principles of each theory could be used to study your chosen emotion and reflect on what are their resources and limitations on exploring such an emotion. Offer examples, even if speculative, on how each theory would address your emotions. What kind of questions they would ask?, what procedures will they implement? Etc.

To be clear, for example, if your emotion is Love, you will have to explain how Social Construction of Emotions would study Love, and then how Affect theory would study Love, and then how Feelings theory would study Love, you will compare, contrast, analyse, discuss the differences, advantages, disadvantages, etc.

The following is a suggested structure you can use to organize your essay. You don’t have to follow this structure, but if you are unsure of how to organize your essay, this structure represents a safe
option. Whatever you do, make sure your writing is clear, explicit, smart and embedded in criticality.

Suggested structure of the Essay

1. Tittle. Start your essay with a tittle, think of a nice one that makes clear 1) what emotion are you addressing on your essay?, 2) from what theoretical perspective(s) you analyse that
theory? , 3) the literature from the module that you will be using

2. Introduction. Approx. 500 words. The first thing you have to do in the intro is to explain the outline of the whole essay. This means mentioning the sections of your essay and briefly describing the content of these sections. Also, use this section to provide the context of your essay, explain the relevance of an exercise of theoretical analysis on understanding emotions or offer a summary of the theoretical tensions in the emotions literature, or introduce briefly the main gesture of your theories before you explain them in detail in the next section.

3. Main body. Approx. 1500 words. This is the section where you want to include the three points mentioned before: 1. Introduce your emotion, 2. Introduce your theories, 3. Analyse your emotion using the 3 theories. Keep in mind that the whole propose of this essay is that you learn to identify the theoretical principles of the theories and use them to attempt to explain real life specific situations, or in this case, one particular emotions. Therefore you are how this theory would approach the study of this emotion? What kind of arguments would they suggest about this emotion? How is this approach useful to better understand the emotion? Etc.

4. Critique. Approx. 500 words. Use this section to elaborate your own critique of the theory(ies) that you have used to analyse your chosen emotion. Think about, what are the limits of the theory? What kind of emotions/affects/feelings the theory can’t account for? Etc. This section is a marking criteria.

5. Conclusion. Approx. 500 words. Use this section to close the essay, but do it by focussing on these questions: why is it important to understand better your emotion (hate/happiness/love)? How the three theories contribute (or not) to the understanding of the emotion? Offer as well a reflective statement about what you have learnt in this module.

6. Reference list. Make sure your reference list is in proper APA format. Or any other format that you feel you want to use, just be consistent along the essay using the same format.

Discuss two theories that have been used to explain the etiology of the disorder. What are the implications of these theories for the treatment of the disorder? Identify at least two interventions, one psychosocial and one psychopharmacological, used to treat this disorder. If a psychopharmacological is not indicated discuss why and what other intervention would be applicable. Discuss why these interventions are shown to be effective. Discuss the side –effects of the psychopharmacological interventions.

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Disorders

This assignment should be typed and double-spaced, with one-inch margins. It is to be no more than 10 pages, with a 12-point font size. The 10-page length requirement does not include the title page or reference page, but it does include both parts of the assignment outlined below. This paper requires that you include a reference page consisting of a minimum of 5-7 scholarly references. The number of citations in the text must be the same number of references listed on the reference page. For the purpose of this assignment, you can select any of the disorders covered in the DSM-5. This assignment will be checked for appropriate citing and paraphrasing of material using Turnitin.

The reference and citation style must follow that of the American Psychological Association (APA 6th edition). Students are expected to comply with the Rutgers University Policy on Academic Integrity at all times. (Rutgers University Policy on Academic Integrity)

 

In your paper, you must address the following:

Specify the diagnostic criteria of the clinical disorder you have selected.

Identify two conditions that share similar signs and symptoms to this disorder. Discuss the process of differential diagnosis and how would you distinguish between these disorders and the disorder that you have selected during an assessment.

Identify the prevalence rates for the clinical disorder you have selected, including prevalence rates for at least two of the following groups: gender, race, ethnicity, social economic status, differently abled or sexual orientation.

Discuss some of the ways in which this disorder could impact an individual’s social functioning (home, school, work, family, and relationships).

Discuss two theories that have been used to explain the etiology of the disorder. What are the implications of these theories for the treatment of the disorder?

Identify at least two interventions, one psychosocial and one psychopharmacological, used to treat this disorder. If a psychopharmacological is not indicated discuss why and what other intervention would be applicable. Discuss why these interventions are shown to be effective. Discuss the side –effects of the psychopharmacological interventions.

Identify two community-based resources located in the state you reside that an individual with this disorder might find useful. Discuss why these resources could be important for persons who have this disorder and how to access them.

What is social work to you? Why did you choose social work as a profession? What area are do you wish to practice in and why? What are the strengths and weakness you bring to the field of social work? What is your definition of social work/practice? How can the field of social work continue to grow in order to be a thriving profession? How has the field of social work evolved? Where do you see the field of social work in the next five to ten years?

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Social work

What is social work to you?

Why did you choose social work as a profession?

What area are do you wish to practice in and why?

What are the strengths and weakness you bring to the field of social work?

What is your definition of social work/practice?

How can the field of social work continue to grow in order to be a thriving profession?

How has the field of social work evolved?

Where do you see the field of social work in the next five to ten years?

Can you find any evidence that this form of prejudice is correlated with either the perception of economic hardship or prosperity overall in a country or region? Explain how this correlation (if found) would be evidence supporting frustration- aggression theory.

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Economic anxiety

Chapter 9: Read “Economic anxiety” in the Case Studies in Social Psychology textbook.
Answer question #1

1. Prejudice toward immigrants is still a problem in the unites states and in many other countries. Can you find any evidence that this form of prejudice is correlated with either the perception of economic hardship or prosperity overall in a country or region? Explain how this correlation (if found) would be evidence supporting frustration- aggression theory.

Thomas Heinzen – Wind Goodfriend, Case studies for teaching Social Psychology

How do perceptual experiences affect our interpretations of the world around us? Discuss how selective attention and multi-tasking are advantageous and disadvantageous in the ways humans’ sense and perceive information in their lives. Explain how your own perceptual sets might create prejudice or discrimination?

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Sensation and perception

For this assignment, you will need to write a well thought out 1,500-word essay that demonstrates clear and thorough comprehension and evaluation of the material covered in this module. Be sure to address each of the following in your essay:

Sensation and perception are closely linked. What is the central distinction between the two?

How do perceptual experiences affect our interpretations of the world around us?

Discuss how selective attention and multi-tasking are advantageous and disadvantageous in the ways humans’ sense and perceive information in their lives.

Explain how your own perceptual sets might create prejudice or discrimination?

Identify two conditions that share similar signs and symptoms to this disorder. Discuss the process of differential diagnosis and how would you distinguish between these disorders and the disorder that you have selected during an assessment. Identify the prevalence rates for the clinical disorder you have selected, including prevalence rates for at least two of the following groups: gender, race, ethnicity, social-economic status, differently-abled or sexual orientation.

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Clinical disorder

In your paper, you must address the following (also review the rubric for more specific expectations):

Specify the diagnostic criteria of the clinical disorder you have selected.
-Identify two conditions that share similar signs and symptoms to this disorder. Discuss the process of differential diagnosis and how would you distinguish between these disorders and the disorder that you have selected during an assessment.
-Identify the prevalence rates for the clinical disorder you have selected, including prevalence rates for at least two of the following groups: gender, race, ethnicity, social-economic status, differently-abled or sexual orientation.
-Discuss some of the ways in which this disorder could impact an individual’s social functioning (home, school, work, family, and relationships).
-Discuss two theories that have been used to explain the etiology of the disorder. What are the implications of these theories for the treatment of the disorder?
-Identify at least two psychosocial and psychopharmacological interventions used to treat this disorder. Discuss why these interventions are shown to be effective. Discuss the side –effects of the psychopharmacological interventions.
-Identify two community-based resources located in the state you reside that an individual with this disorder might find useful. Discuss why these resources could be important for persons who have this disorder and how to access them.