Describe the history of drug use and policy legislation in the United States.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis paper on drug policies in the United States. Include the following:

Describe the history of drug use and policy legislation in the United States.
Describe the role of law enforcement and drug enforcement agencies in drug policy enforcement.
Describe different drug policies in the United States and their effects on society.

Summarize the main findings with respect to the effects of racism on prenatal and perinatal outcomes

This summer in the midst of the pandemic, a number of racial incidents exposed the deeply rooted and systemic anti-Black and racist attitudes prevalent in the United States. This social reckoning made visible the various forms of racism. While people often think about racism only as an interpersonal experience (i.e., between individuals), racism can take many forms, including institutional racism.
Institutional racism is the systematic uneven distribution of resources and opportunities based on race and/or ethnicity. Institutional racism is negatively associated with disparities across multiple areas, such criminal justice, income and wealth, housing, education, and healthcare.
Read though the brief report of a study conducted by two non-profit organizations. In 500-word essay summarize the main findings with respect to the effects of racism on prenatal and perinatal outcomes, discuss in relation to what you have learned about environmental influences and prenatal health (Chapter 3). Finally, of the solutions the authors provide, which do you think is the most important and why?

Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for local policymakers explaining how the problem might be impacted by each of the three dimensions.

For this week’s assignment, using the social problem from Week 1, prepare a PowerPoint presentation for local policymakers explaining how the problem might be impacted by each of the three dimensions.
Be sure to illustrate the process and discuss how each dimension engages the problem.
Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for each slide.
The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and should cite material appropriately.
Support your presentation with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.
Length: 5-7 slides (with a separate reference slide) Notes Length: 100-150 words for each slideBe sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format and style where appropriate.
Save the file as PPT with the correct course code information.

If you were an alien and your only exposure to Earth was American media, what kinds of conclusions might you draw about various demographics

Source:
PhD, C.J. F. (2015). Media Psychology 101. [VitalSource Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/#/books/9780826196743/
Instructions: This week’s readings are about race in the media and crime in the news. For your blog this week, think about the following: If you were an alien and your only exposure to Earth was American media, what kinds of conclusions might you draw about various demographics (e.g. males, females, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, college students, children, older adults) and about crime?
After reflecting on this, write a blog that is at least two paragraphs long from your alien’s perspective. Be sure to provide justification based on your readings.

Given what you know about “common coding” or mediated generalization, which reversal should be learned more easily? Why?

6.3 Discussion Board: Matching-To-Sample
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Prompt
Consider the table below. Pigeons are trained in a symbolic matching-to-sample task in which many different sample stimuli are mapped to two comparisons: given Red (R) or Yellow (Y), pick (→) Vertical (V); given Green (G) or Blue (B), pick Horizontal (H). Then one group of pigeons is trained with everything reversed: given Red or Yellow, pick Horizontal; given Green or Blue, pick Vertical. The other group is given a partial reversal: given Red or Green, pick Horizontal; given Yellow or Blue, pick Vertical. Given what you know about “common coding” or mediated generalization, which reversal should be learned more easily? Why?

Training
Reversal
All groups

R→V

Y→V

G→H

B→H
Whole
R→H

Y→H

G→V

B→V
Partial
R→H

Y→V

G→H

B→V

Parameters

Initial post should be at least 200 words
Respond to at least two (2) peers
Initial response due by Friday at 11:59 p.m. ET
Peer response due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. ET

Evaluate which theories can, and cannot, explain your performance.

You have been captured by aliens for research and are the subject of a category learning experiment with stimuli (@, #, $, %) matched to categories such as @# = Farnut, $# = wahool, $% = karrd, and @% = taroom. You successfully learn all the categories. To avoid further experimentation, you decide to speak out and educate your abductors on theories of categorization. Evaluate which theories can, and cannot, explain your performance. The theories you should be evaluating are the Rescola-Wagner theory, feature theory, prototype theory, and exemplar theory.

Parameters

Answer the entire prompt
Initial post should be at least 200 words
Respond to at least two (2) peers with 100 words as the minimum peer response
Initial response due by Friday at 11:59 p.m. ET
Peer response due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. ET

Identify and describe appropriate treatment options that a health practitioner would implement when working with the patient and family members.

This assignment consists of analyzing the psychological and sociological implications of a particular chronic illness affecting an individual and developing a plan to assist individuals/families in solving psychological problems that affect health care. Topic examples include: asthma, sickle cell anemia, obesity, Alzheimer disease, depression, autism, ADHD, AIDS, diabetes, depression, etc. Your paper should include the following headings:

1. Introduction

a. Identify chronic illness

b. Historical Overview

c. Frequency of Disorder

d. Identify ethnic and/or gender differences

e. Describe symptoms of Disorder

f. Research impact on individual and family

2. Causes of chronic illness/disease

a. Identify etiology of disorder

b. Identify any genetic predispositions

3. Identify and describe treatment options

Identify and describe appropriate treatment options that a health practitioner would implement when working with the patient and family members. Your suggestions need to be specific.
4. Conclusions

5. References
The Psychosocial Health Concerns paper is a required assignment. It should be extensive and thoughtful. This comprehensive paper should be at least 4 pages long (excluding cover sheet, title page and reference page). The finished paper should be typed, double-spaced with 12-point font, and one-inch margins. It should be free from spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors. The paper should also follow APA guidelines relating specifically to using in-text citations and referencing of sources.

Describe how psychologists view each of the three approaches today.

Jake has become very anxious ever since he started taking harder classes in his major. The university’s counselor diagnosed him with an anxiety disorder. Compare and contrast how the behavioral, humanistic, and cognitive approaches would view the origins and treatment of Jake’s anxiety. (Review the supplemental resource “How to Write a Compare and Contrast Essay”)
Describe how psychologists view each of the three approaches today.
Use the textbook and 2 additional scholarly, peer reviewed sources to substantiate the response.
Assignment length of no less than 400 words (this does not include the title page and reference section)
Be sure to use 7th Edition APA format IN ALL for the title page, page numbering, body of the paper, citations and reference section PLEASE SITE SCHOLARLY, LIRN, LEGITIMATE DOI references
All knowledge gained from external sources must be cited. This includes information that is summarized, quoted and paraphrased. Papers that are not cited throughout for knowledge gained from external sources will not be accepted.
If you have any questions please let me know.

Suggest best practices from a health and child psychology perspective that could be beneficial to children and adolescents dealing with the illness you chose and support your explanation with evidence-based practices.

Please follow rubric: Based on Module Five’s articles on effective behavior change techniques in the prevention and management of childhood obesity, explain some of the practices that will enhance good health. Frame your answer around a major illness, such as juvenile diabetes, and thoroughly examine:
How this physical ailment could translate differently across gender
The vital role of the sleep cycle and the importance of physical activity in adolescents
How the void of adapting healthy practices could prove to have catastrophic consequences in adulthood
Stress management and its impact on health
The downfalls of inaccessibility for those who reside in geographically confining locations
After you have thoroughly examined the illness, suggest best practices from a health and child psychology perspective that could be beneficial to children and adolescents dealing with the illness you chose and support your explanation with evidence-based practices.

What is the relationship between race and class in the ethnography?

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY-FALL 2020
TERM PAPER
In addition to the class readings, students will be responsible for reading an additional ethnography outside of class. Students will choose one of the following ethnographies:
Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network by Ruth Gomberg-Munoz
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Phillipe Bourgois
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community by Carol Stack
For the purposes of this project, the edition does not matter.
Students will write the essay in stages.
Stage 1. Write a 2-3 page summary of the book. (Each of the following questions can be answered in 1-2 paragraphs for the body of your essay.)
Who is the author and why did he/she write the book?
What is the book about?
What are the main points the author is making?
What evidence does the author use to prove their pointsStage 2. Write a 2-3 page analysis of economic systems in the ethnography. Apply what you have learned about economic systems from the textbook and class discussions to answer the following:
What part of the economic system is described in the ethnography?
How powerful is the role of the economic system in the ethnography?
How does the economic system affect the people in the ethnography?
What changes in the economic system does the author think are needed?
Stage 3. Write a 2-3 page analysis of race and/or ethnicity in the ethnography. Apply what you have learned about race/ethnicity from the textbook and class discussions to answer the following:
What racial/ethnic system does the ethnography portray?
What racial and ethnic stereotypes are shown in the ethnography?
How do ideas about race/ethnicity affect the people in the ethnography?
What is the relationship between race and class in the ethnography?
Stage 4. Each of the three stages you have written are sections of your final paper. Join them together and edit to make them flow from one to the other. Take out any repetitive sentences. Write a conclusion to sum up the book, and then write an introduction to your paper.
Grading. Each stage will receive a separate grade, making up 25% of overall essay grade. For the first three stages, you can revise and resubmit multiple times.
Grading rubric:
A= Well-organized essay that addresses all aspects of the task. Includes an introduction and conclusion. Demonstrates understanding of relevant anthropological concepts as well as main arguments of the ethnography.
B= Addresses most aspects of the task. Includes an introduction and conclusion and is organized into paragraphs. Demonstrates some understanding of relevant anthropological concepts as well as main arguments of the ethnography.
C= Addresses at least one aspect of the task. May be somewhat disorganized and missing introduction or conclusion. Limited understanding of anthropological concepts and main ideas of ethnography.
D= Lacks organization and coherence. Shows little understanding of anthropological concepts or main ideas of ethnography.