Discuss two areas of chronic illness (obesity and eating Disorders

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Discuss two areas of chronic illness (obesity and eating Disorders), discussed in Chapter 4 of the course textbook, that may affect adolescents and that you have personally experienced, either personally or vicariously.
Describe what advice you would give to a parent dealing with one of these disorders, based on your understanding of these illnesses.
Shriner, B., & Shriner, M. (2014). Essentials of lifespan development: A topical approach. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

Discuss the suggestion that there are biological predispositions to a certain temperament.

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Discuss the suggestion that there are biological predispositions to a certain temperament. Shriner, B., & Shriner, M. (2014).
• Identify signs have been suggested to align to differing temperaments.
• Identify behaviors that parents and caregivers can utilize to support challenging temperaments.
• Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including the reference page) and formatted according to APA style
• Must utilize academic voice.
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a distinct thesis statement.
• Must end with a conclusion that summarizes your thought.
• Must address the topic of the essay with critical thought.
• Must use at least one scholarly source in addition to your required course text, citing also within the body of writing as support for your stance.
Shriner, B., & Shriner, M. (2014). Essentials of lifespan development: A topical approach. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu

Provide a detailed critical review of the A&B study – their rationale, hypotheses, methods, results,and discussion.

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INTRODUCTION
Outlines the issues and/or position you are arguing for. Your grade will reflect how clearly and completely the argument is outlined.
BODY OF ESSAY
Relevance and understanding
All information in your essay should be relevant to the question you have been asked. There should be examples that clearly illustrate a theory, model or approach to understanding the topic.
Discussion and Critique
You should include a clear discussion often where two or more opposing approaches, theories or pieces of evidence are evaluated. Your critique should be supported by citations.
CONCLUSION
Your conclusion will draw on the threads of your argument together and link back to your original outline of what you said you would do in the Introduction. By the end of the Discussion you will have answered the question posed in the essay title.
ADVICE:
The aim of the essay is to apply what you have learned in lectures, tutorials and in your readings to everyday life. The essay should therefore explain and evaluate theories and evidence you have come across. Be careful of including lots of theories or concepts as your essay may end up looking like a kind of list. However, if you just pick one or two you won’t have the chance to show off how much you know.
Your introduction should set out how you will be tackling the essay question – i.e., your thesis – what you are arguing for.
Most typical comments from previous years:
• Do not simply list studies. For example, too often we see “A&B (Year) conducted a study to look at [TOPIC] and found that [RESULT]. C&D (Year) also looked at this, and found similar results…”. You should provide a detailed critical review of the A&B study – their rationale, hypotheses, methods, results, discussion, before going on to do the same thing for C&D, possibly in a new paragraph.
• Most comments referred to aspects that were poorly written and unclear.
• Next came the use of examples: some did not seem to relate well to the theories being discussed or how they related was not made clear.
• The thread of the argument gets lost – there is no flow to the argument so the reader can’t follow where the essay is going.
In-text references aren’t in the Reference section and vice versa
• No evidence of any research having been carried out to write the essay.
• Lots of theories but very little use of examples to illustrate them or lots of examples and very little theory.
• Make sure that by the end of the essay you have clearly answered the essay question. Try to relate each piece of evidence back to the specific essay question asked – do not just write about everything you can find on the topic.

What is the difference between an empiricist and a rationalist?

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All you have to do is answers these 3 questions. Has to be 2 pages and 500 words. You can use your own experiences to answer number 2. Thank you!

1) What is empiricism? What is the difference between an empiricist and a rationalist?

2) Can you think of anything that you haven’t experienced with your senses? If you can come up with such an idea, how sure are you that it didn’t originate somehow in ? Might it be possible to break it down into simpler ideas that did in fact come from sensory experience?

3) Do you think all knowledge comes from sensory experience?

What steps need to be taken prior to making the conclusion the test is “biased” in the psychometric sense?

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A college uses a particular admissions test, which has well documented predictive validity. However, members of a particular minority group tend to score low on this admission test. Some students who have been denied admission based on their test scores are criticizing the school for using a biased test. What steps need to be taken prior to making the conclusion the test is “biased” in the psychometric sense? How can a determination be made regarding whether or not the test is being used in a fair and equitable manner? What other measures of validity would you need as evidence to support the continuation or discontinuation of this admission test?

What ethical issues might be present that a neuropsychologist should consider? Provide your rationale.

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Case Study: Ms. D

For this discussion you will be utilizing the following case study:

Ms. D. is an 84-year-old housewife who sometimes gets lost and has to phone her husband to come pick her up when trying to walk back home by herself from the neighborhood grocery store. During her shopping trips, she sometimes also forgets to take her list with her and then cannot remember all the items she needs to purchase. Mr. D. says that when talking to his wife lately, she frequently repeats herself by asking the same questions. He has brought his wife to your clinic because he is worried about her memory problems.

Neuropsychologists are often asked to conduct evaluations to help examine problems related to brain functioning and behaviors.

Based on the above case study and this week’s readings, what ethical issues might be present that a neuropsychologist should consider? Provide your rationale.
What forensic and/or legal issues might be present should the neuropsychologist determine that Ms. D. is suffering from a condition that will progress to the point where she is unable to care for herself? Provide your rationale.

Create a list of advisory recommendations for maximizing cross-functional team performance.

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Place yourself in the role of a consultant tasked with the goal to achieve the best possible performance out of a cross-functional team. Using any materials from the course create a list of advisory recommendations for maximizing cross-functional team performance. The plan should include multilevel recommendations such that all levels of analysis (individual, group and organizational) are represented.

The format of this is up to you but, as always, when citing resources use APA style and provide a list of references. A paper submission should be between 4-5 pages.

Discuss the significance of the cognitive revolution.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNHBMFCzznE&feature=youtu.be

In your initial post, consider the following prompts about cognitivism, and discuss each, basing your posture on this week’s readings, your past experiences, and your past knowledge:

Discuss the significance of the cognitive revolution.

Explain information processing.

Analyze the behaviorist versus cognitivist definition of learning: a change in observational behavior or a change in one’s schemata.

Which theory do you believe is more accurate? Why? (Support with citations.)

Discuss if your personal schemata has changed throughout your life. (This could be about learning, but also about other domains such as love, honesty, hard work, loyalty, etc.)

Also in your discussion, respond to the following questions specifically associated to After Watching This, Your Brain Will not be the Same (Links to an external site.):

 

How do Dr. Boyd’s suggestions support (or oppose) what you believe to be true about learning?

Boyd suggests three changes occur in our brains and help support learning: chemical, structural, and functional; how do these affect persons who suffer from different types of brain damage (e.g., stroke)?

If the primary driver of change in your brain is your behavior, what is Dr. Boyd’s primary suggestion for increasing our success in learning?

Your initial post should be between 350 and 400 words.

 

Explain, precisely, the mental process of knowledge or memory development.

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https://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewVideo.aspx?xtid=56673

For this paper, you will be explaining some of the cognitive-based ideologies related to how memory development works, how it is affected by outside variables, and how strategies can improve one’s own information processing. You will demonstrate an understanding of psychological research methods and skeptical inquiry by correctly utilizing support resources within your writing.

Complete the following:

Introduce the topic of effective knowledge or memory development (including assimilation and accommodation) based on cognitivism.

Explain, precisely, the mental process of knowledge or memory development.

Include the importance of successfully moving information from working (short-term) memory to long-term memory (effective information processing)?

Discuss the factors of attention and perception in association with successfully moving information from sensory to working memory to long-term memory.

Discuss the predominant variables that can affect effective processing for each of the following types of memories: semantic memories, episodic memories, and autobiographical memories.

(Hint—emotions, outside distractions, etc.)

Discuss the prevalence of false memories, and how this phenomenon may affect how we learn effectively, as well as help others to learn accurately.

Conclude with a summarization of your paper’s content (conclusion paragraph).

The Knowledge Acquisition and Memory Development paper

 

Must be a minimum of five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name   Date submitted

Outline the underlying theoretical principles and concepts of CBT.

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Task instructions: You are required to conduct a literature review on cognitive‐behavioural therapy (CBT).
Specifically, you will need to:
1. Outline the underlying theoretical principles and concepts of CBT.
2. Synthesise and critically analyse:
i. evidence on the efficacy of CBT for depressive and anxiety symptoms
ii. evidence on the efficacy of CBT for depressive and anxiety symptoms for individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds.
iii. challenges in applying CBT for depressive and anxiety symptoms in practice
Tips: 1. You may wish to use a combination of the following key words in the library databases: “cognitive behaviour therapy”; “efficacy”, “effectiveness”, “randomised controlled trials”, “depression or depressive symptoms”, “anxiety symptoms”, “cultural adaptation”, “culturally diverse populations”, “client experiences of change”, “a qualitative analysis of client’s experiences”.
2. You are required to exclude studies on mental disorders from your literature review. Specifically, you are required to exclude studies on major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders (i.e., social anxiety disorder,
generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder).
3. Read chapter 12 and 13 from your textbook (Dobson & Dobson, 2020) to get a better understanding of methods to evaluate interventions and challenges in practice and also Levant and Hasan (2008) and Evidence-based practice in Psychology Husley (2007) Key challanges in evidence-based practice.
Textbook recommend to use E
Evidence-Based Practice of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Second Edition
Deborah Dobson and Keith S. Dobson
Another book that i have also added
by Judith S. Beck Cognitive Behavior therapy