Psychology

Some researchers believe that gender is more of a social construction, than a biological reality (as opposed to sex). Using the frame of symbolic interactionism, how would you describe social interaction as a way of framing gender? For instance, when a baby girl is born, she is usually gifted pink frilly items. What does this say about how our social interactions perpetuate the social construction of gender?

ake some time this week to conduct your own research into the rise of Christian psychology. What key people played a role in psychology being seen through a Christian lens? What does the Bible say in relation to the principles and/or practice of psychology? This paper should be 2–3 pages double-spaced and written in proper APA format. Additionally, use a minimum of one additional source outside of your textbook to support your points.

For this assignment, we’re looking again to the internet to find another open-source article. This time, select an article from the list below that is of interest to you. Write about 150 words summarizing the article and about 100 words explaining why it resonated with you. (~250 total words) Everything you need to read is in this link: https://iflscience.com/brain/brainwaves-reveal-a-pleasure-overload-when-music-gives-you-chills/

After reviewing the resources in the course materials, write a 1,000-1,500-word paper proposing a plan to prevent or reduce the incidence of cancer, chronic illness and/or disease. The plan will focus on lifestyle changes and risk factors, in addition to elements that promote wellness, while decreasing illness and current high rates [prevalence] of cancers, chronic illnesses and disease. It is important to use current scholarly research when formulating a plan. The elements selected should be supported by this research. Include the following in the plan: 1.    Choose a cancer, chronic illness, or disease: CERVICAL CANCER 2.    Choose a community/culture/subculture. A subculture is a smaller group within a larger culture who share common beliefs, norms, and traditions. 3.    Describe the background of the community/culture/subculture as it relates to history or other defining characteristics. Including but not limited to: (a) What is the background of the chosen community/culture/subculture? (i.e., demographics, such as age, education, race, sex); (b) Explain the historical factors that are important to the plan and the perceived positive and/or negative effects on health care (i.e., norms, traditions); (c) Why is this an important community/culture/subculture to apply a prevention or reduction program? (risk factors/current rates of cancer/illness or disease); (d) Why is it important to implement a plan in this community/culture/subculture? How is this critical to the prevention or reduction of incidence? 4.    Describe several components of the plan. What factors are considered that have a correlation with the community/culture/subculture described? (i.e., education, socioeconomic status (SES), existing lifestyle behaviors, health behaviors, self-care, exercise & nutrition, conflicts with mainstream medicine, religious/spiritual factors). 5.    Using research and psychological principles/theories to support your plan, explain how you would make this plan successful (i.e., how will you promote it?): (a) Include information on how your plan would positively affect the factors described for the community/culture/subculture in relation to the chronic illness (i.e., lifestyle changes for a person suffering from a diabetic condition); (b) Describe how you would go about implementing your plan. Where your plan would be based (for example, if your choice is children with cancer, would that be in a hospital, school, etc.?); (c) How would your plan be different to any existing plan for your chosen community/culture/subculture?. 6.    Explain any obstacles that might get in the way of implementing your plan, and how would you overcome these obstacles. These obstacles might include the existing plan, dynamics of the population, or other problems. THIS WEEK’S READINGS AND RESOURCES PERMALINKS https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=122878534&site=ehost-live&scope=site&custid=s8333196&groupid=main&profile=ehost https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ofs&AN=135622732&site=ehost-live&scope=site&custid=s8333196&groupid=main&profile=ehost https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=96349&xtid=167917 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CT401189058/GPS?u=canyonuniv&sid=GPS&xid=37b8e988

Culture and socio-economic status influences aging See how culture and Socioeconomic status influences aging.  1) Interview two (2) older individuals of different ethnic/religious/socioeconomic backgrounds about their cultural/socio-economic life histories and experiences.  2)Write a 3-page paper that talks about your interviewee’s experiences and what you learned from both them and your group. asking the interviewees, the same questions allowing room for adding questions specifically pertaining to the interviewee) and qualitatively based (open-ended, not answered using a number as in Likert Scaling).  Devise a set of questions that uses the information on culture. The interviews should be extensive, finding out as much as you can about the person’s personal cultural history and their lives today as they relate to their culture. Make sure you let the people know that it is for a class project and will not be published, that only your teacher will see the interviews, and that their real names will not be used. Formatted following these guidelines:   1)         Introduction – explain the nature of the study 2)         Case profiles as related to information possible connections to research, peer-reviewed journal articles: a.         basic background information about the person (current age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, language spoken, socioeconomic class –change the person’s name or use only first name…) b.         cultural history (where s/he grew up, religious upbringing, language(s) spoken, experiences …)  c.         Cultural lives today (Is it similar to the way they grew up? Why or why not? How is it different/the same? Experiences…) Do not reiterate the interviews word-for-word, summarize what the people said and use pertinent quotes from them to exemplify your ideas. 3)         Findings and analysis: summarize your findings (from both your own interviews and at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles.  You are welcome to use other resources (e.g. videos, blogs, websites…), but you must have at least the 2 journal articles. 4)         Conclusion and reflection – discuss what you learned by doing this project and any final thoughts. Graded on the following: The group work (10%): ?         Grading of the group, work will assess not only the amount that you participated in your group discussions, but in the quality of your input. I will also look at whether you contributed to the class discussion. The paper (10%): ?         Thorough and comprehensive: did you cover all the information requested? Did you find out a lot of information from each person that will provide a good understanding of their personal cultural histories? ?         Use and application of cultural terminology and ideas from the 2 peer-reviewed journal articles ?         Incorporation of additional research: did you support your ideas and findings with relevant research? Were there at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles used? ?         Writing: Is it organized well using the sections above and separating ideas with paragraphs? Is it free of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors? Is the writing clear? Are articles, websites… correctly referenced and cited?

Write a 2 page paper discussing the role of the church in influencing behavior. Would it be wise for the church to intentionally adopt principles of social influence or obedience? What are the concerns? From a biblical perspective, how does the church influence behavior? The textbook is this. If you find info online to support this document please use this as the reference and paraphrase.  Branscombe, N. & Baron, R. (2017). Social psychology (14th edition). Boston, MA: Pearson. ISBN: 978- 0134410968  You can use the bible as a reference also since it is asked to incorporate it.

Cognitive Psychology Instructions 1.       APA style, 7th edition 2.       APA Title Page, and APA Reference Page 3.       At least two references per question 4.       Total of 6 questions, with one page per question, for a total of 6 pages Questions I.                     Suppose that your professor tells you that you must locate a journal article about cognitive psychology that presents empirical evidence.  What kind of article would you look for and why? II.                   A research team is studying which parts of the brain are active when a participant looks at a photograph of a person, and tries to judge how intelligent that person is. What kind of study would this be an example of and why? III.                 Suppose that you walk past the home of your friend, John. Standing in front of the house is someone who somewhat resembles your friend, so you shout, “Hi, John!” To your embarrassment, it is not John but his younger brother—substantially shorter and with darker hair. What kind of processing could this error be traced to and why? IV.                Heather notes that it is always easier to understand her sister’s speech when they converse on Skype as compared to conversing on the telephone. Her sister believes that the sound quality on Skype may be better than on her smart phone. What might this phenomenon be an illustration of and why? V.                  Shawn claims that he multitasks very effectively, and also says that he actually performs better while multitasking than when doing a single task. You ask Shawn to test this claim. Shawn reads a newspaper article while listening to a baseball game, and then reads another article in silence. Based on research on multitasking, when you time Shawn’s reading speed and test his comprehension, what are you likely to find that about reading, and why? VI.                You are reading your textbook, and your eyes are moving over the page, but later you realize that you can’t remember anything about the information on the page. What are you doing that explains this phenomenon and why?

The article must be after January 2020 PLEASE!!!!!! The focus of this assignment is to apply the critical thought process to a topic of your choosing, as long as it relates to the topics discussed in chapters 11, 12, or 13.  Also, note that as always, our assignments MUST BE IN APA FORMAT. Please be sure to check out the Assignment Details section of the syllabus and refer to the library resource page and be sure to check out the information and the sample provided by the Writing Center.    For additional information, please check out the APA information/resources that are provided for you in the Unit Assignments Module.  It is VERY IMPORTANT that you read and follow the INSTRUCTIONS provided below,  and read the RUBRIC for grading information.    Assignment Instructions: Find either a news article or a peer-review/scholarly article that relates to one of the topics discussed in chapters 11, 12 or 13.  Do not use blogs, since they generally have the lowest standards of scientific inquiry. The article you choose must have been originally published after January of 2020. Please remember to take a screenshot of the first page (only) of the article, using the Print Screen button on your computer, and either paste it on the very last page of your paper (after the reference page) or attach it as a separate PDF file to your online submission. Your paper should consist of these three parts but this time; PLEASE DO NOT WRITE “PART 1”, “PART 2” , “PART 3” AS SUBHEADINGS!   1. Your Title Page (5 Points): An APA formatted cover page (see the sample provided by the Writing Lab).   2. Main Content Page (10 Points): In one long paragraph (no more than two paragraphs) you MUST: A. Briefly explain the connection of the article to a particular theory, application or research findings discussed in this unit (chapters 11, 12 or13) B. Then, explain the concept in a way that reflects your in-depth understanding, as well as your own ORIGINAL critical thought process, either convincingly arguing or defending the claims made in the article, based on what you have learned throughout the semester so far. IMPORTANT: Just be sure NOT to write a summary of the article, and remember to include proper in-text citations.  For more information, visit the library information page on Citations.   (Links to an external site.)   3. References Page (5 Points): APA formatted reference page, followed by a screenshot of the first page (ONLY) of the article you have chosen to write about.   IMPORTANT – Note that you will be evaluated on following three dimensions: a) relevance of the article to the course material b) writing, content, and accuracy of descriptions c) scientific inquiry as well as originality and creativity in making clever or non-obvious connections between your source and course concepts.

Scenario 1: A 7 year old child is tested at school during a group IQ testing and is assessed to have an IQ of 67. She is having a hard time keeping up with her class is reading and arithmetic. She appears to be immature in her social development and needs support with daily living skills such as proper dressing and grooming. Scenario 2: The lawyer of a young man, Albert S., suggests that Albert see a therapist because he has been so depressed about his impending divorce. Albert says he has been feeling sad, lonely, and fatigued during the last month. You determine that Albert is not suffering from a severe mental disorder; and a physical exam indicates that Albert has no physical problems. Scenario 3: Gary, a 30 year old man, is known to be quite a “storyteller.” He often brags about his accomplishments, both real and imagined. He passionately enjoys being the center of attention.  Although he expects his circle of friends to be completely loyal, he lacks empathy and understanding in his relationships.  Gary is preoccupied with his personal appearance, and has a fear of growing old. For each scenario, the following should be answered: (1) what is the DSM-5 diagnosis; (2) what criteria did you use to come up with this diagnosis; (3) what other diagnoses did you consider and why (List 3); (4) list three (3) short-term treatment goals that you would outline in this client’s treatment plan; (5) list three (3) long-term treatment goals that you would outline in this client’s treatment plan; and (6) list three (3) treatment approaches you would use with this client. You will, of course, be expected to have a title page, abstract, and reference page (and in-text citations), which includes all your sources.

The hormone leptin regulates food intake and body weight. It can cross the blood-brain barrier. Search PubMed (www.pubmed.gov) for blood-brain barrier and leptin and select two original research articles about leptin. Summarize the results of these articles. Which proprieties of leptin allow it to cross the blood-brain barrier? How does leptin regulate energy balance?