Assignments

As a counselor advising clients or students in career decisions, you will use assessments and inventories to help them create career plans. For this assignment, you will consider yourself as the client, interpret the assessments you completed in Units 3, 4, and 6 in the Career Exploration Workbook, and create a career plan with actionable…

There are many reasons that we need to sleep. It is a restorative process that helps us function. Suppose that a new “miracle pill” allows a person to function with only one hour of sleep per night. However, because a night’s sleep is so short, a person who takes the pill will never dream again….

First, provide a definition of the terms conceptual definition and operational definition. Next, conceptualize and operationalize the variable “race.” Read the Census Bureau’s report on race at: http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-1.pdf Answer the following questions after reading the report: What changes did the Bureau make to the conceptualization and operationalization of race in the 2000 census? Why did the…

Imagine that you are training individuals you supervise on how to attain expertise in your field of work. Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word instruction paper on the processes involved with attaining expertise, incorporating the concepts from your readings. -Include the stages of skill acquisition and the dimensions of the development of expertise

Use published human and animal research and behaviorist, social cognitive, information processing and constructivist theory to develop an outline of a research proposal to measure self-regulation in one of the following fields:   ·         Environmental or evolutionary psychology ·         Forensic psychology ·         Health or sports psychology ·         Industrial/organizational or engineering psychology   Select and complete…

Part 1 Watch the “Ethics vs. Psychological Research” video in the Week One Electronic Reserve Readings. Part 2 Professional psychologists, in nonclinical fields, provide valuable consultation services to governmental, corporate, nonprofit agency, and individual clients. Many times this advice focuses on application of learning theory to educational or training tasks. Select one of the following…

Post a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Describe the stages of sleep. In which stage do we dream? What are the five common beliefs about dreaming? What are the two common theories about dreams? Which of the two theories do you agree with? Explain.

Utilize the major developmental theories you have become familiar with from readings and content from Lesson 6. Pretend you are the author of a “Ask a Student” column for a blog on developmental concerns. You can play the expert and give advice grounded in the theory and research from Lesson 6. Explain in your answers…

1. How many abductions of children, by one of their parents, occur in the United States annually? A. 2,500 B. 33,400 C. 203,900 D. 654,200 2. What is NOT a quality that forensic psychologists have identified as something that will increase the risk of abduction? A. Parents with strong ties to their children B. Parents…

· Talk about the fact that Greek male athletes competed nude versus today -imagine how that would play out with modern television… · Discuss the sheer scope of the modern games with so many nations versus the smaller number of Greek cities · Are the Olympics today more about ‘the athletes’ or the ‘nations’? Women…

Recent history illustrates that bullying is a growing problem among today’s youth in the United States.  Amanda Todd, for example, was only fifteen (15) years old when she committed suicide after being bullied by her peers for over a year. Watch the video titled “Amanda Todd’s Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicidal, Self-harm” (8 min 55 s)….

It is imperative for psychology students to learn how to create informed consent and debriefing forms that adequately state the purpose of studies to the participants in an ethical manner. In your capstone class, it is an expectation that you have a created a consent and debriefing form for your research proposal. It will be…