Category: Psychology homework help

Practice self-awareness by using the following technique:
Sit still
Take a deep breath and count 1-10 in ascending and descending order. Do this at least 5 time.
Label the emotions you feel. For example, “My chest feels tight” or “My heart thumps when I’m nervous”.
Notice how the sensation changes or lifts when you take a deep breath.
Take it easy and don’t force anything.
Use this journal to reflect on your experience.

The APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct outline the code of ethics for psychologists. There are general ethical principles that should be considered in research design. In the discussion this week, our goal is to identify and raise potential ethical concerns for conducting research methods in social sciences. In this discussion, you will examine one of APA’s general principles or one section of the Code of Conduct. Explain the impact of the principle or code on research participants or the misuse of research findings in the public. Provide at least one example (either from the literature or generate one yourself) of how the misuse or absence of the principle/code could negatively impact participants or the public. Please include an explanation of the ethical principal and why it is important for researchers to uphold ethical principles.

Design a 12-15 slide PowerPoint that highlights a specific personality disorder. Include the following:
Discuss specific aspects of the personality disorder you selected, including how the disorder is assessed.
Does the disorder have a genetic predisposition? Explain.
Discuss brain and neurochemical features related to the disorder.
Explain personality characteristics that relate to the disorder.
Explain cognitive features that relate to the disorder.
Describe topics that might be addressed in programs to prevent personality disorders.
Include speaker notes below each slide. Expand upon the information included in the slide. Please ensure the speaker notes for each content-related slide include a minimum of 50 words.
Use three to five sources to support your presentation.

After reviewing this week’s materials, meet with your professor to discuss the role of assessment in clinical practice. Be sure your discussion addresses the following:
Discuss your initial understanding of the difference between systemic and individual assessment.
Discuss how your preferred therapy model assesses a family’s presenting problem.
Discuss your understanding of the initial, ongoing, and situation-specific assessment.
Inquire how your professor has used assessment in their own practice.
To complete the assignment, you have two options:
Option 1: Schedule a time to meet with your professor, preferably via a Zoom session. Schedule this meeting during the first week of class. Be sure to contact your professor in a timely manner to schedule a time to complete Assignment 1 before the Sunday due date. Once you have scheduled your meeting time, upload a document with the meeting time and date in the dropbox.
Option 2: If synchronous contact is not possible, contact your professor to request approval to submit a written document or recorded presentation that covers all of the discussion prompts.
Length: Maximum of 2-3 pages or a 15-minute recording for Option 2
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.
The completed assignment should address all of the assignment requirements, exhibit evidence of concept knowledge, and demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the content presented in the course. The writing should integrate scholarly resources, reflect academic expectations and current APA standards, and adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.
When applicable, conduct a Turnitin pre-check and then upload your completed assignment and click the Submit to Dropbox button.

Reflect on the course and share your answers to the following questions:
What was the most interesting or useful thing you learned during the course?
What suggestions can you offer that might improve the quality of the course?
If you could give one piece of advice to incoming students about this course, what would that be?

First, I would like for you to define stress and identify different types of possible stressors (use the textbook). Second, what is happiness in your opinion, and what influences happiness? At this moment are you happy? What are some strategies that you use to help you manage and cope with stress? Are you stressed right now? What do you think is causing it and how is it affecting your physical and mental health?

Choose a psychologist whose work was prevalent prior to the 20th century that is of interest to you. Create a PowerPoint that presents the impact the Psychologist had on the field during their lifetime and in the current field. Please follow the rubric located on Blackboard for this assignment. This assignment is worth 25 points. Be sure to include:
• Biography information.
• What they are credited for.
• Society’s response to their contributions at the time.
• Include any supporters and/or critics.
• How did they contribute to the field of psychology.

Answer one of the discussion questions below in your post. Post should be at least 250 words.
Integrate your views with those of the textbook and the optional articles or other sources you find; use APA-style citations.
Ch 7: Higher-Order Cognitive Functions in Adulthood
Executive Functioning and Term Limits. What is executive functioning and how does it fare in adulthood? Given its importance in complex decision-making and problem-solving, do you think there should be “term limits” for individuals in key decision-making roles such as political, religious, or business leaders? Should there be mandatory intelligence testing of these individuals every few years as a condition of staying in the role? Why or why not? Using the key concepts from this chapter, explain your view.
Adult Learners at Work. Imagine that you are designing a program for adults over 40 for learning about a new system or process at your current or future place of employment. Based on the research about how adults learn best, describe three specific instructional practices that you would build into your training program. Provide enough detail and context so that other readers can envision what you will do, and why.
Ch 8: Personality in Adulthood
You Choose! Identify a question that occurred to you while you were completing this week’s readings on the psychodynamic, trait, social cognitive, and cognitive perspectives on adult personality development. Write your Discussion Question in italics, then answer it. Reply to two others’ Discussion Questions and posts, as well.
Midlife Crisis. Analyze the research evidence for and against “midlife crisis.” Are your own observations of midlife adults consistent with the research? Why or why not?

Overview
This is the first assignment for your APA Research project. Each assignment builds on previous work so take care in completing this week’s work! By the time you finish the course, you will have first-hand experience constructing and administering a survey, as well as practice in analyzing your results and drawing conclusions.
As you learned from the previous page, you will be conducting non-experimental research using self-report surveys. Because this is your research, you may choose a topic of interest to you.
Before completing this assignment, please read the information on ‘Writing Survey Items’ in section 7.35 of your textbook Links to an external site.. Understanding the information that can be gained from survey items will make this assignment much easier. You will be learning about survey research in more detail next week.
Instructions for APA Project – Assignment # 1 (Survey Topic)
Planning
Please read each bullet point carefully.
This week, you are to choose the topic you would like to research. Choose wisely! In next week’s assignment, you will create a survey using both open-ended and closed-ended items on your your selected topic.
Don’t forget: You can choose to conduct observational or correlational research.
Observational research – your research will describe one variable.
Correlational research – your research will examine the relationship between two variables.
Here is a pdf with some single variable topic ideas to get you started: ObservationalSurveyTopics.pdf. Download ObservationalSurveyTopics.pdf.Don’t be limited to these research questions though. Be creative and try to think of new ideas.
Here are a few correlational topic ideas:
Study habits and GPA
Meditation/exercise/sleep habits and mood
Quarantine and eating/drinking/exercise habits
Living situation (e.g., alone, with friends, family, kids) and stress
Social media use and stress
Important: Your research is not being submitted to an IRB (from your Ethics chapter Links to an external site.: A committee that is responsible for reviewing research protocols for potential ethical problems) so please do not ask about private, sensitive, personal matters such as mental illness, sexuality and the like. Beyond that, have fun creating questions you really want answers to.
Assignment Guidelines
Your assignment should include the following information using a bulleted format and the labels you see here.
Topic:
Generally, what topic are you studying?
For example, sleep quality during quarantine – this is a correlational example. (Please do not choose this topic.)
Who is your population?
For example, anyone impacted by Covid-19.
Based on your topic and population, are there any specific characteristics that your participants need to have in order to be eligible for your study? These required characteristics are called inclusion criteria. Including inclusion criteria means that only people who meet those criteria can participate in your study. You will need to specify this during recruitment.
We don’t need any inclusion criteria in the sleep quality and quarantine example because the population is anyone that has been impacted by covid – which is everyone. However, if I was interested in exploring this relationship in a specific population (e.g., women or people between the ages of 18 and 25), then I would need to specify the inclusion criteria.
Conceptual definitions: Provide a conceptual definition for your two variables.
For example:
Quarantine – isolating at home for 10-14 days.
Sleep quality – includes bedtime, wake time, sleep duration, difficulties falling/staying asleep.
Questions: Without worrying about the format (closed or open-ended) or how you would pose the questions to respondents, what questions related to your topic would you like to find answers to?
For example, Have people’s sleep habits changed during quarantine? Have the number of hours changed, when people go to bed and wake up, or both? Do people feel rested? Are people experiencing difficulties falling and/or staying asleep? What demographic or other factors might be related to sleep changes during quarantine?
Variables: Using the questions above, identify at least 3 measurable aspects of your variables of interest.
For example, 1) quarantine or not, 2) amount of sleep, 3) sleep quality, 4) sleep-wake cycle, 5) sleep difficulties.
Operational definitions: How will you operationally define (i.e., measure) each of your variables of interest?
For example:
Variable 1 – Quarantine
Quarantine – response ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, currently quarantining due to Covid-19
Variable 2 – Sleep Quality
Amount of sleep – hours per night.
Sleep quality – 5-point scale from ‘Very Poor’ to ‘Excellent’.
Sleep-wake cycle – sleep bedtime and wake time for the day.
Sleep difficulties – frequency of difficulties falling asleep and staying asleep, using a 5-point scale from ‘Never’ to ‘Always’.
So we are interested in the relationship between quarantine and sleep. We have one variable to measure quarantine and several to measure sleep.
Hypothesis: What is your hypothesis?
For example, I hypothesize that sleep habits change during quarantine. Specifically, respondents go to sleep later and wake later than before quarantine. Respondents sleep 1 extra hour a night, on average, during quarantine.
Another example is provided on the next page.
Your assignment will pass through Turn It In, so be sure your work is your own.

Develop a proposed PSYCHOLOGY study that can make use of either the between-subjects (independent-sample) or within-subjects (paired sample) t-tests. Identify the grouping variable (and level of measurement) and the dependent variable. Specify the relevant population (sample). Be sure to indicate which t-test you would be using. Write a null and alternative hypothesis.
Complete the following readings from your textbook, Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences:
Chapter 10: The t-test for two Independent Samples
Chapter 11: The t-test for two Related Samples

ANSWER
Study Title: The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Stress Levels among College Students

Research Question: Does mindfulness meditation reduce stress levels among college students?

Grouping Variable (Independent Variable):

Mindfulness meditation group (students who participate in a mindfulness meditation program)

Non-mindfulness meditation group (students who do not participate in a mindfulness meditation program)

Level of Measurement: Nominal

Dependent Variable:

Stress levels measured using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
Population (Sample):

A sample of 100 undergraduate students from a large university
t-Test:

Between-subjects (independent-sample) t-test
Null Hypothesis (H₀):

There is no difference in stress levels between students who participate in a mindfulness meditation program and those who do not participate in a mindfulness meditation program.
Alternative Hypothesis (H₁):

There is a difference in stress levels between students who participate in a mindfulness meditation program and those who do not participate in a mindfulness meditation program.
Procedure:

Randomly assign 50 participants to the mindfulness meditation group and 50 participants to the non-mindfulness meditation group.

Provide the mindfulness meditation group with an 8-week mindfulness meditation program.

Provide the non-mindfulness meditation group with a relaxation and stress management program.

Measure stress levels in both groups using the PSS before and after the intervention.

Conduct a between-subjects (independent-sample) t-test to compare stress levels between the two groups after the intervention.

Expected Results:

Students who participate in a mindfulness meditation program will have lower stress levels after the intervention compared to students who do not participate in a mindfulness meditation program.
Implications:

Mindfulness meditation could be a valuable tool for reducing stress levels among college students.
Ethical Considerations:

Obtain informed consent from all participants.

Protect the confidentiality of participants.

Debrief participants after the study.