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1a. Currently, there is there is little to no published research literature on the impact of teacher scaffolding for students with learning disabilities. Based on the background materials, explore 3 methods that teachers can adapt to scaffold the learning of students with learning disabilities in a classroom setting.
1b. Identify some of the key resources a teacher needs to have in order to develop proper scaffolding for the lesson.

Organizational leaders must understand how to motivate employees in a variety of means (both extrinsic and intrinsic). Research the major motivational theories, and select 3 theories to examine, analyze, and discuss.
For each of the motivational theories, concentrate on the following:
Briefly describe each theory (history, foundation, model, and application).
Discuss the strength and weakness of each theory.
Explain options and strategies that an organization can utilize to apply this theory to motivate employees.
Select 1 theory to implement.
Develop a specific method for implementation explaining your rationale for the selection of this theory and your proposed implementation design.

We began the course by considering Cialdini’s click-whirr metaphor for persuasion. Now, at the completion of the course, to what extent do you think that automatic versus controlled processing is important in persuasion? How do automatic and controlled processes interact with the other major entities of persuasion (source, message, and audience) to determine the effectiveness of persuasion attempts? Be specific in your discussion and be sure to reference your course materials.

Research and define each of the 3 following group productivity and performance theories:
Social facilitation theory
Loafing theory
Integrated theory
How does each one relate to the social identity theory?
How does each one impact learning and change within your chosen organization?

Explain how happiness is affected by social relationships, work, leisure, and religion. Access and read the GCU Statement on the Integration of Faith and Work. How might a person with the Christian worldview (CWV) explain how the CWV influences social relationships, moral attitudes, and moral behaviors?

Ms. Seeker
Ms. Seeker is a 23 year old medical assistant who was hospitalized after she recently attempted to slash her wrists with a tin can. She told the staff on admission, “I don’t really need to be here.” Three months before admission she learned her mother was pregnant and she began drinking heavily in order to “sleep at night.” During her heavy drinking she began sleeping around in a variety of 1 night stands. Before admission she reported feeling panicky and having the feeling like she was removed from her body and in a trance. At one point she claims she heard a voice telling her to jump off a bridge.
At admission to the hospital, Ms. Seeker appeared disheveled and frail. She was cooperative and coherent and looked forward to being free of her anxiety. She reported feelings of loneliness and inadequacy and brief periods of depression and anxiety since adolescence. She claimed that she was “just an empty shell that is transparent to everyone.”
Ms. Seeker’s parents divorced when she was three and she was raised by her grandmother who was an alcoholic. She had night terrors and had to sleep with her grandmother. She was sent to a boarding school when she was 6 years old when she reports she was sexually abused by a teacher. As an adolescent she had an active but unsatisfying sex life but her relationships with men would end abruptly after she became angry with them for disappointing her in some way. She could not establish a stable living arrangement with roommates with whom she would often become quite jealous and angry. She was living alone at the time of admission.
Questions:
What is her diagnosis?
What are the symptoms that helped you make this diagnosis? What diagnostic criteria do they relate to?
What are two other possible diagnoses and why did you not choose them?
What is her prognosis?

Summary and Background of the Rosenhan’s Study in 1973
Rosenhan’s 1973 study aimed to investigate the reliability of staff in psychiatric hospitals to identify the sane from the insane. He wanted to see if people who posed as mentally ill would be identified by staff in psychiatric hospitals as sane rather than insane. The participants he used had never been diagnosed with a mental illness.
Rosenhan asked eight ‘sane’ people to telephone psychiatric hospitals for urgent appointments, complaining of hearing unclear voices saying ‘thud, hollow, empty’. All eight were admitted to the hospital; all but one was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the other with manic-depressive psychosis. Upon admission, all pseudo-patients stopped showing any symptoms and took part in ward activities.
The average length of stay was 19 days. All participants had agreed to stay until they had convinced staff they were no longer ill. On release, the pseudo-patients were given the diagnosis of schizophrenia ‘in remission’. In a second follow-up study, one hospital was told that sometime over the next three months, one or more pseudo-patients would try to be admitted, and hospital staff was asked to rate the patients who presented themselves on a scale of 1-10 on the likelihood of them being a pseudo-patient. 44% were judged by at least one member of staff to be a pseudo-patient. Rosenhan concluded that we cannot reliably distinguish the sane from the insane and that hospitalization and labelling can lead to depersonalization, powerlessness, and segregation, which are counter-therapeutic.
Student Misconceptions
Whilst the procedure in this study might seem straightforward, this is probably one of the few studies students will encounter, which is a field study. It also has elements of participant observation, as well as self-report. Rosenhan himself was one of the participants in the study and participated as a pseudo-patient. It must be stressed that the participants did not have, nor had, any mental illness previously. They changed their names, and some changed their profession (some were psychiatrists and psychologists). They all complained only once of hearing a voice saying ‘thud, empty, hollow’ but once admitted to the hospital behaved normally, apart from taking notes whilst in there.
Read the content above and the Rosenhan Study Article, then address the following questions.
Remember to provide at least 3 to 4 sentences in your responses to the questions.
Please remember that if you use a resource, use APA formatting.
What happened if the pseudo-patients were given medication?
How did the pseudo-patients get out?
Were the other patients suspicious?
What happened during their stay in the hospital?
What happened to the pseudo-patients when they were released?
Could this happen today?

Discuss the proper placement and usages of a table and a figure within the manuscript.
Define the four general writing guidelines using APA style. Why is it important to write using these guidelines when communicating your study? Explain.

There were stylistic differences between East Coast rappers/hip-hop artists and the West Coast rappers/gangsta rappers. Identify an artist from each of the coasts and share one of the songs (use the mashup tool) by each of these artists. What is similar and what is different about these musical styles and performances? What musical influences (blues? R&B? rock?) do you hear in each style of rap?
In response to at least three of your peers, when responding to your peers this week, choose another song by one of the artists (use the mashup tool) your peers has chosen and explain how this is similar or different to what your peer has shared with the class.When sharing your musical selections with the class, you may use the mashup tool for YouTube. If you are uncomfortable with that or would like to post a traditional text response, that is acceptable as well. Below are the Mashup direction should you choose to use that option. Using Mashup is NOT mandatory.
How to Create a YouTube Mashup How to Create a YouTube Mashup – Alternative Formats
YouTube Instructions YouTube Instructions – Alternative Formats

Part 1: Organizational Behavior Field
Throughout this course, you had an opportunity to identify and study the field of Organizational Behavior and evaluate OB techniques. Now you will focus on OB positions that are used successfully in business.
Review your prior assignments, and research scholarly definitions of OB, and then define the study of OB in your own words.
What do you feel is the most important aspect of the study of OB?
Why do you feel this is the most important aspect?
Select an organization, and identify 3 types of OB career opportunities that are available in this company. Give a brief job description of each one.
Some of the career opportunities that you identify may include the following:
Human resource planner
Career planning specialist
Affirmative action planner
Performance appraiser
Recruiter
Safety manager
Trainer
Select 1 of the 3 career opportunities that you identified, and describe the specific education, training, skills, and background that are needed for that particular career opportunity.
What aspects and activities of that career opportunity appeal to you the most?
Identify the tools and skills that are regularly used by OB practitioners to help improve organizations and address workplace issues. Which specific tools and skills are currently used by your organization?
Part 2: Complete the following tasks:
Complete the following statements based on your experience in your current job, or interview someone who is currently employed, and have them fill in the blanks:
My happiest time on this job is __________.
My fears regarding my job or employment include __________.
As an employee of an organization, I like __________.
Now, look at the responses from the point of view of an OB specialist, and answer the following:
How would you use this qualitative information to improve the work environment and implement changes?
What quantitative metrics could you put in place to measure the improvements and success of the change you implemented?