Category: Psychology

Read the scenario and answer all questions within your chosen scenario in paragraph form. 350-word minimum on a Word document or PDF.
Jack is 9 and in the third grade. He is restless and disruptive in the classroom and at home. He is unable to focus during class time and is distracting to his classmates. He is often seen wandering around the classroom during a lesson, talking to other students. When he is seated, he fidgets will all items on his desk. He has recently been suspended for climbing on top of the teacher’s desk, multiple times, to see how far he can jump.
Is there anything about the information presented that would lead you to wonder whether Jack might have a neurodevelopmental disorder?
2. If so, what was the information?
If not, why not?
Based on what you have read in the text, how might clinicians go about diagnosing Jack?
How might clinicians suggest treating Jack?

1.Think of a time when you first met a person and formed a very inaccurate impression. What aspects of social cognition contributed to, your false impressions.
Write a brief report (about 2 double spaced pages) APA Format/Times New Roman/ Size 12 Font. The report should describe your personal experiences, thoughts, or feelings and relate them to specific course concepts. This is a personal experience, so shouldn’t have any sources THE ANSWER
Title: A Tale of Misjudgment: Unpacking the Role of Social Cognition
**Introduction**
Social cognition, the mental processes that enable us to understand and navigate the complex social world, plays a pivotal role in shaping our impressions of others. However, these cognitive mechanisms are not always foolproof, and we often find ourselves forming inaccurate impressions of people upon initial encounters. In this report, I will reflect on a personal experience in which I met someone and formed a notably inaccurate impression. I will delve into the aspects of social cognition that contributed to this misjudgment, relating them to specific course concepts.
**The Encounter**
The encounter I am reflecting on occurred during a networking event at a professional conference. I had the opportunity to meet a fellow attendee, whom I’ll refer to as “Alex.” Alex was introduced to me as a keynote speaker, and I immediately assumed that they would be aloof, self-centered, and unapproachable. My false impression of Alex stemmed from various aspects of social cognition, as described below.
**Schemas and Stereotypes**
One prominent aspect of social cognition is the use of schemas and stereotypes, mental shortcuts that help us categorize and process information about others (Myers, 2015). In the case of Alex, I had preconceived schemas about keynote speakers, assuming they would exhibit arrogance and elitism. This stereotype led me to interpret Alex’s confident demeanor and articulate speech as signs of arrogance, reinforcing my initial impression.
**Confirmation Bias**
Confirmation bias, the tendency to seek information that confirms our preexisting beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence (Baron & Branscombe, 2012), also played a role in my misjudgment. I selectively attended to moments when Alex shared their achievements and accolades, reinforcing my perception of arrogance. Simultaneously, I overlooked instances when Alex exhibited humility and engaged in genuine conversations with others.
**Fundamental Attribution Error**
The fundamental attribution error involves attributing people’s behavior to internal characteristics (e.g., personality traits) while neglecting situational factors (Ross & Nisbett, 2011). In my case, I attributed Alex’s confident demeanor solely to their personality, failing to consider the context of being a keynote speaker, where confidence is often a professional requirement. This error led to an inaccurate judgment of Alex’s true character.
**Course Concepts and Reflection**
This experience serves as a striking illustration of the fallibility of social cognition. It reinforces the importance of recognizing the impact of schemas, stereotypes, confirmation bias, and the fundamental attribution error in shaping our impressions of others. By reflecting on this encounter, I have gained a deeper understanding of the complexities of social cognition and the need for cognitive flexibility.
In conclusion, our perceptions of others are often influenced by cognitive shortcuts and biases. My encounter with Alex highlighted the potential pitfalls of forming hasty judgments based on initial impressions. To overcome these biases, it is essential to engage in critical self-reflection, challenge stereotypes, and remain open to revising our impressions as we gather more information about individuals.
**References**
1. Baron, R. A., & Branscombe, N. R. (2012). Social psychology (13th ed.). Pearson.
2. Myers, D. G. (2015). Exploring social psychology (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill.
3. Ross, L., & Nisbett, R. E. (2011). The person and the situation: Perspectives of social psychology. Pinter & Martin.

Describe a stressful event in your life (that you are willing to share) and how it affected your mental and physical wellbeing. What coping tools did you implement to get through the challenge? In light of your studies in mental health and wellness, what might you recommend to someone who is currently experiencing the same stressful event now?
The stressful event in my life is when i lost my father in 2017. i feel guilty till date for i insisted he went to the hospital as he was a diabetic and had pricked his toe with a nail. i was scared he might get a tetanus infection. he went to the hospital and was giving a glucose drip which let to sepsis and he died. still blaming myself till date.

Directions: For this assignment, record and watch two half-hour national (not local) newscasts from different TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News) on the same day (preferably a weekday) as close as possible to the same time – e.g., watch CBS and NBC News at 5:30 pm. Do not do two broadcasts from vastly different times or places. Do not do one local and one national newscast. Do not do a feature news documentary. If you do not have easy access to a TV or access to the shows on your computer, you may compare two comparable news web sites for the same day (e.g., BBC, Fox News, msnbc).
1. List the network and day/time of the newscasts. Make a list of the news stories covered in order and include these lists with your assignment (b e specific – e.g., don’t just say “Afghanistan.) Then answer the following questions:
2. What similarities and what differences in coverage did you see across the two cases? Consider whether stories are included or not on each network and also the prominence given to those stories which are included.
3. Comment on agenda-setting by either or both networks. What are they telling us is important? Be as specific as you can. Suggest possible reasons for these agendas if you can.
4. Do you see examples of biases (political, ideological, economic, social, etc.) in either or both sources? If so, what are they and how were they revealed? Are these biases appropriate or not and why?
5. Do you see any tendency to tell hard news stories as “soft news?” If so, give examples. Do you see the narrative (story) form in these news stories? How is the news made very entertaining? Does this distort the news or make it clearer?
6. How do the pictures complement the verbal part of the story? Are there any cases where the photography significantly enhanced, detracted from, or confused the story? Was the visual part misleading in any way?
7. What would you like to see changed about the coverage on either or both networks? What, if anything, bothered you about these presentations of the news? What particularly impressed you as positive?
Note: This assignment will not work as well if your news day happens to be a day of a major breaking news story that captures a majority of the broadcast. Try to avoid such a day. Also, a weekday is preferable to a weekend, since there is more hard news on weekdays. Finally, I will comment on the quality of each post this week. So please put your last name in your post’s subject heading. This ONE POST answering all questions in an effective manner will count for your week’s participation grade.

Please provide an answer that is 100% original and do not copy the answer to this question from any other website since I am already well aware of this. I will be sure to check this.
Please be sure that the answer comes up with way less than 18% on Studypool’s internal plagiarism checker since anything above this is not acceptable according to Studypool’s standards. I will not accept answers that are above this standard.
I will provide you with some work from the Fredrickson course once you are selected to work on the question 🙂
Please write an essay Minimum length: 700 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages on the most powerful concepts you learned from the second half of the Barbara Frederickson course. Minimum length: 700 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages. The essay must include scholarly language and APA style references.
Requirements: Minimum length: 700 Words Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages
Please provide an answer that is 100% original and do not copy the answer to this question from any other website since I am already well aware of this. I will be sure to check this.
Please be sure that the answer comes up with way less than 18% on Studypool’s internal plagiarism checker since anything above this is not acceptable according to Studypool’s standards. I will not accept answers that are above this standard.
Please be sure to include an introduction paragraph with a clear thesis statement in the last sentence of the introduction paragraph and a conclusion paragraph
Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions
No plagiarism & No Course Hero & No Chegg. The assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Please be sure to include at least one in-text citation in each body paragraph
Please be sure to use credible or scholarly sources

Objective: Apply Erikson’s theory to some common psychosocial concerns of adulthood.
Students need to write a paper in the area of development under the topic “Parenting Styles Determine Behavior of Children”
This paper will be a literature review. Make sure to include support for your claims, we want to know what is out there in the field of psychology about parenting styles and its impact on children’s behavior.
I include some questions to make you reflect about the topic:
Is there any evidence of parenting styles influencing success?
Is there any evidence of parenting styles influencing the expression of emotions?
Is there any evidence of parenting styles influencing future relationships?
The paper should follow APA format. The entire paper should use Times New roman, size 12, double spaced. You need a cover page, an abstract, 3 pages of content and a reference page.

Erik Erikson studied the development of personality over the course of the entire life span. Review Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development and construct your own chart, graph, or other visual that illustrates the stages, their respective conflicts, and a practical example of each stage.
Think about your own personal development and how you relate to Erikson’s stages. For example, how did you develop during the “trust vs. mistrust” stage? Consider which factors may have influenced you during this stage. What events do you remember that influenced your development one way or the other?
When you get to a stage or an age that you have not yet experienced, then you may want to write about how a parent, grandparent, mentor or other person who is developing in this stage of life. You are welcome to choose a character example from a movie or television as long as you can appropriately describe the developmental stage according to Erikson’s model.
Don’t forget to list your references and use citations for your work.

CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: ADULTHOOD
Overview
How can a person live a happy life? How can we better cope with stresses in our lives and become more resilient? Development does not stop at adulthood. We continue to change and grow because life is not static. In early adulthood, most people focus on developing friendships and partnerships as well as developing a work life. In middle adulthood, people are affected by a wide variety of situations, such as becoming a parent, switching careers, caring for aging parents, coping with a chronic illness, or weathering financial issues. For this assignment, you will apply the concepts you’ve learned to analyze a case study focused on middle adulthood or later adulthood.
Preparation
If you have not done so, choose one of the following case studies from your Broderick and Blewitt textbook. Each case study includes a set of questions that can guide your analysis of the pertinent issues for the particular case.
Luis, page 589.
Isabelle, page 630.
If you did not finish your research last week, search the Capella library for peer-reviewed articles. If you’re unfamiliar with the library, the “Finding Articles” section of the Master’s in Psychology Research Guide is a great place to start your search. You must include at least five properly cited resources.
Instructions
The case study analysis should be a maximum of six pages, including the introduction and conclusion, each of which should be roughly one-half page long. The body of the paper should not exceed five pages.
Organize your paper as follows, including headings for each section:
Title Page
Introduction: An introduction that includes an overview of the paper contents, including a brief summary and background information regarding the case study.
Case Study Analysis:
Presenting Challenges: Explain the presenting challenge or challenges and primary issue or issues.
Lifespan Theory: Analyze lifespan development theories to determine the most appropriate theory or theories to apply to the case study.
Intervention Process: Apply the appropriate lifespan development theory to support an identified intervention process.
Individual and Cultural Differences: Describe the potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development for the current age and context described in the case study.
Conclusion: Summarize the case study context, challenges, and interventions.
References: Cite five or more peer-reviewed articles as well as your course text to support your assertions.
Additional Requirements
Written communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: References and citations should be formatted according to current APA style and format. Refer to Evidence and APA as needed.
Number of references: Your paper should include at least five properly cited peer-reviewed articles in addition to the text containing the case study.
Length: 5–6 double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 points.
Refer to the scoring guide to ensure you meet the grading criteria for this assignment.
SCORING GUIDE
Your work will be evaluated using this criteria.
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Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
Competency 1: Analyze how lifespan development theories and related research explain aspects of human growth and behavior at different ages.
Analyze lifespan development theories to determine the most appropriate theory or theories to apply to the case study.
Competency 2: Assess the potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development across the lifespan.
Describe the potential impact of individual and cultural differences on development for the current age and context described in the case study.
Competency 3: Identify evidence-based interventions to address specific developmental issues.
Apply the appropriate lifespan development theory to support an identified intervention process.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the psychological professions.
Convey purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Case Study
Luis is a 52-year-old Cuban-American male who has spent the last 24 years in the human resource field. He is currently a supervisor in the billing department of a midsized hospital in the southeastern part of the United States. He worked hard to obtain a master’s degree while on the job at the hospital and always had high aspirations for himself professionally. Luis has three children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. His first wife Anna, who is 50, works as a preschool teacher in a school nearby. Their children’s ages are 16, 20, and 22. Both older children started to attend college but may have to drop out temporarily due to financial ­difficulties. Luis feels that it is his responsibility to support his ­children’s education, and he has been paying as much of their tuition as he can afford. Luis and his second wife live in a modest home in a community close to Luis’s job and his church, where he is an active member. Luis’s second wife, Sandy, has two boys aged 12 and 14. The younger boy has a serious learning disability and needs extra tutoring and a great deal of parent support to keep up academically. Sandy works part time as a receptionist in a medical practice, allowing her the flexibility to be home when her children return from school. Luis and Sandy support each other and put their family first. Sandy’s widowed mother lives nearby and helps with the ­children on a regular basis.
Recently, Luis has felt that his job is becoming more ­complicated and demanding. He has noted a dramatic increase in the amount of paperwork required and a distinct decrease in the time allotted to meet deadlines. His supervisory responsibilities have expanded to include workers from another unit, a change that has significantly increased his workload. His long-time assistant, who had taken over the management of many daily office tasks, was recently reassigned. Luis’s lower back pain, related to a traffic accident that happened when he was younger, has taken a significant turn for the worse. He is feeling more “on edge” during the day and has resumed taking the painkillers his doctor prescribed. He worries about what would happen if he lost his job, especially with so many people depending upon him. Luis has been instrumental in introducing wellness programs for the hospital employees, and he’s even extended some programs to members of his church. However, he feels that these programs are not for him. His employees might not think he’s capable of being their supervisor if he admits to needing self-help. And, he’s always relied on his faith to get him through hard times.
Discussion Questions
Consider Luis’s situation: Using a scale from 1 (very low) to 10 (very high), assess his life satisfaction, level of happiness, and overall level of well-being. Identify the risks and protective factors that are present in Luis’s life story. What risks and protections are related to his midlife stage, gender, and culture?
What role does religion appear to play in Luis’s life? Assess the benefits and potential problems associated with this part of his story.
Assess Luis’s level of stress. Is it acute? Chronic? What is his way of coping? To what degree can he manage his stress more effectively, and how might you help him do this?
Broderick, P. C., & Blewitt, P. (2019). The Life Span (5th ed.). Pearson Education (US). https://capella.vitalsource.com/books/9780135206157

Part 1: Choose one article from any peer-reviewed journal within the last 10 years, about the type of therapy provided. Please note this should be a research article – typically evaluating or completing research on an intervention within the
Using the questions listed as follows, create a summary and develop a critique of the article from the viewpoint of a scientist seeking the truth. The response should be in the format of a PowerPoint presentation for 5-15 minutes.
What is the topic of the article?
What are some examples of information provided?
Does the article emphasize the history of the theory or therapy
Does the article rely on scientific findings, expert opinion, or case example?
Do the conclusions of the article seem valid?
In a concluding paragraph(s), give your personal evaluation of what was covered in the article – are there areas for further research and discussion?
How does the article/study advance our knowledge and understanding of counseling theory and practice? What might others gain from this? Note: *I’ve included three articles from my school library*

In your post:
Define both mentalism and radical behaviorism. Which do you think more closely relates to ABA in practice today?
Provide three mentalistic statements and then change them to behavior analytic statements.When looking at your three mentalistic statements, what words indicated mentalistic thought, and why?