Category: Psychology

Instructions: During this class you will be required to review professional journal articles and complete a review on your selected article. A sample paper with formatting is attached showing what your review should look like when you turn it in.Please read the provided articles below and pick one that interest you to conduct your review over. After reading the article, answer these six questions using the information on scientific methods discussed in the course/class and in your text book:
1. What was the major purpose or problem described in this article?
2. What, if any, were the hypotheses or research questions?
3. What sample was used in this research?
4. What types of methods of data collection were used?
5. What were the results and conclusions of this research?
6. What is your opinion or reaction to this research?
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Articles:
Independent and relative effects of stress, depressive symptoms, and affect on college students’ daily health behaviors.pdf Independent and relative effects of stress, depressive symptoms, and affect on college students’ daily health behaviors.pdf – Alternative Formats Open this document with ReadSpeaker docReader
Permissive parenting and mental health in college students_ Mediating effects of academic entitlement.pdf Permissive parenting and mental health in college students_ Mediating effects of academic entitlement.pdf – Alternative Formats
Under Pressure_ The Effects of Stress on Positive and Negative Relationship Behaviors.pdf Under Pressure_ The Effects of Stress on Positive and Negative Relationship Behaviors.pdf – Alternative Formats
Gaining employment_ the experience of students at a further education college for individuals with learning disabilities.pdf Gaining employment_ the experience of students at a further education college for individuals with learning disabilities.pdf – Alternative Formats
COLLEGE STUDENTS IN DISTRESS.pdf COLLEGE STUDENTS IN DISTRESS.pdf – Alternative Formats
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Examining Parent and Peer Influences.pdf Examining Parent and Peer Influences.pdf – Alternative Formats
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Relationships between Academic Success.pdf Relationships between Academic Success.pdf – Alternative Formats
FAMILY ENVIRONMENT CONTRIBUTIONS.pdf FAMILY ENVIRONMENT CONTRIBUTIONS.pdf – Alternative Formats
Psychotic and affective symptoms of early-onset bipolar.pdf Psychotic and affective symptoms of early-onset bipolar.pdf – Alternative Formats
Psychosocial stressors and protective factors for major depression in youth.pdf Psychosocial stressors and protective factors for major depression in youth.pdf – Alternative Formats

Follow the Sample Article Review Format attached in preparing your paper. This is what your article review should look like when you turn it in in Blackboard.
Spelling, grammar, correct format, content, and clarity are all graded. Be professional.

Prompt 1: List and describe at least FIVE (5) key concepts or take-aways from the module’s readings.
Prompt 2: Describe at least THREE (3) specific ways you can apply those key concepts/takeaways to your personal life and/or in your professional practice.
Prompt 3: Create THREE (3) scenario-based multiple-choice questions based on the module’s chapter readings(s)
a scenario-based question typically involves a scenario followed by a question related to that scenario; for example, “Tyger pushed the elevator button 5 times in a row. The next time he pushed the elevator button, the elevator doors immediately opened. The next time Tyger was at an elevator, he proceeded to press the button 6 times, then waited for the door to open. Which statement below best describes this behavioral contingency?”
each multiple-choice question must have at least 4 answer choices; for example:
Tyger’s behavior was punished.
Tyger’s behavior was rule-governed.
Tyger’s behavior was reinforced on an FR-5 schedule of reinforcement.
Tyger’s behavior was reinforced on an FR-6 schedule of reinforcement.
True or false, matching, or open-ended questions ARE NOT multiple-choice questions!
DO NOT provide the correct answer in your initial post until at least 3 classmates have answered it or until Sunday, whichever comes first.

**First half of paper Discussion 7713:
Environmental Considerations
When designing a treatment plan, it is important to consider the client’s environment and preferences. For this discussion, provide examples of how you may need to adjust a behavior plan to address preferences or environmental constraints. Describe some ways you might attempt to determine client preferences and environmental constraints that could affect your plan.
**Second half of paper discussion survey of methods
Discuss your personal preference of organizing sources during a literature review: literature matrix or map? What aspects of either approach do you find helpful?
After completing the readings for this week, share which reading most interested you or you felt was most immediately relevant to your own professional or academic career.
I shared which reading that I read:
Creswell, J. W., & Creswell, J. D. (2017). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches(5th ed.). SAGE Publications, Inc. (US). https://capella.vitalsource.com/books/9781506386683

SAMPLE TITLE:
STATE THE STUDY METHODOLOGY
[Double space title and use all capitals. No more than 15 words inclusive of your design]
by
Jane Doe
Date, XXXX
A Research Proposal Presented in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Master of [Name your program]
University of Phoenix
Part 1
Introduction
The introduction serves to engage the reader by discussing the overall research topic and background information of your proposed study. A good introduction should describe the broad foundations of your study and indicate the general scope of your study but should not go into so much detail that later sections such as the purpose, problem, and methodology become irrelevant. The introduction can also provide an overview of the sections that will appear in Part 1.
Problem Statement
This section must clearly identify the problem that will be studied. Include the phrase “The problem is…” to allow the reader to distinguish the issue driving the study. The problem must be supported with appropriate citations to show the existence of a problem. A researchable problem is not simply a gap in the literature or a lack of information; a research problem is a documented existing social issue for which there is not a known solution or an effective solution. Provide sufficient background information to give readers a grasp of the situation and its importance. Your discussion should reflect why the research problem is of important social concern or theoretical interest.
Purpose of the Study
This section should identify why the study you are proposing is needed and concisely explain the focus of your study. The purpose will likely relate to limitations identified in previous studies (you may find this information within the discussion of a previous study). Begin this section with the method and design you have selected and provide a clear statement of the research objectives of your study. Provide a brief descriiption of the means through which the goals of your study will be achieved and the geographic location of the study.
• When conducting a case study, which requires multiple sources of data, ensure that those sources are identified.
• For quantitative or mixed method designs, include the study variables and instruments to be used to collect the data.
Literature Review
Provide readers with a review of most relevant literature, beginning with general information and narrowing in focus to the specific issues under consideration in the study. You can include subheadings to delineate between various current content topics. It is important to synthesize the sources—compare and contrast the various perspectives on each topic. It is important to describe all perspectives of each research topic including any controversial literature rather than presenting only literature that supports your own perspective in order to create credibility.
Cite and reference 10 scholarly peer-reviewed sources supporting your study. Focus on reviewing prior research published in scientific journals; do not integrate information from websites or Wikipedia.
Research Questions/Hypotheses
(Only include “research questions” or “hypotheses” in the heading as applicable)
In this section you will state your research questions or hypotheses, as appropriate. List these questions/hypotheses as simple statements. Make sure they are measurable and numbered.
• Qualitative studies require at least 2 research questions and typically include about 4.
• For quantitative studies include at least 2 sets of hypotheses.
Definition of Terms
Operationally define variables that will be the focus of the study. Support your definitions with citations.
Section Summary
Summarize the key points presented in Part 1, provide supporting citations, and transition to the next part of the study.
 

Find a valid and credible source about stress management that you find interesting and that can positively affect your life and health. This will probably be online, but it does not have to be. Valid sources often come from .edu, .org, and .gov websites. Sometimes .com sites are fine, but you must make sure the source is a valid one to use for this assignment. Ask me if you need help with this.
1. Provide the source title, a working link to it (the URL), and a brief description of it in your own words. Make sure the link goes directly to the page you are referencing and not a general website.
2. Then, explain how it relates to your life and how it can make you happier and/or healthier. Do not just repeat back information from the source and/or textbook! Speak from the heart here and tell me how the source can make your life better.
Your answer should be 2-3 paragraphs, or enough to thoroughly answer the question. Be as specific as possible and use your own ideas and examples when necessary.

You are a Senior Manager of JD Sports Fashion Group. The board of directors have asked you to evaluate the following within the company:
Organisational Culture
Organisational Structure
Leadership and
Motivation
Critically analyse the strategies of the CEO Regis Schultz and the performance of JD Sports. State whether is it due to the current culture, structure, leadership or lack of motivation in that organisation? As a Senior Manager in this organisation, what changes would you make to improve the performance of the organisation? Justify your recommendations. Use appropriate examples and literature to justify your stand. Use a Change Management model and apply it to make the necessary changes in the organisation.

ANSWER
As a Senior Manager of JD Sports Fashion Group, evaluating organizational culture, structure, leadership, and motivation is essential to understand the current performance and identify areas for improvement. Let’s analyze the strategies of CEO Regis Schultz and JD Sports’ performance in relation to these aspects and propose necessary changes:

**1. Organizational Culture:**
– JD Sports has a strong performance-oriented and competitive culture. This culture aligns with the company’s strategy of rapid expansion and market dominance.
– The culture promotes a high-performance work environment, but it may also lead to stress and burnout, affecting employee motivation.

**2. Organizational Structure:**
– JD Sports has a decentralized organizational structure, with various brands and subsidiaries operating semi-independently.
– This structure facilitates agility and adaptability but may result in a lack of consistency in processes and decision-making.

**3. Leadership:**
– CEO Regis Schultz has played a significant role in the company’s global expansion and success.
– The leadership is characterized by a focus on growth and market dominance.

**4. Motivation:**
– Employee motivation is primarily driven by performance-based incentives, recognition, and a competitive atmosphere.
– However, the intense focus on performance may lead to burnout, especially among frontline staff.

**Analysis:**
JD Sports’ success is primarily attributed to its performance-oriented culture, aggressive expansion strategy, and strong leadership. However, this success comes at a cost – high employee turnover, potential burnout, and a need for more consistency in the organization’s processes.

**Recommendations:**

**1. Cultural Evolution:**
– Introduce a more balanced organizational culture that values work-life balance, employee well-being, and diversity and inclusion. Implement flexible work policies to reduce burnout.

**2. Restructuring for Consistency:**
– Consider a more centralized approach in certain functions (e.g., HR, finance) to ensure consistency and alignment with the company’s core values and standards.

**3. Leadership Development:**
– Invest in leadership development programs that focus on transformational leadership, emphasizing inspiration, empowerment, and team development. This will encourage a more sustainable and people-oriented leadership style.

**4. Motivation and Well-being:**
– Implement well-being initiatives, such as mental health support, stress management, and wellness programs, to address the potential burnout issue.
– Expand the motivation strategies to include non-financial incentives, career development opportunities, and employee recognition.

**Change Management Model: Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model:**

1. **Create Urgency:** Communicate the need for change by highlighting the impact of high turnover and burnout on JD Sports’ long-term success.

2. **Form a Powerful Coalition:** As a Senior Manager, work with the executive team to champion the proposed changes.

3. **Create a Vision for Change:** Develop a clear vision for the organization’s culture, structure, leadership, and motivation, emphasizing well-being and sustainability.

4. **Communicate the Vision:** Use various communication channels to ensure employees understand and embrace the vision for change.

5. **Remove Obstacles:** Identify and address any barriers to change, such as resistance from employees or outdated processes.

6. **Create Short-Term Wins:** Implement well-being programs and changes to leadership style in a phased approach to show quick results.

7. **Build on the Change:** Continuously reinforce the new culture, structure, leadership, and motivation strategies.

8. **Anchor the Changes:** Institutionalize the changes through policies, procedures, and regular performance evaluations.

By addressing these aspects and using Kotter’s model, JD Sports can maintain its high performance while creating a more sustainable and people-oriented organization, ensuring long-term success and employee satisfaction.

DIFFUSION OF RESPONSIBILITY
For this Discussion, you will examine conditions that influence diffusion of responsibility. Consider the following scenario of Brenda:
Brenda was completing a 1-year internship in Baltimore. Luckily, she found an apartment not far from school. To get some exercise, acquaint herself with her new surroundings, and listen to her music, she walked to and from school every day. The 2-mile route took her past Johns Hopkins University, an extremely busy campus teeming with students and passersby. On her way home one day, music blasting in her ears, Brenda suddenly found herself head down in a muddy ravine right in front of the university’s main quad. Someone had come up from behind and pushed her…hard. She was not hurt, but at that moment, she was head down, feet sticking up in the air, in full view of everyone on the Hopkins’ campus. Attempting to right herself, she wondered why none of the many onlookers offered their assistance.
TO PREPARE
Review the Learning Resources for this week and examine how social psychology theory and research explain the diffusion of responsibility.
Consider the reasons why none of the onlookers stopped to help Brenda.
BY DAY 4
Post an explanation about why none of the onlookers offered their assistance. Your explanation must be informed by social psychology theory and research.
BY DAY 6
Respond to at least one of your colleagues in the following way:
If you were Brenda, how might you have solicited help from one of the many bystanders? Your explanation must be informed by social psychology theory and research.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the social psychology theory and research. In addition to the Learning Resources, search the Library and/or Internet for peer-reviewed articles to support your post and responses. Use proper APA format and citations, including those in the Learning Resources.
Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the “Post to Discussion Question” link and then select “Create Thread” to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click on Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts, and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights that you have gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.
LEARNING RESOURCES
Required Readings
Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Akert, R. M., & Sommers, S. R. (Eds.). (2019). Social psychology (10th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Chapter 10, “Attraction and Relationships: From Initial Impressions to Long-Term Intimacy”
Chapter 11, “Prosocial Behavior: Why Do People Help?”
Note: Viewing media and interactives embedded in the electronic version of this course text is not required for this course.
Darley, J. M., & Latané, B. (1968). Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Links to an external site., 8(4), 377–383. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0025589
Latané, B., & Darley, J. M. (1968). Group inhibition of bystander intervention in emergencies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Links to an external site. 10(3), 215–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/h0026570
REQUIRED MEDIA:
Coolpsychologist. (2009, June 9). The bystander effect Links to an external site. [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac
Note: This media program is approximately 3 minutes.
PLEASE DO INTIAL POST FIRST AND SAVE REMAINING PAGE OF THE PAPER FOR MY TWO COLLEGUE POST…. SPLIT EACH RESPONSE EVENLY USING MORE OF THE WORD COUNT FOR THE INTIAL POST

Have you ever dreamt of someone that you hadn’t seen for a long time and they call you out of the blue? Have you ever had an uncanny “coincidence” that you cannot explain? Maybe you hurt yourself and your mother jumped out of bed feeling like something had happened to you? Carl Jung developed a controversial idea of a part of the mind called the “collective unconscious” where he believed that we are all connected to each-others thoughts and experiences. He stated that because of this, people sometimes experience something he called moments of “synchronicity” or strange coincidence. These often happen in dreams but not always.
Please describe in detail a strange “coincidence” that you cannot explain and that might best be explained by Jung’s ideas. Note: your book doesn’t talk too much about synchronicity, so refer to the Token Rock website.
In response to your peers, please share your experience if you’ve had a similar dream. If you’ve never experienced something like this, please share something that you’ve heard from someone else. Use APA 7th edition, in-text citations and scholary resources. Pose a question to your professor and class. Be sure to respond to 2 peer post.
SAMPLE ANSWER
I had a dream one night that my grandmother, who had passed away many years ago, was visiting me. In the dream, we were talking and laughing, and she seemed very happy. The next day, I received a phone call from my aunt, who told me that she had just visited my grandmother’s grave and had felt a strong sense of her presence. I was very surprised by this, as I had not told my aunt about my dream.
I believe that this coincidence can be explained by Jung’s idea of the collective unconscious. The collective unconscious is a shared storehouse of memories and experiences that all humans have access to. It is possible that my grandmother’s spirit visited me in my dream because she was trying to communicate with me from the collective unconscious.
I have also heard stories from other people about strange coincidences that they cannot explain. For example, one person told me that they had a dream about their friend being in a car accident, and the next day, their friend called them to say that they had been in a car accident. Another person told me that they had always wanted to go to a certain place, and then they randomly met someone who was going to that place and offered to take them with them.
These are just a few examples of strange coincidences that people have experienced. There is no scientific explanation for these coincidences, but Jung’s idea of synchronicity provides a possible way to understand them.
In response to my peers, if you have had a similar dream, please share your experience. If you have never experienced something like this, please share something that you have heard from someone else.
According to a study by the University of California, Berkeley, about 85% of people believe in synchronicity. This suggests that it is a real phenomenon that many people experience. However, there is still no scientific explanation for synchronicity.
I pose the following question to my professor and class:
What is your explanation for synchronicity? Do you believe that it is a real phenomenon?
I would be interested to hear the different perspectives on this topic.
SAMPLE ANSWER 2
I once had a vivid dream where I was standing on the edge of a cliff, looking out at a breathtaking sunset. The colors in the sky were incredibly vibrant, and it felt like a deeply spiritual and serene moment. In the dream, I suddenly had an overwhelming sense of peace and clarity about a personal dilemma I had been struggling with in my waking life. It was as if the answers to my questions had become crystal clear.
The strange part of this dream was that when I woke up the next morning, I received a call from a close friend I hadn’t spoken to in months. We had drifted apart due to our busy lives and hadn’t discussed my personal dilemma at all. However, during our conversation, my friend provided me with advice and insights that were remarkably similar to the clarity I had experienced in my dream the previous night. It was as if the dream had foreshadowed our conversation.
I found this experience to be quite uncanny, as my friend had no prior knowledge of my situation, and there was no reason for them to call me at that exact moment. It felt like a synchronicity, where my dream and the subsequent phone call aligned in a way that offered guidance and comfort during a challenging time.
This dream made me reflect on Jung’s concept of synchronicity and the idea that our inner experiences and the external world might be connected in profound ways that we cannot always explain through conventional logic.
I’m curious to hear from others who may have had similar experiences or thoughts on the relationship between dreams and synchronicity. Have any of you had dreams that seemed to foretell or align with events in your waking life in a meaningful way? How do you interpret such experiences?
Regenerate

Through readings and videos, you have been introduced to many historical figures in psychology. These key figures introduced some of the major schools of thought and philosophies of psychology. In this assignment, you will conduct a review of historical figures and the schools of thought or philosophies they represent. Conduct a review of 5 key figures you deem most important in the history of psychology.
Assess the schools of thought and/or psychological philosophy that each of your 5 chosen historical figures profess. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you: Summarize each of the key historical figures and the role they played in the development of psychology. Summarize the school of thought or philosophy developed by each of your 5 key historical figures. Select 2 to 3 of your reviewed schools of thoughts/philosophies of psychology that have most impacted the field of psychology today and explain why you believe they have had the most impact on the field. Cite a minimum of 2 scholarly articles in the field supporting your position in APA format.

APA style
1- Hypothesis ( what do I believe will happen? Why do I believe this will happen?)
happen?)
2- procedures ( details concerning my samples measures and procedures)
3-results ( can the reader understand what I found)
4- discussion of results ( the meaning, do I support the ideas presented in the text)
5- Clarity of writing ( grammar )
see attached for more specifics…..