Category: Psychology

W5: Philosophy of Religion
Course Objective(s): • CO4: Evaluate arguments for and against the existence of God.
• CO6: Evaluate various approaches to the problem of free will.
Please pick one of the following questions to answer for the forum this week:
• With reference to Pike’s article, how could it be said that Divine Omniscience challenges the idea that humans have free will?
• With reference to Anselm’s Ontological Argument for the existence of God, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of his argument as well as his response to Gaunilo.
• Evaluate Aquinas’ argument(s) for God’s existence from efficient causality and/or from motion and evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.
Discussion Guidelines:
• Three posts minimum.
• The initial forum response is due by Thursday at 11:55 p.m. EST and should be a substantive response to the discussion prompt.
• For peer replies, respond to at least two of your classmates by Sunday at 11:55 p.m. EST and give meaningful replies that advance the discussion.
Before you post, please thoroughly edit your writing to ensure it is professional and academic. For more details about the initial post and peer replies are graded, see the linked grading rubric.
Bibliography
“Monotheism.” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/monotheism/(this link opens in a new window/tab) “Abraham.” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/abraham.html(this link opens in a new window/tab) “Atheism and Skepticism with Greek Philosophers.” http://atheism.about.com/od/atheismhistory/a/AncientGreeceSkepticism.htm(this link opens in a new window/tab) “History of Agnosticism.” http://atheism.about.com/od/History-Agnosticism/(this link opens in a new window/tab) “Anselm: Ontological Argument for God’s Existence.” http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-arg/#SH2b(this link opens in a new window/tab) “Thomas Aquinas, ‘The Five Ways.’” http://philosophy.lander.edu/intro/aquinas.shtml(this link opens in a new window/tab) “William Paley.” http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/paley.html(this link opens in a new window/tab) “Skeptical Theism.” http://www.iep.utm.edu/skept-th/(this link opens in a new window/tab) Image Citations
“Cima da Conegliano, God the Father.jpg” By Attributed to Cima da Conegliano – The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN, UK [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10662424
“Anselm-CanterburyVit.jpg” By Unknown, English – http://www.arspublik.com/public-domain-images-saint-anselm/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9490484
“Saint Joseph’s Catholic Church (Central City, Kentucky) – stained glass, St. Thomas Aquinas, detail.jpg” By Nheyob – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34473352
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Answer the following questions: 
1. Compare and contrast Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience.
2. Differentiate between informational and normative social pressures to conform.
3. Explain Asch’s (1951) classic study of conformity.
4. Explain how the minority can enhance the quality of a group’s decision making.
5. Explain the difference regarding social norms between collectivistic cultures versus individualistic cultures.
6. Analyze how social roles lead us to conform to situational expectations.
7. Describe the foot-in-the-door and door-in-theface techniques that lead people to gain compliance.
8. Explain the Milgram experiments on authority.

Cold Reader
Assignment Instructions
Though requirements for
each grant proposal will differ by your chosen interest area and granting
agency, there will be some common elements, including:
·      
Format (e.g. headings/sections) aligned
with the grant proposal specifications
·      
APA form for supporting resources included
in the proposal
·      
Budget and timeline documentation
·      
Background justification, goals,
methodology and evaluation information
For this assignment, you will submit the
most updated working draft of your proposal. In your assignment submission,
make sure that you include the following three components:
1.    
Your working proposal draft. Note that
this working draft will also be used for the peer review assignment (Think Like
a Reviewer Assignment) next week.
2.    
Grant link/description content (e.g. PDF,
website link with requirements) as a comment with the submission. If there is
not a direct link to the information, you will need to create a PDF that
clearly describes the grant proposal sections and contents. Your review cannot
be completed without this information included.
For this assignment, I will need an updated working proposal draft for submission based on the feedback that I was provided with from the professor.  Please see the separate feedback sheet and the notes provided from the professor in each draft.   I  have include all of my drafts including the professor’s feedback to complete an updated working draft of this assignment.   The grant I am trying to get is with NIH.  I am doing a mock grant proposal on  a clinical trial on the Effects of MSBR on healthcare professional.

The Paradox of Choice
Psychology teaches us that choosing, perceiving, remembering, and other cognitive activities involve complex processes that compete for limited mental resources. The human brain is an amazing thing, but even when that brain is young and working well, it can reveal its limitations. Interesting research provides some insight into how our brains manage decision-making. Do you think that making a choice puts big demands on our mental processing system? One line of research suggests that it does.
Let’s examine an experiment that was conducted at a small local grocery store by Sheena Iyengar, a graduate student at Stanford University. She set up a table for tasting jam near the front of the store. Sometimes the table had 6 types of jam; other times there were 24 types.
Iyengar and her colleagues measured two things. First, which condition—6 jams or 24 jams—was more likely to get people to stop and taste the products? And second, which condition—6 jams or 24 jams—produced more sales of the jams that were sampled?
Details of the Study
The experiment took place in a small but popular grocery store near the Stanford University campus. A tasting booth was set up in the store on two consecutive typical weekends. Customers were invited to “come try our Wilkin and Sons jams.” Shoppers were given a $1 off coupon to purchase a jam. The jams were priced between $4 and $6, before discount.
At different times, the booth offered either 6 types of jam or 24 types of jam to try. Jam was not sold at the tasting booth. If a person wanted to buy jam, he or she had to go to the shelves, find the jam from a set of 28 flavors of the Wilkin and Sons brand, as well as other jams regularly available. In other words, purchasing one of the jams required the shoppers to make the effort to find a particular jam on the shelves, just as they would on a typical shopping day.
The two experimental conditions in this study are:
A table with 6 jars of jam to sample
A table with 24 jars of jam to sample
A total of 242 customers approached the booth when there were 24 jars on the table.
A total of 260 customers approached the booth when there were 6 jars on the table.
Which table do you think had more customers stop and taste the jam? Take a look at the results below.
60% of the 242 customers (142) stopped at the 24 jam table
40% of the 260 customers (104) stopped at the 6 jam table
More people (and a higher percentage) stopped when there were 24 jars on the table than when there were only 6 jars. This suggests that lots of choices capture our attention and draw us in. Interestingly, customers actually tasted about the same number of jams in the two conditions: usually one or two jams.
The real test in this experiment is found in the amount of jam that was sold. Which table do you think sold more jam? Take a look at the results below.
Of the customers stopping at the 24 jam table, only 3% (4 customers) used the coupon to buy jam sometime in the following week.
Of the customers stopping at the 6 jam table, 30% (34 customers) used the coupons to buy jam during the following week.
Statistically, there is a very strong difference between these two outcomes.
This result is called “the paradox of choice.” You might think that more options leads to greater likelihood that you will find something you like, and consequently you will be more likely to purchase something under those conditions. But Iyengar and Lepper found the opposite. An extensive number of items seemed to shut people down, making them far less likely to make a choice to purchase one item than when their list was very limited. Why would people buy fewer products when they were given more choices?
For this assignment you are to submit a 2 page response using essay format. First, explain the results of the experiment described above. Why do you think more choices made it more difficult to make a decision? Second, describe a time in your life when you had to make a decision and found it difficult to do so. How many choices did you have? How did you go about evaluating these choices? In the end, what decision did you come to? In hindsight, did you make the right decision? At that time, if you had more or less choices, do you think your decision would have been different? Explain.  

preparation for this assessment, please do the following.
Review the Case Studies [PDF] Download Case Studies [PDF].
Select a case study.
Use the Case Study Assessment Form [DOCX] Download Case Study Assessment Form [DOCX]worksheet to note symptoms observed in the case study.
Locate one peer-reviewed journal article on the diagnosis and one peer-reviewed journal article on the proposed treatment.
Use the Capella University Library to find your articles.
Instructions
Download and complete the Case Study Assessment Form [DOCX] Download Case Study Assessment Form [DOCX]based on the case study you selected. Carefully follow the directions on the form.
Submit your completed form.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
References: The course text and at least two peer-reviewed journal articles (one on your chosen diagnosis and one on your chosen treatment). Use additional references as needed to support your assertions.
Written communication: Written communication is free from errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Citations and references are formatted according to the current APA style and formatting.
Refer to Academic Writer for guidance in using proper APA style. See the Evidence and APA section of the Writing Center for instructions on accessing and using Academic Writer.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

The requirements for this paper are 5 FULL pages and no more than 6 pages. The
APA style Title Page and the APA style Reference sections are required and will be in
addition to the 5-to-6 pages of body content. Less than 5 pages of body copy will not
be considered a satisfactory fulfillment of the assignment. (With the title page and
references pages, the total number of pages will be 7+ pages.)
1) Describe the results from your articles (this is where you will use those 5
study references). Mention what types of experiments were conducted, but
do not repeat the procedure step by step. Explain how the results affected
the way we currently understand the topic. If there are controversies in the
field, point them out.
2) Write the body using APA style (e.g., title page, reference page, no
plagiarism, references with “hanging indent,” double-spaced, etc.). In this
Assignment, some of the most important issues are citations-in-text and the
reference page. A few minor deviations from format will not generally affect
your grade. However, significant lack of following APA guidelines will affect
your grade. Lack of acknowledging sources appropriately can also be
problematic. All references in the text need to appear in the Reference
section and vice versa, as well as done per APA style guidelines.
3) Add in the Title Page and References list page(s).
4) Abstract – is not required for this assignment/paper.
5) Remember proper use of Grammar and Language.
6) Flow of the Paper – (Do not just list the 5 studies). Make it pleasant to
read.
7) A Brief Summary – summarize the major points of your review. Stress the
importance of these results

What ethical issues have arisen in psychological research, and how have these cases changed the way research is conducted? Please explain each in four sentences.
THIS PAPER DOES NOT NEED TO BE 550 WORDS I ONLY NEED 4 sentences.

In this course you have looked at the history of the field of psychology, examining how one movement led to another and how the surrounding culture and level of knowledge affected the field. This final paper requires you to focus on one theorist, analyzing their contributions as well as situating them in the context of the history of psychology. In particular, you will:
Outline the individual’s biography and professional history.
Detail their theories and central concerns.
Describe and evaluate criticism of their ideas and work.
Place their work in its historical context and within the history of psychology.
Explain their influence on the field of psychology in the short term.
State and defend your opinion about whether their influence was beneficial and/or harmful.
Offer your position on whether their influence is still felt today, and how (or how not).
Course objectives covered in this project include CO 1, CO 2, CO 3, CO 4, CO 7
GUIDELINES
Your project should be a research paper of between 2000 and 3300 words (8 to 12 pages). Please write your paper according to APA Style. You may refer to the textbook for supporting evidence, but you must also use at least five additional credible sources outside of your textbook.
Be sure your paper has:
A title page. 
An introduction (that clearly states your thesis). 
Full development of your ideas supported by cited sources.
A conclusion restating your main point.
A reference list in APA Style that should exactly match your in-text citations.
All reference material should be acquired through your personal research. Acceptable sources include the following:
Biographies/autobiographies 
Books or original research papers by historic researchers 
Peer-reviewed journal articles 
Review papers from scientific journals 
Scholarly websites 
Papers written by historians and philosophers of science

Read the textbook and the attached article (Miller, Chen, Glover-Graf, & Kranz (2009). Name and apply one sociocultural factor and one psychodynamic mechanism that influence their negative attitudes towards having personal relationships with people with disabilities. How can people overcome their their negative attitudes towards personal relationships with people with disabilities. Use the attached article and textbook to answer this question.
Attachments
Miller, Chen, Glover-Graf, & Kranz 2009 Relationships.pdf
Guidelines for Assignment:
Grammar and Spelling: Double space. Proofread. Errors will decrease your grade.
Paper Structure: Your paper must have an introduction and a conclusion paragraph. A paragraph must be longer than one sentence. Use as many pages as needed to properly address each question but there is a minimum of 2 pages of text, double spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman.
Clarity: All concepts or issues are clearly stated and explained with an understanding of the material. Integrate textbook and article content within responses. Use of Textbook Appropriate use of terminology and concepts in the textbook. Terms must be used properly. The depth of information of the concepts and terms addressed. References: Use the attached article and textbook to answer questions. Cite references in the body of the paper. You must have a reference page and cite references in the body of the paper. The article and the textbook should be in your references which is the last page of the paper called “References”.

what changes happen in boys in adolosence stage:
1 Emotionaly
2 psychologycaly
3 physicaly
Please make the similarity and AI less than 10%