Category: Psychology

Have you ever had a conversation with someone much older than you? What would you find out about the societal effects and behaviors of the “advancements” of technology? These talks can be riddled with gems and bits of information that can illuminate answers and connect historical dots. This assignment will allow you to explore the impact of technology on the lives of everyday people.
In this assignment, you will conduct an interview with someone 60 (or older) years old. Below you will find a list of questions to help guide you through the interview, but feel free to ask them any other questions you see fit. You should record their answers so that you can refer to them later.
Using the media literacy skill of grouping, address the following:
How are you and your interviewee alike? How are you different? Identify three ways that you and your interviewee are alike. Identify three ways that you are different. What conclusions can you draw from this? Discuss how what you found related to this week’s readings and videos.
Interview questions:
Do you remember life with early technology like radio, “talkies,” TV, video, CDs?
When did you listen to the radio? With whom? Where? What else did you do? What did you listen to? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When you got a TV, how did things change? When did you watch TV? With whom? Where? What else did you do? What did you watch? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you get cable? Multiple TVs? How did that change what and how you watched TV? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you used to go to the movies? With whom? Why? How has that experience changed compared to today? How did your quality-of-life change with this technology?
When did you get a VCR, DVD, TiVo? How do you use it? How has your quality of life changed with this technology?
How do you use the computer? How often? Why do you use the computer? How has your quality of life changed with this technology?
How has the quality of media products changed? How has the content of media products changed?
Pew Research Center online survey findings in Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected livesLinks to an external site., February 29, 2012. “Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders…”
Pew Research Center study findings of: Share of those 65 and older who are tech users has grown in the past decadeLinks to an external site., by Michelle Faverio, , January 13, 2022. “There are still notable differences in tech use between U.S. adults under 30 and those 65 and older. But on several fronts, adoption of key technologies by those in the oldest group has grown markedly since about a decade ago…”
Using the information you collected from the activity outlined above, write a 500 word paper using the Make sure you review the Writing Assignment Organizer to assist you in completing your work.
Use the media literacy skill of grouping (defined above) to help you organize and present your findings.
Don’t forget to provide support from the course resources AND from your interview. Note: you MUST include the interview in your reference page and don’t be afraid to use any of the answers from your interview as in text quotations.
This course is a “Gordon Rule” course. The Gordon Rule requires students in Florida public universities to complete a minimum of writing intensive courses. FIU Gordon Rule courses meet this requirement by assigning several writing assignments, sequenced throughout the course, typically totaling 3,500 words or more. At FIU, in a Gordon Rule course, writing will be evaluated based on the following characteristics:
Driven by a clear thesis or controlling idea.
Supports thesis with adequate reasons and evidence.
Displays sustained analysis and critical thought.
Is organized clearly and logically.
Shows knowledge of conventions of formal written English.
Shows awareness of disciplinary conventions regarding content, style, form, and delivery method.

*MASTERS LEVEL WRITING ONLY, CLINICAL LANGUAGE. IF THIS DOES NOT MEET EXPECTATION FULL FUNDS WILL NOT BE RELEASED. THIS IS A REPEAT ASSIGNMENT.*
Using the following questions, please describe a hypothetical client 
o Describe your client: Include all meaningful demographic information (i.e., name, age, race/ethnicity, SES, gender identity, etc.)  
o Describe problems this client is experiencing and presenting with (since you don’t have diagnostic training yet, please keep this simple…) 
o Based on their (hypothetical) “presentation,” briefly describe anything notable that could be reflected in their MSE 
Explain how you would utilize the counseling assessment process:
o How would you select an appropriate test? (Consider the test selection process, including stages of change, the pp, the client’s demographics, assessment access, etc.)
o Please identify at least one symptom checklist and one personality inventory that could be useful for this client. 
o What is your rationale behind the assessments you selected? *These must be assessments we learned in class or that were described in the course text (consider their purpose, what you’re trying to understand, their psychometrics, practicality, etc.).  
o What are the possible limitations of these assessments that you’d want to be mindful of? (These should be SPECIFIC of each evaluation, i.e., please don’t provide a description that could apply to just any assessment)
o How would the results of the selected assessments be useful? (i.e., what would they tell you, and how could the results inform the counseling process?) 
o Based on the (potential) assessment results, what recommendations might you provide for this client moving forward? 

Instructions
Here are the several negative effects of sleep loss:
Linked with depression
Linked to aging appearance in skin
Increases forgetfulness
Linked to weight gain
Linked with risk factors for death, such as cardiovascular disease
Impairs judgment about sleep habits
Associated with increase in traffic accidents
Impairs attention
Kills sex drive.
Chart your sleep for a week. Keep track of:
number of hours
bed time
waking time
sleep disturbances (did you wake up? How often? Could you get back to sleep?)
dreams (good, bad, neutral, or reoccurring)
What is your average hours of sleep?
Do you feel that this is enough?
What changes would you needs to make to improve your sleep?

Exploring the Impacts of Social Contexts on Child Psychology and Development
Title Examples: “Exploring the Impact of Racism/Prejudice/Socio-economic 
status/Poverty on Child Development”
Content: Reflect on what you have learned about the role of social contexts on 
child psychology and development. Your blog should include:
Course Connection: Based on what you learned in class, how has 
racism/prejudice/SES/poverty impacted child development?
Research: Choose one area (mental health, education, peer relationships, physical development) and discuss how racism/prejudice/socioeconomic have impacted these areas.
Include a summary and critique of one scholarly, peer review study 
that was published in the last 10 years (anything earlier will receive a deduction in points) and one secondary source (i.e., podcast or news report at minimum 10 minutes long and produced within the last 10 
years)
Conclusion Section. Taking everything that you have learned together 
(course material, research, and podcast/news report), what conclusions 
can you draw? What are some of your personal reflections from these 
resources? What are some key takeaways for your reader?
Be sure to include the following:
Photos/images throughout the blog (at least 3).
Link to the article and podcast that you discussed.
Structure of Blog
Begin with a summary of what you learned in class related to your chosen topic (100-200 words)
Summary of the research study that you found on your chosen topic (100-200 words).
Summary of the podcast or news report (100-200 words)
Critique of the study and podcast/news report.
Conclusion, personal reflections, and key takeaways from your blog entry.
Formatting
Can be any font style that is legible to the reader, but font size must be no  larger than 14.
Minimum word count for blog entries is 600 words.
Blogs must be written in paragraph form, no bullet points allowed.
Proper grammar and punctuation must be used. Blogs can be written in 
first, second, or third person point of view.
Citations must be included. You must cite the book, your article, and the 
podcast in APA style. Citations should be included in-text and a separate 
reference section should be included at the end of your blog.

Watch this video excerpt of a psychologist explaining research-based study strategies. Take notes on the concepts from the video that you feel are important to remember.
Share your response in the discussion:
Based on Dr. Chew’s video and what was discussed in the lecture, do you use effective study strategies to study? For example: Retrieval practice, spaced practice, deep processing, no distractions, etc.
Describe at least one (or more) effective study strategies that you could incorporate into your studying moving forward. How will you do it? 
Search entries or author
Search entries or author

Discussion topic: This week
you will try to come to a conclusion as to whether emotions evolved as a
limited set of universal functions or are constructed actively as part of our
decision-making.
Why Do We Need Emotions?
Step 1: Watch Green, Feeling All the
Feels: https://youtu.be/gAMbkJk6gnE
Step 2: Watch Green, Emotions, Stress,
and Health: https://youtu.be/4KbSRXP0wik
Step 3: Address the following
questions in discussion in one paragraph for each of the three questions:
Questions
1.   
Choose
one emotion and describe its biological/physiological, behavioral, and
cognitive components. Based on these components, choose the theory of emotion
that you think best describes our emotional experiences and explain why this is
the case. (Hint: the chapter this week only discusses the Cannon-Bard and
James-Lange theories, but the videos here discuss Schachter and Singer’s
Two-Factor theory, Zajonc’s theory, and the Facial Feedback Hypothesis, which
you can use in your answer). 
2.   
Describe
two emotions that could easily be confused by the person feeling them. Why are
some emotions confused and not others?
3.   
Choose
one emotion and describe its adaptive significance. Would human survival be
negatively affected if we lacked this emotion?

Consider the friendship of Don and Teddi in the For Your Consideration section at the end of Chapter 7. Do you believe that old friends can become romantic partners? Have you experienced a friendship that turned romantic? How did this friendship end? Did you get married and live happily ever after, or did you both go your separate ways?
If you have not had this experience, imagine how the friendship may progress or end. How did you come to this conclusion?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words in length. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/eating-disorders-anorexia-bulimia-are-severe-ever-rcna80745
If you would like to earn extra credit points for this course, you can do so by completing an extra credit project.  This project involves locating a recently published (2022, 2023, 2024) article that is relevant to the psychology of adolescence.  You can look for articles online (e.g., from popular magazines, newspapers, news reports, professional psychology or medical sites). Topics might include issues such as the pubertal process, parent-adolescent relations, peer relationships in adolescence, school violence, dating, teen pregnancy, eating disorders, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, depression, suicide, etc.  Please summarize the major points of the article.  Then, discuss how the content of the article fits in with material contained in class lectures and/or your textbook.  Is the information in the article consistent with what we have covered in class or not?  What new information have you learned?  Do you agree with the approach of the article (e.g., is appropriate research cited, does the article seem to be objective or subjective in nature)?
Your paper should be 2-3 pages, typed, double-spaced.  Also, please include a link to the article at the beginning of your summary/critique. 
Overall just summerize the artical then dicuss how eating disorders relates to psychology of adolcents and how relavent it is. 

One of the themes in our class will be the role of narrative in development and learning. Please write up a brief story (2 – 4 pages, typed, double-spaced) from your experience as an adolescent, age 3-19.
It could be a story you thought of while doing the class readings. It could be triggered by your observations of other children or an event that was developmentally significant for you. In any case, I ask you to choose a ″middle story″ — a story about subject matter that is neither stale nor raw and unprocessed. In the write-up, imagine telling it to someone in our class.
You could be inspired by watching the 2015 Walt Disney movie “Inside Out.” It is an animated film directed by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen. It follows the story of young Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life and moves to San Francisco. The film explores her emotions -Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness as they navigate her new life.
″Language is the greatest human resource for representing and structuring life events. And no language practice has more impact in this direction than storytelling. Storytelling, one of the earliest forms of communication with young children, is universal to all human cultures and a powerful means of socializing values and world views to children and other intimates″. Capps and Ochs, 1995

An in depth literature review with personal summaries of each peer reviewed article on how individuals with disabilities impact faamilies or have an affect on families using these articles: References
Alford, A. Y., Riggins, A. D., Cowan, L. T., Chopak-Foss, J., Mitchell, C. E., Nwoanumah, E. C., Oloyede, T. F., Sejoro, S. T., Azu, E. U., Kutten, W. S., & Adom, D. A. (2024). The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and developmental disorders: Implications for family support and child advocacy. Children’s Health Care, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/02739615.2024.2307021
Bagur, S., Cañas-Lerma, A. J., Mut-Amengual, B., & Verger, S. (2023a). The impact of family characteristics on the level of empowerment and the level of family quality of life of parents using early childhood intervention services. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2023.2232561
Bagur, S., Cañas-Lerma, A. J., Mut-Amengual, B., & Verger, S. (2023b). The impact of family characteristics on the level of empowerment and the level of family quality of life of parents using early childhood intervention services. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2023.2232561
Bagur, S., Cañas-Lerma, A. J., Mut-Amengual, B., & Verger, S. (2023c). The impact of family characteristics on the level of empowerment and the level of family quality of life of parents using early childhood intervention services. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/20473869.2023.2232561
Fengbo, L., Ning, L., & Yue, X. (2024). Impacts of family functioning on social avoidance and distress among people with disabilities: A moderated mediating model. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05937-2
Humphreys, C., Novy, L., Cergovski, N., Lai, H. C., & McVilly, K. (2023). The impact of covid-19 lockdown on parents and young people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Australian Social Work, 77(2), 183–195. https://doi.org/10.1080/0312407x.2023.2186254
Jacobsen, S. E. (2023). Social class, disability, and institutional interactions: The case of families with disabled children in the welfare state. Disability & Society, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2023.2230349
Kelley, K. N., Caporino, N. E., & Falkenstein, M. J. (2024). Family accommodation in intensive/residential treatment for adults with OCD: A cross-lagged panel analysis. Behavior Therapy, 55(2), 391–400. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2023.07.012
Renley, B. M., Salafia, C., Simon, K. A., Caba, A. E., Argenyi, M. S., Easton, L., & Watson, R. J. (2024). Disability status and associations with family social support and identity disclosure among Gender Minority Youth. LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 20(3), 233–245. https://doi.org/10.1080/27703371.2024.2327048
Scheibner, C., Scheibner, M., Hornemann, F., Arélin, M., Hennig, Y. D., Kiep, H., Wurst, U., Merkenschlager, A., & Gburek‐Augustat, J. (2023). Parenting stress in families of children with disabilities: Impact of type of disability and assessment of attending pediatricians. Child: Care, Health and Development, 50(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.13193