Category: Psychology

I would like to use Judy Garland as the famous person, but if you cannot find enough information, you can use someone else. 

This activity is designed to build the skills of gathering, synthesizing, and summarizing information, crucial for effective psychological assessment and therapeutic intervention. Additionally, it aims to develop the ability to contrast categorical DSM-5 criteria and enhance familiarity with specific psychodiagnostic tools. The objectives include: 
1. Discernment of Relevant Information: 
o Develop the ability to distinguish between relevant and accessory information provided by the patient. 
o Enhance the skill of identifying key details that contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the patient’s experiences. 
2. Synthesis of Psychodiagnostic Criteria: 
o Strengthen psychodiagnostic criteria by connecting the observed emotional and behavioral patterns to relevant life events. 
3. Integration of Information for Patient Understanding: 
o Synthesize gathered information in a manner that is manageable and comprehensible for the patient. 
4. Psychodiagnosis Tool selection: 
o Strengthen the ability to proficiently select psychodiagnostic tools, ensuring a strategic and informed approach in the assessment process. 
LINK TO INTERVIEW: 

Review the following video:
Battle of the Ages Links to an external site. https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=257764&xtid=94745
After you have reviewed the video, identify a habit that you or someone you know can change in order to prevent premature brain aging. Detail what you are doing well right now for your brain, according to the research presented in the video.  
Support what you write using the article readings. Cite and include references as per the CSU Global Writing Center.Links to an external site.
References:
Nigro, M., & Williams, J. O. (2014). National Geographic: Battle of the ages [Video]. Films on Demand. https://csuglobal.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=257764&xtid=94745

Write an integrative final paper (six pages) examining and contrasting the efficacy of various trauma treatment options by analyzing a case study.  This case study should be generated from reading a scholarly article of recent or newsworthy trauma.  This case should involve either a child or adult, affected by one of the discussed areas of trauma, such as transgenerational trauma, war, global pandemic, violence, child abuse, or any topic from this semester. Please incorporate two scholarly articles as references as well as reference text and reading from this course.
Research Project: Examining and Contrasting Trauma Treatment Options through the lens of a case study analysis
Title: Exploring the Efficacy of Trauma Treatment 
Options: A Comparative Analysis
Objective: This integrative final paper aims to investigate and compare the effectiveness of various trauma treatment options by analyzing a case study involving either a child or adult affected by one of the discussed areas of trauma this semester. The paper requires students to incorporate two scholarly articles as references and ensure the use of reliable sources of information.
Research Guidelines:
Selecting a Case Study:
Choose a case study involving transgenerational trauma, war-related trauma, trauma caused by global pandemic, violence-induced trauma, child abuse, or any topic from this semester from current news events or newsworthy trauma.  
Provide a brief overview of the chosen case study, including the specific trauma type and relevant details.
Literature Review:
Research and analyze two scholarly articles related to trauma treatment options.
Include proper citations in APA Style for the chosen articles.
Summarize the key findings and approaches presented in each article.
Comparative Analysis:
Analyze and contrast the trauma treatment options discussed in the scholarly articles.
Identify similarities, differences, strengths, and limitations of each approach.
Evaluate the effectiveness of each treatment option based on the case study.
Source Analysis Questions: For each website used as a source, answer the following questions:
Is the website affiliated with a reputable organization or institution?
Does the website cite credible sources to support the information provided?
Is the information presented on the website up-to-date and reliable?
Note: Remember to cite all references and have your paper formatted in APA Style! 
Submission will be in the final Module.  
Due May 8th  at 11:59 PM.

Essay: 250 words Over the last decade or so, there has been a rapid increase in the number of young people diagnosed with Attention Deficit with Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). While it is likely a legitimate diagnosis for many, for others the diagnosis is being used to gain an academic advantage, while some diagnosed with ADHD abuse their psychoactive medications and/or sell the prescription/pills to others. This has created a dilemma for treatment professionals and parents as they try to discern what is a true mental illness. Some believe mental illness is a myth or a cultural phenomenon, while others believe that mental illness is a real problem. Is mental illness is a myth or a real problem? Please provide examples to support your response. on separate page: 100 words discuss general adaptation syndrome or physiological response to s stress. what is interesting about the topic? What are the key takeaways you can get from psychology ?

This assignment requires short-term low contact with the community in place we might visit during our ordinary day.  Students should expect to wear a mask indoors as required by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and maintain social distance at all times.  For students with high-risk status or concerns, please contact me for an alternate version of this assignment.
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to identify one public accommodation or service in the urban community that people with disabilities may or may wish to access, identify problems of access and utilization by people with a range of disabilities and propose a solution
Knowledge and Skills
The civic learning assignment is designed to allow students to extend classroom knowledge into real world, community based applications, and to apply problem-solving and research strategies to civic issues.  For people with disabilities, the exercise of two fundamental rights:  the right to equal access and the right to equal opportunity, depend heavily on the willingness of the greater community to make itself open and accessible to them.  This fundamental social justice issue will be explored through this assignment.  
This assignment will allow you to apply the following skills in a real-world, social justice application in the community.
* Explain and analyze legal mandates requiring reasonable accommodations needed by people with disabilities in daily living, the workplace, public services, public accommodations and education.
* Describe universal design and its impact on the access to public accommodations, including theaters, amusement parks, public buildings, hotels, restaurants and other facilities accessible by people with disabilities.
The Problem
The Americans with Disabilities Act (P.L. 101-336) prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities in access to all public accommodations. Public accommodations include most places of lodging (such as inns and hotels), recreation, transportation, education, and dining, along with stores, care providers, and places of public displays. The problem arises when small business owners who may not be well versed in the mandates of the law or aware of the needs of a range of people with disabilities fail to make their businesses fully accessible. Among the issues that arise are, but not limited to:
* Lack of employee sensitivity to disability and/or training to serve customers with disabilities
* Discriminatory practices that discourage patronage by customers or clients with disabilities
* Failure to make facilities accessible to people who are blind, deaf or use wheelchairs
* Lack of or insufficient disabled parking
* Failure to accommodate service animals, or to differentiate between service and so-called “emotional support” animals
Small businesses, such as stores, restaurants and offices often depend on a small number of employees and are more likely to be family owned/operated. Unlike larger businesses that have an office that handles issues of equity and diversity, small businesses must seek out training regarding how to accommodate customers/clients with disabilities that may or may not be readily available to them. Consequently, they make be under-prepared to provide the accommodations their customers/clients need, be more likely to lose their business, and be more vulnerable to legal action.
Each student will identify one small, local business (shop, restaurant or office) or small branch of a chain business that they will study for the purposes of this assignment. You will quietly observe, and analyze the accessibility strengths and issues present for five areas of disability: mobility, vision, hearing, learning and cognition.  Students are not expected to question employees or business owners, which can be difficult and uncomfortable, but are free to do so at your own level of comfort.  If you can, discreetly take photographs.  
Guidelines
You may not use three facilities for this assignment: the sites you used for the disability walks, or any governmental office or site. This is about the ordinary small businesses or offices that both adults and children with disabilities will access on a daily basis. The second and third disability walk fieldwork will support this assignment, and give you insights you will need to complete the project.
Your project will be completed in five steps:
1. Select a public facility, service, business or accommodation where you believe or are aware people with disabilities may have issues of equal access and need for reasonable accommodations. This might be the local fitness club, a public library, the Metro train service, a chain hotel (such as Holiday Inn Express), a restaurant or theater, or a neighborhood store. You have plenty of latitude in your choice. Be prepared to defend your choice, and to make a visit to your site. Caution! Have a back-up just in case your first choice doesn’t work out.  Do some preliminary research about your site online:  review the business’s website to see if/how the business accommodates customers/clients with disabilities as well as how the site addresses accessibility, then see what positives and negatives you can find by doing a simple Google or Yelp search.  You do more in-depth research later.  
2. Visit your site, bringing the Accessibility Checklist with you.  Analyze accessibility and needed accommodations for people with a range of disabilities. Check locations such as counters, restrooms, doorways, parking, tables and chairs, etc.  Pay attention to employee interactions and attitudes.  If you feel brave, ask about accommodations (for example, does a restaurant have a braille menu, or does a hotel provide accessible rooms?) Take notes and pictures and pick up literature as you observe.  Remember to consider five areas of disability: mobility, vision, hearing, learning and cognition. This process is about a lot more than mobility. How will people who are blind or hearing-impaired access the site? What about people with reading disabilities who cannot read signs? 
3. Do a broad-based analysis of your site, using the evidence from your research and your site visit. What accommodations are provided, how do people with disabilities access the site, and what attitudes about disability are present in the layout of your site? What do workers and users at the site know about how people with disabilities access their facilities and services?  What are the site’s strengths and weaknesses?   What are major accessibility issues, and what are less problematic?  What does the site do well, and what messages does its policies send to customers/clients with disabilities?  Address the five required areas of disability in your analysis.  
4. Research the legal mandates for service provision, history of the site, past complaints and other issues relating to the provision of accommodations and access to the site you visited. You may need to use library databases and newspaper archives to research your facility. This won’t necessarily all be online. Based on your research, what is the history of your site? Consider: what does ADA require and what is provided? How does California and city law support the mandates of ADA? What are the implications, both social and civic to the legal mandates and the provision of services by the facility you visited?
5. Propose changes needed to make the facility you visited fully accessible, and provide a rationale for your solution. How will the changes you propose improve both access to people with disabilities and the quality of their lives? What barriers (money, but what else?) might limit the potential to make the changes you propose?
Paper
To report your research, findings and recommendations, you will write a roughly 1250 to 1500 word paper, including an introduction and conclusion, and organized around the steps above, presenting, analyzing and proposing a solution to the issues related to the site you visited. Your paper should include the following:
* Describe the site you visited, its location and the problem(s) you encountered in depth.  Discuss the site’s strengths, and the results of your research in your discussion.  Integrate labeled color photographs, roughly the size of a 3×5” file card, to support your description. Discuss what you found when you visited the location.
* Describe the problem(s) people with disabilities may encounter when accessing the location, and how they impact their a) experience at the location; and b) rights of equal access and equal opportunity.  Discuss how the site supports access and inclusion of customers/clients with disabilities.
* Discuss the underlying legal and policy research you were required to do. What do state and federal law require your site to do to make it and its facilities accessible? 
* Propose 3-5 detailed recommendations designed to address, and ideally solve, the problem you have identified. Number and provide a rationale for each recommendation, addressing how it will impact people with disabilities’s equal access and equal opportunity rights as well as their affective experience at the site. This is the “meat” of your paper and will demonstrate how well you have processed the research and evidence gathering you have done.
* Conclude with a summary and a 2-3 paragraph reflection on the assignment, what you experienced and what you learned about people with disabilities’ access to the placed in the community we go with such ease.  
Your paper is not a judgment; it is designed to report, analyze and problem-solve. Please avoid judgmental language throughout. 
Submission Format
You will submit your paper on Canvas as a .pdf document.  Papers must be uploaded to Canvas using the Submit Assignment box.  Papers that are e-mailed, submitted as Canvas message attachments, or attached to assignment comment boxes will not be accepted.  
Document Formatting
* Begin your paper with a title page in APA format (see the sample in the syllabus).  Insert a page break at the end of your title page. Include a title on the first page.
* Include a title on the first page. Use headings to label major sections of your paper.
* Pages are numbered in the upper right-hand corner of each page. 
* Use 1” margins and be double-spaced evenly (no additional spaces between paragraphs or sections). 
* Include labeled color photos and other evidence of the issue you have identified in other parts of your paper as needed.
Uploading your Paper
* Click Submit Assignment in the upper right to choose the upload type for your assignment.
* Scroll down to the File Upload box.  Click Choose File.  You will be prompted to find and attach your paper.  
* When your paper is attached, click Submit Assignment to complete the submission.
Time Frame
You should expect to devote 8-10 hours over the course of several weeks to this assignment, which will include time to:  a) visit your site; b) do the required research including consulting with the Education Librarian, and; c) write your paper.  
Criteria for Success
This assignment is worth 20 points.  Points will be assigned based on the following:
* Completeness and thoroughness of the paper, including all required components.
* Completion of all required tasks (visit, research, analysis).
* Attention to all required areas of disability.  
* Careful, thorough research on the site and issues relating to access
* Discussion of legal requirements affecting the issues arising from your site visit and research
* Use of standard English, and careful attention to required page formatting, grammar, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, etc.

in 150 words each question and 1 scholarly source for each
1. Describe some common misconceptions about psychopaths. Why might it be important to clear up these misconceptions in the general public? Use scholarly resources to support your explanations.
2. Describe two kinds of brain dysfunctions possibly linked to psychopaths. Can these dysfunctions be treated? If so, what methods may be most effective? Use scholarly resources to support your explanations.
3.
The criminal justice system provides very long, lifetime, or death sentence to those convicted of murder. Are these harsh and punishments appropriate for the crime of murder? Are there alternative punishments for murders that do not include long incarceration periods or death? Use scholarly resources to support your explanations.

This is your final project for Psych 150! I want to thank each of you for making this class unique and an amazing opportunity for me as well to teach you all. The point of this project is to display what you have learned in this course and how you can apply it to you lives in the future. Psychology impacts everyone’s lives every day. Whether someone is having a bad day, has anxious, depressive, or other symptomology, or in group conformity situations, and more. I want you to define 5 class concepts and relate it to how these may assist you in your career, social life, academic functioning, or some other way. Your paper should be roughly 3 pages. It should be easily 3 pages and this should be a good analysis of what you have learned. There will be a rubric in Canvas to review. I will also provide a sample of concepts that you could discuss, but you can use anything we discussed in the class! This document with sample concepts, is on Canvas under the final week in the Final Project Doc. It is up to you to define each concept and relate to how you can utilize it in your world/life. If you define and relate the concepts in detail, you will do well on this project!
Examples of terms/options. You can utilize anything we discussed this entire semester.

An outline of the chapter that help you process the content from the reading, point out the most important parts please.

Here is the temp[late for your project proposal. You are to review the article (on your own or along with my lecture) and answer the 3 questions for the proposal. Please put as much detail as I have asked for (2 IVs with 2 levels each, and operationally define each level), as well as the DV in the original experiment, and specifically how it was operationally defined. You can use a combination of IVs from the original 4 experiments in the paper, or just simply use the ones outlined in the last experiment (experiment 5). Then, I want to see your version of how you plan to propose this experiment, by changing at least 1 of the original IVs, or more than that. Justify why you chose the different IV(s) or DV, and how it changes your experiment (to make it your own, as opposed to a replication). 
Finally, for number 3, a 2 X 2 factorial design gives you 3 hypotheses: 2 main effects and an interaction. 
Please make sure to give me your 3 hypotheses, including the direction of the effect for the main effects. For example, if you use gender, and you predict males will cheat more or be more creative (or both) than females, the direction of the effect is that there will be a main effect of gender with males scoring higher, or cheating more, or being more creative, etc.
For the interaction, you simply have to state that there will be one (or I guess you could predict there will not be one, if you wanted…)