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    Conformity Scenario

    This job offers a scenario: John is an 18-year-old freshman at New York University. John was the starting quarterback at his high school in a small town in Indiana. He enjoys playing sports and hanging out with friends. John has always been popular and done well in school and sports. Once he is comfortable in his surroundings

    Ideas for a hypothetical work program are generated.

    1. What would be a hypothetical program that you may be able to develop and implement in your current or future place of work (e.g., a bullying prevention program for elementary school students). What would be the specific criteria you would consider during the stage of program evaluation? In other words, how would you determine

    Human behavior comparison

    I would like the entire class to discuss Sigmund Freud's and B.F. Skinner's explanations concerning the causes of human behavior. Do you feel that Freud's explanation of the causes of human behavior is correct, or do you feel that Skinner's is correct? Why?

    Discussing the Four Goals of Psychology

    Discuss: How do you think the 4 goals of psychology can help or hurt humanity? Give specific examples and be sure to support your position. Use references as well.

    College class choice

    An important factor to consider in choosing your classes is how employers will view the skills you have developed during your college experience. How will you select classes to develop the skills employers expect? What other activities might you engage in during your college experience to develop these skills? These questions ar

    Educational questions are probed.

    Varoius questions are listed about teaching and maturation: What changes take place in the self during middle and late childhood years? What are two major contemporary issues in educating children? How have these issues affected education?

    Physical and Artistic Growth During Play Years

    1. Discuss the processes of myelination and lateralization and their effect on development during the play years. Please use examples from real life experience or observation. 2. Describe normal physical growth during the play years, and account for variations in height and weight. Please use observations from real experience

    Ideas for a motivation essay are generated.

    As a part of the examination, this job addresses the following items: a. Define motivation. b. Identify at least two sources of motivation. c. Explain the relationship between motivation and behavior. d. Examine how motivation is exhibited in behavior.

    Technical Eclectic Approach to Counselling

    1. Can you list and briefly describe some of the advantages and disadvantages of an eclectic approach to counseling? Please note that this question refers to the concept of technical eclecticism and not to theoretical integration.

    Specialization within the counselling profession

    With his notorious love of the paradox, the English playwright, George Bernard Shaw, commented on specialization by saying that it represented an interest in knowing more and more about fewer and fewer things, with the possible outcome of getting to know everything about nothing. In your opinion, what may be some of the advantag

    This job lists criteria for selecting clients for group counselling.

    Gibson and Mitchell (2008) discuss the criteria for selecting clients for group counselling and state that "a person must possess certain abilities or aptitudes if he or she is to profit from and contribute to the group experience". Based on your knowledge, this job offers personal client characteristics (or other factors) as re

    Erikson's psychosocial stages and infant development

    I need help answering the following. Please be concise. If you use of any references, please include in text, citation, and please provide reference list. Please answer the following questions: 1. Describe Erikson's psychosocial stages of infant development. 2. Define attachment, explain how it is measured and how it

    Specialized medicine and patient care are the focal topics.

    These questions are posed and examined: "Has specialized medicine made an overall positive or negative impact on the quality of patient-centered health care delivery? Give examples as you explain your opinion." "Does your opinion change when discussing patients as a group versus individual patients? Why or why not?"

    Three entities of the ideal self, self image and true self are debated.

    Carl Rogers, a well known humanist, emphasizes the self. Theorists in psychology report that there is the self that you would like to be, the self that you think you are, and the self that you actually are. More specifically, the self is believed to have the following three entities: the ideal self, your self-image, and the true

    Compares and Contrasts Skinner, Watson and Tolman

    I need help getting started. Could you help me compare and contrast the perspectives of John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner with that of Edward C. Tolman and describe how each perspective relates to the field of modern-day psychology? I have to complete a 1500 word paper.