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What types of assessments have you taken? Consider assessments such as the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE®), SAT®, and Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS). How was the assessment conducted?

Risk assessments.

1. In assessing risk to benefit, on what bases do you make the ultimate determinationof how much risk is acceptable and how much benefit is necessary? 2. How do you determine when and under what circumstances deceit is allowable?What is the criteria that must be met? 3. It has been said that the end never justifies the mea

Child growth and development

Q 1: Discuss the problem of obese children in middle childhood, and describe possible causes. Q 2: Discuss the role of brain maturation in motor and cognitive development during middle childhood. Q 3: Describe Sternberg's and Gardner's theories of multiple intelligence, and explain the significance of these theories

Parents and IQ tests

What might be some problems associated with parents giving their children IQ tests?

Learning styles.

Objective: Compare different learning types. Examine social behavior and its influences Library Assignment Detailed explaination of what are attitudes? Describe an attitude type of someone. how are attitudes formed? and how their behavior may be influenced by that attitude. Expanding on this, explain using atti

The Factors that Determine who We are

I need assistance to write an essay answering the following question: A Philosophy of life - How people become shaped into who and how they are?(The question is the first part from an essay named: Personal Theory of Counseling).

Rorschach-Wikipedia Psychology

Read this article: Lilienfeld, Scott. 2009. The Rorschach-Wikipedia Kerfuffle Continues. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist/200908/t he-rorschach-wikipedia-kerfuffle-continues (1) Why are some psychologists concerned about publishing sample questions from tests? (2) Should Wikipedia have pub

Psychology - Procrastination

I need help with the questions related to the two articles. I have read them, but need suggestions and ideas of what to include that is relevant. Thank you. 1. Read these two articles: (a) Pychyl, Timothy A. 2008. Procrastination: It's not me, it's the situation! (http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/dont-delay/

About behavior.

Biali, Susan. 2007. Was Michael Jackson a Highly Sensitive Person(HSP)? Are You? Retrieved from the Internet August 10, 2009. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/prescriptions-life/200907/was-micha el-jackson-highly-sensitive-personhsp-are-you Markman, Art. 2009. People, Situations, Attributions, and the Hollywood Movie

How the Vision Sense Works

Your instructor will assign you one of the 'senses.' Briefly describe how the sense works and its importance. Discuss the impact of your assigned 'sense' as it relates to how you have felt and behaved. I am looking for the mechanical way in which the sense work. Any help would be appreciated. My assigned "sense" is vision

Ethical Guidelines for Reasearch with Human Subjects

What are the key ethical principles which need to be followed when doing research with human subjects? Do you feel that these adequately address safety and well-being concerns for human subjects? Any help with this is greatly appreciated it!


Discuss your individual motivators. Evaluate your motivator in light of the theories in Psychology.

Chart of Theories, Behavioral, Cognitive.

To address the major figures that influence each theory, the key concepts that determine personality formation, and how each theory explains disordered personality.

Important information about Motivation

Please help me write an analysis which must address the following topics: o Choose one of the theories from the Motivation Concepts Table and describe how this theory would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn from your personal experience. o In the instance in which the selected

How Hormones Affect Behavior: Men vs. Women

What hormones are important for sexual behaviour? List one role of a male hormone in female and visa versa. How can hormones affect behaviour 3 examples how does the hormone effect the behaviour.

Laws and ethical tenets

Please describe a situation when a law may take precedence over an ethical tenet in the practice of human services and how you would handle that situation should you experience it.

Nature vs Nurture: Which One is Best?

1. Which plays a greater part in development, nature or nurture? Explain why. 2. Which life span theory do you think best explains your development? Explain your answer.

Social Learning and Trait Theories and Theorists

The major figures that influence each theory, the key concepts that determine personality formation, and how each theory explains disordered personality. Evaluate each theory for its validity, comprehensiveness, applicability, and cultural utility.

My friend her behavior as a passive aggressiveness

A.describe her type of behavior. b.examine the conditions that precede the passive aggressiveness c.examine the consequences that follow selected type of behavior. d. describe how psychology can be used to explain the behavior. In addition, identify the ethical dilemmas that could arise from your observation.

Sample Question

Conduct an experiment to illustrate the concept of a perceptual set. Engage at least three subjects (family members, coworkers, or friends) in your experiment. Ask your subjects to observe a specific room and take note of everything in the room that is a particular color, for example, anything and everything that is brown. You m

What are the effects of hormones during puberty?

1. What are the roles of hormones during puberty from start to stop? 2. What do the hormones do to cause the symptoms, etc? 3. Any specific roles of the hormones? In other words: Name, role, effect, etc during puberty?

Critique a Qualitative Research Article: Youth Gambling

Critique of a Qualitative Research Article (see attached) Utilize research protocols in defining, researching, analyzing and synthesizing appropriate scholarly research within the topic/issue selected. The learner may utilize the sub-questions as a guide to what content needs to be addressed within each component. Rese

Sample questions about Psychosocial Stage of Development.

In which you analyze your current psychosocial stage of development. In your analysis, include the following items: a. Identify your present Eriksonian psychosocial stage of development (your selected stage of development may not correlate with your current age). b. Explain how your current psychosocial stage of devel