The treatment of autism

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Your 4-year-old nephew has been diagnosed with autism. Your dad doesn’t understand what that means. Explain to your dad the symptoms that comprise autistic disorder, and assess the potential for the treatment of autism. Next, your mom blames your brother, saying he’s too permissive and doesn’t give your nephew enough affection. Include in your essay an explanation to your mom why it is no longer believed that parenting plays a role in autism.

2.  Your 13-year-old sister has been diagnosed with ADHD. Your grandmother has no idea what that means, but she is very worried—she has heard that kids who get diagnosed with this disorder get put in “dumb” classes. Describe to your grandmother the symptoms of ADHD and assess the potential for treatment. In your essay be sure to explain to your grandmother the main concern for children diagnosed with ADHD, and evaluate ways that this concern may be addressed.

The importance of research in psychology

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Replicate the Coin Flip Experiment. Flip a coin 50 times. For each coin flip record the results. Based on the results if you flip the coin one more time do you think you can predict the result? Discuss if you noticed any patterns in the results of your experiment and how this experiment helps us to understand the importance of research in psychology.

Explain how assessment is critical for learning

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Explain how assessment is critical for learning and how reliability and validity relate to quality assessments that promote learning. Also, discuss one new idea from this chapter for you about assessment and how it changes your ideas of assessment as a student yourself.

Risks associated with pubertal timing

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Explain how the “mismatch hypothesis” explains the risks associated with pubertal timing. Additionally, provide at least one example of how this hypothesis might explain the risks to females of early pubertal maturation and how the hypothesis might explain the risks to males of late pubertal maturation.

Aspect of social psychology

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Find and share a good visual example of any aspect of social psychology (e.g., concept, theory, domain, famous research, etc.) demonstrated as an image (e.g., meme, cartoon, photograph, advertisement) and explain why you feel your chosen image captures this concept  The image must be able to be shared publicly as part of your discussion post so that we all can see it (insert image or PDF or via a web link in the discussion) and should not be offensive/inappropriate (i.e., adhere to UMGC’s rules for interacting in the online classroom:

Insert an image or PDF (or include a link to an image) that demonstrates a good visual example of some aspect of social psychology. Identify the social psychology concept your chosen image demonstrates along with at least one appropriate APA style citation & reference.

Opinion: Why do you feel this image demonstrates your chosen concept? Why did you choose this concept? Does this image or concept hold any special personal relevance?

 

Provide references APA

Functional behavior assessment

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Find an evidence-based intervention for this scenario would DRO be appropriate? or extinction? Consider this scenario: A family has contacted you about the care of their grandfather, Juan, who has Alzheimer’s disease. The nursing home staff report that Juan engages in frequent elopement from the nursing home facility when unattended, and verbal aggression that has caused disruptions to the other nursing home residents. A review of the files shows that the nursing home contracted with a BCaBA who did not conduct a functional behavior assessment but advised setting limits, being consistent with rules, and blocking Juan from engaging in problem behavior. The nursing home staff decided to incorporate these strategies by restricting Juan from accessing the courtyard or roaming the halls, leaving him to stay all day in his room with only accompanied walks to therapies and the dining hall. Juan’s behaviors escalated and they have stated they will be ordering the use of chemical restraints to block occurrences of the problem behavior.

 

Prepare a formal letter to the family with your recommendations.

Analyze, within the letter, at least five BACB ethical code elements that are relevant to your discussed behavior analytic procedure and this scenario.

Social cognitive predictors

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Fill out this provided Literature Review Research Matrix [DOCX] with research concepts that can be found and connected to either these five articles related to the topic of first-generation college students and resilience at a four-year university, or to the list of articles your instructor provides. The first article has been completed for you as an example.

  1. Garriott, P. O., Hudyma, A., Keene, C., & Santiago, D. (2015). Social cognitive predictors of first and non-first-generation college students’ academic and life satisfaction. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 62(2), 253-263.
  2. Johnson, S. R., & Stage, F. K. (2018). Academic engagement and student success: Do high-impact practices mean higher graduation rates? Journal of Higher Education, 89(5), 753-781.
  3. Olive, T. (2014). The desire for higher education in first-generation Hispanic college students enrolled in a graduate counseling program. Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, 45(1), 72-91.
  4. Scheibe, L., Swanbrow Becker, M., Spinelli, C., & McCray, D. (2019). First generation college students’ perceptions of an academic retention program. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 19(5), 61-76.
  5. Smith, K. J., Emerson, D. J., Haight, T. D., Mauldin, S., & Wood, B. G. (2019). An examination of the psychometric properties of the Connor-Davidson resilience scale – 10 (CD-RISC10) among accounting and business students. Journal of Accounting Education, 47, 48-62.

Aspects of the beginning and transition stages

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Discuss a few aspects of the beginning and transition stages when leading a group for counseling that—based on educational readings, videos, and your own experience—are most critical for the group leader to attend to and address in order for the group to reach the working stage in the process.

Indications of serious mental disorder

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A 10-year-old boy who seems very intelligent to his parents and teacher is getting very low grades. He is frequently inattentive to the teacher and seems “spaced out.” There is no history of trauma to the head and no indications of serious mental disorder. It is not clear whether his problems occur solely in the classroom or elsewhere, too. The boy and his parents come to you for an assessment.

Discuss and list relevant assessment tools.

Briefly explain Piaget’s and Erikson’s theories of development

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Briefly explain Piaget’s and Erikson’s theories of development. Who had a better theory of human development: Erikson or Piaget? Please offer detail to explain your choice. What tips would you give to someone who has just suffered a major loss, now that you know the stages of grief?