identify four examples of ethical behaviors and explain how your cultural heritage has shaped your values.

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Directions:

You are to write an ethical profile paper that recognizes the formative influence of your family, heroes, and personal style on you as an ethical professional. This paper will provide a profile of you in regards to your ethical and professional practice. You will be required to include information on who you are as an ethical professional, how this course has shaped your unique ethical decision-making style, and the areas in which you feel still need further development.

Include the following four sections in your paper:

  1. Ethical Autobiography: First, explain how you think through and determine what is “right” and “wrong” (personally and professionally) in your own daily life. Second, identify four examples of ethical behaviors and explain how your cultural heritage has shaped your values. Third, describe the nature of the four ethical behaviors you see in yourself.
  2. Professional/Ethical Hero: First, identify an ethical “hero,” an individual that has most impressed you and serves as your role model because of their professional/ethical presence (i.e., sensitivity, appropriate boundaries, and respect for privacy, ethical commitment, and ethical courage). Elaborate on his or her ethical characteristics. Discuss how this person can (or does) serve as a role model for others in the helping profession. Second, describe how this “hero” has influenced your value system. Clickhere to read an article on ethical hero.
  3. Ethical Decision-Making Style: This section will articulate your implicit style in terms of ethical decision making. Although there are specific models that help facilitate ethical decision making, everyone has his or her own unique style. Taking into consideration the ethical decision-making models presented in this course, identify the style that reflects your early and ongoing experiences with moral values and issues that has been influenced and shaped by your parents, relatives, peers, and valued adults in your life, such as a teacher or coach. Use what you have written from your autobiography to supplement this discussion. In summary, explain your implicit ethical decision-making style, including how this course and your cultural heritage have served as influential factors.
  4. Professional and Ethical Development: Ethical development is, for most, a career-long process. In the last section of your paper, please identify at least two areas discussed in this module/course where you feel you would benefit from more development. Lastly, suggest ways in which you can acquire your further development.

Please include information from two or more external scholarly references using APA formatting for all citations.

Your paper should be approximately 6–8 pages in length, be double-spaced, in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal 1” margins; be written in APA style; and be free of typographical and grammatical errors. It should include a title page with a running head, an abstract, and a reference page.

Save the paper as AU_PSY430_M5_A1_LastName_FirstInitial.doc and submit it to the M5 Assignment 1 LASA 2 Dropbox by Monday, August 15, 2016.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Explained how you thought through and determined what is “right” and “wrong” (personally and professionally) in your own daily life.
28
Identified four examples of ethical behaviors and explained how your cultural heritage has shaped your values.
36
Described the nature of the four ethical behaviors you have seen in yourself.
28
Identified an ethical “hero” that has served as your role model and explained his or her ethical characteristics.
24
Described how this “hero” has influenced your value system.
24
Explained your implicit ethical decision-making style, including how this course and your cultural heritage have served as influential factors.
28
Identified at least two professional/ethical areas where further development would be beneficial.
32
Suggested ways in which further development and/or training can be acquired.
20
Included information from two or more external scholarly references.
16
Writing components:

  • Organization (16)
  • Usage and Mechanics (16)
  • APA Elements (24)
  • Style (8)
64
Total:
300

How do different parts of the brain influence our behavior? How do central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol, affect our behavior? Dis 4

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Dis 2

Which school of psychology from Chapter 1 was most influential, in your opinion? Explain your choice as well as providing insight on any schools you almost chose but decided were not influential. You are only responsible for detailing information on one school of psychology.

Cite any sources you used to support your answers to the question. Your initial post must include appropriate APA references at the end.

Dis 3

How do different parts of the brain influence our behavior? How do central nervous system depressants, such as alcohol, affect our behavior?

Dis 4

Psychologists recognize that, in most cases, nature (genes) and nurture (environment) jointly affect human behavior and development. Please choose an aspect of child development and discuss the relative contributions of nature and nurture, supported by specific findings and theories you found in the assigned readings.

DIs 5

Sensation refers to an actual event; perception refers to how we interpret the event. What are some cultural differences that might affect responses to particular stimuli, particularly in taste and pain? Post your discussion using information from the text to support your views.

Dis 6

Most of us feel like we never get enough sleep. What are the stages of sleep and what is the importance of sleep? What are some common sleep disorders and treatments? Support your post with material from the assigned reading.

How might his ideas relate to politics and human rights? Are they beneficial or not? Also, are there any potential problems with Mill’s theory? Please elaborate in your answer.

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John Stuart Mill, ‘Utilitarianism’ (1861)

1. What is the “Greatest Happiness Principle,” according to John Stuart Mill? How does he define the concept in his essay? (p.10).

(Answer the question in your own words. Also find examples in the text).

2. Also, in the reading, what does Mill think about Epicurus, Epicureans, and the “Epicurean life?”  What does he write about Epicurus’ concept of pleasure?  (p.10-11).

(Find examples in the text to support your answers).

3. How does Mill compare pleasures in the reading? What does he mean when he writes:

“If I am asked, what I mean by difference of quality in pleasures, or what makes one pleasure more valuable than another…there is but one possible answer.”

How does he answer his own question? (p.11).

(Again, find examples in the text).

4. Also, what does Mill mean by the following famous quote:

“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.”  (p.13).

(Answer the question in your own words, and find examples in the text to support your points).

5. What does Mill mean by the terms, “competent judges,” and “nobleness of character” in the essay? How do these terms relate to his ideas about happiness and utilitarianism? (13-14).

(Find examples in the text).

6. Finally, how might you apply Mill’s theory of Utilitarianism to the world today? Can you think of any examples that relate to ethics and society? How might his ideas relate to politics and human rights? Are they beneficial or not? Also, are there any potential problems with Mill’s theory? Please elaborate in your answer.

You can learn much about the language and thought processes of young children by examining the literature written for them.

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Assignment:

You can learn much about the language and thought processes of young children by examining the literature written for them.

For this assignment, you are asked to visit the children’s section of your local library or bookstore. Ask the librarian or salesperson to guide you to 3 books that are “classic” or well-loved storybook for children from 3 to 5 years old. Examine the books carefully. If possible, read them aloud to a child or someone else. Then complete the following items.

  1. Within each book, look for at least two examples of story elements, which relate to patterns of the thought process and cognitive development within early childhood. Examples could include:
    • Egocentrism (e.g., animals that dress and talk like a child; misunderstandings that arise from the main character’s self-centered viewpoint)
    • Centration (e.g., stories about characters who have only one prominent feature; stories about a child’s focusing on one special goal, trait, or object)
    • Effects that depend on literal or figurative language (e.g., jokes that come from a character’s taking things literally; misunderstandings that arise from the use of figurative language)
    • Story elements that reassure the child about the strong ties of family and friendship
    • Story elements that reflect the young child’s fear of separation

PowerPoint Presentation Instructions:

2 Slides for EACH BOOK, (6 slides minimum), 1 slide for “Reference Page”

  • Slide 1: Picture of the book, Give the title, name of the author and illustrator, and date of publication of the book. In the “Notes” section of the PowerPoint slide, provide a summary of the book, formally citing the book in your summary.  
  • Slide 2: Include pictures of the examples of story elements, which relate to patterns of the thought process and cognitive development within early childhood. In the “Notes” section of each slide, describe why each example points to patterns related to thought process and cognitive development, citing what the textbook (or other scholarly sources) has to say about this pattern in early childhood.  This section should be written in essay style, using APA style to cite sources.
  • Final Slide of the Presentation: Reference page, giving credit to each of your sources.