· Describe one recommendation you might make to support reservists and their families. Explain why this recommendation would be helpful.

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Active and Reserve

As you have explored the various military branches, you may have considered how some of the differences might impact the culture of that branch. These differences, furthermore, impact the identity, roles, stressors, and needs of military personnel in each branch.

Another difference that significantly impacts the military personnel and their families is the difference between active and reserve military. Life in the reserve military has changed in recent years and the needs of reserve military personnel and their families have changed too.

Required Readings

National Association of Social Workers: Code of Ethics

https://www.socialworkers.org/About/Ethics/Code-of-Ethics/Code-of-Ethics-English

Griffith, J. (2011). Decades of transition for the US Reserves: Changing demands on reserve identity and mental well-being. International Review of Psychiatry, 23(2), 181–191.

Faber, A. J., Willerton, E., Clymer, S. R., MacDermid, S. M., & Weiss, H. M. (2008). Ambiguous absence, ambiguous presence: A qualitative study of military reserve families in wartime. Journal of Family Psychology, 22(2), 222–230.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2013). Military culture and identity [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu VIDEO ADDED BELOW

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 3 minutes.

Michael and Kristin Wilkinson describe military culture’s impact on their lifestyles and identities.

 Assignment:

2- to 3-page paper in which you accomplish the following:

· Explain the fundamental differences between active and reserve military.

Explain the differences between active and reserve military, and explain how helping professionals can better support reservists and their families.

· Explain how selected reserves have changed since the Gulf War (1990–1991) and how these changes created the need for support services.

· Describe one recommendation you might make to support reservists and their families. Explain why this recommendation would be helpful.

Be sure to support your paper with specific references to the resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references. You must incorporate some of the course reading above in your paper and not

What would your reaction be today if the evening news anchor referred to women in the Air Force as “girl pilots” and made the following comments?

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Module 3

For this Discussion, please address each of the following:

Pleasant Life: Design a beautiful day for yourself. Think about activities that you would find highly enjoyable and those that are important to you. Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to carry out your plan.  Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a pleasant life can benefit our psychological well-being.

Good Life: Decide on some unpleasant or tedious task that you must do. Think about how you can accomplish it in a more invigorating way. Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to help you transform the unpleasant task into a pleasant one.  Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a good life can benefit our psychological well-being.

Meaningful Life: Plan the “perfect” surprise for someone who needs it.  Think about what is important to that person and how you can help them.  Describe what you would do, how you would do it, and your individual positive traits and strengths you have to carry out your plan. Finally, explain why you think Martin Seligman believed that taking the time to lead a meaningful life can benefit our psychological well-being

Module 4

For each of the following life events, rate yourself on the following scale: Very Stressed; A Little Stressed; Not Stressed:

1. You just remembered that you have a big project / paper due tomorrow by 5:00.

2. You are driving to work or school and you are running a bit late.  The car in front of you is driving 5 mph under the speed limit and you are having trouble getting around him.

3. You just found out that you are going to be a parent.

4. You accidently dropped your cell phone in the toilet, and it is out of commission for at least a day or two, maybe longer.

Now, get with 4 other people and have them participate in the same activity while you log the results.

In the Discussion, tell about your findings.  Did you find that some people are stressed in a situation that others are not stressed in?  Did you discover that some people are more stressed than others in general, or that some are stressed in some situations but not in others?  What do you think the purpose of this activity is?  How do your findings relate to what you learned about in this module?  What is the most valuable lesson you learned in this module?

Module 5

For this Discussion, you are to create a want ad for a romantic relationship or an online dating service profile.  Don’t worry, especially if you are currently in a relationship, this is for educational purposes only, and is not a true matchmaking activity.   The idea is to think about what you learned in this module about the important traits people look for in romantic relationships.  Creativity and appropriate humor are acceptable and encouraged, as long as you follow directions and address relevance to module concepts.

For your Discussion post / dating profile, you should start by describing your personal qualities, your interests, hobbies, likes and dislikes, then describe the qualities of those you would seek (if this were real.)   After completing your profile, discuss the relevance of the concepts you learned about in this module such as proximity, familiarity, attractiveness, matching hypothesis, attitudinal similarity, exchange processes, and shared activities in relationships.

First of all, think about this question.  Which is correct?

A. Girls

B. Gals

C. Ladies

D. Women

Now, watch the following NBC Learn Video: Women Air Force Service Pilots Train or War Efforts

What would your reaction be today if the evening news anchor referred to women in the Air Force as “girl pilots” and made the following comments? “The Air Force wants to get some muscles on those pretty little arms” and “The little blond on the right, with her hair bleached by the sun, you or I might judge by other standards….”

This video was produced in 1943.  How have references to women changed over the years?  How has society changed its views concerning gender roles?   What examples can you think of where you or someone you know use the term “girls” when referring to grown females?   How is that okay?  Or is it not okay?  What, if any other issues concerning gender issues come to mind?

module7

 

First of all, think about this question.  Which is correct?

A. Girls

B. Gals

C. Ladies

D. Women

Now, watch the following NBC Learn Video: Women Air Force Service Pilots Train or War Efforts

What would your reaction be today if the evening news anchor referred to women in the Air Force as “girl pilots” and made the following comments? “The Air Force wants to get some muscles on those pretty little arms” and “The little blond on the right, with her hair bleached by the sun, you or I might judge by other standards….”

This video was produced in 1943.  How have references to women changed over the years?  How has society changed its views concerning gender roles?   What examples can you think of where you or someone you know use the term “girls” when referring to grown females?   How is that okay?  Or is it not okay?  What, if any other issues concerning gender issues come to mind?

module 8

 

First of all, think about this question.  Which is correct?

A. Girls

B. Gals

C. Ladies

D. Women

Now, watch the following NBC Learn Video: Women Air Force Service Pilots Train or War Efforts

What would your reaction be today if the evening news anchor referred to women in the Air Force as “girl pilots” and made the following comments? “The Air Force wants to get some muscles on those pretty little arms” and “The little blond on the right, with her hair bleached by the sun, you or I might judge by other standards….”

This video was produced in 1943.  How have references to women changed over the years?  How has society changed its views concerning gender roles?   What examples can you think of where you or someone you know use the term “girls” when referring to grown females?   How is that okay?  Or is it not okay?  What, if any other issues concerning gender issues come to mind?

Which of the following is NOT a weakness of many projective personality tests? a. poor predictive validity

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Sample Personality Exam Questions (answers at bottom of document)

1. How many trait dimensions did Cattell propose?

a. 2

b. 3

c. 5

d. 16

2. Which statement best describes how Allport and Odbert attempted to define the trait universe?

a. correlational analysis of trait adjectives

b. factor analysis of trait adjectives

c. selection of trait adjectives that describe psychological differences between people

d. selection of trait adjectives that people use to evaluate each other

3. Which is of the following statements about factor analysis is correct?

a. finds groups of variables that have similar meanings

b. finds groups of variables that correlate with one another

c. finds groups of variables that can be factored

d. finds groups of variables that have similar means

4. Which of the following is not an established alternative label for the relevant Big Five factor?

a. Extraversion & “Surgency”

b. Conscientiousness & “Morality”

c. Neuroticism & “Emotional instability”

d. Openness to Experience & “Culture”

5. Which of the following statements correctly describes the relationships between Big Five traits and emotion dimensions?

a. Extraversion is related to more positive affect and Neuroticism to more negative affect

b. Extraversion is related to more positive affect and Neuroticism to less positive affect

c. Extraversion is related to less negative affect and Neuroticism to less positive affect

d. Extraversion is related to less negative affect and Neuroticism to more negative affect

6. Which of the following statements about Eysenck’s and Gray’s theories is incorrect?

a. For Eysenck, Neuroticism is related to limbic system reactivity.

b. For Gray, the “behavioural activation system” is linked to sensitivity to reward and pleasure.

c. For Gray, Impulsivity involves having a weak “behavioural inhibition system”.

d. Gray’s Anxiety dimension corresponds to a mixture of Neuroticism and Introversion in Eysenck’s system.

7. Which of the following statements about traits and values is incorrect?

a. the structure of values appears to differ across cultures more than the structure of traits

b. values are cognitions, traits are not

c. traits appear to have more dimensions than values

d. unlike traits, values are inherently desirable to the person who has them

8. Which of the following is NOT one of the six virtue classes in the VIA classification of strengths?

a. Justice

b. Transcendence

c. Humanity

d. Creativity

9. Which two vocational interest types are next to one another in Holland’s model?

a. Realistic & Enterprising

b. Conventional & Social

c. Artistic & Investigative

d. Realistic & Artistic

10. Which of the following statements is TRUE regarding biological research and theory

on personality?

a. extraverts’ brains are typically over-stimulated

b. shared environmental factors are more important than nonshared factors

c. the heritability of personality traits is sometimes calculated from twin studies

d. 2D:4D digit ratio research shows the importance of circulating levels of neurotransmitters in the brain

11. Which of the following statements about Eysenck’s work on personality is correct?

a. Introverts have highly arousable autonomic nervous systems

b. Neuroticism is associated with stimulus hunger

c. Extraverts tend to like stimulant drugs more than Introverts

d. High levels of Psychoticism put people at risk of depression

12. Roughly what proportion of the variability in most personality traits tends to be heritable?

a. 20%

b. 40%

c. 60%

d. 80%

13. Which Freudian defence mechanism does this statement illustrate: “I’m not jealous, you are”?

a. projection

b. repression

c. sublimation

d. denial

14. Which of the following is CORRECT about Freud’s genetic model of personality?

a. the anal stage takes place in the first two years of life.

b. it recognises that personality has a large heritable component.

c. fixations in the oral stage can lead to passivity and dependency.

d. it has received extensive empirical support from developmental psychologists.

15. One of these four lists contains concepts from Freud’s topographic, structural and genetic models, in that order. Which is it?

a. Unconscious, ego, repression

b. Unconscious, id, reaction formation

c. Preconscious, superego, regression

d. Preconscious, superfly, fixation

16. Psychoanalytic theory is NOT often criticized for which of the following?

a. being unfalsifiable

b. being unscientific

c. being deterministic

d. being simplistic

17. Which of the following statements about cognitive approaches to personality is correct?

a. the repertory grid assesses people on a standard set of personal constructs

b. pessimistic explanatory style involves explaining negative events using internal, stable and global causes

c. self-complexity has repeatedly been shown to protect against depression

d. emotional intelligence is a component of verbal intelligence

18. Which of the following is an external, unstable attribution for why something happened to a person?

a. fate

b. the weather

c. hard work

d. bad mood

19. Which of the following statements about research on the self is incorrect?

a. High self-complexity buffers people against stressful life events

b. High self-complexity is associated with having more self-aspects with less overlap

c. Self-esteem is more a side-effect of achievement than a cause of it

d. Average self-esteem levels may be rising in Western societies

20. Which of the following does NOT accurately reflect research on self-esteem?

a. it is more likely to be a byproduct of academic achievement than a cause of it

b. it makes people secure so that they are less likely to act aggressively when they are insulted.

c. having stable self-esteem may be more important than having high self esteem.

d. defensive self-esteem involves having high explicit self-esteem but low implicit self-esteem.

21. Which of the following forms of coping illustrates the indicated kind of coping

strategy?

a. Emotion-focused: attacking a person who is making you unhappy

b. Problem-focused: recognizing that an issue is causing you difficulties

c. Emotion-focused: imagining that a problem will just go away

d. Problem-focused: actively trying to change how you feel about a stressor

22. Which of the following statements about personality change is NOT correct?

a. mean levels of internal attribution have increased in recent decades

b. there is much evidence of mean level change in adulthood

c. rank order stability is measured by correlation coefficients

d. rank order stability increases with age

23. Which of the following statements about rank-order stability of personality is NOT correct?

a. it may be partially due to environmental selection (i.e., people selecting environments that support their traits).

b. it increases with age.

c. it is incompatible with evidence that the mean levels of Big Five traits change with increasing age.

d. it is measured by re-test correlations in longitudinal studies.

24. According to Erikson, what contrasts with Industry in one of his eight stages?

a. Shame & doubt

b. Isolation

c. Guilt

d. Inferiority

25. Which statement about “lay theories” of personality is false?

a. entity theorists believe personality is not malleable

b. entity theorists stereotype people more than incremental theorists

c. incremental theorists hold a ‘dynamic’ view of personality

d. incremental theorists attribute differences between social groups to innate factors

26 . The items in a personality test correlate strongly with one another. What kind of reliability or validity does this imply?

a. convergent validity

b. content validity

c. internal consistency

d. retest reliability

27. Which kind of validity or reliability does NOT match the description that follows it?

a. re-test reliability: people get similar scores when they do a test on different occasions.

b. discriminant validity: a test of one personality characteristic does not correlate with tests that measure different characteristics.

c. convergent validity: people get similar scores on a test when different people administer it to them.

d. internal consistency: the items in the test all correlate with one another.

28. Which kind of validity scale is designed to detect random patterns of responding on a personality inventory?

a. infrequency scale

b. incompatibility scale

c. lie scale

d. defensiveness scale

29. Which of the following is NOT a weakness of many projective personality tests?

a. poor predictive validity

b. poor inter-rater reliability

c. susceptible to faking good bias

d. susceptible to poor incremental validity relative to inventories

30. Which of these potential flaws of psychobiographies is correctly defined?

a. originology: over-emphasis on early life events in explaining the person

b. pathography: insufficiently empathic interpretation of the person

c. determinism: focussing too much on a single factor in explaining the person

d. hagiography: portrayal of the person as extremely ugly

How do cognitive biases involving the self contribute to the goal of maintaining and enhancing our view of ourselves?  Of what value are such biases, and what are the potential consequences of not having them?

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APA Format. 200 word minimum per question.

 

1.  Jane is trying to decide whether she should marry Jim.  She sits down with a piece of paper and makes a list of all the positive aspects about marrying Jim, and then a list of all the negative aspects.  After looking at both lists, she can see that the good things outweigh the bad.  So, she calls Jim up and says, “OK, let’s set a date for the wedding!”  Jane’s way of making up her mind is an example of:

a.         felicific calculus

b.         distinctiveness decision making

c.          decisional framing

d.         the contrast effect

Why is this the best answer?

2.  In an experiment by Kenrick and Gutierres, male college students were asked to evaluate a potential blind date before or after watching the television show “Charlie’s Angels” (which features three glamorous actresses).  How did those who gave their ratings of the blind date after the viewing the show compare to subjects who rated the blind date before watching the show.  To what factor was this difference attributed?

3.  From Article #13 in Readings About the Social Animal, in demonstrating the “region-ß paradox,” what do Gilbert and his colleagues suggest about people’s willingness to endure painful medical procedures?

4.  It’s New Year’s Eve, and you’ve been invited to a large party where there will be lots of people you’ve never met before.  When you arrive, the person hosting the party hands you a blue party hat to wear and you put it on.  As you mingle through the crowd, you notice that some people are wearing blue hats like yours, and other people are wearing green party hats.  By the end of the evening, you realize you have spent most of your time with people wearing blue hats.  Somehow, they just seemed to be nicer people-they even dance better than those other people wearing green hats.  Moreover, a guy with a green hat bumped into you at one point during the evening and spilled your drink!  Given your knowledge of social cognition (and despite the somewhat far-fetched nature of this scenario), how could you explain your perceptions and judgments?

5.  How do cognitive biases involving the self contribute to the goal of maintaining and enhancing our view of ourselves?  Of what value are such biases, and what are the potential consequences of not having them?  Describe two self-biases, providing research evidence that demonstrates their effects.