Choosing Your Focus:

This writing assignment supports your success on the final project. Prior to beginning this assignment, review the components of an annotated bibliography.

For this this Annotated Bibliography, you will research at least five peer-reviewed articles published within the last ten years to support your analysis of one of the following topics:

• Behavior Analysis (previously known as behaviorism)
• Cognitivism
• Information processing

The topic you choose should be based on the area in which you would most like to develop your knowledge. Your choice should also consider your current interests in psychology and support your future career or personal goals.

There are 4 components to this assignment:

1. Introduction: Include your chosen focus area and your motivation for choosing this area to study further
2. The Annotated Bibliography itself
3. A Conclusion
4. A list of APA formatted references.

As you prepare for this assignment, keep in mind that it is designed to assist you with beginning the process of drafting your Learning and Cognition Final Project. You will be using these resources, and what you write in this paper, to support your success with your Final Project.

Review the following sources prior to writing your paper:

After completing your writing, consider a paper review and double checking that all components are complete with an Academic Paper Checklist. It is also recommended that your paper be checked in Grammarly and through Turnitin prior to submissio

The Choosing Your Focus paper

• Must be a minimum of 1250 words, no more than 1500 words, and formatted according to APA style (7th edition) as outlined in the  Writing Center.
• Must include a title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that clearly states the chosen construct and your motivation for choosing this topic.
• Must clearly discuss each article in your own words using critical thought.
• Must end with a conclusion that synthesizes the findings within the articles as they relate to your chosen content.
• Must include a Reference section.
  • The Formatting Your References List guide offers additional guidance on correctly formatting references for the annotated
• Must use at least five peer-reviewed sources.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your your instructor.

HERE ARE THE CHOSEN ARTICLES FOR THE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

BAbel, P. (2019). Classical Conditioning as a Distinct Mechanism of Placebo Effects. Frontiers in Psychiatry. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00449

(article 1 for classical conditioning)

Andreatta, M., Michelmann, S., Pauli, P., & Hewig, J. (2017). Learning processes underlying avoidance of negative outcomes. Psychophysiology, 54(4), 578–590. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1111/psyp.12822

(Article 2 for operant conditioning)

Powell, R. A., & Schmaltz, R. M. (2020). Did Little Albert actually acquire a conditioned fear of furry animals? What the film evidence tells us. History of Psychology. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1037/hop0000176 (Article 3 for Watson)

Braat, M., Engelen, J., van Gemert, T., & Verhaegh, S. (2020). The rise and fall of behaviorism: The narrative and the numbers. History of Psychology, 23(3), 252–280. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1037/hop0000146

(Article 4 about behavior analysis)

Willis, E., Adams, R., & Keene, J. (2019). If Everyone Is Doing It, It Must Be Safe: College Students’ Development of Attitudes toward Poly-Substance Use. Substance Use & Misuse, 54(11), 1886–1893. https://doi-org.proxy-library.ashford.edu/10.1080/10826084.2019.1618334

(Article 5 social learning theory)

OTHER ARTICLES BESIDES THE MAIN FIVE ARTICLES ABOVE

Clark, K. R. (2018). Learning Theories: Behaviorism. Radiologic Technology, 90(2), 172–175.

Rholetter, W. Me. (2019). Operant conditioning. Salem Press Encyclopedia.

Sparzo, F. J. (2019). Pavlovian conditioning. Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health.

I need this in 10 hours from now .

Use powerpoint

Initial Call

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read Chapters 3, 4, and 17 in DSM-5 Made Easy: The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis; Cases 18, 19, and 20 from Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology; and Chapter 1 in Psychopathology: History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations. It is recommended that you read Chapter 1 in Turning Points in Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, Disruptions and Suicidal Crises.

For this discussion, you will choose from one of the three “You Decide” case studies included in Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology. The case study you choose for this discussion will also be the case study you will use for your Psychiatric Diagnosis assignment in Week Six.

In your initial post, you will take on the persona of the patient from the case study you have chosen in order to create an initial call to a mental health professional from the patient’s point of view. In order to create your initial call, evaluate the symptoms and presenting problems from the case study, and then determine how the patient would approach the first call.

Create a document that includes a transcript of a call from the patient’s point of view based on the information in the case study including basic personal information and reasons for seeking out psychotherapy. The call may be no more than 5 minutes in length. Once you have created your transcript you will create a screencast recording of the transcript using the patient’s voice. Based on the information from the case study, consider the following questions as you create your recording:

• What would the patient say?
• What tone of voice might he or she use?
• How fast would the patient speak?
• Would the message be understandable (e.g., would it be muffled, circumstantial, tangential, rambling, mumbled, pressured, etc.)?

You may use any screencasting software you choose. Quick-Start Guides are available Screencast-O-Matic (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for your convenience. Once you have created your screencast, include the link and the name of the case study you chose in your initial post and attach your transcript document prior to submitting it.

Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts, and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful interactive discourse in this discussion.

Respond to at least one classmate who chose the same case study as you and one who chose a different case study where possible. In your responses you will take on the role of a mental health professional in private practice who receives a voicemail based on your colleague’s recording posted in the forum.

The patient has called your office after hours and left a voicemail. In your response, evaluate the message, and share your initial reactions to your prospective patient’s voicemail. Answer the following question in your response:

• How would listening to this voicemail make you feel?
• Would you want to work with this prospective patient? Why or why not?
• Assess your reactions to the voicemail from a sociocultural perspective. What questions are already going through your mind about the patient’s background and mental health?

Evaluate the depiction of the prospective patient by comparing the voicemail to the information from the case study. Did your classmate provide a realistic representation of the patient? What could your classmate have done to make the voicemail sound more realistic based on the information presented in the book?