Comment on the relative strengths of biological causes compared to sociological or individual causes. Consider the types of anorexia nervosa in your argument.

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PSY 110HA

Stress and Coping Project

Guidelines and Rubric

You will create, manage, and apply a chosen coping or relaxation technique and keep a journal of your

overall well-being. For two weeks straight, you will engage in a reliable technique (e.g., meditation) for 10-

15 minutes every day. Before each session, you will record your overall mood and stress using the Daily

Stress and Coping Entry Form (available in Doc Sharing). You should have an entry form for each day.

Before and after beginning the project, you will evaluate your overall mood.

Write a general overview on the benefits of the stress management technique you used, the challenges

you encountered in trying to utilize the technique, and whether you plan on using the learned technique in

the future. Included in this paper should be a summary of results using a chart, graph, or other

presentation of personal data. This report should be between two and three double-spaced pages using

APA style formatting.

Assignment 2: Eating Disorders

Biological causal factors of anorexia nervosa include genetic predisposition, serotonin regulation, and physiologic weight set points. Given the prevalence of this disorder, it seems unlikely that biological causes alone could account for it.
Research eating disorders using your textbook and the Argosy University online library resources. Based on your research, respond to the following:

  • Comment on the relative strengths of biological causes compared to sociological or individual causes. Consider the types of anorexia nervosa in your argument.
  • Explain any treatment strategies that would support your argument.
  • Does obesity share anything in common with anorexia nervosa? Consider obesity causal factors and whether obesity is truly a mental disorder.

Write your initial response in 3–4 paragraphs. If you refer to research information, cite sources applying APA standards.

How may the availability heuristic account for our perception of violence?

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How may the availability heuristic account for our perception of violence?

two paragraphs.

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ReSPONSES:

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1. The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that someone makes in their memory that relies on examples an individual has stored in their memory as an immediate example. This also includes present decisions one may make based on memories of similar situations from the past. A lot of life decisions are made from vivid information stashed away in our brain bank. For instance, if you win a nice amount of money on a scratch off lottery ticket, you may think your luck has finally arrived. This may prompt one to make the decision to buy even more tickets based off of the one big win. It’s a misleading situation for the mind.

Availability heuristic accounts for our perception of violence in mass amount these days. You can’t turn on the tv now without some sort of violence or news of violent actions that have taken place in our country. Our perception of violence is on high alert because violence is traumatic. For example, if I were jogging in my neighborhood and witnessed the same pickup truck passing by me several times that I have never seen before, my mind may automatically jump to a forensic files episode I saw last week that was based around women being kidnapped. Situations like this may sway my decisions as to if or when I decide to go jogging in my neighborhood. So, these mental shortcuts we form in our memories determine a lot of aspects in our lives. Especially when it comes to dangerous or violent situations.

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The availability heuristic is defined as thought shortcuts that help to make judgements based on information and experiences that quickly come to mind. Due to our world revolving around mass media, we tend to absorb more bad news than good news because we are almost always presented with violence and devastation. This becomes imprinted in our brains to make us feel like violence and chaos is a lot more common in the world than it actually is, which in turn causes widespread fear across the country. When we think of violence, we often think of the worst and most frequent violent events that may be exaggerated in the mind, which increases the fear of the situation.

When we are extensively and regularly exposed to violence via the media, we can become desensitized to cruel behaviors. It is said that people of the Western civilization have become so conditioned to the suffering of humans that we are essentially immune to the fear that is felt when presented with violence. This can create major social issues since the normalization of violence seems to be growing each day. When an individual is so emotionally detached from feeling any remorse for human suffering, they may begin to carry out their own acts of violence that feeds a different type of excitement. Since we have a lot more personal freedoms in America, weapons are very accessible and attainable and so are vast amounts of information. In this day and age, it is extremely easy to carry out violent and harmful acts as the amount of anger and hate people give off directly influences that.

Resolve the ethical dilemma and multicultural issues presented in the case study scenarios linked in Resources, and apply the material to this assignment.

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Ethics Case Study

Introduction

Ethical dilemmas are very difficult to resolve because no course of action will be a perfect solution. In such situations, critically analyzing and thinking about all applicable ethical principles is important to help make the most ethical decisions possible.

In this assignment, you will use professional guidelines and tools to devise a strategy to address an ethical dilemma and evaluate the usefulness of those guidelines and tools.

Instructions

  • Resolve the ethical dilemma and multicultural issues presented in the case study scenarios linked in Resources, and apply the material to this assignment.
    • To create an effective resolution, reflect on your responses to related discussion questions and review the recommendations made on your posts by peers.
  • Use the Ethics Case Study Template linked in Resources to build your PowerPoint presentation.
    • As in the previous assignment, you may enhance the design of the presentation to make it more effective.

Your PowerPoint should include the following:

  1. Title slide:
    • Enter a descriptive title of approximately 5–15 words that concisely communicates the heart of the case study. It should stir interest while maintaining professional decorum.
    • Enter your name, a job title, and an organization that would fit with your case study. These last two elements may be fictional.
  2. Case Study Overview slides: Provide the briefest possible narrative of the professional conflict in the case. Additional supporting details and references may be added in the notes section below the slide. The overview should include:
    • The professional setting of the case.
    • Short descriptions of the people involved and their roles.
    • A concise summation of the ethical dilemma.
  3. Ethical Concerns slides: Bullet three or more ethical concerns in the case and apply one or more ethical standards to each concern. Additional supporting details and references may be added in the notes section below the slide. Be sure to include links to pertinent elements of the code.
  4. Comparison of Ethical Theories slides: In the first row of the table provided, identify two ethical theories that you think would be the most appropriate for the situations in the case. In the following rows, compare relevant features of the two theories. In the notes section, evaluate which theory provides a more functional framework for your case and explain why.
    • Note that ethical theories and ethical decision-making models are two different things. Please make sure you are comparing, contrasting, and evaluating two ethical theories.
  5. Ethical Decision-Making Model slides:
    • Use Fisher’s ethical decision-making model and identify each step in the model.
    • Apply the model to your case and, under each step of the model, describe how that step would look if applied to the case.
    • Incorporate multicultural issues presented in the case study within the selected ethical decision-making model.
    • Copy this slide as needed and combine steps on the slides as necessary or appropriate. In the notes section, include supporting narrative details for your bullet points.
      • Please make sure you are applying steps of the ethical decision-making model to your case.
  6. Proposed Resolution slide: Use bullet points to summarize your proposed resolution to the ethical dilemmas in the case. In the notes section, add supporting narrative details for your bullet points.
  7. References slides: Use current APA style and formatting guidelines.

Additional Requirements

  • Written communication: Should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • Format: Use the Ethics Case Study Template linked in Resources. Use current APA style and formatting guidelines as applicable.
  • References: You must cite best practices from at least three scholarly research articles in this assignment. You may cite reputable sources from websites, books, textbooks, and assigned resources as well, but these will not count toward the three required scholarly research references.
  • Length of PowerPoint: A minimum of 10 slides.

Refer to the additional helpful links in Resources as you complete your assignment. Submit your PowerPoint file no later than 11:59 p.m. (CST) on Sunday.

Resources

What would you most like to look back on? How do you view Erikson’s stage of integrity versus despair as it relates to your own life? 

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Assignment 1: Discussion—A Life in Review

In late adulthood, most people engage in a process of life review. They recall their life histories and recount them to others as well. As people review the important events from their lives, they create a picture of their lives as an integrated whole. The last stage of Erikson’s theory is called ego integrity versus despair. As people complete their life reviews, they may feel a sense of integrity. This means they look back upon their lives with a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction. Others may have a sense of despair. They often feel unfulfilled and have regret about choices they have made or events that have occurred.

Many people fear and dread the late adulthood stage of life because they believe what awaits them is ill health and cognitive decline. While that description fits some adults in later life, it certainly does not describe them all. Many older adults lead healthy, active lives and are closely connected to their families and communities.

Use your module readings and the Argosy University online library resources to research the process of life review.

Conduct your own life review and then respond to the following:

  • What do you look forward to about getting older?
  • What would you most like to look back on?
  • How do you view Erikson’s stage of integrity versus despair as it relates to your own life?

 

Support your arguments with research, citing sources.
Write your initial response in 150–200 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. By Saturday, December 24, 2016, post your response to the appropriate Discussion Area. Through Wednesday, January 4, 2017, review and comment on at least two peers’ responses. Ask a question, remark on an analysis presented, or suggest an alternative view. Be sure to formulate a thoughtful and substantive response.