After reviewing the resources in the course materials, write a 1,000-1,500-word paper proposing a  plan to prevent or reduce the incidence of cancer, chronic illness, and/or disease. The plan will focus on lifestyle changes and risk factors, in addition to elements that promote wellness, while decreasing illness and current high rates [prevalence] of cancers, chronic illnesses, and disease.

It is important to use current scholarly research when formulating a plan. The elements selected should be supported by this research.

Include the following in the plan:

1. Choose a cancer, chronic illness, or disease. Check instructor announcements to see if topic approval is required.
2. Choose  a community/culture/subculture. A subculture is a smaller group within a  larger culture who share common beliefs, norms, and traditions.
3. Describe the background of the community/culture/subculture as it relates to history or other defining characteristics. Including but not limited to: (a) What is the background of the chosen community/culture/subculture? (i.e., demographics, such as age,  education, race, sex); (b) Explain the historical factors that are important to the plan and the perceived positive and/or negative effects  on health care (i.e., norms, traditions); (c) Why is this an important community/culture/subculture to apply a prevention or reduction program?  (risk factors/current rates of cancer/illness or disease); (d) Why is it important to implement a plan in this community/culture/subculture?  How is this critical to the prevention or reduction of incidence?
4. Describe several components of the plan. What factors are considered that have a  correlation with the community/culture/subculture described? (i.e.,  education, socioeconomic status (SES), existing lifestyle behaviors,  health behaviors, self-care, exercise & nutrition, conflicts with mainstream medicine, religious/spiritual factors).
5. Using research and psychological principles/theories to support your plan,  explain how you would make this plan successful (i.e., how will you promote it?): (a) Include information on how your plan would positively affect the factors described for the community/culture/subculture in relation to the chronic illness (i.e., lifestyle changes for a person suffering from a diabetic condition); (b) Describe how you would go about implementing your plan. Where your plan would be based (for example, if your choice is children with cancer, would that be in a  hospital, school, etc.?); (c) How would your plan be different to any existing plan for your chosen community/culture/subculture?.
6. Explain any obstacles that might get in the way of implementing your plan, and how would you overcome these obstacles. These obstacles might include the existing plan, dynamics of the population, or other problems.

Use four to six outside peer-reviewed journal articles to support your discussion (one of which may be the textbook). Scholarly support is evidenced by in-text citations that match source references.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style  Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

Benchmark Information

This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competency:

BS Nutritional Sciences; BS Psychology; BS Public Health; BS Sociology

3.4: Incorporate sociocultural factors in scientific inquiry.

1. The general human tendency to overestimate the importance of personality or dispositional factors when explaining the causes of social behavior is called:

 

a. the halo effect.

 

b. the hindsight bias.

 

c. the fundamental attribution error.

 

d. the actor-observer bias.

 

Explain why you selected this answer.

 

 

 

2. 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?

 

 

 

3. 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 subject who rated the blind date before watching the show, and to what factor was this difference attributed?

 

 

 

4. From article #13, in demonstrating the “region-β paradox” what do Gilbert and his colleagues suggest about people’s willingness to endure painful medical procedures?

 

 

 

5. 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?

 

 

 

 

 

6. 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.

 

 

 

7. Briefly contrast the views of Locke and Rousseau on how children develop.

 

 

 

 

 

8. a) What do ethologists, such as Lorenz, mean by imprinting on a parent-figure? b) What observations led Bowlby to suggest that imprinting occurs in human infants? That is, what parallels between human infants and other species did he point to?

 

 

 

 

 

9. “For children to learn, we must praise their correct responses and correct their mistakes.” Would Montessori agree? Explain.

 

 

 

 

 

10. What did Werner mean by “microgenesis” and “microgenetic mobility?” Give examples. Discuss some valuable aspects of these concepts.

 

 

 

 

 

11. Piaget’s critics charge that he made development appear too slow. Discuss this criticism with respect to either: a) object permanence, b) conservation training, or c) Kamii’s teaching methods. Then, describe the Piagetian approach.

 

 

 

12. Compare conventional and postconventional morality in Kohlberg’s theory.