Describe motivational factors that led you to enroll at college and that keep you enrolled. Then explain how these motivational factors might change as you progress from your first days at Walden to your first or second year.

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Discussion: Media, Technology, Peer Pressure, Violence, and Current Events

In your post, consider how a potential media stronghold over children and adolescents could lead to depressive symptoms.
For example, think about the media and its obsession with thinness, and particularly how this impacts female adolescents and the young-adult population. What do you think the relation is between over-viewing of idealized and unrealistic media portrayals and depressive symptoms?
Explain how rapidly depressive symptoms can lead to troublesome behaviors in direct correlation to media influence. Also reference co-morbid disorders that could potentially develop, such as eating disorders. Please research at least one real-world example to support your claims.

Resources:

Linder, J. R., & Werner, N. E. (2012). Relationally aggressive media exposure and children’s  normative beliefs: Does parental mediation matter? Family Relations, 61(3), 488-500.  doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2012.00707.x

Lloyd, B. T. (2002). A conceptual framework for examining adolescent identity, media  influence, and social development. Review of General Psychology, 6(1), 73–91.  https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1037/1089-2680.6.1.73

Martino, S. C., Collins, R. L., Kanouse, D. E., Elliott, M., & Berry, S. H. (2005). Social  cognitive processes mediating the relationship between exposure to television’s sexual  content and adolescents’ sexual behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,  89(6), 914–924. https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1037/0022-3514.89.6.914

To Prepare

  • Review this week’s Learning Resources on intrinsic and extrinsic motivations and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
  • Reflect on your motives for enrolling at Walden and consider how your motives might change as you progress in your studies.  Identify intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that will keep you motivated to complete your degree.
  • Review the resources on culture and motivation. Think about how culture affects motivation.
  • Identify, based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, any D-needs and B-needs that could be motivating your behavior to achieve a graduate degree. Determine whether culture plays a role in your motivation to complete your degree.

By Day 4

Post a response to the following:

Describe motivational factors that led you to enroll at college and that keep you enrolled. Then explain how these motivational factors might change as you progress from your first days at Walden to your first or second year. Finally, identify at least one intrinsic and one extrinsic motivation that could help keep you motivated to complete your degree. Be sure to address what role culture plays in your motivation to complete your degree.

Describe how you plan to use this source in your Week 3 outline that you will write next week.

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[WLOs: 3] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment, please review your completed Week 1 Written Assignment, and the assignment instructions for the Week 2 Annotated Bibliography, Week 3 Annotated Outline and the Week 5 Final Project. This assignment will focus on the research and scholarly sources for your Final Project, again using the same neuropsychological disorder you selected as your focus for the Week 1 Written Assignment already completed. At this time, please look for additional resources to help you discuss your selected neuropsychological disorder (this is the same as the disorder you wrote about in the Week 1 assignment). With the exception of the DSM-5, you may cite and reference course materials such as the textbook, required or recommended reading, or multimedia, but these will not fulfill the source requirement.

For this assignment, be sure to complete and submit the Annotated Bibliography TemplatePreview the document to Waypoint.

Complete the following:

Find at least six to eight scholarly and/or peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last five years, including a minimum of two original research studies that discuss your selected neuropsychological disorder, which you selected for the Week 1 assignment. For further information, please review the Original Research Study Tipsheet (Links to an external site.).

Plan on using these sources in this assignment, as well as your Week 3 assignment and your Final Project (Week 5 assignment).

This will allow you to select, read, and summarize your sources to determine how you will use them in your Final Project, and will also allow your instructor to provide feedback on your selection and understanding of these sources.

You may reuse the references you used in completing your Week 1 assignment. You may use the DSM-5 as one of your resources.

With the exception of the DSM-5, you may cite and reference course materials such as the textbook, required or recommended reading, or multimedia, but these will not fulfill the source requirement.

Include a full reference citation in APA format for each resource.

Summarize each resource in a paragraph (do not copy the article’s abstract—this summary should be in your own words).

Describe how you plan to use this source in your Week 3 outline that you will write next week.

The Final Project Annotated Bibliography

Must include a separate title page with the following:

Title of paper

Student’s name

Course name and number

Instructor’s name

Date submitted

For further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).

Must include at least six to eight scholarly or peer-reviewed sources to complete this annotated bibliography.

The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types and the Ashford University Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) video provides library search tips. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.

Identify legal, ethical issues in theories of personality and psychotherapy 

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Vignette Analysis II:

This  assignment focuses on vignette analysis and direct application of  course concepts to the persons and situations presented in the vignette  for each question. All discussions must take into account the legal  and ethical considerations, as well as issues of culture and human  diversity that may pertain to the situations presented below. 

Please  keep your responses focused on what is presented in the vignette. Do  not add information but use your creativity to support what you see in  the vignette as written. All assignments MUST be typed  in APA style and must be written at graduate level  English. The content, conciseness and clarity of your answers will be  considered in the evaluation of your work. You must use and integrate the material presented in the course text and cite your work according to APA format. Use of outside resources for culture-specific information to enhance your vignette analysis is encouraged.

This assignment should be 6-7 pages total plus a Title and Reference Page

A  panel of experts from Phenomenological Theories, Trait Theories and  Biological Theories of personality has been asked to evaluate this case.  Each panel will discuss their view of this case in direct and specific  context to a minimum of four (4) of their theoretical constructs. Each  panel will take into consideration the research on personality and the  brain as well as culture and legal/ethical issues that might arise. 

For this assignment you are to present this case from each of these panels of experts: 

Panel I: Phenomenological Theorists 

Panel II: Trait Theorists 

Panel III: Biological/Genetic Theorists 

John,  a 28 year old, Hispanic male, is seen in an initial interview at a  community mental health clinic. He has been diagnosed as Chronically  Mentally Ill. He resides with his mother and grandmother. Both his  father and grandfather committed suicide in their early 30’s. John is  afraid that he is fated to join the male-dominated generational pattern.  John is oriented to reality and does not appear to have any  disturbances in perception or thought. He does appear to be severely  depressed and anxious during your interview.

Assignment Outcomes

Distinguish the major theories of personality

 

Contrast historical and current views of personality

 

Integrate evidence based treatment interventions

 

Combine current research to assessment and technique

 

Identify legal, ethical issues in theories of personality and psychotherapy

 

Examine issues of culture and diversity in theories and application

Briefly outline the three types of censorship discussed in the chapter and connect with ideas concerning how culture regulates and influences behavior and the law.

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 text book required: Shiraev, E. & Levy, D. (2017). Cross-cultural psychology: Critical thinking and contemporary applications. (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc

  1. For this paper you must include a response to all of the following:
  2. Challenging or Respecting Traditional Values:(this criterion should take approximately 1-2 paragraphs to address)
    1. According to the text, in today’s multicultural communities, customary rules of behavior shared by the people of one group may appear strange and even unacceptable to others (Shiraev & Levy, 2013). With this in mind respond to the following questions regarding culture, behavior and the law:
      1. How far should people go on challenging deep-seated customs and values of a traditional community?
      2. Which is more important in your life: to respect all traditions, even though you may disagree with some OR to challenge them, thus possibly undermining a society’s cultural foundation? Why?
  3. Democracy & Ethnocentricity:(this criterion should take approximately 1-2 paragraphs to address)
    1. Is the American view on democracy ethnocentric?,
    2. A full credit responses will broadly address the cultural and “human” factors which may be important in democratic and non-democratic systems as well as providing a clear and logical explanation of why they believe democracy is or is not ethnocentric.
    3. Overall, full credit responses may consider a few possible areas of emphasis: human rights, freedom or economic opportunity and tolerance or acceptance of different religions, languages, and customs.
  4. Censorship:(this criterion should take approximately 1-2 paragraphs to address)
    1. Define and discuss censorship.
    2. Briefly outline the three types of censorship discussed in the chapter and connect with ideas concerning how culture regulates and influences behavior and the law.
  5. Textbook and Research Connection:(this criterion applies throughout the response as textbook support for each criterion and clear connection to textbook and additional research examples)
  6. Additional Paper Requirements:
    1. APA style in-text citation and reference is required. Students may not use websites, of any kind, as a primary source in their responses. Submissions which do not contain both APA style in-text citation and reference and/or which use websites of any kind as a primary source may receive a zero.
    2. Papers formatting must be:
      1. A minimum of 2 FULL pages, single-spaced, 12-point New Times Roman font or similar. Do not exceed 3 pages. Reference citations included on a separate page do not count towards writing minimum or maximum.
      2. Do not use any titles, title pages, or headings, course name or date, etc. If you include your name or PID it should be included in the “header” of the document and not part of the main content.
      3. Do not use bullet points, outlines, or numbering in your response.  Essay/paragraph format is required.
      4. APA style in-text citation and reference is required.
      5. Students may not use websites, of any kind, as a primary source in their responses. Submissions which do not contain both APA style in-text citation and reference and/or which use websites of any kind as a primary source may receive a zero.
    3. Assignment responses which do not fulfill all of the above criteria will receive point deductions.
    4. As stated in the syllabus and Obojobo modules on Avoiding Plagiarism, responses which do not contain BOTH in-text citation and references will be flagged for plagiarism and receive a zero.