Finally you should give an analysis of how the study you reviewed relates to the study you and your team are considering (my team are doing Bystander and Diffusion of Responsibility).

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Due by Sunday afternoon….please make sure run the assignment in “Turn It In” and make sure there isnt not even 1% of plagarism. This is for a Research Methods in Psychology class. This summary must not be a re-wording of the study’s abstract.  You are to read the study and summarize the main points

 

Our team is doing Bystander and Diffusion of Responsibility.

 

There are three articles to review. Each article must have a the questions answered from below:

1) brief background for the study (context for the study)

2) the hypothesis tested

3) who the participants in the study were

6) general method

7) a brief summary of the results

8) how the authors interpreted their findings. If there is more than one experimental study reported in the article you should select the study that best demonstrates the topic the authors are testing and summarize that study.

9) Finally you should give an analysis of how the study you reviewed relates to the study you and your team are considering (my team are doing Bystander and Diffusion of Responsibility).

10) Good grammar, punction, error free etc.

 

In addition, please make sure not to exceed more than one page per article. This needs to be in APA format so double space with 12 point arial font.

 

If you have any questions please contact me.

 

The 3 articles are attached.

Please include information from the textbook and spiritual formation.  Cite at least 1 idea/term from the textbook and use proper current APA format.

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After reading Chapters 14-16  and working through the Critical Thinking Activity form a strong narrative of your personal journey in dealing with the period of identity statuses presented on p. 434. Please include information from the textbook and spiritual formation.  Cite at least 1 idea/term from the textbook and use proper current APA format.  Your thread must be 250 words.

 

Book: http://books.google.com/books?id=mC_LNMy2rbkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

 

After you have read and reviewed Chapter 16, test your critical thinking skills on these four case studies.  They will illustrate the identity statuses proposed by Erik Erikson and others. For each case, suggest the most appropriate identity status – identity achievement, role confusion/diffusion, foreclosure, and moratorium; then describe your reasoning.  Use this to complete discussion.

 

1.      Rudy. Rudy has changed his college major so many times that it will take him six years to graduate. Since his parents have pointedly objected to paying the expenses for tuition and room and board, Rudy has cheerfully taken on a variety of jobs, ranging from bartender to show salesman. He likes work that allows him time to think and be alone; his few friends are very much the same way. Rudy’s grades are generally high, though his record is marred by several “incompletes.”  He has had one very satisfying intimate relationship and is searching rather anxiously for another. Rudy’s identity status would probably be described as _______________________.

 

 

 

2.      Melissa. Melissa’s parents are both physicians. In college she majored in French, spending a semester in France studying art and culture. Upon graduation she surprised her parents by announcing that she had applied to medical school. A close relationship with a hospice nurse and a summer job as a hospital volunteer had helped her arrive at the decision. Melissa’s identity status would probably be described as _____________________.

 

 

 

3.      Lynn. Lynn’s mother is a professor of women’s studies who is deeply involved in feminist issues. Lynn very much admires her mother, a strong woman who, as a single parent, struggled to provide for her daughter while establishing her own career. Lynn believes that she, too, will be a strong and independent woman. She avoids people (especially men) who either don’t see her in that light or try to bring out her feminine nature. She certainly steers clear of her paternal grandmother, who (although pleasant) is a very disorganized and “artsy” person. Lynn’s college grades are very high, and her course selections reflect an unwavering interest in psychology, politics, and women’s studies. Lynn’s identity status would probably be described as ______________________________________.

 

 

 

4.      Daniel. Daniel is a freshman at a college near his old high school. He comes home nearly every weekend but does not enjoy himself once he’s there. He avoids talking to his parents or old high school friends, preferring to “surf the Web” on the computer in his room. Periodically he engages in impulsive shopping; after these sprees he comes home and talks excitedly about the latest electronic gadget he’s acquired. He gets angry if his parents ask what he considers to be foolish questions, and angrier still if they patronize him. Daniel is enrolled in courses he has been told are easy, and he does not have strong feelings about his studies or his grades. Daniel’s identity status would probably be described as ________________________________.

 

How would you determine that the three tests are adequate for addressing the purposes of selection, placement, promotion, and career training?

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Program Evaluation of an Assessment Center

Resources

Attributes and Evaluation of Discussion Contributions.

In this unit, you read about a variety of resources, such as tests or measures and methods, which can be utilized in a variety of work settings. In many settings, several of these resources are incorporated into a single comprehensive design or program to address multiple issues or needs, or answer multiple questions. One such program is the assessment center, which you were introduced to in your Psychological Testing and Assessment text. Since an assessment center, or any similar program using multiple assessment techniques (for example, school counseling programs, and special education intervention programs), typically provides decisions regarding a number of questions, then it is important, if not a requirement, to evaluate the program for efficacy and utility.

You also learned about the concept of utility in the context of testing and assessment as applied to a single measure in Unit 5. Considerations involved in determining utility can also be applied to large-scale testing programs that employ multiple tests or measures in a selected battery.

While the authors of your Psychological Testing and Assessment text introduced an assessment center from 1956 that incorporated multiple tools and methods, the Thornton and Gibbons’ 2009 article, “Validity of Assessment Centers for Personnel Selection,” elaborated on a review of the validity of elements of contemporary assessment centers and considerations when employing them.

For this discussion, take into consideration the factors that affect a test’s utility, which was identified in your Psychological Testing and Assessment text as psychometric soundness, costs, and benefits (pages 212–218), as well as practical considerations when conducting utility analyses, which includes pool of applicants, complexity of the job, and use of cut scores (pages 232–235).

For this discussion, identify three specific measures for a management assessment center addressing selection, placement, promotion, and career training.

For the purposes identified above, identify a specific instrument for each of the following areas:

Ability or aptitude testing.

Occupational career or interests.

Personality.

Then, discuss one advantage and one disadvantage in selecting these tests for the battery.

Next, identify at least one issue regarding factors of utility and utility analysis with this battery of tests.

Finally, include how you would evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating your measures into this battery. How would you determine that the three tests are adequate for addressing the purposes of selection, placement, promotion, and career training?

Include, in your discussion, if and how computerized assessment could be incorporated into your battery or evaluation.

. Which of the following examples is most clearly abnormal according to the “subjective distress” definition of abnormality?

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Psychology

 

1. Proponents of clinical psychologists obtaining prescription privileges argue that with prescription privileges:
A. Clinical psychologists would be able to treat a wider range of clients.
B. Care for patients needing therapy and medication would be more efficient and cost-effective.
C. Clinical psychologists would have an edge over therapists who cannot prescribe.
D. All of the above.
2. In 1993, the Ad Hoc Task Force on Psychopharmacology of APA published recommendations regarding competence in prescribing. According to these recommendations, in order to achieve the highest level of competence (Level 3) and practice independently as a prescribing psychologist, the psychologist must have completed:
A. A one-semester survey course in psychopharmacology.
B. Six months of prescribing experience supervised by a psychiatrist.
C. A strong undergraduate background in biological sciences, two years of graduate training in psychopharmacology and a postdoctoral psychopharmacology.
D. A Ph. D or Psy. D. in clinical psychology.
3. According to APA ethical principles,
A. Clinicians with doctoral degrees can simply present themselves as “Doctor” and need not specify the nature of their training.
B. A clinician with a Ph. D. in clinical psychology may use any treatment or assessment procedure available, even if they have not been specifically trained in it.
C. Dual relationships, which can cause exploitation or harm of the client, are to be avoided.
D. All of the above.
4. A psychologist is seeing a client who reports that he/she is planning to kill his/her spouse. If the ruling in the Tarasoff case is applicable to this situation, the psychologist should:
A. Maintain confidentiality and not share this information with anyone.
B. Break confidentiality and inform the police of this threat.
C. Require the client to call the police and inform them directly of the threat.
D. Break confidentiality and inform appropriate persons, including the spouse of the threat.
5. Researchers show participants one of several short films that vary in the extent to which they provoke anger and measure the heart rates of each participant immediately after each film. This research method is best described as:
A. A series of case studies.
B. Unsystematic observation.
C. Controlled observation.
D. Naturalistic observation.
6. Watson’s study of Little Albert is a classic example of:
A. A mixed design.
B. A case study.
C. The double-blind procedure.
D. None of the above.

7. _____ refers to the rate of new cases of illness that develop within a given period of time, while ____ refers to the overall rate of cases (old or new) within a given period of time.
A. Incidence; distribution
B. Incidence; prevalence
C. Prevalence; incidence
D. Distribution; incidence
8. If epidemiological studies link depression with alcohol consumption, it can be concluded that:
A. Alcohol causes depression.
B. Depression causes alcoholism.
C. All of the above.
D. None of the above.
9. An r statistic of -.85 suggests that:
A. As one variable goes up, the other variable goes up.
B. The two variables are unrelated to each other.
C. On average, the first variable is .85 less than the second variable.
D. As one variable goes up, the other variable goes down.

10. ____ is a statistical method that utilizes many separate correlations in order to determine which variables change in concert and thus can be considered functionally related.
A. Longitudinal correlation.
B. Factor analysis.
C. Multiple baseline correlation.
D. Scatterplot analysis.

12. Researchers at a psychology clinic screen all new clients via phone interview, and over a few weeks a list of 40 new clients who meet criteria for depression. Twenty receive cognitive-behavioral treatment, and the other are told that they are on the waiting list. The independent variable in this study is ___ and the dependent variable is ___.
A. Depression level; treatment
B. Treatment; depression level
C. Time of interview; depression level
D. Treatment; treatment
13. Which of the following is the best example of a confounding variable influencing the internal validity of a study?
A. Researchers perform a factor analysis and in the inferential factor-naming stage, assign names to the factors that cause disagreements with other researchers.
B. A participant in a psychotherapy effectiveness study receives counseling from a minister in addition to the therapy provided in the study.
C. A participant in a psychotherapy study who is placed on a waiting list receives no treatment while other participants in the same study are receiving psychotherapy.
D. Two variables are found to correlate highly with each other, when in fact they are both caused by a third variable.
14. A clinical psychologist assesses a client’s behavior using an objective test and finds that the score on the test is outside of the range in which 98% of scores fall. The psychologist concludes that the client’s behavior is abnormal. The psychologist’s conclusion is based upon the definition of abnormality that emphasizes:
A. Experience of distress.
B. Disability or dysfunction.
C. Conformity to norms.
D. All of the above.
15. Which of the following examples is most clearly abnormal according to the “subjective distress” definition of abnormality?
A. A mean, callous supervisor who remains unaware that his/her employees hate him/her.
B. A librarian whose religious hallucinations are interfering with her ability to work.
C. A child whose IQ is measured below the cutoff point for mental retardation.
D. A high-functioning accountant who feels depressed about several aspects of his/her life.
16. Diagnostic categories are advantageous because they facilitate:
A. Communication among mental health professionals.
B. Research.
C. Treatment choice.
D. All of the above.
17. The most revolutionary changes in DSM, including the first application of explicit diagnositc criteria for the mental disorders and a multi-axial system, appeared in:
A. DSM-II.
B. DSM-III.
C. DSM-III-R.
D. DSM-IV-TR.
18. Changes incorporated in DSM-IV and maintained in DSM-IV-TR were based on ____ to a greater extent than changes incorporated in any previous edition.
A. Psychoanalytic theory.
B. Empirical data.
C. Cognitive-behavioral theory.
D. Consensus of expert opinion.
19. Marcus is a psychotherapy client whose depressive symptoms emerged soon after he was diagnosed with cancer, for which he is currently undergoing treatment. In the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic system, the cancer diagnosis:
A. Would not be listed.
B. Would be listed on Axis I.
C. Would be listed on Axis III.
D. None of the above.
20. Jennifer is a college student seeing a psychologist in the university counseling center for test anxiety. The only other symptoms she reports are occasional verbal arguments with her boyfriend of 2 years. In the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic system, Jennifer’s GAF would appear on Axis ___ as approximately ____.
A. I;50
B. V; 85
C. IV; 95
D. V; 10
2. According to the diathesis-stress model of psychopathology:
A. A vulnerability or predisposition (such as genetics) is necessary and sufficient to develop psychopathology.
B. Environmental stress and a vulnerability or predisposition are  required to develop psychopathology.
C. Possessing a diathesis for a disorder guarantees its eventual occurrence.
D. All human beings are born with the same likelihood of developing a particular disorder.