What are your thoughts about the relationship between spirituality and organized religion?  In answering this question, be clear about how you are defining spirituality.

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Foundations online Midterm Exam 2019

Please answer 5 of the 6 following questions with one paragraph for each question. As per your syllabus, please make sure your answer:

• is accurate and complete

• appropriately references relevant lecture, readings, and live discussions

• is well-written

Please refer to the additional information regarding APA format on the course wall that was posted towards the beginning of the course. Thank you!

1. Trace the roots of the evolution of the wellness perspective in the history of the counseling professions.  In your answer, explain how and why the developmental perspective has shifted to the wellness perspective.

2. Why is the establishment of the ACA in 1993 a significant milestone it the evolution of the counseling profession?

3. Why is a non-hierarchical collaborative relationship between counselor and client a critical element of a wellness model?

4. Distinguish between culture as difference versus culture as ideology.

5. What are your thoughts about the relationship between spirituality and organized religion?  In answering this question, be clear about how you are defining spirituality.

6. In the story about B. T. Miller by J. Mooallem, how would you explain the strong and powerful connections that seemed to characterize Miller’s relationships with others from the perspective of Buddhist psychology.

Write a paper (2,000-2,250 words) that addresses the role of the Christian worldview in the application of research ethics in the field of psychology. Address the following in your paper:

  1. Is Christianity specifically incompatible with Ph.D.      research in the field of psychology? Why or why not?
  2. Is the Christian worldview compatible with research      ethics in the field of psychology? Why or why not?
  3. To what extent should the Christian worldview influence      the type of psychology research conducted and the ethics of that research?      Why?
  4. To what extent do you perceive that the Christian      worldview will influence the topic and ethics of your intended      dissertation research? Why? Is this different than you expected? Why or      why not? (Benchmarks Relationships, Spirit, and Self-Discovery C8.1:      Appraise the evolution of one’s personal self and worldview.)

Identify the ways in which terrorist behavior is influenced by internal, environmental, and socio-cultural factors.

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Week 3 Assignment – Developing a Theory of Terrorism

Classroom Resources:

  1. Moral Psychology      of Terrorism (2013)      Introduction
  2. Horgan, J. G.      (2017). Psychology of terrorism: Introduction to the special issue. American Psychologist, 72(3),      199-204. doi:10.1037/amp0000148

3. Reich, W. (1998) Origins of terrorism: Psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press

4. Jaber, H. (1999) Hezbollah: Born with a vengeance. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.

5. Toolis, K. (1997) Rebel hearts: Journeys within the IRA’s soul. St. Martin’s Press.

6. Randal, J. (2011) Osama: The making of a terrorist. New York, NY, Knoph.

Instructions:

· Craft a five (5) to six (6) page paper developing a model or theory of terrorism.

· Using any combination of theoretical, social, cultural, or other propositions from the course materials, create your model/theory in such a way that it best represents your understanding of the motivations of terrorism.

o Ground the theory developed in psychological, social, political, religious, or other foundational basis.

o Identify the ways in which terrorist behavior is influenced by internal, environmental, and socio-cultural factors.

§ In your model/theory, some areas you may want to discuss are the psychological motivations, perceptions of reward, social factors, influence of the group, religious motivations, political motivations, inspiring others, and other similar areas.

· Provide details and examples of existing models/theories and terrorism events within your work.

o Details and examples should substantiate your model/theory, providing support for the propositions made.

· Close with a brief discussion of the effectiveness of terrorism in meeting the goals of the organization or the individual actor.

· Include references to the available course materials, citing a minimum of two (2) course sources.

· Papers should be formatted according to 6th edition APA style.

o Include a separate title page.

o In-text citations.

o Reference page for all sources cited in-text.

Identify who was in the radius of significant others that shaped your development through your toddler, child, and adolescent years.

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The Psychology of Evil

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http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil?language=en#t-256853 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

(This same video link is also listed under the current module for a different route to the same video)

Watch the Ted Talk video “The Psychology of Evil” with Phillip Zimbardo.  Then answer the following questions:

  1. What, according to Zimbardo, is the “Lucifer Effect”? How does it influence your understanding of evil?
  2. How does Zimbardo’s experimental Prison Study relate to the real life events at Abu Ghraib?
  3. What connections do you see between Zimbardo’s research and Milgram’s? How does Zimbardo go beyond Milgram’s findings?
  4. What was the setup of the Prison Study? How would you have reacted that morning of the first day had you been assigned the role of prisoner? How would you have reacted over time?
  5. Which of the social processes that Zimbardo identifies as key to greasing the slippery slope to “evil” do you think would most powerfully impact you (and perhaps prompt you into committing unconscionable acts)?
  6. Which systemic aspects of major institutions concern you most? Feel free to consider prisons, mental institutions, military agencies, schools and universities, government bodies, etc.This assignment allows you to explore the effects of social influences on personal development.Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you examine the concept of the self. Address the following:
    • Identify who was in the radius of significant others that shaped your development through your toddler, child, and adolescent years.
    • Identify verbal messages you recall that suggested situational or dispositional attributions about you.
    • Describe how you developed your current attitudes toward authority, competitors, subordinates, the opposite sex, or another generation.
    • Explore the effects your social world has had on your developing professional identity.

. Explain your results for a lay audience and further explain what the answer is to your research question.

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As with the previous week’s Discussion, this Discussion assists in solidifying your understanding of statistical testing by engaging in some data analysis. This week you will once again work with a real, secondary dataset to construct a research question, perform categorical data analysis that answers the question, and interpret the results.

Whether in a scholarly or practitioner setting, good research and data analysis should have the benefit of peer feedback. For this Discussion, you will post your response to the hypothesis test, along with the results. Be sure and remember that the goal is to obtain constructive feedback to improve the research and its interpretation, so please view this as an opportunity to learn from one another.

To prepare for this Discussion:

· Review Chapters 10 and 11 of the Frankfort-Nachmias & Leon-Guerrero course text and the media program found in this week’s Learning Resources related to bivariate categorical tests.

· Create a research question using the General Social Survey dataset that can be answered using categorical analysis.

By Day 3

Use SPSS to answer the research question. Post your response to the following:

1. What is your research question?

2. What is the null hypothesis for your question?

3. What research design would align with this question?

4. What dependent variable was used and how is it measured?

5. What independent variable is used and how is it measured?

6. If you found significance, what is the strength of the effect?

7. Explain your results for a lay audience and further explain what the answer is to your research question.

Be sure to support your Main Post and Response Post with reference to the week’s Learning Resources and other scholarly evidence in APA Style.

Frankfort-Nachmias, C., & Leon-Guerrero, A. (2018). Social statistics for a diverse society (8th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

· Chapter 9, “Bivariate Tables” (pp. 235-268)

· Chapter 11, “The Chi-Square Test and Measures of Association” (pp. 269-302)