Development through the lifespan

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Post a brief description of the famous person you selected. Then evaluate how the psychological constructs of continuity/discontinuity and nature/nurture have manifested in this person’s development, making sure to consider all constructs.

 

Readings

  • Course Text: Berk, L. E. (2012). Development through the lifespan (Laureate Education, Inc., custom ed.). Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
    • Chapter 1, “History, Theory, and Research Strategies”
  • Article: American Psychological Association. (2010). Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct with the 2010 Amendments. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx
  • Article: Keller, H. (2007). Developmental psychology I: Prenatal to adolescence. The International Handbook of Psychology. Retrieved from the Walden Library using SAGE Reference Online:
    http://www.sage-ereference.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/hdbk_intlpsych/Article_n14.html
    • Section 14.1 only
  • Article: Pinker, S. (2004). Why nature & nurture won’t go away. Daedalus, 133(4), 5–13.

Websites

  • APA: Division 7: Developmental Psychology
    http://www.apa.org/about/division/div7.aspx

Optional Resources

  • Article: Beaver, K. M., Wright, J. P., DeLisi, M. (2008). Delinquent peer group formation: Evidence of a gene x environment correlation. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 169(3), 227–244.
  • Article: Estes, W. K. (2007). Basic methods of psychological science. The International Handbook of Psychology. Retrieved from the Walden Library using SAGE Reference Online:
    http://www.sage-ereference.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/hdbk_intlpsych/Article_n2.html

What can you recommend should be done for the victim?

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Here’s What Happened . . .

After your report was presented to the Centervale chief of police, he realized there is a need for training for law enforcement officials. Using the Simpson case as the basis, a proposal was presented and approved by the mayor to fund a special project.

You have been asked to produce a written training curriculum to educate the trainers of Centervale’s law enforcement officials about dealing with crime victims. The chief has asked you to cover both stranger violence and intimate violence. Your curriculum will supply trainers with information that would assist them in training new recruits, first responders, and detectives.

Here’s What You Need to Do . . .

  • Prepare three short scenarios that could be used as training material. In the training material, include the three areas of stalking, intimate violence, and stranger violence.
  • Following each scenario, generate questions that the trainers could present. Be sure to offer answers to these questions, with support, as a handy guide for the trainers.
  • Finally, design a summary for the trainers that they can use to end their training. The summary should:
    • Highlight the differences between criminology and victimology and why it is important for law enforcement officials to have a basic knowledge of both. Use examples from your created scenarios as support. Identify the relevant theories that pertain to violence against women. How can law enforcement make use of these facts?
    • Explain the importance of law enforcement learning more about proper treatment of victims in order to ensure the system does not revictimize them. Consider how interviews, order of protection service, time until arrest, safety planning, and lethality assessments play into this treatment.
  • Create a curriculum:
    • Develop three to five questions for each scenario. Focus on relevant victimology or criminology theories, victims’ rights, lethality assessments, and proper treatment of victims.
    • Develop potential answers for those questions, including the reasoning behind those answers. Hypothesize how past inadequacies in victims’ rights, as they pertain to law enforcement, might have led to different endings to the scenarios.
    • Predict the danger level for each victim and connect to the necessary actions of the advocate or the detective that will come from this alert.
    • Create a solution that would properly treat victims in order to ensure the system does not revictimize them. In creating a solution, consider these questions:
      • What can you recommend should be done for the victim?
      • What can you recommend should be done to the suspect?
      • What resources are available to assist law enforcement in working with victims?

Note: Use APA-formatted in-text citations and external sources that are referred to on a corresponding reference page.

Submission Details: By Tuesday, April 1, 2014, submit your final presentation

 

LASA 2 Grading Criteria and Rubric

All discussion assignments in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 300 points. Download the discussion rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Predicted the danger level for each victim.
60
Connected the danger level for each victim to actions of the advocate or the detective.
40
Created a solution that would properly treat victims without allowing the system to revictimize them.
48
Developed questions for each scenario.
16
Developed possible answers for each question for each scenario.
28
Hypothesized on how past inadequacies in victims’ rights could have led to a different ending to each scenario.
32
Identified and explained the usefulness of relevant theories that pertain to violence against women.
12
Writing components.
64
Total:
300

Ethics In Contemporary Society

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Ethical (Moral) Relativism

In America, many are comfortable describing ethics as follows: “Well, what’s right for me is right for me and what’s right for you is right for you. Let’s just agree to disagree.” This is an affirmation of what philosophers call individual or subjective moral relativism. In this understanding of relativism, morality is a matter of individual feelings and personal preference. In individual moral relativism, the determination of what is right and wrong in a situation varies according to the individual. Moral relativists do not believe in natural law or universal truths.

Cultural moral relativism puts culture at the forefront of relative ethical decision-making.  It says the individual must include the precepts of his or her culture as a prominent part of the relativistic moral action.

Lawrence Kohlberg, a prominent psychologist known for recognizing moral stages of development, takes it a step farther saying cultural relativists are persons stuck in the “Conventional Stage” of ethical development.

In your paper, please define individual moral relativism and cultural moral relativism in detail, noting how they differ from each other, their strengths and weaknesses, and give your position on Kohlberg’s stance on ethical relativism.
What aspects of ethical relativism do you identify and agree with? What aspects do you disagree with?  Give a personal example that illustrates your stance on ethical relativism, describing how you made a moral decision in an ethical dilemma.  Include at least two references to support your thoughts.

Post a 500-word paper to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by due Wednesday, April 9, 2014. All written assignments and responses should follow proper citation rules for attributing sources. Please use Microsoft Word spelling/grammar checker. Be mindful of plagiarism policies.

Describe what the therapeutic approach might be like if the therapist is a:

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A client goes to a psychotherapist seeking help for an incapacitating phobia toward almost all members of the opposite sex.  Describe what the therapeutic approach might be like if the therapist is a:

 

  1. psychoanalyst.
  2. client-centered therapist.
  3. behavior therapist.
  4. Gestalt therapist.
  5. cognitive therapist.

 

 

 

Complete the assignment in a 2 to 3 page document, including at least two references.  Please utilize LIRN to help you get started with your search.  You may visit the Academic Resource Center for a guide on how to utilize LIRN successfully.