PSY 110 Social Psychology
“Attribution and Stereotypes” Respond to the following discussion topic using your own words:
1. Explain the formation of stereotypes.
2. Next, identify the one (1) approach that you believe would be the most effective way for society to reduce stereotypes. Provide a rationale for your response.
Rural Needs Assessment
Rural Needs Assessment: In our professional social work practice we may encounter information that would suggest a community wide problem or concern. We can react to anecdotal data or personal experiences, before we critically analyze a problem, which may create a perception that a problem has wider reaching effects on a community than it really does. To effectively address rural social concerns it is important to accurately assess problems, social issues or concerns to assure that, often limited, resources are utilized effectively and efficiently.
In this paper you are to identify a social issue that is relevant to rural social work and use a variety of professional sources including the catchment group, key informants (community leaders, service providers) and the larger community to assess the unmet service provision and service access needs related to the issue. You will use the needs assessment data you collect to inform your Developing Rural Services paper. You will find some specific information about needs assessments and a case example in Chapter 11 of Ginsberg.
Use the following outline to organize your paper which should be about 6 pages with at least 5 professional references (this means academic journal articles and is in addition to the stakeholders you will speak with) and use correct APA style. Use the rubric criteria for headings in your paper to keep yourself focused.
1. Identify a local social concern/issue/problem. Describe why you believe this issue is important and how it has led to unmet services or access to services. What is the relevance to the profession of social work?
2. Plan your needs assessment.
a. Identify Key Stakeholders – who will you collect data from?
b. Determine the purpose of the Needs Assessment
c. Identify the underlying theories/assumptions
d. Determine required resources to complete the needs assessment
e. Know the community – provide statistical data
f. Choose the type of assessment
3. Conduct a basic needs assessment and share your findings. Do the people affected by the problem view the problem in the same way that you view the problem (See your answer to Question 1)? How does this compare to the viewpoint of key informants and the community at large? What needs are not currently being met in underserved rural areas according to the data you have collected?
Please Note: In order to complete this assignment you will have to actually collect data from real people. So you should choose a topic and area that is accessible for you to complete data collection.
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Describes the problem and its relevance to the profession of rural social work in detail.
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3-4 Slides
Please remember to list you references.
The PowerPoint I attached is just a mock title page, and all you have to do is insert new slides.
PLEASE remember to use the notes section at the bottom of each slide.
incorporate pictures/visuals into your slides. It’s not required, but could add extra appeal.
**Identify the difficulties in apprehending and treating mentally ill offenders in FL. Provide a summary of the insanity statutes in a state of your choice. Be sure to include how often the statutes are used in court proceedings, some major criticisms, and the success rate.
Review Paper—Draft of Literature Findings
Evaluate the evidence. Create a draft of the findings of the articles you have selected and how they contribute to our k
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Hereditary and Environment: Influence on psychological developments
One of the biggest controversies that behavioral psychologists contend with is the evidence of the existence of a possible link between heredity and environment, and their impact on human psychological developments. Sharp criticisms have emerged on the idea that environmental factors have significant impacts on human psychological functioning and development (Rutter, Pickles, Murray & Eaves, 2001). This problem demands research and revisiting to settle the controversy over whether environmental factors have implications on psychological functioning. Furthermore, many researchers have attempted to explain how peer environment work together with genetic variables to influence human’s social developments. Such researches have mostly confined their scope to adults. However, there exists a dearth in knowledge and literature on how peer environment works together with genetic variables to impact young children and teenagers’ social development.
My knowledge on this area of study touches on five distinctive domains of individual differences in behavior: personality, cognitive abilities, social attitudes, psychopathology, as well as psychological interests. This corresponds with the current position held by researchers on the topic. For instance, according Ehrlich and Kennedy (2005) the aforementioned elements greatly determine the interplay between human psychological differences and environmental impact. Nonetheless, I believe that the research topic will give me the opportunity to expand my understanding of the topic. I would like to extend beyond the basic knowledge on social attitudes, cognitive influences, and personality.
I chose this topic because I am greatly interested in the subject of human development. As a psychologist it will be important for me to have adequate knowledge on the subject and understand the factors that influence development. I believe that study on the interplay between heredity and environment will expand my understanding of the various problems experienced by humans as they develop from one stage to another. The other reason why I chose this topic is that I have always longed for a platform and an opportunity to contribute to knowledge and understanding in the field of psychology. I can only do this through research.
References
Ashley, D., & Orenstein, D. M. (2005). Sociological Theory: Classical Statements (6th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Pearson Education.
Bouchard, T. J., & McGue, M. (2003). Genetic and environmental influences on human psychological differences. Journal of neurobiology, 54(1), 4-45.
Brendgen, M. (2014). The Interplay between genetic factors and the peer environment in explaining children’s social adjustment. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 60(6), 101-109.
Cialdini, R. B., Demaine, L. J., Sagarin, B. J. et al. (2006). Managing social norms for persuasive impact. Social Influence 1, pp. 3–15
Ehrlich, P. & Kennedy, D. (2005). Millennium assessment of human behavior. Science 309, pp. 562–563
Garcia, E. (2002). Student cultural diversity: Understanding and meeting the challenge (3r.ed.). New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Gintis, H. (2007). “A Framework for the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, pp. 1-2
Hockenbury, K. & Hockenbury, C. (2010). Psychology. New York: Worth Publishers
Layton, R. (1998). An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rutter, M., Pickles, A., Murray, R., & Eaves, L. (2001). Testing hypotheses on specific environmental causal effects on behavior. Psychological bulletin, 127(3), 291.
Shaffer, D., & Kipp, K. (2013). Developmental psychology: Childhood and adolescence. New York, NY: Cengage Learning.
nowledge of this problem. Be sure to address each of the following items in your draft:
1. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each piece.
2. If the articles talk to each other (that is, if they support or contrast with one another), explain how and why.
3. What does the evidence tell us?
4. Is there another possible explanation you can think of? Based on what you have read, what is your hypothesis? In other words, what is your explanation for the findings?
5. How can you refine your question or topic even further, now that you have described the findings?
The body of the paper should be at least 4-5 pages in length
