Journal Portfolios

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Portfolios

As Chapter 9 of your text discusses how portfolios are used to develop a holistic picture of a child’s abilities.  As a teacher, your role in portfolio assessment is a vital one, but as Wortham (2012) discusses, so is a child’s parent.  For this journal entry, reflect on the importance of portfolio assessment in the classroom or childcare center.

  1. How does this type of assessment support you as the caregiver or teacher in your quest to ensure growth?
  2. Also, what are some ways that you can include parents in the portfolio assessment process, and why is this important for you as a teacher or caregiver?
  3. How will you involve children in the portfolio process?
  4. Lastly, how will you ensure parents see what is in the child’s portfolio?

Journal Options:

  1. Written reflection journal.
  2. Create a Voki.

Effects of classical music on cognitive development

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Many products, diets, and services are marketed to parents as beneficial to infant or toddler development. In order to increase sales to parents and caretakers, some companies use marketing strategies that make exaggerated, unfounded, or unrealistic claims about the effects of their product(s) on child development. Select one claim that you suspect to be exaggerated or false (your research may in fact show the claim has validity). Describe in detail what the advertised product, diet, or service is supposed to do. Some examples are:

  • Educational videos as related to language development
  • Effects of classical music on cognitive development
  • Benefits of soy diet or organic food diet on physical and cognitive development
  • Service promising to teach your 18-month-old how to read
  • Any other claim made by a manufacturer or service provider, aimed at enhancing infant or toddler development

Write a 1,400- to 1,650-word paper addressing the following:

  • What area or areas of development does the product, diet, or service claim to enhance?
  • Use the UoPX library to investigate the claim. What does the published literature say about the issue or concern that you are investigating? What does the research reveal about how to promote healthy development in this area or areas? What does this reveal about the necessity and actual benefits of the product, diet, or service?
  • Is there any evidence to support the claim? Why or why not?
  • Imagine that a licensed psychologist in your state publically endorsed a product with no empirical evidence supporting its claims.  It was later discovered that the psychologist was receiving a percentage of money from the sale of the product to parents.  Is this a violation of the APA code of ethics?  Explain.  Be sure to cite the appropriate section or sections of the Code in your response.

Investigate the claim using your textbook and a minimum of four additional scholarly sources (such as peer reviewed journal articles).

Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

Note: You will most likely be able to find peer-reviewed journal articles on the general issue that you are investigating. For example, if you are investigating educational videos that claim cognitive skills in infancy are enhanced by using a particular approach, you can review and evaluate studies that focus on enhancing cognitive skills in infancy. Be sure to consider both sides of the issue:  evidence for and against specific techniques and summarize your findings.

The psychometric term ‘validity’ refers to

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Question

Question 1 of 40 4.0 Points
According to the list of psychiatric disorders provided in the DSM-IV-TR PowerPoint material, a Mood Disorder is diagnosed on:
A. Axis I

B. Axis II

C. Axis IV

D. Axis VI
Question 2 of 40 4.0 Points
The psychometric term ‘reliability’ refers to:
A. being consistent in your actions

B. consistency of measurement

C. dependability of a test

D. punctuality

Question 3 of 40 4.0 Points
The statistical concept of psychopathology holds that:
A. infrequently occurring behaviors in a society are normal

B. frequently occurring behaviors in a society are considered normal.

C. constructs of psychopathology are considered valid across cultures

D. frequently occurring behaviors in a society might be considered abnormal

Question 4 of 40 4.0 Points
The bio-medical model of psychopathology emphasizes the use of:
A. phrenology

B. meridian tapping

C. spinal tapping

D. a classification system

Question 5 of 40 4.0 Points
Schizophrenia is classified in the DSM-IV on:

A. Axis II

B. Axis III
C. Axis IV
D. Axis I

Question 6 of 40 4.0 Points
The psychometric term ‘validity’ refers to
A. accurate inferences

B. current

C. unexpired

D. statistical significance

Question 7 of 40 4.0 Points
The pscyhometric term ‘treatment utility’ refers to:
A. the contribution to known information

B. descriptive validity of a text

C. contribution to improved treatment outcomes
D. high correlations with similar instruments

Question 8 of 40 4.0 Points
In clinical practice ________________ interviews are used, while____________interviews are used in research

A. structured; structured

B. unstructured; structured

C. reliable; valid

D. semistructured; semistructured

Question 9 of 40 4.0 Points
A problem with projective techniques is:
A. you can’t tell the future

B. scoring is difficult

C. normative data is used

D. everything in our inner world originates with our maternal relationships

Question 10 of 40 4.0 Points
Assessing psychopathology is fraught with potential bias and error.
A. True

B. False

Question 11 of 40 4.0 Points
According to the text authors, substance abuse claims ________________lives each year.
A.440,000

B.125,000

C.10,000

D.600,000

Question 12 of 40 4.0 Points
According to Bowlby, as cited in the journal article for Forum 3, the earliest working models:
A. are formed while a fetus

B. are formed during adolescence

C. are in response to employers

D. are in response to interactions with significant caregivers

Question 13 of 40 4.0 Points
Drug abuse in women who report a history of sexual assault is ______ times higher than in women who do not.
A.3

B.4

C.5

D.6

Question 14 of 40 4.0 Points
According to research findings there is a relationship between childhood attachment and later:
A. antisocial personality disorder

B. schizophrenia

C. bipolar disorder

D. delusional disorder

Question 15 of 40 4.0 Points
In the journal article assigned to Forum 1, the authors assert that they were able to make conclusions about treatment in the managed care group.
True

False

Question 16 of 40 4.0 Points
The purpose of the Minami et al. study that is center of Forum 1, was to evaluate the effectiveness of TAU’s delivered in a managed healthcare organization by means of a strategy.

Question 17 of 40 4.0 Points
According to Mittal and Walker (2007), neurocircuitry implicated in psychotic symptoms may be shared by:
A. circuits controlling heart rate

B. circuits controlling hearing

C. circuits controlling speech

D. circuits controlling dyskinetic movement

Question 18 of 40 4.0 Points
Consistent with the Mitall and Walker (2007 findings, the group that converted to Axis I psychosis exhibited significantly more movement in:
A. knee jerking motions

B. feet and lower legs

C. ears and head hair

D. face and upper body

Question 19 of 40 4.0 Points
According to the authors of the journal article for Forum 3, recipients of social support are often:

A. sometimes worse off

B. much happier

C. very pleased

D. none of the above

Question 20 of 40 4.0 Points
According to the journal article for Forum 3, recipients of social support may experience:
A. lowered self-esteem

B. feelings of indebtedness

C. receiving the wrong kind of support
D. all of the above

Question 21 of 40 4.0 Points
The authors of the journal article for Forum 3 hypothesize:
A. having secure attachment history with parents causes one to benefit from providing instrumental support during adolescence
B. having secure attachment history with parents causes one to benefit from instrumental support in adulthood
C. having secure attachment history with parents causes one to benefit from emotional support in adulthood
D. having insecure attachment history with parents causes one to benefit from emotional support in adulthood
Question 22 of 40 4.0 Points
Along with personal denial, ____________________ is also a barrier to woment entering treatment for substance abuse.
A. abstract behavior

B. spousal support

C. familial denial

D. None of the above
Question 23 of 40 4.0 Points
Genetic factors contributing to substance abuse and addiction are easily separated from environmental influences.

A. True

B. False

Question 24 of 40 4.0 Points
There are 3 agonists approved by the FDA for use in the U.S. in the treatment of opiate dependence.
A. True

B. False

Question 25 of 40 4.0 Points
Controlled drinking consists of:

A.BSCT

B. a good startle response

C. a particular response

D. having shots

Question 26 of 40 4.0 Points
Mood disorders occur twice as often in men than in women.

A. True

B. False

Question 27 of 40 4.0 Points
Autistic children may have _________ of anterior areas of the brain and ___________ of posterior areas.

A. overgrowth; undergrowth

B. undergrowth; overgrowth

C. undergrowth; undergrowth
D. overgrowth; overgrowth

Question 28 of 40 4.0 Points
An individual who hears voices, reflects feelings of persecution, and with flattened affect may be diagnosed as:

A. diabolical schizoid

B. paranoid schizophrenic

C. schizotypal

D. delusional disordered

Question 29 of 40 4.0 Points
The quality of maternal care may affect the development of the _______________________ system.

A. anxiety response

B. thyroid

C. pituitary-adrenal

D. limbic

Question 30 of 40 4.0 Points
The connection between cognitive science and cognitive therapy is well established.

A. True

B. False

Question 31 of 40 4.0 Points
A biological signal involving both chemical reactions and electrical shifts is called:

A. axon

B. neuropathway development
C. psychopathology

D. action potential

Question 32 of 40 4.0 Points
Cognitive-behaioralists assert maladaptive behavior is the result of the way we ________________ and ____________________.

A. process data; respond to the environment
B. process information; perceive ourselves

C. perceive others; process stimulii

D.perceive ourselves; perceive others

Question 33 of 40 4.0 Points
A neurostransmitter involved in reinforcement and chemical addiction is dopamine.

A. True

B. False

Question 34 of 40 4.0 Points
Central to the study of psychopathology is a definition of _____________________.

A. a counselor

B. psychology

C. society

D. culture

Question 35 of 40 4.0 Points
The goal of cognitive therapy is to:

A. identify negative cognitions
B. test negative cognitions

C. develop new schemas

D. all of the above

Question 36 of 40 4.0 Points
Beck’s cognitive therapy is now well-established, effective treatment for depression.

A. True

B. False

Question 37 of 40 12.0 Points
Provide a synopsis of the controversy over the inclusion and exclusion of particular paraphilias in the DSM. Include your opinion. Be sure to elaborate with scholarly presentation, style and argument.

Question 38 of 40 20.0 Points
What are the advantages and limitations of viewing addictive behavior as diseases? As learned behaviors? As immoral and sinful? (450-600 words). Elaborate.

Question 39 of 40 20.0 Points

What would be the advantages and disadvantages of legalizing specific illicit substances? Provide a response that goes beyond personal opinion.(450-600 words) Elaborate.

Question 40 of 40 4.0 Points
Eating disorders may derive from a fear of fatness.

A. True

B. False

 

 

Assignment 3: Person-Situation Interaction

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Assignment 3: Person-Situation Interaction

There are six ways in which a person and the situation interact to shape a person’s goals, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

These are:

 

1. Different persons respond differently to the same situation.

2. Situations choose the person.

3. Persons choose the situation.

4. Different situations can prime different parts of the person.

5. Persons change the situation.

6. Situations change the person.

As part of your answer:

  • Discuss what is meant by each of these dyads.
  • Provide an example of how each one works.
  • Assume you are a supervisor. How would you work within each of these situations with your employees to increase employee motivation? How would your decisions be affected by each person-situation dyad?
  • Assume that you are an industrial/organizational consultant brought into the same office as asked to study these person-situation interactions in order to advise management how to best put them to use to increase employee motivation which research design would you use? Why is this design the best fit for this office situation?