Pro Sendric Psychology Discussion

1. Make sure you read the chapter in the book first regarding operant conditioning and watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA BEFORE you do this activity.

2. Go to the following link. http://www.kscience.co.uk/animations/anim_5.htm#top  (There are no instructions other than to select option 1, 2, or 3. It is up to you to figure out how to get things to happen. Some of the things you may encounter are “virtual candy” and noises. Make sure your speakers are on.)

If you have any problems accessing the skinner box, try right clicking in the box and then click play.

3. What principles of operant conditioning did the activity use (positive or negative reinforcement or positive or negative punishment)? Discuss your experiences with the activity (was it frustrating, how did you figure it out, etc.). (Warning.. this activity may get very frustrating… but stick with it for a little bit) 🙂

4. Then for fun (to de-stress from this activity!) , check out this link that demonstrates classical conditioning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfZfMIHwSkU 

Tracking Positive And Negative Emotions

Track your experience of positive and negative emotions over 4 days this week.

 

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you address the following:

 

  • Did you experience more positive or negative emotions during the tracking period?

 

  • What did you notice about the range of emotions you experienced during the 4 days? What type of experiences generated the strongest emotional responses?

 

  • Explain the psychological benefits of positive emotions as discussed in this week’s readings.

 

  • What are some strategies to help cultivate positive emotions in your life?

What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?

PSY 550 Final Exam

 

Short Answers

 

The 25 questions below are worth 3 points each.

 

  1. What is the interactionist point of view? Identify two intelligence theorists who believe in this perspective.

     

  2. What is the main difference between the factor analysts and traditional theorists with regard to theory derivation?

     

  3. A school psychologist strongly believes a particular child is in need of special services. What is the psychologist trying to control for if he or she uses the most recently normed test available?

     

  4. What are two benefits of the WASI?

     

  5. Identify three improvements of the WAIS-IV over the WAIS-III.

     

  6. Provide one advantage and one disadvantage of group-administered intelligence tests.

     

  7. Give three examples of extra-test behavior on an ability test.

     

  8. RtI is said to be multilevel in nature because there are at least three levels of intervention. What are these three levels of intervention?

     

  9. Name three recommended uses for the Woodcock-Johnson III.

     

  10. Name three things that would be included in the best approach to diagnosing a specific learning ability.

     

  11. What is the purpose of empirical criterion keying?

     

  12. Identify two functions of validity scales on personality tests.

     

  13. Identify a criticism of the MMPI that contributed to the need for developing the MMPI-2. Identify a criticism of the MMPI-2.What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?

     

  14. What is the purpose of the inquiry stage of the administration of the Rorschach test?

     

  15. Identify three criticisms of projective tests.

     

  16. What principle do assessors utilize when interpreting the TAT?

     

  17. Give an example of a behavioral assessment approach.

     

  18. What does a mental status exam assess?

     

  19. Give an example of the Barnum effect.

     

  20. Why is it recommended to utilize the BDI-II with other tests?

     

  21. A neuropsychologist blindfolds a patient and then moves the patient’s arms and legs in various positions. The patient is unable to identify where his limbs are located. The neuropsychologist would MOST likely suspect that the patient has suffered some sort of damage to which lobe? Explain your reasoning.

     

  22. What are three things that the Tower of Hanoi measures?

     

  23. Give an example of a performance assessment.

     

  24. What is an assessment center and what is it utilized for?

     

  25. How does Maslow’s hierarchy apply to worker motivation?

     

     

 

Essay Questions

 

The essay questions below are worth 7 points each.

 

 

 

  1. One of your friends asks you the unlikely question “What contributes to intelligence?” Based on what you have learned in this course, what would be your response?

     

  2. Compare and contrast crystallized versus fluid intelligence. Give an example of each form of intelligence.

     

  3. Compare and contrast two established personality assessments discussed in the course. Include in your discussion strengths and limitations of each measure.

     

  4. Throughout the course, issues related to cultural diversity have been addressed. Identify one intelligence, educational, or personality measure and describe its strengths and weaknesses as it relates to diversity.

     

  5. Identify and describe at least three ethical dilemmas or responsibilities a psychological assessor may face.

 

 

PSYC3125 Imagined Conversations: Women Past And Feminist Presence

Imagined Conversations Assignment – Sample Papers

Click http://www.feministvoices.com/psychology-s-feminist-voices-teaching-resources/ link to open resource.
Word limit is 1500 words (not including references or footnotes, if used)

requirments:

follow all the instruction carefully

very good quality , at least 85% grade assured plz.

 

due date:

march 29th

afternoon

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Psychology’s Feminist Voices Scavenger Hunt: Women Past

Discover the answers to these questions using the Women Past section of the Psychology’s Feminist Voices website (www.feministvoices.com). This assignment will familiarize you with the website and the women of psychology’s past.

• On whose profile is there a photograph of that individual climbing a tree?

 

• Who described her recruitment of subjects in one of her studies as follows: “I located

subjects by driving around looking for diapers drying on clotheslines”?

 

• Who challenged the dominant notion of the 1930s that psychoanalysts required a medical

degree?

 

• What Russian-born psychologist became a psychological evaluator of men deemed suitable

for intelligence (spy) work during WWII in the United States?

 

• What developmental psychologist is best known for her work on the Berkeley Growth

Study, and for demonstrating that over the course of a child’s development, height is most

closely correlated with head circumference?

 

• Which psychologist’s first name differs from that of her husband by only one letter?

 

• Who was the first woman to become a member of the Gesellschaft für die experimentelle

Psychologie (the German Society for Experimental Psychology)?

 

• Who was the first female psychologist to have a United States postage stamp issued in her

honor?

 

• Which early psychologist published observations of her niece’s development?

 

 

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• Who developed the concept of “womb envy” as an alternative to the Freudian concept of

penis envy?

 

• Who was the first woman to lead the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society?

 

• Who collaborated with E. G. Boring on three studies of the status of women in American

psychology?

 

• Who was the first African American psychologist to be licensed in Virginia?

 

• Who was the first female president of the Canadian Psychological Association?

 

• Which psychologist’s scientific work (conducted with her husband) on black children’s self-

perception influenced the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1954 Brown versus Board of

Education of Topeka Case?

 

• Which psychologist is best known for the “visual cliff” experiment?

 

• Who was the first woman in the United States to head a psychology department at a state

university?

 

• Which psychologists wrote about cultural bias in testing children in Yucatan, Mexico such

as the Minnesota Preschool Tests with Mayan children in 1939?

 

• Which psychologist was prevented from attending prominent social psychologist William

McDougall’s seminars at Harvard on the grounds that she was a woman?

 

• Which psychologist was named the most prominent living woman in psychology in the

English-speaking world and was elected president of the American Psychological

Association in 1972?

 

 

 

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• Which educational psychologist was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize three times?

 

• Which Stanford psychologist was a devout Quaker?

 

• Which psychologist published a dissertation on eminent women under James McKeen

Cattell and Robert S. Woodworth?

 

• Which psychologist married her fellow graduate student with whom she would later share a

professional relationship writing about reproduction and the influence of hormones on

behaviours?

 

• Which psychologist’s research on level of aspiration led to her studies becoming known

classics in the field?