Describe your selected criminal behavior.

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Assignment 2: Draft of Final Project

In this assignment, you will build upon the assignment completed in M1 Assignment 3. This assignment is a 5- to 7-page draft of your final project, which is due in Module 5. You will want to start developing some of the key components of that paper. You will need to further refine, add content to, and polish this draft in order for it to meet the final requirements in Module 5, which is a 10- to 15-page final draft. This draft will need to be in APA format, which includes a title page and a reference page; however, no abstract is needed. On the reference page, please include a list of the ten sources you plan to use in the final draft, although you may not need to use all of them for this draft.

For this assignment, you will need to include a brief summary of what you will elaborate on in the final draft and:

  • Describe your selected criminal behavior.
  • Discuss the etiology theories discussed in Module 2 as they pertain to your selected criminal behavior.
  • Describe relevant prevention, intervention, and treatment specific to your criminal behavior.
  • List at least ten scholarly sources on your reference page that you plan to utilize in your final draft.

Submission Details:

  • By Wednesday, June 22, 2016, save your report as M4_A2_Lastname_Firstname.doc and submit it to the M4 Assignment 2 Dropbox.
Assignment 2 Grading Criteria
Maximum Points
Submitted a logically drafted report, including the following components:

  • Description of criminal behavior
  • Discussion of etiology theories
  • Discussion of prevention, intervention, and treatment implications
  • Ten scholarly sources
88
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; and displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
12
Total:

Evolving concepts of sensory adaptation

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This personal application assignment is twofold.

 

1) Give an example of how you have personally experienced sensory adaptation.  First, define sensory adaptation. Next, explain how/why it is useful to human beings. Lastly, provide a personal example, from your own experience, of sensory adaptation (30 points)

 

2) Choose one – operant conditioning or classical conditioning.

Define the concept, identifying all elements of the concept.  Discuss how it is useful to learning. Give an example of how you have personally experienced either classical conditioning or operant conditioning – provide a detailed personal scenario. (30 points)

 

Rubric:

  • define concept (10 points)
  • explain it’s usefulness (5 points)
  • personal example (10 points)
  • development of the idea and grammar (5 points)

 

Sensory adaptation

Sensory adaptation is the reduction in sensitivity to a stimulus as a result ofcontinuous exposure to it. Our senses keep adjusting to what surrounds us and what we experience on our day to day life (Webster, M. A, 2012). Sensory adaption helps us to reduce our responsiveness to attend to other stimuli in the environment around us. If sensory adaptation was not experienced we would find ourselves overcome by a particular stimulus. Constant exposure to a sensory stimulus decreases our sensitivity to it and this makes it possible for our senses to shift our attention to different things around us instead of focusing on one stimulus. An example of sensory adaptation is the smell adaptation (Webster, M. A,2012). A friend of mine wears a certain fragrance that can be smelled from a distance but he is used to it and the scent does not overwhelm him. It only overwhelms those close to him but after some time one forgets about it.

Classical conditioning

Classical conditioning involves learning a new behavior through the process of association. That is, two stimuli are linked together to produce a new learned response in a person or animal. It’s whereby a conditioned stimulus becomes associated with an unrelated unconditioned stimulus to produce a behavioral response known as a conditioned response (King, L, 2010). The unconditioned stimulus is usually a biologically important stimulus that produces an unconditioned response from the start. The conditioned stimulus is usually neutral and produces no particular response in the beginning but after conditioning it elicits the conditioned response.

Classical conditioning is used to study other complex behaviors and also helps us learn about the world around us. Since classical conditioning happens in our lives, its effects on behaviors have significant insinuations for understanding ordinary and disorderedconduct in humans.An example of classical conditioning from my own experience is the fire alarm (King, L, 2010).  The building we were living in caught fire in one of the houses because of a gas leak. The fire alarm went on and on hearing it those of us in the building ran out of the houses for safety. An emergency such as a fire brings fear and the first response is to get away from the danger.

References

McSweeney, F. K., & Murphy, E. S. (2009). Sensitization and habituation regulate reinforcer effectiveness. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 92(2), 189-198.

King, L. (2010). The science of psychology: An appreciative view. McGraw Hill Professional.

 

Webster, M. A. (2012). Evolving concepts of sensory adaptation.F1000 Biol. Rep, 4(21).

Identify in your own words, what part of this article, website or ad appears like pseudopsychology and/or is pseudoscientific.

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The various reading materials for the course describe “scientific skepticism” and identifies six (6) principles of scientific thinking. It also discusses pseudopsychology and pseudoscientific claims.

  1. Select any two (2) of the six principles that you think are most important to the study of psychology, then explain your reasons why these are most important?
  2. Now find:

    a recent newspaper or magazine article, or a “pop psychology” article or website, that presents a simplified psychological theory/explanation

    OR

    a psychology-related advertisement that makes claims of success about their method of learning, memorization, thinking ability, etc.

  3. Identify in your own words, what part of this article, website or ad appears like pseudopsychology and/or is pseudoscientific.  Attach an electronic link to the source so others can read the content too.
  4. Finally, specifically describe how you might now use or have recently used one or more of these six principles to think more critically about psychology or related topics ( advertising claims, article claims, newspaper or magazine articles, etc.) ?

The major developments that led to experimental psychology

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Create an 8- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes describing the following:

  • The main influences involved in the development of psychology
  • Early research on the function of the brain
  • How the research influenced the study of the mind-body interaction
  • The major developments that led to experimental psychology
  • A description for each influence or development and how they contributed to the field of psychology

Format any citations in your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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