Saturday 17 May 2014

Compare and contrast the behavioral and social learning approaches to personality

Compare and contrast the behavioral and social learning approaches to personality. What are two characteristics from the behavioral and social learning theories with which you agree? What are two characteristics of these two theories with which you disagree?

Consider the 8 stages of man proposed by Erikson. For each steage, give 2 reasons why it might be a social invention and 2 reasons why it might be a natural division.

How do you see the electrical and chemical component of the brain affecting your own thoughts behaviors and emotions?

Identify the reinforcers of operant conditioning.

Identify the stimulus and responses for classical conditioning.

Compare and contrast the humanistic/Existential and Dispositional Theories of Personality.

Describe the role of personality in affecting situational behavior.

Recommend stategies to increase productive behavior and decrease counterproductive behavior in organizations

Describe the impact that productive and counterproductive behaviors have on job performance and the overall performance of an organization

Define productive and counterproductive behavior

explain how each of the three views of motivation psychoanalytic, humanistic, and diversity

Write a 350 to 700 word paper profiling this person and explain how each of the three views of motivation psychoanalytic, humanistic, and diversity

How might someone with a high self esteem be more likely to act inappropriately in certain situations?

Research has demonstrated that people with high self esteem are generally happier, less depressed, and more likely to enjoy social activity; however, is having a high self esteem always a good thing? How might someone with a high self esteem be more likely to act inappropriately in certain situations?

A person s self concept plays a large role in how he or she views the world

Write your response to the following: A person s self concept plays a large role in how he or she views the world; it helps a person process social information, judge feedback, and influences what he or she notices in others. Culture teaches people what values are important and can determine if they view themselves as independent, emphasizing being unique and expressing oneself, or interdependent, emphasizing a social connectedness. Your culture includes your family, friends, city, and country. Explain how your culture has influenced your self concept.

Describe major perspectives of psychological science.

Explain normal and pathological behavior.

Apply critical thinking skills to the content of the course.

Distinguish differing schools of psychology.

Describe cognitive and psycho social components of human development.

Define the main biological influences of psychology.

What are some examples of learning and memory disorders?

Why is it important to sleep?

What is the nature of REM sleep?

Do you think that biological psychology or environment influences have a greater effect on sexual differentiation and gender identity? Explain why.

How is the motor system organized?

What are the neurological bases of Parkinson s and Huntington s diseases?

How is the brain capable of seeing a spectrum of color when the eye only contains three types of color detectors?

How does experience affect visual perception?

What is visual perception?

What are some current issues related to psychopharmacology?

What are some positive aspects related to psychopharmacology? What are some drawbacks?

What is psychopharmacology?

What are the primary neurotransmitters? What role do they play in brain function and behavior?

Identify major philosophers in the western tradition that were primary contributors to the formation of psychology as a discipline.

discuss current drug treatments, including how they work in the brain and the issues with these treatments, future avenues of drug development could also be discussed

How does genetics affect behavior? Provide an example in your response.

The goal of human services;

Describe the primary neurotransmitters and their role in brain function and behavior.

Describe the role of postsynaptic potentials (excitatory and inhibitory), synaptic transmission, and receptors in producing and regulating behavior.

Explore the development of the science of psychology during the 19th century.

Identify philosophers that historically relate to the beginnings of psychology as a formal discipline.

prevalence of mental illness and its treatment among black-americans, latino-americans and asian-americans

prevalence of mental illness and its treatment among black-americans, latino-americans and asian-americans as opposed to the treatment of white-americans in the united states.

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