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Choose one (1) of the topics below and develop a three to four (3-4) paragraph essay (of at least 250-500 words) which adequately address the topic you have chosen.

Topic Choices:

  • There have been many theories regarding how the pyramids at Giza were constructed. Most experts agree that they were constructed as burial monuments for pharaohs, but “how” these ancient people constructed monuments of such great size without modern machinery is a mystery which is still being debated. 
  • No one can say for certain what happened to the Mayan people, but theories abound and include varied possible alternatives to explain the abrupt and mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization.
  • Tutankhamen died young, at around 18 years of age. However, his cause of death has not been confirmed. Did he die of an injury, of illness, or was he murdered?
  • Considered the “Mummy’s Curse,” a series of unexplainable, unfortunate, or tragic events that happened to the people who were present at the opening of Tutankhamen’s tomb. 
  • There has always been debate about the identity of the poet Homer, the presumed author of The Illiad and The Odyssey. Was he a real person or not?
  • The monumental size and complexity of the Tomb of Shihuangdi is astounding. It is believed that the workers were forced to remain inside the tomb when it was walled shut so they would not reveal the secrets of its construction. What was the emperor’s purpose for such an elaborate burial place?
  • Other topic choice recommended and approved by the professor and supported by the grading rubric

Write a 3-4 paragraph paper in which you:

  1. Clearly state the “mystery” and provide a brief summary of at least two (2) reasonable and scholarly theories which could explain the mystery. Because some theories may sound far-fetched, include the source or promoter of each theory – such as a scientist, a historian, a theologian, etc.
  2. Identify one (1) of the theories as the most plausible and provide at least two (2) convincing reasons why the theory you have chosen is the best one to explain the mystery.
  3. Use at least two (2) sources besides the textbook. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources. You are highly encouraged to use the Resource Center tab at the top of your Blackboard page.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA Style format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. (Note:Students can find APA style materials located in the course shell for reference)
  • Include a cover page containing the tile of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes.
  • Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context.
  • Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions.
  • Identify major historical developments in world cultures during the eras of antiquity to the Renaissance
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in the study of world cultures.
  • Write clearly and concisely about world cultures using proper writing mechanics.

False Memories

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: LASA 1: False Memories

The US legal system places a lot of importance on eyewitness memory. Most people would report that they can accurately convey what they saw in a particular situation. However, these ideas are not supported by research. Instead, research shows that memory is quite malleable and is affected by many factors. This research repeatedly demonstrates that people do not remember exactly what they experienced. This module’s experiment will show you firsthand how memory for events is not always one hundred percent accurate.

Access the CogLab demonstration False Memory. Follow the instructions to complete the demonstration to familiarize yourself with false memory. Then locate at least one research study from a peer-reviewed journal that examined how eyewitness memory can be affected by false memories.

Based on your research, respond to the following situation:

You are considered to be an expert in false memories, and a local district attorney has therefore requested your expertise on the following case: 

On Tuesday, March 6, 2007, a bank was robbed in Slidell, LA. It was just after opening time, 9:04 a.m., and there were barely any customers, when a car arrived and parked in the side parking lot of the bank. Two men came out of the car and walked to the entrance. Both wore dark clothing. Upon entering the bank, they held out guns and asked for the manager. When the manager identified herself, the smaller of the two robbers ordered her to open the safe. Meanwhile, the other robber, a tall, and burley man, walked around holding his gun in his outstretched arm, and threatening the remaining employees and customers. The manager complied and the smaller robber collected all the money and valuables from the safe. After five minutes, the big robber asked if his companion was ready to go. When he was, the two ran back to their car, and drove away.

The district attorney has asked that you create a presentation about false memory and explain how it might influence this case. He asks that you specifically address the following:

  • Describe false memory and false memory experiments. Use the CogLab experiment to illustrate false memory experiments, special distracters, and normal distracters.
  • Describe at least one research study from a peer-reviewed journal that investigated how eyewitness memory can be affected by false memories.
  • Explain how false memory might influence this particular case. Use specifics from the description of the case, the CogLab experiment, and research to support your answer.
  • Using evidence from the case, the CogLab experiment, and outside research, justify why eyewitness testimonies should or should not carry weight in criminal proceedings.
  • Discuss any procedures which can increase or reduce the occurrence of false memories when reporting eyewitness events.

Remember, your presentation is designed to help the jury understand false memory and how it might influence the eyewitness testimony of this case. You will have ten minutes to present.

Since this is a legal case, you must include formally written slide notes (proper grammar, proper paragraphs, APA formatting, and academic tone) with research to support your claims. The presentation will be a legal document in this case, so make it worthy of being legally binding!

Develop an 5–6-slide presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.ppt

Please fellow the grading criteria to ensure good grade:

Describe false memory and false memory experiments. Use the CogLab experiment to illustrate false memory experiments, special distracters, and normal distracters.
(Course Objective [CO] 1)

28
Describe at least one research study from a peer-reviewed journal that investigated how eyewitness testimony can be affected by false memory.
(CO 2)

28
Explain how false memory might influence this particular case. Use specifics from the description of the case, the CogLab experiment, and research to support your answer.
(CO 3)

32
Using evidence from the case, the CogLab experiment, and outside research, justify why eyewitness testimonies should or should not carry weight in criminal proceedings.
(CO 3)

36
Discuss any procedures which can increase or reduce the occurrence of false memories when reporting eyewitness events.
(CO 2, CO 3)

32
Presentation Components:
Organization (12)
Style (12)
Usage and Mechanics (16)
APA Elements (4)

Assignment 4: Job Application Cover Letter

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Assignment 4: Job Application Cover LetterDue Week 10 and worth 130 points

Are you looking for employment or advancement within your current job? Completing this assignment will help you name and identify the skills and abilities that will move your career forward. Develop a Job Application Cover Letter that highlights and emphasizes why you are the person most suitable for your ideal role. Use the general writing guidelines on p. 277-278 in the text for structural and content guidance. (Examples can be found on p. 274, Figure 14-7, and on p. 279, Figure 14-8.)

The message should take the form of a business letter; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.

The job letter / application message must adhere to the following requirements:

In terms of content:
Highlight relevant background and job history information. Emphasize significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas. In terms of format:
Follow proper letter formatting techniques, per business letter format. Use an appropriate and professional greeting and closing. In terms of style:
Use simple language. Use relatively short sentences with sufficient variety. Keep first and last paragraphs relatively short; hold others to six or seven lines. In terms of mechanics:
Ensure that there are no grammar or spelling errors. Eliminate wordiness and unclear sentence construction.


Your assignment must:


Be typed, single-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.


Submitting your assignment:


Submit your assignment through the online course shell only.


The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:


Use writing process strategies to develop brief business documents, such as routine messages, bad news messages, and persuasive/sales messages. Support ideas or claims in body paragraphs with clear details, examples, and explanations. Organize ideas logically by using transitional words, phrases, and sentences. Use sentence variety and effective word choice in written communication. Write clearly and concisely using proper writing mechanics.

SOC308 WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT

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Ethnic Group Evaluation

By the mid-twentieth century, the European immigrant groups described in Week One had combined to form a white racial majority in the United States. Today, Blacks, Indigenous Americans, Asians, Hispanics, and non-white Europeans interact with the white majority in a system of race that can be broadly described as comprising whites and non-whites, whites and racial minorities, or whites and people of color. While unique ethnic groups share a culture in which ethnic conflict is present, including pressures to assimilate, the broader culture also celebrates the unique culture of many ethnic groups in America.

Write a paper in which you evaluate a selected major ethnic group in the United States. Please elaborate on the following points in your essay:

  1. Select and describe one of the following ethnic groups:
    • Black Americans
    • Hispanic Americans
    • Asian Americans
    • Indigenous Americans
    • White Americans
  2. Examine the history of this group in the United States, including the following:
    • Immigration
    • Contact with other ethnic groups
    • Assimilation or pluralism, and its connection to the group’s contact with other ethnic groups
    • Conflict with other ethnic groups
  3. Provide an example of a widely held myth or misconception about this ethnic group. How do we know this is a myth? Why is this myth so difficult to abandon?

Your paper must be three to four pages in length and utilize APA formatting and citations, including separate title and reference pages (neither of which counts towards the three-page requirement). In addition to the required readings, use at least two scholarly sources (one of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library) to support your points.

Help me please help me

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Select a strategy that individuals may use to cope with the challenges of old age (e.g. religion, social support, etc.).  How might older people use this strategy to cope with both their physical and psychological needs?  Do you think that this strategy was as useful 50 years ago?  Why or why not?  As new roles for adults emerge, what strategies can you think of to help adults cope with the evolving demands of the aging process? 

use this text as the primary source Mason, M. G.  (2011).  Adulthood and aging.  Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. 

Issues in Neuroscience

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Issues in Neuroscience

Question:  In the Visual Ability test, a split-brain patient was shown an image in the left visual field but could not name the object. Explain why and identify the specialized functions that were discovered with regard to hemispheric lateralization. Consider some of the difficulties the split-brain operation causes and the strategies you would recommend to help a patient manage them. Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research? 

Modified:3/30/2014 10:37 AM

The split-brain is a condition that results after the communication between the two hemispheres of the brain has been hindered.  The primary pathway through which to transfer information in our brains is the corpus callosum.  Severing the corpus callosum is referred to as a callosotomy and is a last resort to treat severe forms of epilepsy.  The right and left hemispheres of our brain are specialized to carry out different tasks.  The left hemisphere is able to process one channel of information at a time, but is used to put things in sequence.  This allows us to do things such as use language.  The right hemisphere on the other hand, can process multiple channels simultaneously, allowing us to do a number of things such as process visual information.  When these two sides cannot communicate, a number of problems may result.  Be sure to address all aspects of the assignment in your initial post.

Prof. S.

Issues in Neuroscience

Argosy University

  In the 1940s, it was established that disconnecting the two hemisphere of cerebral through dividing corpus callosum reduced the effects of epilepsy among the epileptic patients. This was because the sectioning of the nerve fibres’ bridge which connected the two hemispheres did not interfere with the interhemispheric processing. However, tests carried out on patients who had been operated reveal that there are dramatic effects brought about by the disconnection. This problem is known as the split-brain brain syndrome and has some effects on the patients’ cognitive skills.

  Patients suffering from this syndrome are unable to verbally name an object that is placed on their left hand side if their eyes are closed. This is despite the fact that they can tell an object placed on their right when their eyes are closed. However, if the object is placed among many items and placed on the patient’s left hand, he or she can easily select the item from the other objects. This problem is brought about by the fact that the left hemisphere has access to speech something that the right hemisphere does not have access to. This syndrome is caused by the fact the splitting of the brain makes it unable to coordinate its activities. The right hand part of the brain is unable to know what its left part is doing whereas the left part is unable to know what the right hand part of the brain is doing (Plotnik & Kouyoumjian, 2011).

  To control this condition, patients should pay a lot of attention to what they do. This stems from the fact that the two parts of the brain do not coordinate in their operations which makes it hard for one part of the brain to understand what the other part is doing. In this case, through paying attention, the patient will be able to coordinate the activities of both parts of the brain.

  Doing this experience was ethically right if the identity of the person the experiment was conducted on was not revealed. This is because the experiment was aimed to find out ways of helping the other patients suffering from this problem and not for the benefit of the people conducting the experiment.

References

Plotnik, R., & Kouyoumjian, H. (2011). Introduction to psychology. Belmont, CA:   Wadsworth/Cengage Learning.

Footnote: I am sorry about the assignment being late as I had walking pneumonia. I tried to sit to my computer yesterday after work and seeing the Doctor but just kept falling to sleep. Had to just give it up and try again today.

June

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Hi June,

You provide useful information about the limitations of the split brain individual.  Could you talk more specifically about how you would assist this person? Also, aside from maintaining confidentiality, are there any other potential ethical issues?

Prof. S.

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Amanda-

        First of all I hope you are doing better! I’m so sorry to hear that you have walking pneunomia. It can
be so tricky because you don’t “think” that your that sick, until you go to the doctor and he orders
you to stay home from work for the next 3 weeks! 

        I really enjoyed reading your posting and wanted to ask you about your statement;

     “To control this condition, the patient should pay attention to what they do. This stems from the fact that the two parts of the brain do not coordinate in their operations which makes it hard for one part of the brain to understand what the other part is doing. In this case, through paying attention, the patient will be able to coordinate the activities of both parts of the brain.”

Would you please explain what you meant by “through paying attention.” If a patient has a split-brain procedure and it is an acute disconnection, the patient is going to be struggling with many different types of coordination;

     “When the corpus callosum of a right-handed, left-hemisphere dominate patient is sectioned, there often follow mild akinesia, imperviousness and mutism as well as competitive movements between two hands. There are left-hand apraxia to verbal command, left-arm hypotonia, well coordinated but repetitive reaching, groping or grasping with the left hand, and
bilateral Babinski responses. Symptoms vary across patients and reflect edema from retraction (of one hemisphere to allow surgical approach) as well as diaschistic shock to both hemispheres due to the radical disconnection. It is suggested by some that complete callosotomy (section of the corpus callosum alone) in cases where speech and manual dominance are in opposite hemispheres may result in prolonged loss of spontaneous speech” (Bogen, Zaidel & Zaidel, 2014)

What would be your suggestion to the patient about how to best work with their new set of symptoms (post-op), so they can better understand how to achieve this control? 

Please take good care of yourself!

Aloha,

Jan 🙂 

                                                                      Reference

Bogen, J., Zaidel, D. & Zaidel, E.. (None Stated). The Split brain. In Caltech.edu. Retrieved 04/07/2014, from http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen/text/ref130.htm. 

   

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Psychology 100. Discussion

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“Power of Observation” Please respond to the following:

  • Select one (1) of the following concepts to examine: in-group / out-group, bystander effect, conformity, nonconformity, foot-in-the-door strategy, or door-in-the-face strategy. Next, describe one (1) situation in which you observed the concept chosen. (Situations can be anything from observing people in a grocery store to interacting with your children or a colleague, among many others.) Then, identify the concept you observed and discuss how it relates to the situation.

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

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For this week’s assignment, I would like you to imagine you have a specific problem, such as depression, panic disorder, alcoholism, or sexual dysfunction. Then, go to a bookstore or library and research the self-help offerings pertaining to this topic. View the available materials, keeping in mind what you have learned about the problem and evaluate the basis for the advice these books provide. In addition, critically evaluate the credentials of the individual(s) writing the self-help book.

 At the minimum you should have 6 slides, and would encourage you to have much closer to 12-15. You need to write a brief  (2-3 sentences) about each book (think about what’s written on the back of the book) and then evaluate if the information provided is helpful/relevant/correct and the authors credentials. None of these need to be long, but will require you to think through what is included in the book. To help clarify further, think about the many self-help books for weight loss that are written by celebrities with no education to support what they are saying. The book may encourage the reader to loose weight by eating too few calories, which as an educated consumer you know has dangerous consequences. Whereas, another book might be written by a nutritionist who has a doctorate degree. This book would include accurate information and promote a lifestyle change to weight loss that is supported by research. 

Create a PowerPoint of your findings.  Please include the topic you chose, the book you are evaluating, the source of information, and a short summary of the “help” offered in the book and how it relates to empirically based treatment approaches.  Please evaluate a minimum of 3 books.  

 


Supervision,,,,,,,,,,

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Supervision

By Saturday, December 6, 2014, respond to the discussion prompts below. Submit your responses to the appropriate Discussion Area. Use the sameDiscussion Area to comment on your classmates’ submissions and continue the discussion until Wednesday, December 10, 2014.

Travon is the lead counselor in a small clinic. Elliot has worked there for a few years and reports to Travon. Travon completes Elliot’s yearly evaluation and oversees his work. Although Travon is the supervisor, Elliot is actually three years older. They both enjoy watching hockey and often meet for drinks after work to watch the games. Although the other three counselors get together with Travon and Elliot for lunch sometimes, they are not invited to hang out with them after work:

  • Describe the responsibilities of a counseling supervisor.

  • Explain the possible ethical dilemmas.
  • Explain how the social situation with Travon and Elliot could impact the work environment.
  • Develop a policy that you would implement to minimize ethical concerns related to social activities between colleagues while supporting collegial relationships.

PSY326 Research Methods

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Evaluate and briefly discuss the three descriptive designs presented in Chapter 3 (case studies, archival research, and observational research). Be sure to discuss the strengths and weaknesses associated with each approach. Which of these three approaches do you think is the best descriptive design and why? Finally, recommend research questions or topics for which each of these designs would be effective in investigating.

Your initial post should be 250 to 300 words. Utilize a minimum of two peer-reviewed sources that were published within the last 10 years and are documented in APA style, as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.