I/O psychologist focusing

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You tell your next-door neighbor, Hal, that you are studying to be an I/O psychologist focusing on implementing organizational change initiatives.

Hal does not understand why a large, successful organization would need to undergo change. His opinion is, “If it works, don’t fix it!”

Explain the process of organizational development and the importance of organizational change to Hal.

What types of changes in the environment may lead to organizational change? Rationalize with examples of real organizations that did not adapt to changing environments. 

What should organizations do to ensure that changes occur smoothly and efficiently? 

Week 5 Discussion – Locate an Article

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Locate an article in an online newspaper, news website, or online journal (provide the URL link to the article, credible sources only) related to material covered in this course up to this point. Share your reflection of how you can use this information in future learning situations either for yourself or someone else and either as a learner or as an instructor/trainer. Comment on two classmates’ postings.

This is a discussion question. Must be 75 to 150 words, but may go longer depending on the topic. Please cite any outside sources. APA not required.

Assignment 2: Presenting the Good Life

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Assignment 2: Presenting the Good Life

Positive psychology focuses on three important concepts of the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

Seligman (2005) purports that experiencing these three pillars of positive psychology creates “the full-life.” This assignment focuses on the second pillar: the good life.

According to the positive psychology model, the good life involves identifying and amplifying unique strengths and skills. The goal of identifying your signature strengths is to be able to amplify these strengths in flow experiences.

This assignment is divided into two tasks. You will first identify your personal signature strengths and then apply these strengths to transform a tedious activity into an enlivened one.

Task I

What are your top three strengths when you experience flow? Using the Internet, research various instruments available that can help you identify your strengths. When conducting your Internet search, use the following phrases:

  • Measuring flow experiences
  • Dimensions of flow
  • Measuring signature strengths
  • OCEAN personality psychometric test
  • The big five test
  • Trait theory personality test
  • Five factor model (FFM)

Select one of the instruments from your research and complete the test to determine your strengths. Then do the following:

  • Evaluate your results and create a list of your personal signature strengths.

If you are unable to use these instruments, then list what you understand or believe to be your top three strengths when you experience flow.

Task II

This task requires you to engage in an activity that you find tedious. While engaging in the activity, tap into an identified personal strength and enliven the experience. For example, a student who dislikes the task of commuting to work resolves to tap into her creativity and sing to her favorite music while driving, thus transforming the experience from tedious to an enlivened one.

Engage in an activity you consider tedious and then tap into an identified personal strength to enliven it.

Upon completion of this activity, create a  PowerPoint presentation with the following information: 

  • Slide 1: Title slide
  • Slide 2: Discuss a scholarly reference on the validity of using signature strengths to create flow.
  • Slide 3: Describe the strengths you identified after doing an evaluation of yourself.
  • Slides 4–5: Discuss the application of strengths to the activity. Include your ideas on how and why the activity was transformed from tedious to an enlivened activity.
  • Slides 6–7: Demonstrate how to apply this and other signature strengths to transform other tasks identified as tedious.
  • Slide 8: Discuss your general state of emotion after completing the enlivened activity. Examine the reasons for this state of emotion. Include one scholarly reference from established research on positive psychology that supports the use of signature strengths to facilitate a state of well-being.
  • Slide 9: Discuss how recognizing and using signature strengths can help improve relationships.
  • Slide 10: Provide a list of references in APA format

Develop a 10-slide scripted presentation in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A2.ppt.

By Wednesday, October 8, 2014, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Duckworth, A. L., Steen, T. A., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2005). Positive psychology in clinical practice. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 1, 629–651. (ProQuest Document ID: 213100604) 
http://search.proquest.com.libproxy.edmc.edu/
docview/213100604?accountid=34899

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Examined the validity of using signature strengths to create flow using one scholarly reference.

12
Described the personal signature strengths.

8
Explained how the strengths were applied to the activity with an analysis of why the activity was transformed from being tedious to an enlivened one.

16
Gave details about how the signature strengths can be applied to other tedious tasks.

16
Analyzed the reasons for the general state of emotion after completing the enlivened activity, supporting it with at least one scholarly reference.

16
Explained the application of recognizing and using signature strengths to improve relationships.

12
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.

20
Total:

100

Threat Analysis Essay

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Threats can be man-made (such as fire and nuclear accidents) or natural phenomena (tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes, to name a few). You are to assess a threat of your choice and elaborate on items 1-6 below:

  1. Identify a potential threat.
  2. Identify the threat’s motivation, capabilities, and history.
  3. Choose an organization.
  4. Identify the organization’s assets.
  5. What tactics might the chosen threat use against the organization?
  6. Will such tactics be effective? Why or why not?

Your essay should be 3-4 pages long, cite at least three different source. APA format.

Here are some ways to enhance your analysis.

One can effectively assess threats in four steps:

  1. Identify potential threat actors.
  2. Identify their motivation, capabilities, and history (thus their level of intent, skills, weapons, and tactics and what types of targets they have chosen in the past).
  3. Develop a list of the organization’s assets, and determine which of the weapons and tactics are most likely to be of use in attacking the organization.
  4. Compare that data to information about the organization’s assets to be protected, and determine which potential threat actors are likely to be most effective against the organization. (Norman, 2009, p. 140)

Writing Assignment. 3 &1/2 pages

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Writing Assignment 2

Length: 800 or more words, approximately 3 ½ pages

Format: MLA

Points: 100 points

After stretching your critical thinking skills by analyzing your view and an author’s view on education, you are ready to advance to the next stage of analysis by discovering the complexities (or questions) of an issue. The uncritical mind sees an issue as having only two sides- for and against. But, the critical mind stops and considers other views, solutions, implications, and subtleties.

Purpose: Analysis should always spring from a careful examination of a given subject. Part of developing a meaningful analysis is to explore the complexities of the subject. For this reason, you do not always need to state your thesis as a definitive argument that shows how you feel in no uncertain terms. Instead, it is often desirable to show your ambivalence about your position as long as you are clear about why you feel this way. Understanding some of the complexities of an issue can be done through an issue dialogue, illustrated in chapter 3.

Topic:

1)Select an issue or policy on a topic you find interesting or important. You can use one of your problems or decisions. **

2)Use the CCBC Library Database to research two or more differing views of the policy or issue. This means a minimum of two sources.

3)Write on your own position, considering all of the places where you got your information from in the first place;

4)Write on the opposite point of view, again, considering all the places where you have heard these perspectives articulated.

5)Continue by writing a dialogue in which you take both sides seriously by fully considering the merits of each viewpoint. This is not an argumentative essay!

6)How did your own position change as you considered other points of view? What possible compromises did you come to?

Write a multi-paragraph issue dialogue where you first introduce your topic and then present a dialogue between two differing views. Use your sources (with in-text citations, of course) for evidence. Conclude by responding to question 6 above. Include a Works Cited page for the sources.

** Do not use abortion, gun control, or gay marriage. 

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Assignment 1: LASA # 2: PowerPoint Presentation

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Assignment 1: LASA # 2: PowerPoint Presentation

Utilizing the information you compiled for your literature review paper, and the feedback you received from your instructor about the literature review, prepare a 10-15 minute Power Point presentation on your topic, summarizing the key points and conclusions. Be sure to direct this presentation to an audience in the community. For example, if your paper pertained to a topic in developmental psychology, direct your presentation toward parents, or a parenting center. If your topic pertained to substance abuse, direct it toward a community service agency which may use this information for educating teens or parents about preventing drug use, or current clients about treatments and facilities available. Please state in your presentation the specific audience toward whom your presentation is aimed. Include a reference page in APA format, as well as speaker notes and an audio file with your presentation.

Your slides should provide answers to the following questions: 

  • What was your topic?
  • What question did you hope to answer by completing this literature review paper? Explain the practical implications of the conclusions of the literature review and the audience to which they are directed.
  • Given the results of your literature review, what is/are the prevailing argument(s)? In other words, which of those is supported by the existing evidence? Be sure to include full coverage of the arguments, including strengths and weaknesses of each of them, supported by your findings from reviewing the relevant articles.
  • Did the researchers consider multicultural factors in their studies? If not, what factors may be involved? What multicultural factors should future studies include?
  • What ethical issues are related to your topic and/or discussed in the studies you reviewed?
  • How do the conclusions of your literature review relate to the various specialization areas in psychology? Tie them to as many as apply from the following areas: biological, cognitive, developmental, social, personality theory, psychopathology, and applied psychology.
  • How can the conclusions of your literature review inform the population towards whom your presentation is directed? How can they apply this information to their daily lives? What advice or ‘take home message’ can you provide to your audience based on the research you reviewed?
  • What research question could you ask in order to further develop this area of study?
  • Why is your research question important and relevant to the current work being done on your topic?

Your presentation should also follow these guidelines:

  • It should be approximately 10-15 minutes in length.
  • It should be clear, concise, and professional.  Writing should be free of spelling and grammatical errors; it should conform to current APA style (including any in-text citations).
  • It should include graphs, tables, figures, or images illustrating your ideas.
  • There should be a final slide listing references in current APA style.
  • The bulk of the text should be placed in the Notes pages of each slide. Keep the amount of text on the slide, itself, to a minimum.
  • You should record an audio file of your oral presentation. You should also type the text of the speech you would give while showing these slides to an audience should be typed into the Notes area.  If you are unable to use the audio feature, the Notes text will suffice.
  • You can refer to the Power Point tips document provided in the Doc Sharing section of the course.

Submit your presentation to the M5: Assignment 1 Dropbox by Friday, May 2, 2014.

Assignment 1 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points

Describes topic and explains the practical implications of the conclusions of the literature review with clarity and detail.

Describes the audience to which the presentation is directed.

20

Revises the literature review based on feedback from the instructor.

Presentation of information is clearly focused on the specific audience.

Explains the prevailing argument(s), including their strengths and weaknesses, supported by findings from relevant articles.

Synthesizes key points established in and through the literature review.

40

Elaborates on multicultural factors relevant to the topic and to the studies reviewed.

Discusses how the findings can be extended to a more diverse population or additional multicultural factors that should be included in future studies.

40

Discusses relevant ethical issues related to the topic and to the studies reviewed.

Describes how they were or could be addressed in the research.

20
Relates the conclusions of the literature review to at least two specialization areas in psychology.

40

Applies the conclusions from the literature review to specific populations or issues.

40

Provides well-reasoned conclusions, and pointed towards areas for future research.

Provides suggestions for future work that are appropriate and have an applied focus.

36

Introduction has an opening, provides come background information, and states the topic.

Transitions between slides are present.

16

Design of presentation (i.e. background, pictures, text etc.) is clear, appropriate for the assignment, balanced and compliments both the writing and speaking throughout the presentation.

16
Any written portion (including writing on the slides and in notes) follows conventions of spelling and grammar throughout.  Errors are infrequent and do not interfere with comprehension.

24
Using APA format, accurately paraphrased, quoted, and cited in many spots throughout when appropriate or called for. Errors present are somewhat minor.

8
Total:

300


Category: Psychology

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Hypo 5 Racial Stratification.docx 

Hypo 3 Deviance.docx

 Hypo 4 Paths to Mobility – Economics and Education.docx 

writing three diferent  hypothesis each one in one page so the total is three pages  I will upload topics and structue

REL212 World Religion

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Considering the evolutionary leaps and technological advances we’ve seen and experienced, why does religion still matter in people’s lives?

I mean, religion has not cured any disease. It has not slowed down the progression of wanton violence. Religion has not solved racial tensions. Religion is divided among itself. It has not eradicated epidemics, pandemics, or poverty. Religion has yet to “fix” the depraved human heart.

What are your thoughts?

At least two paragrapghs

“Race and Ethnicity” Respond to the following:

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Respond to the following:

  • From the second e-Activity article, there is a growing trend of people in the U.S. identifying themselves as biracial. Discuss the sociological implications of this trend.
  • Explain why race and ethnicity should be defining terms about an individual.

at least one paragraph would be Ok.

The body of the paper should be at least 5-6 pages in length.

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PSY 492 M2 Assignment 3: Review Paper—Draft of Literature Findings

Evaluate the evidence. Create a draft of the findings of the articles you have selected and how they contribute to our knowledge of this problem. Be sure to address each of the following items in your draft:

1.  Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each piece.
2.  If the articles talk to each other (that is, if they support or contrast with one another), explain how and why.
3.  What does the evidence tell us?
4.  Is there another possible explanation you can think of?  Based on what you have read, what is your hypothesis?  In other words, what is your explanation for the findings?
5.  How can you refine your question or topic even further, now that you have described the findings?

Your draft should be double-spaced and in 12 point, Times New Roman font with normal one-inch margins, written in APA style, and free of typographical and grammatical errors.  It should include a title page with a running head and a reference page. The body of the paper should be at least 5-6 pages in length.

You will submit your Review Paper next week, so be sure to incorporate the feedback you receive from your instructor on this assignment into your final paper for next week. You may also want to review the following documents that are available in the Doc Sharing area of the course:

  • A sample literature review,
  • a PowerPoint document illustrating how to set up your word processor for APA style
  • a “Guide for Writing a Literature Review”

This is the topic and articles the assignment is referring to:

Perception is a process in that a person makes choices, puts things in order, and interprets information and events in order to create a meaningful image of the world. Individual perception varies despite their exposure to same reality,  Kellman & Martha, (1998). For instance, a person can perceive a nice and honest neighbor to be a good person while another one will think he/she is a pretender. What makes individual perception so different, even if two individuals have been exposed to same conditions?  Hazan & Stuart, (1991).

There are several factors that obviously bring difference in individual perception. Such factors include age, sex, culture, and education/expertise. Individual perception, usually, develops in early life, so what brings such distinct differences in individuals at such as young age, Riding, (2001).  Culture strongly influences the perception, since individuals tend to perceive things that are well that are perceived well by their culture. Factors affecting perception can be classified into three parts; factors in the one perceiving, in the actual situation, and also in the target. Contributing factors in the one who perceives involves attitude, reasons, experiences and what one expects, Fagot, (2000). An individual will perceive things based on their attitude towards that thing, and their motive towards it. Contributing factors in situation includes the time, and factors socially and at work. The target factors include novelty, movement, volume among other factors, Roberts, (2012).

Individual perception is an interesting topic. It helps us to understand that individuals do

 not just interpret what he/she sees. The interpretation is based on individual characteristics, the environment and the features of what is being observed, Davidoff, (1975). Knowing various factors that determine individual perception can help us know why individuals behave in 

certain different ways.  The phrase “seeing the world through rose colored lenses” shows

that emotions, biases and interactions determine how we see the world,  Davis, (2003).

References

Christman, Stephen D, Varalakshmi Sontam, & John D Jasper. Individual differences in ambiguous-figure perception: Degree of handedness and interhemispheric interaction. Perception Vol. 38, No. 8.

Davis, L. E. (2003). Individual preparedness and response to chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological terrorist attacks. Rand.

Davidoff, J. B (1975). Differences in visual perception: the individual eye. Academic Press.

Roberts, L. (2012). Individual differences in second language learning. Wiley-Blackwell.

Fagot, J. (2000). Picture perception in animals. Psychology Press.

Hazan, V., and Stuart, R. (1991). Individual variability in the perception of cues to place contrasts in initial stops. Perception & Psychophysics Vol. 49, No. 2.

Hentschel, U. (1986). The Roots of perception: individual differences in information processing within and beyond awareness. North-Holland.

Kellman, P. J., & Martha E. A. (1998). The cradle of knowledge development of perception in infancy. MIT Press.

Riding, R. J. (2001). Self-perception. Ablex Pub.

Tavris, C. & Aronson, E. (2007) Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts. NY: Harcourt.