Cognitive Development Activities
Prior to completing this discussion, read chapter 7, Piaget’s enduring contribution to developmental psychology, and On major developments in preschoolers’ imagination. Using Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, you will continue to build your Community Center Proposal by identifying an activity and a toy for one of the rooms in your center that promotes cognitive development. You can choose any of the five rooms for this discussion, but the activity must be focused on the cognitive milestones of your chosen age group and must be clearly tied to Piaget’s theory. So your activity might be focused on object permanence for infants, conservation, transitivity, or decentering for middle childhood, or deductive reasoning for adolescence. Then think about what kinds of educational toys would promote cognitive development in this age group and, again, tie the selected object to a specific milestone. You must use at least one scholarly source in either your activity or your toy entry. Here are two examples providing you a model of how to approach this discussion and how to build the elements of the rooms in your Community Center.
Patient’s diagnosis of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia affects not only the patient suffering from the symptoms, but the family members of the affected patient, community members and the nursing/ medical team caring for the affected patient.
1. What do you think a family goes through who has a member who is suffering from schizophrenia?
2. Do you think a patient’s diagnosis of schizophrenia is easily accepted, it’s treatment compliance and acceptance of the diagnosis by the patient’s family differs based on culture? If yes, give examples. If no, give a reason.
3. Why do you think some schizophrenics have a hard time staying on medication?
Theory of cognitive development
To prepare:
Review this week’s Learning Resources related to Piaget and Vygotsky’s theories of cognitive development and next week’s Learning Resources on behaviorist, biological, and nature-versus-nurture theories.
Select two theories to compare for this Assignment.
The Assignment (3 pages):
Write a 3-page paper in which you do the following:
Briefly introduce the theories you selected.
Explain how each theory characterizes cognitive development. What are the major causes/influences, processes, or stages within each?
Which one of these theories do you think best explains cognitive development and why?
Language Communities
Language acquisition is the ability to understand and speak a new language. Learning words, phrases, and sentences allow us to more effectively interact with members of another culture. However, there are also nontraditional forms of language acquisition. For example, English majors learn terminology that economics majors are unfamiliar with and vice versa. The same idea can be applied to someone starting a new job or joining a sports team. In order to become a member of a community, one must learn the established “language.”
In this essay, you will examine how a specific group of people use verbal and nonverbal
Developmental Psychology
Using the University Library, browse through a number of articles from peer-reviewed journals on the topic of developmental psychology. A few examples of appropriate journals are provided below. Read several abstracts and select three articles that address topics that you may want to investigate further in your Week Six paper.
Write a 1-paragraph summary of each article, explaining what you found most interesting and why. After each summary, provide the full reference for the article in APA format. Possible journals to explore include:
Developmental Psychology
Psychology and Aging
Journal of Early Intervention
Journal of Educational Psychology
Child Development
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Learning and Individual Differences
Journal of Early Adolescence
Journal of Research on Adolescence
Sex Roles
VF cooperation
I need a reflection paper 3-5 pages, what did I learn from the class ?
In the class we have worked as a group we were meeting almost once a month and we were researching about the VF corporation, we wrote a report about the company. also we had an individual presentation and a group presentation. so far I have learned how to research in the internet and how to do the citation, also how to write an APA style.
Forensic psychologist
Your task this week is to prepare a letter of interest for an internship or a research project in an area of forensic psychology. Begin by reflecting upon the various tasks and activities which a forensic psychologist may undertake. You may want to include why this field interests you and what experiences or knowledge you may have by the time you might be writing this letter in the future.
Assume you are applying for an internship in an area of forensic psychology that is of interest to you or that you are applying to work in a field of research.
Identify a community organization, business, public agency, research institution, or other type of organization of interest to you in pursuing a possible internship or research opportunity in forensic psychology.
Psychotic Effects of Marijuana
Should alcohol be illegal or marijuana be legal?
“One common way to alter human conscsiousness is to administer a psychoactive drug, a substance capable of altering attention, emotion, judgment, memory, time sense, self-control, or perception. In fact, In fact, most Americans regularly use consciousness-altering drugs (don’t forget that caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine are mildly psychoactive) Many psychoactive drugs can be placed on a scale ranging from stimulation to depression” (Coon & Mitterer, 2016, p. 180). During the early part of the twentieth century, alcohol was illegal to make, sell, and consume in the United States. This was clearly a policy decision. It seems that making alcohol consumption illegal did little to stop its consumption.