Farheen is a 28-year-old chemistry student but she has an intense anxiety concerning University Exams. While speaking to her friend she exhibited certain beliefs and cognitive distortions about her. Mentioned below are the statements which she often expresses, identify cognitive distortion in each statement and give a rationale of that as well. (Each statement ONLY has ONE cognitive distortion).

• I am nothing unless I have a degree
• I always have to please my family
• I cannot cope with the exams
• If I cannot cope with this, I cannot cope with anything
• I always have to do everything perfectly well; otherwise others will look down on me
• It’s my thing to make my father happy as he expects from me and I ruin everything every time.
• I have to be complete my degree with distinction or else I’m unable to do anything in my life
• No matter what I do this degree will always bother me

Eight studies are described briefly below. What research method was employed in these studies, also write the rationale of your choice of response.
1.   A researcher is interested in whether drinking water right before bed increases the likelihood that children will wet the bed at night. The researcher recruits 50 5-year-old children to participate in her study. Twenty-five children are given two glasses of water two hours before their bedtime (one glass per hour) and twenty-five children are prohibited from receiving liquids within two hours of their bedtime.
2.   A researcher was interested in how children learn how to settle disagreements with peers. The researcher talked to his five-year-old daughter and asked her to describe how she interacted with her peers. The researcher then read a few stories to his daughter about children her age who got into disagreements and asked her what she would do in that situation. The researcher continued to interview his daughter like this for five years.
3.   University officials have noticed that there is a relationship between scores on the Graduate Record Exm (GRE) and performance in graduate school. Specifically, those students with the highest scores tend to do best in school.
4.   In an attempt to determine which method would assure the best class attendance, an educational psychologist had one teacher reward students for attending class with extra points, a second teacher punish absences by deducting points, a third teacher scold students for absences, and a fourth teacher do nothing unusual. Attendance was best in the first class where the teacher rewarded the students.
5.   A researchers is interested in whether people are more likely or less likely to help someone in distress when others are present. Some subjects were testes when they alone were witness to someone in distress, while others were tested when many people were present. The researcher discovered that witnesses were much more likely to help when hey alone witnessed the person in distress.
6.   In an attempt to determine which method would assure the best class attendance, an educational psychologist had one teacher reward students for attending class with extra points, a second teacher punish absences by deducting points, a third teacher scold students for absences, and a fourth teacher do nothing unusual. Attendance was best in the first class where the teacher rewarded the students.
7.   A researcher who was suspicious that hyperactivity in children was related to the amount of sugar in their diet recorded both sugar intake and activity level for a sample of children over a five month period. The results indicated that those children who had consumed the most sure tended to be the most active.
8.   In an investigation of drug abuse, it was noted that there was a relationship between the ages at which an individual first started experimenting with drugs and the severity of the drug abuse problem. Specially, those who experimented with drugs at the earliest age tended to be those with the most severe drug abuse problems.
9.   To investigate the relationship between anxiety and test performance, three groups of subjects are tested under one of the following conditions: high anxiety, moderate anxiety, low anxiety. The moderate anxiety group performs between on the test than either the high anxiety or the low anxiety groups.
10.   Researchers looking at the relationship between intelligence and birth order found that the children with the highest IQ scores were most likely to the first born in the family.
11.   In a study of animal motivation, researchers varied the number of hours their laboratory animals were deprived of food. While some had food continuously available, others were deprived for 12 hours, and some were deprived for 24 hours. The researchers discovered that the animals deprived for 24 hours worked harder for food than did the others.

this is for book: Women, Gender, and Crime: A Text/Reader (SAGE Text/Reader Series in Criminology and Criminal Justice

In Section II of the text, the following scenario is presented: "Imagine yourself walking across a parking lot toward your car. It's late and the parking lot is poorly lit. You are alone. Standing near your car is a man who is watching you. Are you afraid?" The text mentions that men and women will respond differently to that question. Why is that the case, and what are the effects (policy implications) of that difference?

According to Karl Marx selected writings book what was the Invisible Hand , Labor based theory of Value and Nascent Capitalism ideology

Identify what images of America US movies, TV, fashion and music give to the rest of the world about our culture and society.

What are your top three takaways from this article?

Nine years ago, Angie Firmalino was implanted with a permanent contraceptive device called Essure. The procedure, she says, was "extremely painful," and the discomfort she felt even months later — fevers, achy joints, constant bleeding — was nearly debilitating.

Firmalino eventually took her concerns to a doctor, who did an ultrasound and discovered that the implant, originally inserted in her fallopian tubes, had become dislodged and migrated to her uterus.

She was shocked. After the appointment, “I sat in my car and cried,” Firmalino, 45, of Tannersville, New York, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Firmalino later had the device removed, but that procedure left behind metal fragments that ravaged her reproductive system. She was alarmed that other women, unaware of the potential dangers, were still receiving the Essure implant. She started a Facebook group called Essure Problems to warn her friends and family about the device, and the group is now a forum for more than 36,000 women, some of whom say doctors, regulators and Essure’s maker have not taken their concerns seriously.

But finally, Firmalino and many of her fellow advocates were encouraged this week when the Food and Drug Administration said it would restrict the sale and distribution of Essure.

"We have been banging on the door with information and data, begging and pleading with them to do something," Firmalino said of the FDA.

Essure consists of two sets of small metal coils that are inserted through the cervix into the fallopian tubes. The coils are meant to cause inflammation, building up scar tissue that blocks the tubes and stops eggs from being carried from the ovaries to the uterus.

The FDA said Monday that over 15 years — Nov. 4, 2002, when Essure was approved, through December 2017 — it received 26,773 reports of problems, including pain, heavier periods and irregular bleeding, headaches and fatigue. Patients also reported that the device had become dislodged or had broken. And the agency has received reports of eight adult deaths related to Essure.

In its announcement on Monday, the FDA said Bayer, the manufacturer of Essure, can sell the device only to health care providers and facilities that guarantee women have been fully informed about its potential side effects.

Doctors must review with patients a checklist of the side effects, and both are required to sign it. (Two years ago, the FDA ordered Bayer to place a "black box" warning on the product package, but doctor-patient discussions were not mandatory at the time.)

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who met with a group of Essure critics earlier this year, said in a statement that his agency is taking action because "despite previous efforts to alert women to the potential complications of Essure, we know that some patients still aren't receiving this important information."

"That is simply unacceptable," Gottlieb added. "Every single woman receiving this device should fully understand the associated risks."

Amanda Edwards Rusmisell, 45, of Charlotte, North Carolina, who says the pain from her Essure implant was so intense she would often cry in her sleep, hailed the FDA decision.

"We were ecstatic," said Edwards Rusmisell, a recruiter and an administrator of the Essure Problems group. "We finally felt like somebody was listening."

The FDA did not ban Essure, although many patients have said they would like the device taken off the medical market altogether. That would be a rare move as the agency has only ever banned two medical devices: prosthetic hair fibers and powdered gloves.

Holly Ennis, a lawyer who said she represents close to 1,000 women who have filed lawsuits against Bayer over Essure, sees the FDA action as “a huge step in the right direction.”

“The requirements are so tight that they will effectively sound the death knell for the device," Ennis said. "Doctors will realize it is just not worth the burden and the risk."

In a statement, Bayer said the "benefit/risk profile of Essure has not changed and remains positive."

“Bayer has educated and continues to educate health care providers about the importance of appropriately counseling each patient on the benefits and risks of Essure,” the German multinational said. “The FDA requested we update the label to emphasize this point.”

More than 750,000 Essure devices have been sold worldwide since it was introduced in 2002, according to Bayer. The product, long presented as a less invasive alternative to surgical sterilization, is no longer sold outside the U.S. for “commercial reasons,” company spokeswoman Courtney Mallon said in an email. She said that decision was not related to product safety.

“Essure critics regularly attempt to paint that picture, which leads to broad dissemination of misleading and inaccurate information on social media that is directly influencing women’s choices,” Mallon said.

In the last two years, since a stronger warning was added to the box, there has been a roughly 70 percent decline in the sales of Essure in the United States, the FDA said.

Lisa Saenz, 49, a social worker who lives in New York City, received an Essure implant in 2008. She later experienced so many problems — hair loss, fatigue, stabbing pains in her side, blood clotting — that at one point, she said to herself, “I feel like I’m dying.” The coils had perforated her uterus, and she needed an operation to remove them.

In the future, she hopes Essure will no longer be sold at all.

"We don't want this offered as an option to any woman," Saenz said. "Hopefully we see the end of this awful product soon."

CLARIFICATION (July 20, 2018, 5:40 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this article implied that the FDA had considered banning Essure but decided not to do so. Although many patients have requested that the device be banned, the agency has consistently said that the benefits of Essure outweigh its risks.

identify two different situations from your own life where environmental factors have impacted the channel of communication (one when the impact was positive and one when the impact was negative). Then, explain the one positive and one negative situation in your discussion board post. ​

Describe the experimental procedures you would use to study the topic of whether or not playing violent video games is related to increased aggression among youth in a within-subjects design. Be sure to explain and provide support as to how your method of measurement meets the criteria for a within subjects design.

why do you think U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1848 was hard to avoid?

For this first assignment, you will prepare a 4-5 page essay. In your essay, respond to the following questions using proper APA formatting, full sentences, correct grammar, and a thoughtful theme. How is technology different in your life as compared to your grandparents lives? Describe the ways that you use technology in your professional life? Describe the ways that you use technology in your personal life and in your education.

Subject: Wellbeing

Topic: Connecting with nature as a wellbeing intervention.

Sub topic for the answer should be on: Raise awareness of sensitivity to cultural, spiritual, and behavioural differences in communities. (Singapore)

Write a 500 word answer on how raising awareness is done in Singapore and how it can be improved.

What are the advantages of a dialectical approach to intercultural communication?