Sleep and Dream Journal

STEP 1: For this assignment, you’ll be keeping track of your sleep habits and your dreams in order to analyze your sleep habits and examine dream theories.To begin, make a copy of this sleep log (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

STEP 2: Keep track of your sleep habits and dreams for a MINIMUM of 3 days.

STEP 3: While it’s not guaranteed you will remember your dreams, you can take some steps to help. Begin by telling yourself you want to remember your dream, then print off the sleep/dream journal and have paper and a pen (or your phone) next to your bed right when you wake up. Try to review the dream in your head as soon as you wake up, and consider specifics such as the people involved, the location and setting, the storyline, or how you felt.

STEP 4: Submit your sleep journal and sleep essay based on the following prompt: Based on your sleep/dream journal and what you have learned about the purpose for dreaming, write a 1-2 page essay (between 250-500 words) about your own sleep habits. Your essay should include:

An analysis of your sleep habits.

Do you go to bed at the same time every night?

How many hours a night do you normally sleep?

How could you be a better sleeper?

Do you notice any patterns?

What concepts from your text might apply to your sleep habits?

An analysis of your dreams. Why do you usually dream?

Are there any patterns or re-occurring themes?

Is there any consistency between the things you do during the day and the dreams you have? *If you cannot remember your dreams, you can skip this part and spend more time focusing on the steps above and below.

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FIVE QUESTIONS ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
Question 1
a) “Why wait for tomorrow to do what could be done today? It has become common knowledge that some people especially students sometimes end up postponing very important activities without considering how it could have negative impacts on their lives. In your opinion and using tangible examples, explain four major reasons that can push the impulsive procrastinator to engage in procrastination.
(EV – 8 marks)
b) Joyce has always been advised that learning in her room alone has been the major cause of her failure in exams. She would like to join a study group has no idea why she should do so as she is always comfortable learning alone. Describe three relevant reasons why Joyce should engage in group study?
(CR – 6 marks)
c) Opportunities comes but once in a lifetime, and some opportunities taken can change your life. With these in mind, discuss some three key ways you would follow to seize those major life opportunities that may come your way.
(AN – 6 marks)
TOTAL[20MARKS]
Question 2
a) Considering the amount of stress that various persons and their families are going through during this pandemic season, one cannot overlook how we are all being affected. As a student, examine three relevant approaches that you will use to manage your stress to ensure both your academic and socio-economic wellbeing. (AP – 6 marks)
b) Abigail did a great work and got promoted in her office. Despite the great speech she delivered during the promotion ceremony, she admitted to feeling so stressed due to the promotion that she was awarded. Analyse the type and nature of the stress that Abigail is dealing with and propose ways of managing this type of stress.
(AN – 6 marks)
c) Time and tide they say waits for no man. Yet John has all the time on his hands to prepare for his end of semester exams but one cannot help but wonder why he is
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refusing to manage his time well and apply the proper note taking skills to enable him pass his exams. Critically evaluate how proper note taking and time management skills in the learning process can ensure his success in the exams

Fallibility principle- How does it keep the argument focused on truth while being rational?​

Conduct a scholarly literature search of recent peer reviewed articles pertaining to the psychological and physiological effects of vision, noise, illumination, vibration, and daylight as it relates to ergonomic issues and the workplace. Select an article that you find interesting and write a summary of that article. Need the article referenced.

Describe the relationship between drugs and crime. What challenges does this relationship pose for researchers and practitioners?

RESEARCH STUDY: Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions.

Refer to the Research Study above to answer the following four questions.

1. If Dr. Sheffield’s measure does not actually measure pathological gambling, his measure is said to lack which of the following?

A. Validity

B. Conceptualization

C. Reliability

D. Operationalization

2. Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to his supervisor, who is also an expert in pathological gambling. His supervisor says that his measure appears to test all the components of pathological gambling, including feeling restless when attempting to stop gambling, jeopardizing jobs in order to keep gambling, and using gambling to escape from problems and a bad mood. Given this information, Dr. Sheffield’s measure has evidence of which of the following?

A. Content validity

B. Criterion validity

C. Predictive validity

D. Discriminant validity

3. To test his measure, Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to a group of people in Gamblers Anonymous (GA) and another group of people in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). He finds that people in the GA group have higher scores on his new measure than people in the AA group. This procedure is known as a:

A. Test-retest paradigm

B. Prediction paradigm

C. Known-groups paradigm

D. Group evaluation paradigm

4. To test his measure, Dr. Sheffield gives his measure to a group of his clients and at the same time measures how many times they have been gambling in the past month. He predicts that clients who score higher on his measure will also report gambling more times in the past month. This procedure is meant to provide evidence for which of the following?

A. Face validity

B. Criterion validity

C. Content validity

D. Discriminant validity

Please answer all 4 questions and explain why theyre correct

How is communication changing between people? Think about how your Grandmother talks with people. Is it the same as how you talk to people?

1. Discuss harm reduction therapy, solution-focused therapy, CBT, and group therapy as strength and evidence based helping strategies.

2. Provide therapeutic interventions and explain why you choose them for individuals who misuse substances with a co-occurring mental disorder or disability.

Answer the following questions in your own words. Explain your choices and your reasons. Provide examples where possible. Be sure to number your answers and present them in order:

Chapter 8: Contrast Marx’s and Weber’s models of social class.

Chapter 8: Explain the problems in drawing the poverty line and how poverty is related to race-ethnicity, education, feminization, and age.

Chapter 9: Contrast prejudice and discrimination, as well as, individual and institutional discrimination AND give an example of each.

Chapter 9: Explain genocide, population transfer, internal colonialism, segregation, and assimilation – providing examples of each.

Why are people poor (for everyone)?

Why, in your opinion, does poverty exist in this society?

What do you think we can do about poverty in American society?

Gorovitz’s main thesis is that medical education ought to focus more on ethical issues in the course of teaching students the technical skills and knowledge necessary for becoming physicians. What reasons and examples does he provide in support of this view, and how would you evaluate the importance of this view for another profession?

Should:

Present Gorovitz’s thesis that medical education ought to focus more on ethical issues in the course of teaching students the technical skills and knowledge necessary for becoming physicians.

Clearly and correctly identify Gorovitz’s reasons and examples in support of this thesis.

Present a comparison to the need for increased ethical awareness in another profession (such as the law, education, counseling, consulting, etc.

This is a lenghtly assignment and should include many details

Operationalizing variables can be a difficult task for a researcher. Choose a conceptual variable that is of interest to you and then attempt to operationalize it, that is, how could this variable be measured in a research study? Also identify the level of measurement of your variable (i.e., categorical, ordinal, interval, ratio).

Discuss the importance of crime statistics for criminologists. In your discussion, point to the advantages and disadvantages of the major methods of gathering crime statistics and show how these methods provide different pictures about the nature of crime.