talked about the multifaceted roles, significance and issues associated with women in any of the Western (Abrahamic, i.e. Judaism, Christi-anity, or Islam) or Indigenous religions in North America.

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Charlie is a 14-year-old boy, 5 feet tall and weighing 100 lbs. He had a juvenile criminal history. He was arrested and put in an adult prison for shooting and killing Charlie, his mother’s boyfriend George, who also was a local police officer. George had a history of physically and psychologically abusing Charlie’s mother and enacting physical and psychological trauma on Charlie.

Explain how a social worker/therapist should engage with Charlie and assessed him for childhood trauma.

Describe a personal experience of classical conditioning. You must describe a real-life example of behavior that you have observed in others or experienced yourself. You would need to identify the UCS, CS, UCR, etc. Make sure you include enough information clearly understand how the concept applies to behavioral example (e.g., extinction, generalization etc.)

Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”

1. How does Rip's "meekness of spirit" gain him popularity?

2. Why do the children follow Rip?

3. Discuss the description of the "amphitheater" before Rip falls asleep. Compare it to the description after he awakens. What is the significance?

4. Discuss the meaning of the changes at the village inn. In what ways does the behavior of the patrons change? What inspired the changes? What does this convey about human nature?

READING TEXT: Fleeing Facebook Carmen Joy King 1 In March, at the peak of Facebook popularity, I quit. With four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself – profile pictures, interests and activities, work history, friends acquired – all carefully thought out to showcase to the world the very best version of me, all now deleted. 2 Ironically, the decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile. All that particular week I’d been hungry for new quotes on my page, something to reflect the week I’d been having: something introspective. I perused a quotes website and found this one attributed to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do.” 3 I became despondent. What, then, was I? If my time was spent changing my profile picture on Facebook, thinking of a clever status update for Facebook, checking my profile again to see if anyone had commented on my page, Is this what I am? A person who re-visits her own thoughts and images for hours each day? And so what do I amount to? An egotist? A voyeur? Whatever the label, I was unhappy and feeling empty. The amount of time I spent on Facebook had pushed me into an existential crisis. It wasn’t the time-wasting, per se, that bothered me. It was the nature of the obsession – namely self-obsession. Enough was enough. I left Facebook. 4 In the past, my feelings toward Facebook and similar social networking sites had swung between a genuine sense of connection and community to the uncomfortable awareness that what all of our blogs, online journals and personal profiles really amounted to was serious narcissism. As my feelings of over-exposure continued to mount, the obvious solution would have been to set limits on my Facebook time – yet I still found myself sucked in for longer periods every time I visited. In part, it was the hundreds of little links to and hints about other people’s lives that kept me coming back. But even more addicting were the never-ending possibilities to introduce, enhance and reveal more of myself. 5 The baby-boomers were at one time thought to be the most self-absorbed generation in American history and carried the label of the Me Generation. In recent years this title has been appropriated, twisted and reassigned to the babies of those same boomers – born in the 80s and 90s – now called Generation Me or the Look at Me Generation. Author Jean Twenge, an Associate Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University and herself a member of Generation Me – spent ten years doing research on this group’s sense of entitlement and self-absorption. She attributed it to the radical individualism that was engendered by baby-boomer parents and educators focused on instilling self- esteem in children beginning in the 1970s. American and Canadian youth were raised on aphorisms such as “express yourself” and “just be yourself.” To further illustrate her point, Twenge also found a large increase in self-reference words like “I,” “me,” “mine” and “myself” in news stories published in the 80s and 90s. These words replaced collective words such as “we,” “us,” “humanity,” “country” or “crowd” found in the stories of a similar nature in the 50s and 60s. This generation might be the least thoughtful, community-oriented and conscientious one in North American history. 6 In the end, what does all this online, arms-length self-promotion ultimately provide? Perhaps it’s merely one component of the pursuit to alleviate some of the blackness encountered in the existential vacuum of modern life. As Schopenhauer once projected, modern humans may be doomed to eternally vacillate between distress and boredom. For the vast majority of people experiencing the fragmented, fast-paced modern world of 2008, a Sunday pause at the end of a hectic week may cause them to become all too aware of the lack of content in their lives. So we update our online profiles and tell ourselves that we are reaching out. 7 And yet, the time we waste on Facebook only makes our search for comfort and community more elusive. Online networking sites are marketed as facilitators of community-orientation but when I think about the millions of people – myself included – who spend large portions of their waking lives feeding off an exchange of thousands of computerized, fragmented images, it doesn’t add up to community-engagement. These images have no meaning beyond “I look pretty from this angle” or “I’m wasted” or “look who my new boyfriend is.” And as we continue to chase even harder – accessing Facebook at work, uploading images from our cell phones – we spend our money on constantly upgraded electronic gadgets marketed to our tendency to self-obsess and present particularly uninteresting and repetitive images of ourselves. There’s got to be more than this. 8 And so I quit… 9 After I left Facebook, I wondered what all my friends, family and acquaintances were going to think when they noticed I’d disappeared off the Facebook earth. So some of my Facebook narcissism – am I being noticed, am I being missed – remains. But I’m also asking myself some new questions. How do I find balance between my online life and my “real” life? How much exposure is healthy? How do I act responsibly for myself and engage with those I love? These are still “me” thoughts but they feel different than before. As I sit here, keyboard under palm, eyes on screen, I try to remind myself that my hands and eyes need to venture out into the community and look and touch the truly tangible that lies just beyond that other big screen: my window.

II. READING COMPREHENSION: Choose the best answer for each question by copying and pasting your chosen answer or typing the corresponding letter of the answer in the space after test questions for sections 2 & 3.

1. King deleted her Facebook profile __________ A) to focus more on her work B) to follow what her friends were doing C) to take her friend’s advice D) for none of the above reasons

2. King was upset with the way she had been using Facebook because __________ A) it was a waste of time B) it had made her too absorbed with herself C) it had affected her social life D) it had had a negative effect on her health

3. King quotes Aristotle in the article because __________ A) his quote motivated her B) she was unhappy with how she had been using social media C) she found his quote reflected her self-reflection D) his quote was popular on many social media

4. The endless opportunities that Facebook offer for self-introduction and self-exploration made King feel __________ A) addicted B) excited C) exhausted D) more stressful

5. Baby-boomers are mentioned in the article because __________ A) they were the first generation to use the “collective words” mentioned in this article B) they were regarded as the most community-oriented generation in history C) they started the trend of the online “self-promotion” D) they were considered as part of the reason for their children’s self-absorption

III. SHORT ESSAY WRITING: Choose TWO of the rhetorical/organizational modes and explain the effectiveness these two strategies have in conveying King’s main argument (in at least TWO extended paragraphs) in the space below. Paraphrase or quote details/examples to support your ideas and identify the paragraph numbers. Pay attention to language control and punctuation. Question 1 options:

online learning poses some challenges to students in developing countries like Ghana, with your own experience discuss four challenges you have faced since UENR's online learning program. Your answer should be at least 500 word long.

What do you think is causing the noted political polarization in America today (e.g., the voters, our political leaders, the media, money in politics, gerrymandering, etc.)? Do you think this gridlock and polarization are a threat to our republic? Why or why not?

Design a follow-up study to Aggression Priming. As you work on this discussion, try to think about what other variable might influence Aggression Priming. Give a hypothesis for what you expect to occur for your new independent variable.

Let me give you a few example, though try to get creative with your group. Look at prior research and see if you can use some of their work as a follow-up to your study. Have fun with it! Okay, consider some ideas I was thinking about for a follow-up study (Personally, I would recommend the second or third idea, as there is a lot of research you could draw on about these topics, which would make Paper III much easier to write).

First, you can alter the way that you manipulate aggression awareness. For example, some people can get the advertisements (aggression versus financial ads) while others get a game format (complete crossword puzzles / word searches that use either aggressive-related or finance-related words). Alternatively, you can give some participants aggression-related images (like guns and gore) while others get neutral images (like dollar signs or bills) while other participants get words (the actual words guns/gore for some versus words about money/dollars for others). Here, one IV would be type of topic (aggressive versus financial) while your other IV would be type of medium (images versus words).   

Second, source credibility is a good topic to explore. Have some participants read about Larry “the well-educated and respected doctor” while others read about Larry “the former prisoner who never graduated high school). Then, some participants get the financial ads while others get aggressive ads. Will the social status of Larry interact with the ads?.

A third idea might involve altering frustration. Give people a task and then tell some they did terrible and others they did wonderful. Does this feedback influence their assessments of Larry depending on whether they see aggressive versus financial ads?

Finally, you can look at some participant characteristics if you like. You can measure the participants’ likelihood to have a hostile attribution bias (the tendency to perceive others as acting aggressively, even when they aren’t). Or you can focus on whether or not the participant plays a lot of violent video games (versus few violent video games) to see if those who play such games are impacted more by the aggressive ads then those who do not play those games. You could see if participant gender interacts with the type of ad. Just remember that if you choose a participant characteristic, you cannot draw cause-effect conclusions (since you cannot randomly assign someone to be high versus low in hostile attribution bias or to be a man versus a woman). That is why I would prefer that you manipulate some feature of the study so you can randomly assign people to one of the four different conditions.

What is children memory scale (CMS). Does it have good construct validity or reliability?

According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Apply the General Principles and Ethics Codes Standards to the following dilemma:

Case Study: In 2014, investigators from several academic research institutions collaborated with Facebook to test whether reducing the number of positive or negative messages people saw made them less likely to post positive or negative content themselves (Kramer, Guillory, & Hancock, 2014). The experiment was carried out by manipulating the algorithm by which Facebook sweeps posts into members’ news feeds. Participants were not informed they were a part of this research. Investigators involved in the study defended the absence of informed consent for a study designed to influence emotions, arguing that the manipulation was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users must agree at the time they join Facebook (Goel, 2014). However, Facebook policy only mentions “research” in general terms (e.g., “We may use the information we receive about you…for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement” (Waldman, 2014). The investigators also argued that they were using “archival” data collected by a business entity, despite the fact that they were involved in the initial study design. According to the APA Ethics Code, was the psychologists’ involvement in this study ethical or unethical? Support your decision with relevant General Principles and Ethic Code Standards.

In successful “minding of close relationships,” attribution involves

In Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, different varieties of love are based on three essential ingredients. These are

Charlie is an 8-year-old boy who is having difficulty making friends and sitting still in class. When he goes to school, his teacher complains that he can't sit still. He will sit for 3 minutes but soon after he starts bouncing his leg, and then he begins tapping his pencil. Shortly thereafter, he starts rapping lyrics under his breath. He is performing well in school, but his behavior is distracting others.

Charlie isn't hyperactive like this at home, but his mother is concerned. His mother wants you to prescribe him Xanax for anxiety and Adderall for ADHD. After you do an extensive interview with Charlie, you realize that he is just bored in his U.S History class and would rather be playing basketball in P.E.

However, Charlie's mother insists that you write a few prescriptions. Research suggests that medical professionals (Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistant's, etc.) are often pressured to write prescriptions even when they don't believe that it is the best thing to do for the patient.

Your investigation has led you to believe that Charlie just needs more physical exercise. But his mother continues to insist that Charlie needs medication. How would you explain to his mother what you plan to do?

Use your investigation skills and present your facts to her. Be sure to incorporate at least 1 developmental theory covered in this week's readings to support your argument.

What would a constructivist say about the interconnectedness among terrorism, environmental problems, and humanitarian crises? And what a connection among how this ideology feels?

In American Government and Politics Today and answer the following questions.  

1. What are the differences between a representative democracy and a direct democracy?

2. Explain two (2) differences between democracy in fifth century B.C. Athens, Greece and in the United States today.

3. What is the difference between an initiative and a referendum?

4. Why are the principles of both majority rule and minority rights important in a democracy ?