Discuss how education can be used to put a stop to vulnerability of learners.

When you are promoted into a role where you are managing people, you don’t automatically become a leader? Agree or Disagree and please support your argument.

Explain why Philosophy of Education and Sociology of Education are important to any teacher education programme. 20 marks

Monica, a highly successful Corporate Affairs Director has been summoned by her Head Quarter to lead a group of product experts within the company to find a solution to manage the company latest product’s recall. What is an appropriate Leadership Style (amongst the 4 most widely used i.e. Autocratic, Democratic, Transformational and Laissez-Faire) should Monica consider utilizing and why? What is one Leadership Style Monica must try to avoid and why?

Discuss six sociological issues that exist during the Babylonian world power (as told in the Bible book of Daniel during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar, King Belshazzar etc) and that still exist today.

Defining and classifying groups -Why do people join groups?
Describe Obstacle to group productivity. Take your company/
organization and assess the way it deals with working groups in the
organization.

           Name: Yarin Sanchez

Current Psychological Perspectives

For each of the following indicate the current psychological perspective illustrated (behavioral, biological, cognitive, sociocultural, evolutionary, humanistic, psychodynamic).

1.   A researcher who records the signals from the brain while a person smokes a cigarette most likely advocates the __________________ perspective.

2.   Ruchi is a graduate student in psychology who is doing research on how conflicts during childhood can produce personality disorders during adulthood. Dr. Ego, Ruchi’s research advisor, would most likely describe herself as an advocate of the ________________ perspective.

3.   Mikhail just bought a DVD entitled, “Feel better about your self in thirty days.” The psychologist who narrates the DVD emphasizes the positive qualities of human existence and stresses that people have a great potential for personal growth because they are constantly striving for self-actualization. The narrator most likely is using the _______________ perspective.

4.   Dr. Zaragoza studies the susceptibility of eyewitness reports to misleading information (e.g., reading the perpetrator was blond and not brunette). Dr. Zaragoza uses the ____________________ perspective in her studies.

5.   When a chore has been completed, Dr. Riccio has his child mark a checklist kept on the refrigerator. After the child has completed all of the assigned chores, the child receives an allowance. Dr. Riccio is using the ___________________ perspective to increase the likelihood of his child completing chores.

6.   Dr. Nagayama studies the incidence of child abuse as a function of social class and ethnic group. Dr. Nagayama uses the _______________ perspective in his research.

7.   Dr. A tries to help a client stop smoking by understanding the unconscious reasons for the client’s need to smoke. Dr. A encourages the client to talk about his childhood conflicts with his parents. Dr. A is using the ___________________ perspective in therapy.

8.   Dr. B tries to help a client stop smoking by telling her to keep a careful record of the number of cigarettes smoked and the particular people and situations who are a part of her smoking behavior. She keeps these records as a way of uncovering the factors that reward her for smoking so that she may remove the rewards. Dr. B is using the ________________ perspective in therapy.

9.   Professor C is teaching a lesson on why it is humans spend one-third of their life sleeping. The lesson focuses on the idea that sleep was an adaptive behavior for humans during the Pleistocene era, that is, sleep allowed humans to conserve energy at a time when it was dangerous and unproductive to be active. Professor C’s lesson is based on the ___________________ perspective.

Suppose that you are part of a virtual team and must persuade other team members on an important matter (such as switching suppliers or altering the project deadline). Assuming that you cannot visit these people in person, what can you do to maximize your persuasiveness?

Why are PERSONALITY DISORDERED people so difficult for psychotherapists to treat? I can think of two reasons.

Compare and contrast the Asch and Milgrim experiments, providing ample detail to illustrate your point.

What assumption do error theorists claim is at the heart of morality? Do you agree that this assumption is crucial to morality? Do you think the assumption is true?

Case Study – Psychology and Motivation

Read the following case study and answer the questions that follow:-

Jennifer was diagnosed with dyslexia at the end of her first year of studying for a psychology degree. It has an impact on her ability to read journal articles and other text, do statistics, read, and take down numbers from slides. Despite these difficulties she’s just started a PhD in psychology, having obtained an excellent undergraduate degree through extremely hard work and determination: “Little did they know that I worked up until 3-4 in the morning on many occasions, as it would sometimes take me ages to read through some of the journals I was using”. However, additional understanding and support from academic and support staff could have made the process much less stressful.

She found that, while some lecturers wanted to do everything for her when she revealed that she had dyslexia, others thought it meant she was unable to do statistics or needed a great deal of extra support. However, in many cases all that was required was something relatively minor – for example, to have information on a handout so that she wouldn’t be required to take down material from a slide. Unfortunately, with some academic staff this requirement just didn’t seem to sink in, meaning that Jennifer would have to keep repeating her request, which was quite embarrassing in front of the rest of the class.

Although she passed the statistics module, Jennifer had great difficulty with the subject area. “The only way I got through it was by going back to basics in terms of having to work out equations by hand – it was the only way I was going to grasp the concepts, and I had to pay for extra tuition as the amount of time allotted for statistics wasn’t enough,” she explains. Whilst her department made some attempt to assist all students with statistical difficulties, putting on extra statistics classes for students with dyslexia, the person who took these was not very approachable and appeared to just run through the same notes used in lectures, thereby undercutting what potentially could have been a useful support mechanism.

Alternative examination arrangements have been made for Jennifer, such as extra time, and a separate room. However, recently the disability unit has not been so helpful, with one staff member commenting that she couldn’t see why Jennifer would want a top-up assessment, given that she had managed to get a first in her undergraduate degree.

There was also a breakdown of communication between the disability unit and lecturing staff, with one lecturer not knowing that alternative examination arrangements had been made for Jennifer and other disabled students in her class. Rather than waiting for the students to return to the lecture hall after their in-class assessment, he started the second part of the lecture and publicly reprimanded Jennifer for being late, which caused her much embarrassment.

Jennifer states: “It did surprise me that there were a few psychology lecturers who didn’t seem to have any understanding of dyslexia. Thankfully the majority of the department had an understanding, but those few who are not can make things very difficult for someone like myself”.

Questions

1.      Utilizing the model of motivation explain the process that Jennifer went through in the case study.

2.      What category of motives drove Jennifer in the case study?

3.      Explain Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and state what need(s) Jennifer sought to meet in accordance with the basic needs pyramid.

4.      Was Jennifer extrinsically or extrinsically motivated based on the case study? Give three reasons based on the case study.

5.      What challenges did Jennifer face, that sought to challenge her motivation?

Gender and Development class.

A case study is on a Saudi Arabia woman who has entrepreneurial aspirations.

Case: Sarah is a 20 y/o from Saudi Arabia and from an Upper-Class background, who has always been filled with ambition, creativity, and fervor! Furthermore, Sarah has wanted to start her own business since she was 12. For years, she has used her artistic abilities to produce a variety of products she hoped she could sell, but none of them felt right... until now. Sarah created a product- a bracelet- she feels in her "gut" is not only "eye-catching," but will be meaningful to all those who wear it, which she hopes will be everyone. [You decide what meaning the bracelet will hold and with what materials the bracelet will be constructed. This will depend on what's available in the allocated country.] Although Sarah is inspired by her vision, she is also daunted thinking about how she will get her bracelets to the marketplace- what avenue she will take. She is fully aware there are many barriers that stands in her way. It's a lot, but Sarah is motivated; she wants this.

SWOT analysis: Analyze the country’s structural opportunities for a woman starting her own business. Factor some (if not all) the following systems/topics into your discussions: human development standing, human rights, and gender equality policies, education, economics, business infrastructure, technology, political stability.

Find out the Opportunity in SWOT analysis:

-Human Development Standing

-Human Rights

-Gender Equality Policies

-Education

-Economics

-Business Infrastructures

-Technology

-Political Stability

Explain the principles of liberalism. In what ways does it conflict with Nationalism? Socialism? Romanticism?

First, how does Thomas Hobbes view humanity? Why is his view so negative? Do you agree with his view? Why or why not? Next, what is the social contract theory? How does a society come out about as a result of said theory? Then, following this, how can ethics naturally come about as well. Finally, what do you ultimately believe is the origin of ethics? Is ethics an innate human trait that comes about while creating human societies? Or is it the result of of something else? Explain your reasoning.