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Describe where Broca’s area and Wernicke’s areas are located in the brain. Compare and contrast the...

Describe where Broca’s area and Wernicke’s areas are located in the brain. Compare and contrast the types of language impairments that are expressed when there is damage in each of these areas.

Explain the two types of conditioned learning processes and then apply operant conditioning techniques to show how a teacher could use them in the classroom to ensure students were behaving appropriately.

Define altruism and empathy and describe the role that the brain plays in these helping behaviors.

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To complete each assignment, you will need to read the case study. Assume that the client...

To complete each assignment, you will need to read the case study. Assume that the client described in each case study meets criteria for a DSM-5 disorder. You will then consult the DSM-5 criteria and write 1-2 detailed paragraphs in which you assign a primary diagnosis for the client and justify that diagnosis. In this section you should reference EACH of the DSM-5 criteria for the diagnosis you are assigning and provide evidence from the case study for or against the presence of that criterion. If you have no information for a particular criterion you should specify this. For example, if the DSM-5 criteria specify that the symptoms cannot be accounted for by a medical condition and you have no evidence that the client has a medical condition that would explain their symptoms, you should state this. Next, write a paragraph in which you provide an example of at least one related diagnosis that you are ruling out based on the information you have. This is a process called “differential diagnosis.” As you know, the categories provided in the DSM-5 do not represent “true” categories in nature, and often clients will often have symptoms in multiple categories. As a clinician, you need to rule out other categories or explanations for the symptoms. For example, if someone is experiencing panic attacks in the wake of a traumatic event, you might consider the diagnoses of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Stress Disorder, or Panic Disorder. The DSM-5 criteria will help you figure out which is the most appropriate diagnosis, and you should specify why you are ruling out another disorder, providing specific justification for ruling it out. The best disorders to rule out are those that share features or symptoms described in the case but are not the best diagnosis for the client. Finally, you will write one paragraph in which you may specify the use of a psychosocial treatment, a psychoactive medication, or both. You must briefly describe how this treatment works and you must justify your choice of treatment based on the research evidence for the efficacy of the treatment.

Case Study #1

Linda is a 36-year old, Afro-Latina, married insurance executive living in the Northeast United States. She has been experiencing symptoms of anxiety since she was in high school, but they have recently become much worse after the birth of her second child, a son, 4 months ago, prompting her to seek treatment. She says that for the last 4 months she has felt keyed up, anxious, and “on alert” almost constantly. She has difficulty sleeping, significantly diminished concentration, and is irritable. In addition, several times a day she has “attacks” that involve involve “full terror.” The episodes last for about 10-15 minutes each, and usually involve profuse sweating, muscle tension, increased heart rate, feelings of dizziness, trembling, intense fear, and crying. When asked what triggers these episodes, Linda says that they usually occur when she is at home alone with her infant son or when she has memories of his delivery, during which she suffered a rare complication (she learned after delivering that both she and her baby could have died during the delivery). She tries very hard not to think about the delivery, but images and memories of it pop into her head frequently. In addition to these episodes of “terror,” Linda says that since her son’s birth she feels worthless, ashamed, and guilty for not “bringing him into a safe world.” She also states that she feels sad much of the time, and is detached from her son (she does not feel she has bonded well with him). Linda has started to sometimes call out sick from work when she has the sense that she is “having a bad day” and might have an episode, and she says she is increasingly withdrawing from her son because she finds that being with him triggers her anxiety. She says that she feels “utterly alone” and avoids hanging out with other mothers of infants because she finds they cannot relate to her experiences. Linda does not use any substances or have any medical conditions that could explain these episodes.

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Learning disabilities are often thought of as school problems. Explain how the same underlying disorder (e.g.,...

Learning disabilities are often thought of as school problems. Explain how the same underlying disorder (e.g., dyslexia) can exist both in preschool years and again after the child is in school but often not be diagnosed until as late as the third grade. (The distinctions between disorder and disability should be useful here.)

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Identify an ethical challenge for each element (a-d) of Dr Lux advertising plan. Which General Principles...

Identify an ethical challenge for each element (a-d) of Dr Lux advertising plan. Which General Principles and Ethical Code Standards best help understand why these elements may create ethical problems? Explain why.

Case 5. Web-Based Advertising. Dr. Lux, an applied developmental psycholgoist, has created his own community consulation and program evaluation business. He specializes in helping communities and service organizations set up day car programs for children aged 1 to 3 years. He wants to advertise his services on the Internet and is beginning to develop the following plan:

A) To gain maximum exposure on search engines like Google, he will name the website "SuccessfulDayCarePrograms.org"

B) As a service to potential community clients, he will put links on his website to other online information about infant mental health and social and legal services available in different communities where he might fins clients.

C) He is currently under contract with a city agency. He helped the agency design a day care origram for children of employees and is now in the process of evaluating its first year of implementation. He would like to ask a few parents whose children go to the day care program to endorse his new consulation service. He would use a picture of the parent and place the endorsement in quotes under the picture.

D) The website will include a question-and-answer blog. Individuals can post qestions to the blog about their preschool child's development (e.G., toilet training, language development, social development, etc), and he will post answers.

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is the roe v wade a settle law using stare decisis

is the roe v wade a settle law using stare decisis

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Groups are one of the forms making up social structure. ALL BUT which of the following...

Groups are one of the forms making up social structure. ALL BUT which of the following are ways that primary groups differ from secondary groups?

primary groups are more intimate

secondary groups are more instrumental

primary groups are larger

primary groups are more greedy

secondary groups are more short-term

Elizabeth Bliss comes from a wealthy family. She attended all of the right schools and an Ivy League college. Now she has fallen in love with Mike Smith, the family’s gardener. Elizabeth’s father forbids her to marry Mike. Clearly, Mr. Bliss is a believer in

endogamy

exogamy

monogamy

ritual pollution

prejudice

Unemployment is not necessary under capitalism.

True

False

One of the thematic elements of this course:

If you are determined enough, you can achieve whatever you want in life

If you are disadvantaged, you just need to work hard to change your situation

We are always part of entities larger than ourselves

Social forces produce individuals who are all entirely products of their environment. There is no such thing as individuality.

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Marsha is 16 years old and lives with her two sisters (Jan & Cindy), her mother...

Marsha is 16 years old and lives with her two sisters (Jan & Cindy), her mother (Carol), her step-father (Mike), and her three step-brothers (Greg, Peter & Bobby) in Southern California. Her nose was broken when she went to the back to door to tell her brothers that dinner was ready. An errant throw resulted in her getting hit in the face with a football. She was taken to the hospital where she was treated and a bandage was placed on her nose. She was told that she would be just as beautiful as before once her nose healed, yet when the bandage was removed Marsha screamed in horror. To everyone else her nose looked fine, but Marsha saw it as disfigured and disgusting. “I’ll never get the part of Juliet in the school play now!” she sobbed, “and there’s no way that Davey Jones will ever consider singing at our school dance once he sees my ugly nose!” Marsha stopped going out, except to go to the store to get beauty cream for her nose. She wouldn’t even go to school. Her parents didn’t know what to do. They asked the other kids in the family to tell Marsha how beautiful she is, hoping that the encouragement would help her.

            “It’s always ‘Marsha Marsha Marsha’!” thought Jan, “everyone treats her like she’s so beautiful and so wonderful, and they treat me like dirt!” Jan decided the best way to get people to treat her like they treated Marsha was to become beautiful, which to Jan meant she had to lose weight. Though she felt her parents were very controlling, she believed she could at least control whether or not she ate. By the time they noticed Jan wasn’t eating, she had lost a considerable amount of weight.    

            “It doesn’t feel right, Mrs. Brady,” said Alice, the family’s house-keeper, “with Marsha and Jan being so troubled, I don’t think I can enjoy going to The Meat Chopper’s Ball with Sam.” Sam is the local butcher who has been dating Alice for many years. The phone rings and Carol picks up the receiver. “Alice – it’s Sam,” she says as she hands the phone to her. Carol watches as Alice becomes more and more upset as she talks with Sam. “It looks like I don’t have to worry about the ball after all,” said Alice as she hung up the phone, “Sam just broke up with me.” Carol tries to console Alice and suggests that maybe she should take a walk. Alice agrees and puts on her jacket and leaves. Alice never returns. Mike and Carol contact the police and wide-spread manhunt finds nothing. Alice had just disappeared.

            So now things have gone from bad to worse for Carol. On top of everything else, she now finds herself as a stay-at-home mom who actually has to do housework! She is able to manage for a week or so, but then the work just seems to be piling up.   One day when Mike gets home late, she yells, “What took you so long?!? I could use some help around here!” “Honey,” replies Mike, “you know I always get my hair permed on Wednesday night.”   “You’re leaving me to do this while you get your hair done?!?” cries Carol as she collapses onto the sofa. “Carol, what’s wrong? Why are you so stressed?” asks Mike. “Why am I so stressed? Do you know how much work it is to take care of this family? The cooking! The cleaning! The laundry! And on top of that, Marsha thinks she’s ugly and Jan won’t eat!” Mike then decides that all of the family’s problems could be solved if they went on vacation. The next day he makes arrangements for them to go to Hawaii.

            Once they get to Hawaii, Mike suggests they go to the beach. Jan refuses to put on a swimsuit because she believes she is so disgustingly fat. Marsha says, “I could go naked and no one would notice – they’d all be staring at my hideously ugly nose!” So they decided to go for a walk and look for something fun to do.   As they turned the corner they see a sign for Pirate Pauline’s boat tour of the island, and they all decide that a tour would be nice. When they get to Pirate Pauline’s, they see Alice dressed like a sailor and smoking a cigarette. “Alice!! It’s you!!” they yell and they run hug her. “Back off!!” screams Alice, “me name is Pirate Pauline and I sails the salty sea! Argh!” “Well, um, Pauline,” says Carol, “You look just like our old house-keeper, Alice.” “House-keeper! Shiver me timbers!” exclaims Alice, “would a house-keeper have this?” Alice rolls up her sleeve to reveal a tattoo of the skull and crossbones with the phrase, “Momma Didn’t Love Me” tattooed underneath. Little Cindy begins to cry, “Oh Alice, we miss you! Don’t you remember us?” Alice pauses, looks reflectively toward the sky and rubs her chin. She then bends over to look Cindy in the eye as she removes a knife from her pocket. “If yous call me Alice once again I’ll cut out yer spleen!” she threatens. The whole bunch screams as they run back to the hotel. Once they have caught their breath Mike says, “Maybe we should have gone to the Grand Canyon!”   

  1. Can Marsha be diagnosed with a disorder? (Explain why or why not) If yes, which disorder? (Be sure to justify your diagnosis)
  2. Can Jan be diagnosed with a disorder? (Explain why or why not) If yes, which disorder? (Be sure to justify your diagnosis)
  3. Can Carol be diagnosed with a disorder? (Explain why or why not) If yes, which disorder? (Be sure to justify your diagnosis)
  4. Can Alice be diagnosed with a disorder? (Explain why or why not) If yes, which disorder? (Be sure to justify your diagnosis)

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Male mammals have more circulating testosterone than they do circulating estrogens; however, the brain is “masculinized”...

Male mammals have more circulating testosterone than they do circulating estrogens; however, the brain is “masculinized” by estradiol (an estrogen). Briefly describe how this takes place, and why female brains aren’t masculinized.

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Explain the term life expectancy .why do you think life expectancy of women is much longer...

Explain the term life expectancy .why do you think life expectancy of women is much longer than man?
Use own words please and thank you!

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In Mary Pardo’s “Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles” the author links the social networks...

In Mary Pardo’s “Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles” the author links the social networks of women and their _______-based responsibilities to political resources.

Gender

ethnic

age

education

You are reading the alumni newsletter from Elite University (a very prestigious institution). In the newsletter it is mentioned that children of “generous” alumni (i.e., those who contribute large amounts of money) are guaranteed admission to the institution, regardless of their grades. Interestingly, you note from the pictures of generous alums that they are all white. You conclude that this suggests a case of

stereotyping

prejudicial treatment

individual discrimination

institutional discrimination

good financial management

Taylorization, which McDonald’s is based upon, is solely for the purpose of efficiency. It has nothing to do with management exercising control over workers.

True

False

In Thompson’s “Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line,” the author spent time working on the kill floor and discovered all but what?

that working faster than the line speed allowed the workers a form of symbolic control

working conditions were humane for the workers

the better pay compared to other options tended to become a financial trap for those who had originally intended to move on

that buying various gadgets/toys gave workers some compensation for the bad working conditions

getting sick and/or injured was very common but workers tended to cope by concluding that someone who got seriously hurt or killed must have been sloppy

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With a well-labeled diagram or two, what are the stages of sleep and dreaming we pass...

With a well-labeled diagram or two, what are the stages of sleep and dreaming we pass through each night? Next, indicate how this overall pattern changes as one ages.

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First, describe the major brain mechanisms of eating, thirst, and hunger. Second, choose an eating disorder...

First, describe the major brain mechanisms of eating, thirst, and hunger. Second, choose an eating disorder (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, or binge-eating) and present a case describing the person (age, gender, student/job status) and the symptoms and behaviors he/she is exhibiting. Then explain how he/she ignores the cues his/her body is giving to maintain homeostasis.

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Describe the process of gender socialization and how we are influenced by gender expectations. What are...

Describe the process of gender socialization and how we are influenced by gender expectations. What are the costs of gender conformity for men and women? Please give examples to support your answers.

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Read the article and give answer of 3 question which are given below Religion Versus the...

Read the article and give answer of 3 question which are given below

Religion Versus the Charter: Canada’s commitment to multiculturalism is being tested in new and unexpected ways

By Janice Gross Stein

University of Toronto Magazine

Winter 2007

  1. Canadians are proudly multicultural. Along with publicly funded health care, multiculturalism has become part of the sticky stuff of Canadian identity. Section 27 of the constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, provides that the charter “shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians.”
  2. Canada is unique among western democracies in its constitutional commitment to multiculturalism – a commitment that has worked extraordinarily well in practice. In our large cities, many cultures live peacefully with one another. One need only watch World Cup soccer in Toronto to testify to the city’s cultural diversity. Bystanders are welcomed and invited to join Ghanaians, French, Italians, Portuguese and Koreans, who take to the streets to wave flags in celebration. At its best, multiculturalism in Canada is inclusive, rather than exclusionary.
  3. Despite extraordinary successes, the Canadian commitment to multiculturalism is being tested in unexpected ways. A resurgence of orthodoxy in Christianity, Islam and Judaism is sharpening lines of division between “them” and “us.” Canadians are uncertain about what limits, if any, there are to embedding diverse religious as well as cultural traditions within the Canadian context. We know pretty well what the “multi” in multicultural means, but are much less confident about “culture.” Does culture in Canada mean just a respect for pluralism and difference? Or, is there more? Have we produced a broader set of shared values that must, at some point, bump up against the diversity and difference that we celebrate as an important part of who we are?
  4. There is a sniff of smugness in our celebration of our successes as a multicultural society. That smugness, a culturally sanctioned political correctness, is becoming less acceptable as real divisions creep into the debate about cultural and religious difference. How far can respect for difference go? When does it constrain freedom of expression? That issue boiled over when a Danish newspaper published cartoons that Muslims considered defamatory. Anti-Semitic cartoons have provoked similar debates. Does freedom of expression permit one group to insult and stereotype another? And when does stereotyping subtly become incitement to hatred?
  5. These questions are not important if multiculturalism is largely restricted to the celebration of song, dance, literature, language and food. It is this kind of celebration that is the stuff of the official multiculturalism policy in Canada’s large cities. On one July afternoon in Toronto, for example, residents could choose between the Corso Italia Toronto Fiesta and Afrofest.
  6. We are on far more difficult terrain when we ask more serious questions about traditions of the church – and synagogue and mosque – and the state. How committed are we in Canada to the secularization of public space? Do we welcome multiple religious symbols in public squares in December or do we ban them all? How far can religious practice and celebration extend into public space? To what extent will the state, in the service of the freedom of religion, continue to allow churches, synagogues and mosques to uphold policies that have an impact on the fundamental rights of Canadians? And can public officials refuse to perform certain duties because of private religious beliefs? To the surprise of many Canadians who come from quite different ends of the political spectrum, the relationship between equality rights and the right to freedom of religion is now on the public agenda.
  7. *In Canada, we would not think of enforcing restrictions against Hebrew skullcaps, Christian crosses or Muslim hijabs in our public schools. On the contrary, we celebrate almost everyone’s religious and national holidays. Where we are reluctant to go, however, is the conflict between the universal human rights that we treasure and different religious and cultural traditions. One obvious fault line – one that we tiptoe around – is the rights of women in different religious and cultural traditions in our midst.

(FYI *Recently in Quebec the passage of Bill 62 disallows face coverings when giving/receiving a public service and during protests.)

  1. Women in Canada are guaranteed equal treatment and an equal voice in the determination of our shared vision of the common good. We respect rights and we respect diversity, but at times the two compete. How do we mediate these disputes? What to do about private religious schools, for example, that meet government criteria by teaching the official curriculum but segregate women in separate classrooms? Should universities make space available to student groups that segregate women in worship? The University of Toronto allows religious organizations to determine how they use the space they are given for prayer. Currently, Jewish and Islamic services separate men from women in religious services held on campus. McGill University in Montreal, by contrast, maintains that as a non-denominational university, it is not obligated to provide prayer space for any religious group.
  2. These questions are not abstract, but very personal to me. When I challenged my rabbi recently about his long-standing refusal to give women in my congregation the right to participate fully and equally in religious services, he argued: “I have not taken the position of ‘separate but equal,’ although I believe that a case can be made for this perspective. I have not argued for a fully egalitarian expression of Judaism, although I believe that a case can be made for this perspective. Instead, I have pressed for increased inclusion.”
  3. Indeed, under his leadership our congregation now permits a greater degree of involvement for women in daily services, in public readings and in leading parts of the liturgy. These are far more than cosmetic changes, but to me, as significant as these changes are, they are not enough. Women are still not counted as part of the 10 people who must be present before prayers can begin. Only men count. I have had the extraordinary experience of sitting in a chapel and watching the leader of prayers count the men in the room, his eyes sliding over me as he counted. For all intents and purposes, not only did I not count, I was invisible.
  4. Contrary to my rabbi, I do not think that any argument at all can be made for separate but equal treatment. This kind of argument has a long and inglorious history of discrimination that systematically disadvantages some part of a community. Nor is it obvious why greater inclusion should be capped short of full status, where women count as equals in constituting a prayer group. What principle is at work here? Even though the charter strictly applies only to public space, I take its spirit and its values seriously.
  5. My religious obligation clashes openly and directly with values that I hold deeply as a Canadian. Fortunately, there are Jewish congregations in Toronto that are fully egalitarian. My cultural and religious community is sufficiently pluralistic that I can choose among a wide variety of options. A resolution of my personal dilemma is available to me – I can vote with my feet – but the issue is public as well as private.
  6. These religious institutions that systemically discriminate against women are recognized, at least implicitly, by governments. They enjoy special tax privileges given to them by governments. Religious institutions do not pay property tax and most receive charitable status from the federal government. If religious institutions, for example, are able to raise funds more easily because governments give a tax benefit to those who contribute, are religious practices wholly private even when they benefit from the public purse? Are discriminatory religious practices against women a matter only for religious law, as is currently the case under Canadian law which protects freedom of religion as a charter right? Or should the equality rights of the charter have some application when religious institutions are officially recognized and advantaged in fundraising? Does it matter that the Catholic Church, which has special entitlements given to it by the state and benefits from its charitable tax status, refuses to ordain women as priests?
  7. How can we in Canada, in the name of religious freedom, continue furtively and silently to sanction discriminatory practices? I have deliberately chosen a personal issue – the issue of women’s participation in religious services in my own synagogue – to open up this difficult discussion of the desirable balance between the right to freedom of religion and other charter rights. Some would urge silence and patience until a new social consensus emerges, until we rebalance. Opening difficult conversations too early can fracture communities, inflict deep wounds and do irreversible damage to those who are most open to experimentation. In my own congregation, I have been counselled for the last five years to be patient. Give it time, I’m told, and the synagogue will become fully egalitarian.
  8. I find it hard to be patient into the indefinite future, with no commitments from my religious leadership. I worry that change will stall unless we keep a civil but difficult conversation going. There is no question that there is a conflict between equality rights, on the one hand, and the right to freedom of religion, on the other. The law recognizes that conflict, but we need to ask hard questions about the appropriate balance. If I am expected to be patient, almost endlessly patient, then religious leaders must be cognizant of the responsibilities of their organizations that receive charitable status and public benefit to engage with Canadian culture as it is expressed in our most fundamental laws.

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and director of the Munk Centre for International Studies. This article is adapted from a longer essay about multiculturalism that appeared in the September issue of the Literary Review of Canada.

Questions

  1. Paragraph 6: What is now on the public agenda.
  2. Paragraph 7: What is there a conflict between? What is the ‘fault line’ that we tiptoe around?
  3. Paragraphs 8 and 13: Stein notes in Paragraph 11 that the Charter only strictly applies to public space. However, these issues are now spilling out into other spaces such as private religious schools, universities, and churches. Yet, she argues that the Charter actually does apply to private religious schools, universities, and churches. Summarize how Ms. Stein explains the conflicts that are arising in these each of these ‘private’ spaces.

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1) Criminal Justice in the United States is described as a Constitutional balancing act of ____________________...

1) Criminal Justice in the United States is described as a Constitutional balancing act of ____________________ and________________________.

a) When the Federal Government was established, what were the first two federal law enforcement agencies that establish?

b) What does the constitutional " safety net"' guarantee in the 14th Amendment, do for an individual against the power and resources of the government in a criminal prosecution?

c) The court's authority to make decisions regarding the legality of action by the other 2 branches of the government is through the power of _____________________.

d) Name 2 concepts the Magna Carta gave to the U.S. criminal justice system?

e) What are the two conditions that must be met by a defendant in order to be found " Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity?

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