The right to vote and hold office are civil disabilities that affect many felons, especially those who are minority and from impoverished communities. Do you believe that felons should be granted their right to vote upon parole? Determine any pros and cons to the issue? Should former inmates be granted the opportunity to seek an elected office? Is there a difference between them and those currently in office?

chapter 8: Human Development

Assignment: Developmental Psychology

Instructions:

1. Select an adult to study (someone who is a prominent person, singer/actor, politician, athlete, or someone in the news), I prefer president Donald Trump

2. Prepare a 700-1000 word paper in which assess the following issues:

   1. What family issues or support systems may have influenced this person's learning style and behaviors?
      
   2. Select two theories of learning and apply them to the person you selected to study
      
      1. How does each theory explain their behavior, ideas, and achievements?
         
      2. Why?
         
      3. Include in paragraph citations and references

Q1. what is the social contract theory?

Q2. How does a society come out about as a result of said theory?

Q3. 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.

Discuss why effective Team Management is crucial to the success of a Leader?

Do you believe in the legalization of drugs? All drugs or certain categories? Do you believe there would be an increase in the number of people reporting use? If DARE does not work, what intervention may work better?

2. What are the effects of technology on empathy? Do you agree with our author? Why/why not? What solutions can you offer/see, if any?

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?