Choice two personality theories from the list below and explain the distress of the person described in the case study. Feel free to indicate whether you feel that need more information and what questions would you ask the person described in the case study to flesh out his description. (this assignment should be at least 400 words)

Freudian

Jungian

Adlerian

Horney’s Theory

“Big Five” Trait Theory

Jerry is a 30-year-old male and is the youngest of three sons. He grew up in a suburb of

Chicago and lives 10 miles from his childhood home. He recalls his early family life as unhappy.

He perceived his parents’ marriage as miserable and unfulfilling. He recalls that his father

(who died two years ago) never approved of his interests and that his mother was unhappy

and would frequently complain about the fact that she had no female children.

Jerry has just been laid off from his job working for an innovative software company. Recently,

he has been doing some freelance work in programming, but he is barely making ends meet.

He has been in a serious and exclusive relationship for the past six months with a female coworker,

who has not yet been laid off from the software firm. Lately he has been avoiding

spending time with her, as she has been complaining about his irritability and negativism

about his future job prospects.

Jerry notices that he is having some trouble controlling his drinking, especially when he is

alone at the end of the day. This problem has been of such magnitude that he is considering

seeking counseling related to his substance use.

Address one of the following questions with a 200 word post.

1. What is causal determinism? Provide some examples of objects that are causally determined.

2. Explain the relation between fatalism and causal determinism.

3. Assuming causal determinism is true, does it follow that we cannot hold people responsible for their actions? Why of Why not?

4. Provide and example of an action which is entirely uncaused. Would this uncaused action be free?

5. Provide an example of a person who is free because they have a second order belief or desire.

Explain why a person would suspend disbelief for a time. Some may say that suspending disbelief for a time can also lead to issues with differentiating fantasy from reality. Explain the difference between suspension of reality and having problems separating out fantasy from reality.

In this lesson we discussed the value life-long learning. What are the two key reasons you believe in this philosophy? Explain how you plan to use life-long learning to learn something new, fun and exciting (that is not directly associated with your career or financial goals)?

Answer one of the following questions (minimum 200 words).  

1. Why does Descates worry that everything everyone has ever believed anout anything important (in science, religion, politics, ethics) has turned out to be false? Should we worry about this?

2. Does Descartes prove that he exisits as a thinking being? Evaluate the cogito argument.

3. Is there any way to know (with certainty) that you are not dreaming or the victim of a matix like situation? If so say where you think Descartes' argument goes wrong.

4. Discuss one of the problems with Descartes dualism (e.g. the problem of other minds, psycho-physical causation).

Did Great Britain lose more than it gained from the victory in the French and Indian War

History :

1) The Roman Peace represented the pinnacle of ancient empires. How dependent was the Empire on the rule of the emperors?

2) The rise of organized Christianity coincided with the decline of Roman Empire in the Third Century AD. What one specific thing contributed the most to this change?

• What is a victim-impact statement?
• Do you think victim-impact statements should be admissible at the sentencing stage of criminal trials? If so, what information should they contain, and what should be omitted? How can the information in victim-impact statements be verified?
• What individual rights (of the victim or the accused) might be supported or harmed by victim-impact statements?
• Advocates of victim-impact statements argue that some victims have a greater inherent worth than others when measured in terms of social harm. Do you agree or disagree?
• Considering the goals of sentencing, would victim-impact statements affect one kind of sentence as compared to another? Explain.

which quotation from Jefferson's "Notes from on the State of Virginia" best sums up his basic vision for America?

This week, we covered the challenges that criminal justice agencies incur when developing or advancing technology. As you reflect on these topics, describe how the justice administrator can overcome the challenges of acquiring and implementing new technology and analyze how justice administrators can effectively utilize the Internet to accomplish their missions. Also, describe how you think it can affect your personal or professional life.

Your response should be at least 150 words. Please write in complete sentences and in your own words. As always, double-check your spelling and grammar

Growth and Development Assessment Project Guidelines: Choose a person you know well and complete a developmental summary across the life span for this person. You can choose a person from any of the developmental stages. Determine the individual’s current stage of development: physically, cognitively, and socially and compare your findings to the developmental norms from textbooks and databases. This critique needs to be a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 5 pages. Be sure that you utilize various theories and apply these to the growth and development of your chosen person. Objectives: Determine an individual's current stage of development according to textbook information and a selected theorists. Compare the individual's behavior, growth, and development to the textbook description and selected theorists. Identify unmet or uncompleted tasks of the individual's current stage of development. Design a plan to assist the individual to achieve the tasks of his/her stage of development and future remaining stages. Learning Activities: Select an individual to be observed/interviewed. Arrange an appropriate time and place for the observation/interview. Review lecture and readings on relevant stages of development. Observe individual's physical, cognitive, and psychosocial growth and development. Discuss with the individual or the parent of the individual specific issues relevant to his/her stage of development. Prepare report (4-5 pages of content) to include the following: Include a brief overview of biographical data: ex. age, sex, family structure, living arrangements, occupation. Theoretical description of individual's stage of development. Observations of individual's physical and psychosocial growth and development. Compare findings to textbook and data base developmental norms. State which developmental tasks are met/unmet; providing evidence based on comparison of observations to theoretical description. Identify measures to assist or maintain the individual's effort to accomplish age-appropriate tasks.

How do we separate anxious or superstitious thoughts and behaviors from obsessions and compulsions?

compare and contrast one programmed decision and one non program decision that you have made in your personal or professional life. base your comparision on the 8 stage decison making process (identification of a problem, identification of desision critera, allocation of weights to criteria, development of alternatives, anaylisis of alternatives, selection of an alternative, implecation of the alternative, and evaluation of decision effectiveness). in the comparision, clearly identify the specific caracteristics such as risks, uncertainty, bounded rationality, b iases etc of the two desions and the influence that the charateristics had on your desion making. essay format