Topic: Childhood Disorders

Assignment:

1. Select one disorder reviewed in Ray Chapter 5: Attachment Disorder, Conduct

Disorder, Defiant Oppositional Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, or

Intellectual Developmental Disorder and summarize characteristics of the disorder

in terms of APA DSM-V diagnosis.

2. Find one recent (last 5 years) research article studying the cause and or

characteristics of the disorder and briefly summarize.

3. Find one recent (last 5 years) article (can be from popular press or scholarly

article) on treatment and briefly summarize primary approach advocated.

4. Conclude with critical discussion of the research and treatment articles selected.

Common wisdom tells us, “Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps”—that is, work hard, earn an education, and you will attain wealth and success. Use your sociological imagination and the theories from this chapter to challenge or support common wisdom.

Has mandatory sentencing laws reduced drug use and abuse? What has been the ultimate impact of these laws on society as whole? How is are mandatory minimum sentencing laws directly related to our current explosion in our prison population? When did private prisons begin to appear in our criminal justice system? How has the private prison corporations benefited from the war on drugs? What impact would more lenient drug laws have on our country’s prison population What impact would it have on the bottom dollar of the private prisons?

What did you think of the issues surrounding mandatory minimum sentencing laws? How did we get here? Are they necessary? Is the intended reason for implementation working? Has society overall benefited from them? Are we safer today because of them? How has these laws led to an overcrowded court system? Do some research. When did the use of plea bargains by our state and federal court systems, begin to see an increase of use? What is the correlation of this increase to the war on drugs and the implementation of the mandatory minimum sentencing laws. What role has the War on Drugs played in implementing mandatory minimum sentencing laws?

Can Artificial Intelligence therapy robots reduce ADHD symptoms?

We have all heard about MIT professor Dr. Rosalind Picard's pioneering work on artificial intelligence and autistic kids, but no one has applied her research to kids with ADHD. Can AI robots play the role of therapy dogs and reduce the symptoms of ADHD? Or is this project a waste of time and that is why no one has looked into this so far?

Please cite your sources and give credit to people if you use articles from the New York Times or from a science journal, etc.

IN YOUR OWN TERMS:

Based on the principles laid out Try to briefly describe a social issue, like public transportation or immigration, discrimination in the workplace or the cost of college, in a way that takes into consideration both the order and conflict views.

When clients have a history of criminal activity, in many circumstances counselors and therapists are bound to keep that history confidential. A client who reveals to a licensed psychologist that she robbed a liquor store last week, for example, probably has a right to have that information kept confidential unless she injured a child or elder or otherwise acted in ways that come under the mandated reporting laws. How do you feel about keeping such information confidential?

How would you explain the relationship between one's culture and one's identity? What does it mean/look like to have a “Christian” identity?

In Brown-Peterson Task lab, Do you or anyone you know like to study with the television or the radio on? Now that you have done this experiment, what do you think about this practice? Explain Discussion Question 1. Other than the explanation given in the question, what else could have explained the data?

• Describe the selection process and stressors of police officers

What types of research projects can you think about the field of Cognitive Science (Cognitive Psychology and Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence)?

Can you think of 10 research projects that are Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning research projects? Please include many details such as the name of the professor and the name of the university where the research project is being conducted.

Many organizations look for ways to promote diversity through family-friendly policies. Using the online library, your textbook, or the web, look for a company that is incorporating family-friendly policies into their human resource management strategy (motivating, disciplining, managing conflict, staffing, and training). Your initial post should answer the following questions:

1. What is the name company? List the company’s website.
2. What are its policies?
3. How do these policies attract and keep workers?
4. Do these policies interest you? Why?
5. How might they make their policies more attractive to workers?

• Describe the different theories of crime and the categories in which they fall

Describe some sociological, biological and social psychological theories of crime