Discussion Board - Unit 6, Lesson 1

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1) Discuss the purpose of academic standards? How do teachers use them to plan for instruction? What are your personal thoughts on how standards are used to plan and assess student learning?

2) What are some of the key benefits of using academic standards for planning? What are some of the arguments that critics have to say about academic standards? Explain using evidence from the text.

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discuss how Environmental Criminology Theories can be used to enhance law enforcement methods of linking crimes and understanding the spatial behavioral pattern of offenders.

List the disorders and features [criteria/description] :

anxiety related disorders

stress related disorders

emotion and mood disorders

eating disorders

schizophrenia

personality disorders

Ideal Foods is one of the largest biscuit manufacturers in the UK with brands such Jammie Dodgers and Wagon Wheels. In planning an off-site meeting for the finance team, the key was to keep motivation and energy levels high and to encourage more efficient team working across the group. Fresh Tracks put together a full day programme combining outdoor activities and energisers that integrated presentations from senior managers to reinforce some of the key messages from the conference. Our “Who’s in the Zoo?” session looked at the variety of characters that a team will usually comprise, whilst a treasure-hunt with photographic, collection and mental challenges got the teams up and out of their seats. Team tasks and problem-solving challenges based on co-operation and communication provided key learning points for the day, which concluded with a barbeque and prizes. Results: The day allowed individuals to find out a bit more about the dynamics of teams in general, as well as finding out about their own and others’ roles with a team in particular.

Questions

1. Summarize the case with the points of building internal and external team dynamics. State different activities required by an effective team as part of tem dynamics. (Long Answer)
2. State the importance of enhancing communication in the team from leader’s perspective. Explain which leadership theory will you apply in the above situation and elaborate the way you will manage the team based on the same theory. (Long Answer)

drugs produce psychological effects by chemical actions on neurons. what implications does this mechanism have for the traditional distinction between mind and body?

Psychology Chapter 8:

Let's talk movement Parkinson’s

disease is a progressive disorder that affects the dopamine-containing neurons in the substania nigra that control muscle movement. People with Parkinson’s experience trembling, muscle rigidity, difficulty walking and problems with balance. Parkinson’s disease usually develops after age 50 but a small number of younger people are also affected.

Parkinson’s Disease and Aging

The loss of dopamine containing cells in Parkinson’s disease is actually an extreme form of the natural loss of dopamine cells that occurs during normal aging. Debate whether this is an indication that the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease are a natural result of growing old or whether these symptoms occur when we get older because of environmental insults. Discuss what type of research studies would be necessary to separate these two ideas.

An Individual within late adulthood can have the chance to review and think about their experiences?

Why do you think this is important?

What is the effect upon the individual?

In essay form: Instructions Choose one of the models of abnormal behavior that you feel best explains abnormal behavior more comprehensively and why you feel the way you do. The Models of Abnormal Behavior in textbook discussed are the following from what I can tell: 1. Medical Model, 2. Psychodynamic Model, 3. Behavioral Model, 4. Humanistic Model, 5. Cognitive Model -- 6. Sociocultural model and 7. Biopsychosocial Model. I need to choose 1 and explain why and support it as most comprehensive.

How does critical thinking relate to peer assessment? What strategies can you apply when you assess Written Assignments?

Explain the concepts of internal validity and external validity and give examples. Thanks

Write a 2-3 page paper in which you summarize the strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development and Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory of development. Describe how cognitive and sociocultural development support language development. In your paper you should address: The strengths and weaknesses of Piaget’s theories. The strengths and weaknesses of Vygotsky’s theories. Identify the elements of each theory that you think are the strongest and/or the most problematic, and explain why you think so. How do cognitive and sociocultural development support language development? What should caregivers look for to confirm that a child is progressing in their language acquisition (ages 1-3)?

List and describe the five stages of group development and provide examples.

Identify the seven components of the communication process model, and briefly describe each by providing an example.