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Imagine you are in a long-term committed romantic relationship. How would you feel if your partner...

Imagine you are in a long-term committed romantic relationship. How would you feel if your partner made more money than you? How would you feel if you made more money than your partner? Imagine you two decide to have children. Who, if either of you, will stay home with the child? Could you imagine ever having a different arrangement?

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GMO's and GMF's....Is it most important to create a larger food supply even if it might...

GMO's and GMF's....Is it most important to create a larger food supply even if it might do more harm to humans than good?

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2. The Main Line HealthCare medical practice recently redid their new patient intake form to better...

2. The Main Line HealthCare medical practice recently redid their new patient intake form to better reflect a biopsychosocial approach to health care including increasing their cultural competence. Please indicate 6 questions on their new form that reflect this updated approach to health care, specifically, psychological, social, and culturally competent questions. Be sure to indicate at least 1 question that falls into each category (psychological, social, and culturally competent.

Extra Credit:
Please indicate one question (or box to check) that you feel is missing from this intake form that would make this form more reflective of a biopsychosocial/culturally competent approach to health care.

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Identify the phases of relationship deterioration and the communication patterns that accompany each stage of the...

Identify the phases of relationship deterioration and the communication patterns that accompany each stage of the relationship process. Relate this information to a personal experience of breaking up a friendship or a romance.

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in your own words 1. What is an organization, and what elements of an organization, per...

in your own words 1. What is an organization, and what elements of an organization, per Weber, are said to constitute a bureacracy? 2. What are the elements-and purposes-of the basic organizational structure of a police agency? Diagram these basic elements. 3. What is meant by the terms chain of command, unity of command, and span of control? 4. What are the differences between policies and procedures and between rules and regulations (and what are some examples of each)

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How can teachers create effective environments to encourage constructivist learning? What are some key attributes of...

How can teachers create effective environments to encourage constructivist learning?
What are some key attributes of effective learning environments? Think about tangibles such as technology and equipment as well as intangibles such as classroom rules and standards of behavior and expectations for student work and interactions. How can teachers assess the environments they create? What underlying structure(s) do you need in the classroom to accommodate the aspects of constructivist teaching and learning related to social interaction among students? Make sure to think about how you would aid your students in acquiring this skill.

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3.       Briefly describe the sequences of psychological and cognitive stages during childhood and how they relate to...

3.       Briefly describe the sequences of psychological and cognitive stages during childhood and how they relate to a child’s understanding of death.

4.       How does the adolescent sense of invulnerability relate to the concept of personal death?

5.       Identify and define three theoretical perspectives on socialization, and discuss how they apply to learning about death.

6.       What are some of the messages or themes communicated in lullabies?

7.       Why is sensitivity to other cultural groups important?

8.       How might cultural diversity increase anxiety about death related attitudes and behaviors?

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Identify three (3) specific personal examples of times when choice of language led to positive or...

Identify three (3) specific personal examples of times when choice of language led to positive or negative results in your own interpersonal relationships. For each situation, cite the person(s) involved, the place of the occurrence, the situation, and the language used. Then identify the type of language problem (equivocation, relative words, static evaluation, abstractions, etc.) and note the results of each incident. How did language play a pivotal role in these experiences? (Each example should illustrate a different type of language problem.)

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Which of the following poses the greatest challenge to traditional religion? ethical issues brought by science...

Which of the following poses the greatest challenge to traditional religion?

ethical issues brought by science and technology such as birth control, abortion, and the termination of adult life

violence in global strife

environmental degradation

THEY ALL CAN BE ARGUED BUT IM NOT SUR WHICH ONE HAS THE MOST EVIDENCE.

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A person who is deemed a psychopath would fall under a psychological theory or a biological...

A person who is deemed a psychopath would fall under a psychological theory or a biological theory? Why or why not? Explain your rationale. •Should this make a difference in the incarceration of this person? Why or why not? Explain

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four options delineated in relation to racial identity

four options delineated in relation to racial identity

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1. Discuss 3 Taking Tests success strategies that you will incorporate. How do you plan on...

1. Discuss 3 Taking Tests success strategies that you will incorporate.
How do you plan on implementing this information in school and in life situations?

2. What are some of the many ways that your values, actions, behaviors, and beliefs have been tested and evaluated in life?

3. Define what integrity means for you.

4. What do you see as the reason for the unique role of integrity within the academic community?

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Consider the following statements based on the work of Marie Curie: a. Impurities in pitchblende (an...

Consider the following statements based on the work of Marie Curie:

a. Impurities in pitchblende (an ore of uranium) are a sufficient condition for increase in strength of emitted rays.

b. Diluted pure uranium (i.e., uranium plus impurities in pitchblende) is a sufficient condition for increase in strength of rays

c. An unknown element was a sufficient condition for the increase in strength of rays.

Use statements a, b, and c to summarize Marie Curie’s thought process that led to the discovery of radium.

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1.) Which of the following statements about language development across cultures is supported by research? a....

1.) Which of the following statements about language development across cultures is supported by research?

a. Languages with a high ratio of vowels to consonants like Danish, impedes phonological development because it is harder to segment the speech stream.
b. Some languages are much easier for children to learn than others due to the simple form of the language, such as Cajun.
c. Comparisons of sign language to spoken language reveal big differences in the course of development.
d. Children from cultures that are more technologically oriented acquire a greater proportion of verbs in their early lexical development than do children from less advanced cultures.

2.)

Which of the following illustrates the concept of language socialization?

a. The differences in phonology of a language influence the rate of lexical development for that language.
b. U.S. mothers value talkative children whereas Japanese mothers do not.
c. U.S. children learn verbs later in lexical development than do Turkish children.
d. The meaning of a word varies as a function of the SES level of the child and other social factors.

3.

Jerry Fodor's concept of mentales assumes that language

a. and though become one process which is referred as this.
b. directed to the child by parents stimulates cognitive development.
c. determines how an individual is able to think about anything.
d. is just the process of learning to map words in the native language to innate units of thought.

4.

Which view on the relationship between language and cognition is supported by research that shows that children acquire words that encode concepts that they have either recently developed or in the process of developing?

a. Cognition depends on language abilities.
b. Language and cognition develop in tandem.
c. Language depends on cognitive development.
d. Language and cognition are independent.

5.

Which of the following findings would support Whorf's views on language?

a. Finding that children are most likely to learn words for objects they interact with.
b. Finding that children tend to map language onto concepts they hold their interest.
c. A language that contains more words for snow than another should be able to discriminate different types of snow better.
d. Finding that children, whose native language contains more regular verbs than another language, acquire verbs earlier in syntax development.

6.

Which of the following statements best characterizes Vygosky's view on the relationship between language and thought?

a. The specific set of values found in a culture is represented by the language of that culture.
b. Language is required to express all human needs and thoughts.
c. Categories of thought are determined or shaped by the individual's language.
d. Language is the tool used for thinking beyond those associated with basic thoughts.

7.

Why are number words used to test Whorf's ideas on the relationship between thought and language?

a. Only after children acquire a vocabulary for number terms are they capable of numeric reasoning about exact numbers greater than three.
b. It has been shown that numeric symbols and math operations with these symbols can only occur in cultures with number terms.
c. In those societies where there are more number terms, the children are able to solve math problems at an earlier age.
d. Humans can only represent exact quantities up to 10. To go past that requires language.

8.

Which of the following abilities seems to require language?

a. iconic thinking
b. analogical reasoning
c. representational thinking
d. color discrimination

9.

What issue pertaining to autobiographical memory has been found or used to support the importance of language in cognitive processes?

a. The finding that an individual's ability to remember details from their past is predicted by the level of vocabulary acquired.
b. Finding that "wild children" raised without exposure to language are unable to recall events from their past.
c. The finding that people with different languages have different types of childhood memories.
d. The theory supported by research that childhood amnesia is largely due to the child's lack of language which is needed to represent early experiences.

10.

What difference is predicted by the Whorfian hypothesis between people who speak of locations in an absolute coordinate system verses those who speak in a relative frame of reference language?

a. Those that speak with a relative frame of reference should have a less egocentric basis for locating object in a new setting.
b. Those with an absolute coordinate system do better in locating object when they are visible whereas those with a relative frame of reference do better when the objects are out of sight.
c. Those who speak with an absolute coordinate system should have a better sense of where they are than those who speak with a relative frame of reference.
d. Those with a relative frame of reference should be better at conveying the location of objects in conversations than those with an absolute coordinate system.

11.

What is assumed to be the hallmark of the development of theory of mind in children?

a. understanding of false belief
b. being able to converse with another child
c. understanding nonverbal communication
d. understanding a story told out of context

12.

Which of the following is not an explanation that has been forwarded to explain why language skill is related to tasks that assess theory of mind understanding?

a. Language provides the concepts that allow children to learn about these states.
b. Children who develop language at a faster rate are usually raised in a more nurturing environment that expresses more mental states openly.
c. It is due to the nature of the tasks which are easier to follow in children with more advanced language.
d. Both development of language and theory of mind are supported by conversational experiences.

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What is meant by the medicalization of illness? Why is it a concern? Have you or...

What is meant by the medicalization of illness? Why is it a concern? Have you or anyone you know experienced it?

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