Blake has developed a new measure of personality to assess what personality type people have. It is called the “Blockbuster Personality Type” measure. The measure includes images from the top ten most popular Hollywood movies in the last ten years and asks respondents to describe what is happening in the scenes. Responses are scored in terms of how consistent they are with the original movies, and how much respondents show empathy for the different characters in the scenes. As a result of this scoring, respondents are classified as either being either “active heroes”, “passive victims”, or “conniving villains”, reflecting the hidden desires and goals that they were born with.

Blake wants to encourage people to use the test for selection and recruitment in organisations around the world, so he collects information about the test’s reliability and validity. He asks his first-year psychology class to take the test at the start of semester and at the end of semester and compares their scores for a measure of reliability. To test validity, he uses scores on the test to predict how well his students do in their university studies.

Question: What are some of the issues with what Blake has done? How could he have designed and evaluated his test in a better way? For each issue you identify, explain why it is an issue and how it could be improved.

Provide 5 differences between Locke and Rousseau in how they define "state of nature"?

Reflect: Describe an aspect of your development that differs form a parent's or a grandparent's when he or she was your age. Using influences highlighted by the lifespan perspective, explain this difference in development.

Apply: A 4-year-old becomes frightened of the dark and refuses to go to sleep at night. How would a psychoanalyst and a behaviorist differ in their views of how this problem developed?

Review: Explain how each recent theoretical perspective: 1. Information processing, 2. Ethology and Evolutionary developmental psychology, 3. Vygotsky's sociocultural theory and 4. Ecological systems theory, regards children and adults as active contributions to their own development.

Practice listening for change talk (or sustain talk) during the week. Report on a conversation that best exemplifies change or sustain talk. These conversations can be ones you watch on a T.V. show, or in a podcast or movie, or have with friends, family members, classmates, or coworkers.

Briefly describe the situation and the statement (1 pt).  State if you think the statement was a change talk or sustain talk statement and why (2pts). If you identify a change talk statement say if you think it shows Desire, Ability, Reason, Need, or Commitment (DARN-C) (2pts).

Discuss the impact of gender inequality worldwide. Why do economic issues seem to work against the creation of egalitarianism between men and women?

Compare and contrast theories of Piaget and Vygotsky

How does Andrew Jackson represent both the promise and contradictions of freedom during this time period? Explain your reasoning.

2 Applications of Social Psych in Counseling/Clinical Issues GHA#4 Week 4 Name: ____________________________________ Date: ______________________ #1: Pick ONE of the compare/contrast questions and answer in 1-2 detailed paragraphs with supporting answers and citations. CLO1: Analyze: Students will draw connections among ideas by comparing and contrasting the scientific goals, definitions, methods, and concepts while demonstrating their skills in written communication, critical thinking, and information literacy. Compare and contrast these concepts: the social causes of anxiety and depression Compare and contrast these concepts: social phobia and loneliness Compare and contrast these concepts: anticipatory embarrassment and negative outcome expectations #2: Which theory discussed in the chapter was the best theory? Explain your answer with examples. You can also bring in additional background information. CLO2: Comprehend/Evaluate: Students will understand the value of theory and justify their decision for selecting the best social psychological theory covered across 10 application areas based on a set of criteria while demonstrating their skills in written communication, critical thinking, and information literacy. Review this link to help frame your decision: https://www.coursehero.com/file/p4l6k1r/5-criteria-of-evaluating-theories-Scope-Testability-Parsimony-Utility-Heurism-o/ #3 Cognitive biases and distortions: Speedy thinking and decision-making can be great but can also lead us into flawed thinking full of bias. Provide real examples of 2 biases and 2 distortions. CLO3: Apply: The student will use information in new situations while demonstrating their skills in written communication, critical thinking, and information literacy. Select two biases and provide a real-life situation or example that illustrates each understanding of each one. http://mentalfloss.com/article/68705/20-cognitive-biases-affect-your-decisions Select two distortions and provide a real-life situation or example: https://psychcentral.com/lib/15-common-cognitive-distortions/ #4. From Self-Awareness to Action: Diluting the distortions and biases. CLO4: Create: Students will produce new works or ideas by formulating practical solutions to social problems while demonstrating their skills in written communication, critical thinking, and information literacy. How would you address, limit, or combat the biases and distortions you discussed in #3. What safeguards, questions, and self-talk would you use to dilute the impact of these biases and distortions

For this discussion, you will create a scenario in which you are counseling a client, applying techniques from Reality theory. The details of the counseling session scenario are up to you; however, note that your client must come from a diverse social or cultural background. Write the script of your hypothetical counseling session. The script must have at least 20 responses—10 from the client and 10 from you as the counselor. Your responses must align with the philosophy and goals of Reality theory and with the multicultural contributions or strengths of Reality theory. Be sure that your interventions align with Reality theory of change, interventions, and its vision of client and counselor roles. You will present the following:

1) A brief introduction to the client scenario. The theory you are choosing to apply (REALITY) with a brief rationale for why it is appropriate for the client and his or her presenting problem.

2) Your script, which illustrates REALITY theory. A

3) Paragraph discussing how concepts you applied in the script related REALITY theory's key concepts, theory of change, interventions, and vision of client and counselor roles.

4) A paragraph discussing how your client's social or cultural background affected your application of your chosen approach.

Clinical Approach and Evaluation

Reality Therapy offers ways of setting the environment and follows procedures that lead to change. This process interrelates with choice theory in ascertaining the quality world pictures, needs, total behavior, and evaluation emanating from perceiving to what degree the person has matched their pictures to get he needs. Some questions may be: What do you want out of life? What do you want out of your relationship? What do you desire out of your friends? Out of work? Out of play? Out of power?

Wubbolding used and Reality Therapy and streamlined counseling procedures (Wubbolding, 2000). Fie provided the acronym WDEP which allows counselors not only to ground themselves in a coherent framework, but to expand into a myriad of questions within the process (Wubbolding, 2000). This process is intended for clinicians to follow a path within the counseling session. First they obtain what the client wants, what he is doing to achieve it. Then they help the client evaluate current behavior, and assess the plan. Within this framework, counseling comes to a quick close. This occurs because clinicians ignore past history, unconscious activity, and transference. They focus mainly on thinking and acting (hand and handle) aspects of total behavior. The Freudian concepts do not fit into this model because focusing on emotion and past history is fruitless except to elucidate the present and this is a decision made by the counselor. If reviewing the past only allows clients to relive painful experiences, then this would not be within the realm of reality therapy. Reality Therapy operates in the present moment with present relationships (Glasser, 1998).

Client evaluation, then, is based on client wants, their behaviors and their plan to achieve what they really want. The clinician listens to the client's story and gathers pertinent data; however, the clinician does not make a mental health diagnosis outright. That said, a diagnosis is ethically mandatory even if Choice Theorists disagree with the DSM. Fie stated that a pathological diagnosis is only necessary for insurance purposes (Glasser, 1998).