Category: Psychology

this is the topic that I would like to do for the paper * The role of play in learning and development

****this assignment has 2 parts a powerpoint 1 slide and an infographic (1 page) ***
****the course is educational psychology ****
PART 1
First Step: Determine your audience
You get to determine who I am as a student. (e.g. I can be a 2 y/o in your pre-school class, a 13 y/o in your 8th grade class, a college student, an 8 y/o old student with with autism, etc….you get to create my student profile). Be detailed! 10pts
Second Step: Determine your content
You decide what you would like for me to learn (e.g. maybe you want me to know multiplication tables, or how to interact with diverse students, or ways to understand the branches of government, or a topic you have learned in this class…you pick). 15pts
Third Step: Determine your instructional method
You determine how I might best learn what you hope to teach me based on what you now know about how I learn. This means you will likely consider:
-developmental considerations (each chapter had a nice chart with developmental trends that should be helpful)
-theoretical approaches (e.g. Piaget, Vygotsky, Erikson, Kholberg)
-instructional strategies & approach
Explain your thought process behind the instructional method you select and what factors you took in to consideration. 25pts
PART 2
Part Two of your Final Assessment will give you a chance to highlight something you learned by creating your own infographic. You can choose to highlight a particular chapter, you could choose one topic we covered that is of interest, or a combination of topics/chapters. 
Infographics are visual representations of information. They can include numbers, text, images, or any combination of the three. Infographics provide authors with a quick way to convey a lot of information and readers with a quick way (and engaging) way to consume the information. 

For this assignment, you will think of a research question you have that is related to drugs and how they impact human behavior. 
Think of questions that you may have thought of while reading material or watching videos in this course. You can choose a topic that focuses on something you may still want to learn more about.
Here are some examples of topics:
How legalization of cannabis impacts use patterns in society.
The relationship between substance use and mental illness.
The role of peer pressure and socialization in substance use.
Psychological factors that lead to relapse after treatment.
How substance use impacts cognitive functioning (focus on a specific substance).
The relationship between substance use and homelessness.
The beneficial uses and harmful effects of … (specific substance).
How specific substances can be beneficial to treating mental illness.
Research Paper (50 points)
Each student will choose a topic to research related to Drugs and Behavior and submit a research paper.
Assignment is to be 5-6 pages typed (not including cover page, images, or reference page), double spaced and one inch margins.
Written in Times New Roman 12 pt font.
Paper must be in APA format – cite your sources in your writing (in-text citations) as well as on the Reference page (refer to APA resources below).
Use at least 3 credible sources google scholor
All papers MUST be written in your own words (not copied and pasted from sources).
Sample APA Research Paper.pdfDownload Sample APA Research Paper.pdf
In-text citations are highlighted in yellow and the reference page is highlighted in blue.
APA Format Resources  Your research paper must include BOTH.
In-Text Citations: You MUST cite your sources as you include information from them in your writing. This is included at the end of the sentence (in abbreviated form) that includes information from the source used. 
Reference Page Citations: You MUST provide a Reference Page as the last page of your research paper where you include the full citations of all your sources used for your paper. 

Personal Reflection 
Discuss and reflect on the main points and messages your are taking home from this course and how your perspective of integrative mental health has changed and/or grown.
Personal Reflection Overview
The purpose of these assignments is to use journaling as a method to examine personal experience as it relates to being a student of integrative mental health. Reflective journaling allows you to review your own experiences, explore vulnerable areas, analyze your actions, thoughts, feelings, questions and discover learning needs. 

Use the Literacy-Rich Environments Checklist, linked above, as you search around the internet for many pictures of preschool classrooms (or even preschool outdoor spaces). Check off the boxes in the checklist or just keep notes as you find or don’t find items.   
Then write a standard “Summary & Reflection” (like you do for Reading Assignments) and submit it here. 
For the Summary, write about some of the interesting things you found or didn’t find.  Then, for your Reflection, write about your opinions: Which items were common? Which were not seen in pics very often? Why do you suppose this is?  What do you think would be important to include in a literacy-rich preschool classroom environment if you were the teacher?

please follow the instructions located in the files attached. if you do not, I will automatically fail. if you use resources, they need to be peer reviewed, scholarly sources. they need to be credible.

ach student will be required to choose a recently published social psychology article from an academic journal. The article can be chosen from the library or any online database.  It should be written in APA style and should include all the required segments with proper citations. It must be 5 to 6 pages long. It should be well-organized and well-structured paper with proper English and grammar.

Write a script of you conducting a mock counseling session with a patient.
It must be an empathic mock counseling session.
The session must specifically focus on the intervention stage of the therapy.
You must choose 3 counseling/intervention techniques in the script.
The script must be two pages long.
refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahchwHkc1wk if you have questions about the counseling stages.

This is where your final point total for your research experience will be tracked. This is also where you should upload your research reviews if you choose to complete the requirement using that option.
Reviews should be 1.5-2 pages (double spaced and no MLA headers) which would be about 400 words and include a discussion of the background, sample, method/procedure, results, and conclusions described in the article as well as your impressions of the value of the research, strengths and weaknesses of the study, etc.

Choose a particular topic area from the class or textbook (e.g., motor development) and review how research on it relates to the 6 major themes of development that have been described throughout the course (detailed in the 2nd class lecture, in particular):
1. Nature vs Nurture  
2. The Active Child  
3. Continuity vs. Discontinuity
4. Mechanism of developmental change
5. Sociocultural context
6. Individual differences
Describe how research in your chosen area exemplifies each theme.  For example, if you chose the development of personality/temperament, you would describe how the research relates to the Nature/Nurture theme by describing studies showing that some traits like aggression can be inherited from your parents (and so on for each of the 6 themes). 
This is not intended to be a research paper. In theory, you could write this paper only having read the textbook and attending class, however, you can include any outside material that interests you and adds to your argument. 
*Please be sure to cite any sources you use and be extra careful to use only your own words. Include a bibliography for anything you cite. Any incidents of plagiarism will result in a zero on the assignment and a charge filed with the academic honesty board that could result in an ‘F’ in the class. 
*This paper should be between 8-10 double spaced pages (not including an optional reference page).
*Please include separate section headings for each of the 6 themes.