Psychology

MODULE 4 ASSIGNMENT

Please be sure to fully address the questions.  These are considered essay questions.  Answer in complete sentences and be careful to attend to the details of each question.   Number and repeat original question before each response.   The information for completing this assessment activity is provided with your course online text and support section.  Please number original question before each response.

Be careful not to simply cut, copy and paste responses from the text.  You will not receive credit for copying content from the text.  You must demonstrate understanding by answering questions in your own words. If you quote or copy you risk not receive credit for the entire response.  

Specifically for emphasis:

You must use the online text to answer your questions.  You cannot search the internet (googling or binging) and attempt to copy in responses.  The questions are specifically designed to be answered by the online text.  Everything you need to answer the questions for the assignment questions and the exam are provided by the course content and online text.

Responses need to be provided in your own words.  You are not to submit responses word for word.  On all questions you must rephrase, summarize or explain in your own words.    If you use another’s work word for word it is consider “plagiarism”.

You also are to demonstrate you understand and are able to explain content.  I fully understand and EXPECT you to use some of the same words to explain concepts. Be careful with being brief. Being too brief will quickly discount your grade.  Simply… brief is not good on essay questions, explain in detail. 

The website automatically checks submitted assignment to see if it has been “borrowed from student submission or content from the internet”. It provides a report of where it was copied, the “url” location and other colleges where the same information has been presented for assignment submission. Please do not attempt to “borrow content”.  “Plagiarism” has severe penalties.   Review the course material and summarize in your own words.  The content as well as the video support are designed to answer you questions

1. Describe various definitions of stress, including the difference between stimulus-based and response-based stress and good stress and bad stress.  
2. Define coping and differentiate between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping.  In addition, describe the importance of perceived control in our reactions to stress
3.  Compare and Discuss the Differences between Jean Piaget’s Stages of Development and  Erik Erickson’s.  Which theory do you believe is more closely associated with your own beliefs.
4.  Describe Kohlberg’s theory of moral development and the stages of reasoning
5.  Explain how people with psychological disorders have been treated throughout the ages and discuss deinstitutionalization
6.  Explain the basic process and uses of play and behavior therapy
7.  Explain and compare biomedical therapies
8.  Describe the basic features of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and how it is used to classify disorders
9.  Describe social roles, social norms, and scripts and how they influence behavior
10. Explain the process and the findings of Zimbardo’s Stanford prison experiment