...1. What are at least two ethical issues associated with psychological testing? A: One ethical issue is the use of informed consent. An essential component of psychological testing is obtaining voluntary consent to the assessment. The client must be informed about the purpose, expected duration, and any procedures used in the testing, and ascertain the client understands every aspect of giving consent (American Psychological Association, 2010). If the client is a child, or an individual of limited capacity, the parent or legal guardian must give consent for the client. The idea of informed consent is a continuing agreement, and clients may withdraw their consent at any time during the testing (Hogan, 2007). According to the American Medical Association (2011), informed consent is a process of communication between a patient and a health care professional that results in the patient's authorization or agreement to undergo testing. Furthermore, patients or clients have a right to full disclosure of test results, which must be accommodated in language reasonably understandable to them. Second, maintaining confidentiality is another significant issue associated with psychological testing, and the psychologist is bound by ethical codes to refrain from referring to a patient's results outside of the appropriate context (Hogan, 2007). Furthermore, regarding confidentiality in record keeping, psychologists must maintain records efficiently, securely, and effectively so results are not...
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...Material Issues in Psychological Testing Worksheet Using the text for this course, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources answer the following questions. Your response to each question should be at least 200 words in length. 1. What are at least two ethical issues associated with psychological testing? What impact do these issues have on the field of psychological testing? Psychological testing is used to measure or observe a client’s behaviors, thoughts, personality, and feelings. There is a numerous amount of reasons and ways tests can be conducted such as educational or clinical purposes. Since the beginning of psychological testing many ethical and legal issues have been risen (Hogan, 2007). One ethical issue associated with psychological testing is confidentiality. Results of tests need to be kept in a private manner and there can be a couple of instances where the results of a tests end up being revealed to other parties before the client knows the results or the client could never be informed. Minors can be a part of this confidentiality issue. APA has specific guidelines that are supposed to be followed but these guidelines can clash with the ethical and legal issues when dealing with minors or special needs individuals. Another ethical issue that can be associated with psychological testing is consent (Hogan, 2007) Consent must be obtained by the proper party before psychological tests can be conducted. Again, issues with minors and...
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...Axia College Course Syllabus PSY/201 Foundations of Psychology Course Start Date: 2/21/11 Course End Date: 4/24/11 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright © 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix® is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft®, Windows®, and Windows NT® are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Syllabus PSY/201 Foundations of Psychology 2 Facilitator Information Janie Lacy JanieLacy@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) Janie@JanieLacy.com (Personal) 407-924-7533 (EST) Facilitator Availability I am available from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Sundays as my rest day. During the week, I am available most of the time during that 9 a.m.-12 p.m. time frame. On Saturdays, I tend to be available in the morning only. If these times are not convenient for you, please let me know. I will be happy to accommodate your schedule,...
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...Syllabus Course Description This course provides an overview of basic psychological principles that underlie human behavior and reactions to everyday life. Students are provided an opportunity to apply critical-thinking skills to psychological problems and issues. The basic tenets of psychology are presented from a historical perspective, with attention to research-based behavioral science. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: · University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. · Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Carpenter, S., & Huffman, K. (2010). Visualizing psychology (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. All electronic materials are available on the student website. Week One: Introduction to Psychology Details Due Points Objectives 1.1 Describe the development of the discipline of psychology. 1.2 Compare and contrast research methods used to examine psychological phenomena. 1.3 Explain biological influences on the human brain. Readings Read...
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...Practice of Clinical Psychology Worksheet Answer the following questions. Your response to each question must be at least 150 words in length. 1. What are at least two legal issues associated with clinical psychology? Provide an example of a situation that could be legal but unethical. Explain your response. There are many legal issues that exist in clinical psychology. Two of these legal issues are maintaining confidentiality and getting written consent to treat. A clinical psychologist is required by law to obtain the patients written consent before treating them or before any experiment takes place. A patient can opt out or withdraw consent whenever they deem it appropriate during treatment. If consent is withdrawn the treatment or experiment that involves the patient must stop (Plante, 2011). A psychologist must maintain confidentiality, this means that they are not allowed to disclose personal records and treatment with anyone but the patient unless child abuse is suspected, the patient may harm themselves or another, or there is a court order (Plante, 2011). An example of something that is legal but not ethical would be if there is an order from a judge to provide the records of the patient but the patient is unaware or refuses to consent. The therapist must turn over the patients file, however they may not believe it is ethical because the patient does not consent. 2. What are at least two ethical issues associated with clinical psychology...
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...University of Phoenix Material Industrial/Organizational Psychology Worksheet The purpose of this assignment is to examine the fundamental concepts of the field of industrial/organizational psychology. Using the textbook, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources, answer the following questions. Your responses to each question will vary but overall should be 700- to 1,050-words in length. 1. Describe the evolution of the field of industrial/organizational psychology. According to Spector (2012) “I/O psychology is an eclectic field that has borrowed concepts, ideas, techniques, and theories from many other disciplines.” (p. 5). Industrial and organizational psychology, or something similar can be traced back to the studies of European scientist Herman von Helmholtz (1821-1894). He expanded on the concept of conservation of human energy to determine if the energy levels in the present labor force were sufficient to the increasing demands of the industrial revolution (Koppes, & Pickren (n.d). English philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) surmised that knowledge begins with the individual’s sensory experience. He further believed that logical thinking combined with sensory experience was superior to religion as a basis for developing a civil society (Koppes, & Pickren, n.d.). Another philosopher, Karl Marx (1818-1883) argued that freedom defined what it is to be human. He believed that a struggle for freedom existed in a capitalist system because...
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...Obesity in Children After reading the material for this week, the student began to research obesity in middle childhood. The student discovered the causes of middle childhood obesity, the effect of obesity on a child’s health, psychosocial, and cognitive development, and ways to counteract obesity in middle childhood. The student has provided information on obesity solutions in her area, a national program to help stop childhood obesity, and has suggested other ways to help stop childhood obesity. The Causes of Childhood Obesity Genetic factors contribute to childhood obesity (Parke & Gauvain, 2009). Obese children often remain obese throughout his or her lives. Children suffering from obesity often have obese biological parents. Children adopted by normal-weight adoptive parents may become obese if the child’s biological parents are obese. According to Parke and Gauvain (2009), studies have shown that infants who have overweight parents are more responsive to the difference between sweet-tasting solutions and water. The preference for sweets at a young age increases the risk of childhood obesity. Middle childhood obesity also derives from the child’s role-model’s eating pattern and behavior (Parke & Gauvain, 2009). If the parent or role-model is eating junk food, lives a sedentary life, and watches too much television, the child is likely to do the same. Parents encouraging and prompting children to eat more because of his or her size contributes to child obesity...
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...educated elementary school students about disaster preparedness. Educating about disaster prevention inspired me to become a future advocate for disease prevention. My job responsibilities involved setting up laboratory experiments, preparing chemical solutions and sterile media, inoculating bacterial cultures, managing inventory, disposing of biological waste, disinfecting equipment, and training new employees. Preparing for laboratories such as biochemistry and microbiology introduced me to valuable information pertaining to microbiological testing methods and biochemical analysis techniques, such as assays, centrifugation, electrophoresis and chromatography. Through collaborating with employees to accomplish tasks in a timely manner, I developed the ability to lead others in a certain direction and thrive under a high pressure work environment. As a supplemental instruction (SI) leader, I attended lectures on weekly basis, prepared worksheets, participated in training new SI leaders, and conducted 2 study sessions a week. I helped students understand difficult concepts and solve problems. Instructing students has helped me sharpen my communication skills. I learned how to organize my ideas in a manner that effectively delivers the concept to the student; a valuable skill like this will be crucial for better communication of medical information to my patients. From my one-to-one interaction with students, I learned the importance of being attentive to others' emotional needs. Students...
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...Industrial/Organizational Psychology Worksheet The purpose of this assignment is to examine the fundamental concepts of the field of industrial/organizational psychology. Using the textbook, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources, answer the following questions. Your responses to each question will vary but overall should be 700- to 1,050-words in length. 1. Describe the evolution of the field of industrial/organizational psychology. The roots of Industrial/Organization psychology was in the 1800s and early 1900’s, but did truly come around in the 20th Century. In the beginning it was experimental psychologist who were the first psychologist to apply new principles of psychology to organizations with problems. When first introduced the United States used these new psychology principles on performance of their job and the efficiency of the Organization. As Industrial/Organization psychology has grown it has brought around significant events in the United States such as the very first book of Industrial/Organizational textbook to be published in 1913, Hawthorne Studies which began in 1924, and Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 with many other events that happened. The first two psychologist to have founded Industrial/Organization Psychology was Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill Scott which were college professors and experimental psychologist. Hugo Munsterberg was a pioneer in the field of Industrial/Organizational psychology and Clinical...
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...Questions noted during the last Interviews (These have been asked earlier regularly): - Did you work in Large/Big team any time in your career? What was the main challenge you found working in those Large Teams as compared to small Teams? - What Analytical Tools (Process Modeling Tools) have you used till now? In what context (when/how/situation) did you use them? - What are techniques/methods you have used or you know, to gather the Requirements. One-on-one interviews Joint application development (JAD) Questionnaires Workshops Prototyping Use cases Following people around Brainstorming Reverse Engineering Document Analysis ================================================================================= - Did you prepare Use cases yourself? How did you prepare (What were the activities prior to preparing it). What was the content (sections)? - For what Process did you create the Use Case? - What are the Process Models or Flow Diagrams or any other UML Diagrams you have created in your prior Projects? What were the Processes for which they were created? =================================================================================== - What did you find as the main challenge working as Business Analyst? How did u overcome it? Dev and test team conflicts - Do you have experience working in UK or any other Country? If yes, what was the main challenge working abroad (client side) as compared to India? If no then What are the challenge...
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..... 7 Deliverables ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics ........................................................................................................... 7 Hands-On Steps ....................................................................................................................................... 8 Part 1: Exploring Wireshark ............................................................................................................... 8 Part 2: Analyzing Wireshark Capture Information .......................................................................... 12 Lab #1 - Assessment Worksheet .............................................................................................................. 19 Analyzing IP Protocols with Wireshark ............................................................................................. 19 Overview...
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...Pretotyping@Work Invent Like A Startup, Invest Like A Grownup Jeremy Clark Co-Founder, PretotypeLabs First Edition ! Copyright © Jeremy Clark 2012 PretotypeLabs.com AUTHOR’S NOTE This is an economics book. Before you drop it like it’s on fire and run screaming from the room, let me explain. Economics is the study of resource scarcity and choice; it helps clarify the trade-offs we face when we make decisions about where to put our time and money, when and how much we should spend or save. In the context of innovation, economics informs the type and number of innovations attempted in a given period - how bold, how aggressively pursued, and how funded. This book describes an approach to innovation decision making that can break enormously wasteful historical trade-offs in resources. The goal of this book is to enable the practical application of that approach - pretotyping - within mature companies looking to improve the effectiveness of their front-end innovation processes. My colleague and friend Alberto Savoia is the originator of the term pretotype and much of the theoretical foundation for pretotyping. For an entertaining and rapidly-digestible primer on the method, I commend his excellent book Pretotype It1. I owe Alberto - and his many collaborators at Google, where pretotyping abounds - a profound debt, and I heartily acknowledge his prior art. This book is based upon the Pretotyping@Work workshop materials I developed with Alberto that makes pretotyping...
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...ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest Francesca Gino Harvard University Dan Ariely Duke University Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and a creative mindset promote individuals’ ability to justify their behavior, which, in turn, leads to unethical behavior. In 5 studies, we show that participants with creative personalities tended to cheat more than less creative individuals and that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Experiment 1). In addition, we find that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly than those in a control condition (Experiment 2) and that greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior explained the link between creativity and increased dishonesty (Experiments 3 and 4). Finally, we demonstrate that dispositional creativity moderates the influence of temporarily priming creativity on dishonest behavior (Experiment 5). The results provide evidence for an association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity. Keywords: creativity, ethics, morality, moral flexibility, unethical behavior Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. —Denis Diderot (1713–1784) The ability to generate...
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...lOMoARcPSD Summary - lecture notes Education: The Psychological Context (Macquarie University) EXAM: Part A: Kohlberg Piaget Humanism David Geary Part B: Humanism, Behaviourism, Constructivism Vygotsky Personal Perspectives & Intelligence Piaget & Problem solving Special needs students Gender o Male vs Female o Cognition & Behavioural differences Direct instruction & Discovery Learning Teaching Students with Additional Learning Needs Special Children Have special needs and require assistance at some stage in our schooling The notion of ‘fairness’ is not giving our students the same, but rather giving them what they need to learn and succeed. A look at the importance of resilience o Resilience is the ability to rebound, develop and thrive in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, hardship or even significant sources of stress. o How does resilience develop? Who are we talking about when we discuss children with special needs? o Those students with learning needs that are so diverse they need individual consideration and support. o A continuum of support in the classroom. Definition of Disability Social Model o socially created problem o not an attribute of an individual, but rather a complex collection of conditions o management of the problem requires social attention o collective responsibility of society at large o human rights issue of major concern o in the educational setting we ask what...
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...CURRICULUM REVISION A CONCEPTUAL MODEL to Support Curriculum Review, Revision, and Design in an Associate Degree Nursing Program B E T T Y W. D AV I S P A R T I C I PAT I O N IN CURRICULUM DESIGN of program outcomes has been identified as a core competency for nurse educators A N D E VA L UAT I O N (Billings & Halstead, 2009; Southern Regional Education Board, 2002). Facing declining NCLEX-RN® pass rates, faculty at an associate degree nursing program at a public community college in Mississippi responded to the National League for Nursing ([NLN] 2005b) call to transform nursing education by undertaking an intensive critique of its curriculum and program outcomes. Based on this analysis, a conceptual framework was created to guide curriculum revision, development, and implementation. The framework provides structure for ongoing and systematic curriculum review and revision. A review of the literature revealed the need to move from a teaching-centered to a learning-centered approach to teaching. Learning-centered institutional design is reflective of a number of principles: the need to bring about substantive change in participants; the full engagement of learners and the mindset that students bear primary responsibility for personal choices; multiple learning options to appeal to students’ preferred learning styles; the enhancement of collaboration; educators as learning facilitators; and measurement of success through the documented improvement...
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