Explain how you would ensure they have learned the behavior and why you felt that approach would work best for the particular behavior and setting. What challenges do you encounter to the learning process using your planned approach?

Learning Goal: I’m working on a public health multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

Week 2 Research Methods: Imagine you are going to conduct research investigating a human behavior that you would be interested in learning more about. Be sure to describe that topic so that your classmates know what your research questions are and so that they can better understand your study. What are your specific predictions/hypotheses (e.g., what do you expect the findings of your study to be)?

Select a scientific method for this psychological research. Although in the “real world,” researchers may combine methods or use one or more methods, choose only ONE research method for the purpose of this academic exercise. Working with humans can create potential issues. List some of the strengths and weaknesses of this specific type of research. Identify potential ethical concerns in this research process.

Answers need to cover these questions and elaborate on key terms/concepts reviewed in the lesson this week. Replies can introduce new/different perspectives and must encourage the continuation of the discussion.

POST THE NAME OF THE METHOD ON THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR INITIAL POST.

Week 3 Memory: One of the most influential psychologists in the area of memory and eye witness testimony is Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, who has spent decades as a research psychologist and memory expert in legal cases. Go to the following website. Read the article and view the video based on her work. Note the controversy surrounding “false memory syndrome”.

After reading Speaking of Psychology: How memory can be manipulated? and watching the included video, Answer the following.

Discuss the fallibility of memory and the controversy surrounding repressed memories. Think about the limitations of human memory involving eyewitness testimony in court. What kind of implications do particular limitations of human memory have on the use of eyewitness testimony in criminal and civil court cases?

Answers need to cover these questions and elaborate on key terms/concepts reviewed in the lesson this week. Replies can introduce new/different perspectives and must encourage the continuation of the discussion.

week 5 Learning: Consider a behavior that you would like to teach someone. This could be a friend, a child, a co-worker, etc. Describe the behavior and select one of the learning theories we learned about this week (i.e. observational learning, operant conditioning, classical conditioning, etc…) as the framework for how you would teach the person that behavior. Although in real life you may use more than one of these theories to teach behavior, for the purposes of this academic exercise choose ONLY ONE theory.

Explain how you would ensure they have learned the behavior and why you felt that approach would work best for the particular behavior and setting. What challenges do you encounter to the learning process using your planned approach?

Answers need to cover these questions and elaborate on key terms/concepts reviewed in the lesson this week. Replies can introduce new/different perspectives and must encourage the continuation of the discussion.

week 6 Psychological Disorders: This week, we studied psychological disorders. Which one of the disorders (choose ONE specific disorder; not multiple disorders or a category/class of disorders) covered in your lessons. Which one do you think would be the most challenging to have and why? Which one of its symptoms would prove to be the most difficult for you? What might be some specific treatment options you could pursue to alleviate symptoms of your selected disorder? What treatment approaches are supported by the research literature to treat this specific disorder?

PLACE THE NAME OF YOUR DISORDER IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR INITIAL POST.

Answers need to cover these questions and elaborate on key terms/concepts reviewed in the lesson this week. Replies can introduce new/different perspectives and must encourage the continuation of the discussion.

week 7 Social Psychology & Ethics:

1. Was it ethical to do the prison study in the way that Zimbardo conducted it? Why or why not? Explain your position substantively.

2. What social psychological constructs did the study reveal? Would the same information have been learned if the study had been conducted differently? If yes, how might you adapt the study to address ethical concerns and still obtain results relevant to our understanding of behavior in social settings?

3. How do the social psychology concepts of conformity and the power of the social situation that we are studying this week relate to what happened during the brief period of time that the prison study ran. Where in the description of how the study unfolded did we see evidence of these concepts?

Answers need to cover these questions and elaborate on key terms/concepts reviewed in the lesson this week. Replies can introduce new/different perspectives and must encourage the continuation of the discussion.