Project One
Creating a Presentation for Developmental Issues in Childhood and Adolescent
Topic choices might include the following:
- Common health problems and obesity
- Cognitive development
- Friendships and peer-pressure
- Bullies and victims
- Substance use and abuse in adolescence
- Factors in delinquency
- Dating and sexuality
- Identity development
- Cognitive benefits of bilingualism
- Moral development
- Sexual maturation and puberty
- Teen pregnancy, birth control, and
- abortion
- High school, college drop out
- Eating disorder
- Depression and adolescent Suicide
Choose a topic that you think the most important/ interesting to be studied/ discussed in
childhood and adolescence (younger than 18 years old). Find 3-4 peer-reviewed articles of the
topic you chose in the PsycInfo, PsycARTICLES and/or Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
Collection databases*. These articles need to be peer-reviewed articles (they cannot be from the
website, Psychology Today, or a book review). If you have minimum 3 peer-reviewed articles,
you may use additional resources (do not have to be a peer-review article) if you like. Then
provide comprehensive discussions on following questions:
1) Choose a topic that you think the most important/ interesting to be studied/ discussed in
childhood and adolescence. Discuss the reasons why you choose the topic (provide
introductions for the presentation).
2) Summarize articles with your own words (e.g., overview of the article, the methods,
participants/subjects information, and the results of the study). Discuss some key findings
from each article.
3) Analyze the topic with appropriate developmental theories (e.g., Erikson, Piaget,
Lifespan theory, Behavioral theory, etc.) from the text. Employing the theory, you chose,
explain why the topic you chose affects development of people in the age group you
selected.
4) Develop an action plan (i.e., prevention/ intervention programs/ ideas for the topic you
chose). Based on information you obtained from 3-4 peer-reviewed articles AND the text
that are used for this class, design an action plan of how we can prevent or intervene with
the topic you chose for a specific individual or group (or promote benefits if your topic
focus on the positive outcomes). Develop specific plans which you could currently carry
out, in your own life, given the resources you currently have. Or if applicable, discuss
how the society can support your plans.
5) Describe the possible consequences of your plan. Describe expected results of your study.
Include following information:
a. What you realistically expect the consequences, both short-and long-term, of your
action to be.
b. What would be the greatest strengths of your plan?
c. What would be the limitations? (There is no perfect study/ plan).
6) Include at least three references in the end.
Prepare an 8 to 10 Microsoft PowerPoint slides (more slides are ok!). Please cite resources
you used in the PowerPoint accordingly. Please save your presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint
(.ppt or pptx) and upload your PowerPoint file in the Canvas (the same way you do for other
writing assignment).
Add speaker’s note and reference/ citations in each slide.
Project Two
Barnum Effect Presentation Instructions
You will create a PowerPoint presentation discussing the Barnum Effect. For this presentation option, you will integrate scholarly research on the Barnum Effect with a mini-experiment that you will conduct on friends and family.
- Collect data from 5 people on the Barnum Effect by giving them the test found at the following website: http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/web/personalityB.htm.
- Next, ask your participants to rate the accuracy of their results on a scale of 1 to 10
(1 = not accurate at all; 10 = completely accurate). - Record the participants’ ratings/results and include them as part of your presentation.
- Once you have told the participants their results, you may also include follow-up questions to obtain qualitative data on their reaction to the accuracy of the test or the Barnum Effect. Feel free to include those qualitative data in your presentation as well.
- Integrate the data you collected from your 5 participants with the scholarly research that you found on the Barnum Effect into a single, well-organized presentation.
- Be sure to include at least 1 peer-reviewed resource, in addition to your textbook. (That’s at least 2 scholarly sources total!) Discuss whether or not your findings are consistent with the scholarly sources that you cite. If not, offer an explanation of why.
Be sure to carefully review the Grading Rubric posted in the Assignment Instructions folder so that you know exactly what is expected of you when completing this assignment.
This assignment is due by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 7.
Project Three
Respond to one of the following:
Discuss the political landscape of the Restoration and the eighteenth century. (You may mention the rise of the modern parliamentary system, the addition of a Prime Minister, and the major differences between the Tories and the Whigs.) How was the English system of government during the 18th century similar to or different from today’s political climate in either England or the United States?
Swift is famous for his use of satire. Satire works on at least three levels. One is the surface level, the literal level, in which the reader takes the author at “face value.” The second level is where the reader has an “aha” reaction. This occurs when the reader understands that the author does not mean what is written literally; in fact, the author means just the opposite (sarcasm often works on this level). Third is the metaphoric level. Here the reader realizes what the author does mean what was said on the surface level but not literally. At what point in “A Modest Proposal” did you have an “aha” reaction? How does this essay work on all three levels?
A mock epic is a long, humorous narrative poem that treats a trivial subject in the grand elevated style of a true epic such as Paradise Lost. What is Pope mocking in Therapee of the Lock? What does he borrow from other epics to achieve his purpose? Is he successful in making his point? Why or why not?
Which of the poems from the debate about women was the most convincing, or which was your favourite? Why? Be specific.
Project Four
Respond in one or more of the following ways:
- Ask a probing question.
- Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
- Offer and support an opinion.
- Validate an idea with your own experience.
- Make a suggestion.
- Expand on your colleague’s posting.
Please view the example before you start!
Please include at least one references in the response.
📍 Post 1: Write a 50-100 words response to the post below:
Implicit and Explicit Attitudes
An article written in the New York Times (2018) speaks about the reoccurring shootings of black males. The author talks about 15 different deaths by police, some who were shot while others died in custody. Though this is a regular occurrence for those in the black community, it has risen to national attention and highlighted on a more regular basis. Out of the 15 cases that the article discusses only a handful resulted in convictions while in the other cases there is a full belief that the police officers got away with murder. This issue has become very divisive as some argue that the police are justified in taking the actions that they did if the individual presented themselves as a threat. On the other side of the fence, we have those who believe that these primarily white officers were motivated by their inherited prejudices.
For this discussion, we were tasked with discussing a controversial social issue and explain the distinction between explicit and implicit attitudes that are related to the point. For the topic of police-involved deaths of unarmed black men and women, it is undoubtedly a controversial issue. An implicit attitude (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995) is defined as memory that serves as a connecting link between an object and feelings or thoughts toward an object.
For police shootings, several instances can stand out in the national memory that represent the injustices that minorities feel. This would be an implicit attitude towards any police shooting that occurs from those instances forward, the crimes that they felt during trials such as Trayvon Martin (Library, 2019). Trayvon Martin did not involve police, but the shooting included a white male who shot an unarmed black teen, this incident incited rage in the public eye especially as the shooter was not punished for his act. This would and every other episode where the race was a significant factor where police were involved would serve as a connecting tie between an event that occurred after. This implicit attitude would create distrust between the minorities that encounter these injustices regularly and the police. According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2018, it indicated that there is a lack of trust in law enforcement in comparison to previous years. This could be related to the implicit attitudes that were created due to police shootings. Regardless of the reason, implicit attitudes play an important role in the perception of trust towards any institution.
References
Library, C. (2019, February 28). Trayvon Martin Shooting Fast Facts. Retrieved from
Greenwald, A. G., & Banaji, M. R. (1995). Implicit social cognition: Attitudes, self-esteem, and stereotypes. Psychological Review, 102(1), 4-27.
Park, H. (2018, October 11). 15 Black Lives Ended in Confrontations with Police. 3 Officers Convicted. Retrieved from
Police One. (2018, August 30). The public speaks: Cops are trusted. Retrieved from
📍 Post 2: Write a 50-100 words response to the post below:
Measures of Implicit Attitudes and Beliefs
The implicit association test can be very beneficial but it also has its drawbacks and some may argue that it does not accurately assess unconscious attitudes and beliefs. After its first publication in 1998, the Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) caused a lot of sensation because many finally had a possible explanation to explain prejudice (Goldhill, 2017). Many people were very surprised after taking the assessment, some arguing that they did not agree with the results. This caused much speculation and studies were performed by many other researchers to further look into the IAT and its ability to predict unconscious attitudes and beliefs. In my stance on this topic, I argue that the IAT does not accurately assess the unconscious attitudes and beliefs and instead it measures prejudice against the out-group. The idea is that people tend to rate and associate positive attributes to those they consider their “in-group” (Kaufman, 2011). Studies comparing the IAT-effect versus the in-group/out-group membership proved that when people associated themselves with the out-group there was no longer an IAT-effect (Kaufman, 2011).
Therefore, this provides bases for the areas of opportunity for the Implicit Association Test (IAT).
One of the disadvantages of the IAT is its validity. According to Goldhill (2017), the IAT has been shown to have low validity. When studies are reported they are considered valid if the studies are able to prove their findings. However, though the IAT has suggested that their test can predict discriminatory behaviour, however other studies showed that the IAT was a weak predictor of behaviour (Goldhill, 2017). Another issue is the reliability of the test. When studies are done its reliability is measured based on the ability to reproduce the results. However, with the IAT, studies found the reliability score of the IAT to e 0.5 overall which is considered unacceptable (Goldhill, 2017). Therefore, due to the low validity and reliability scores of the IAT, it is hard to consider as a reliable test to use.
Implicit attitudes and beliefs certainly have an impact on intergroup relationship. They can influence the decisions we make which ultimately impact those around us. Whether it’s giving someone a job opportunity, or something as simple as selecting a seat at a movie theatre, these unconscious thoughts affect us. These attitudes and beliefs that we have can affect all those around us. For these reasons, it is important that we analyze these attitudes and beliefs and address them if necessary, in order to assure that they don’t negatively impact us or those we serve. According to Amodio and Devine (2006), studies found that behaviors such as forming judgments and goals are driven primarily by cognitive processes. Therefore, addressing any negative attitudes and beliefs can help us create better judgments and goals which can ultimately help our relationships with others.
References:
Amodio, D. M., & Devine, P. G. (2006). Stereotyping and evaluation in implicit race bias: Evidence for independent constructs and unique effects on behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(4), 652–661. Retrieved from
Goldhill, O. (2017). The world is relying on a flawed psychological rest to fight racism. Retrieved from
Kaufman, S. B. (2011). Does the implicit association test (IAT) really measure racial prejudice? Probably not. Psychology Today,