[pic] Course Syllabus PSY/201 Foundations of Psychology Course Start Date: 3/7/2011 Course End Date: 5/8/2011 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 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of
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Testing a Theory PSY 201 Testing a Theory When I was in middle school‚ I thought that if I dressed more fashionably‚ it would make me more popular in school. For research‚ I looked at what all of the popular teenagers were wearing at school and what the unpopular teenagers were wearing to school. I looked through magazines and took notes on what was “fashionable” at that time along with going to stores and looking at what was displayed and compared that
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Social Development Research PSY/201 The article I have chosen to review and summarize for this assignment addresses selectivity during social information processing. It investigates whether or not this selectivity evolves with age and social experience. This article was chosen because it is informative and interesting. The author chose to use the technique of experimentation to analyze whether or not increased age affects the way in which humans process social information. The article
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like he has succeeded in life or that he has done everything right and well. Do Mike and Marty appear to have different levels of intelligence‚ or do they show intelligence in different ways? Please explain. I don’t think you can tell who is more intelligent here. Marty is definitely book-smarter than Mike‚ but Mike is social and has a different kind of intelligence. I am sure that Marty is more logical-mathematical intelligent than Mike‚ but Mike is more interpersonal intelligent than Marty.
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The definition of intelligence is simple; it is an individual’s capacity to learn‚ reason‚ and solve problems. What is complex is how we measure that capacity and use that measurement. One of the original uses of intelligence testing in the early 1900s was to separate or segregate those individuals who were deemed of low intelligence. Provide a brief history of intelligence testing and how it is currently utilized. Choose one of the intelligence tests described in your course readings and research
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completing the Multiple Intelligences Test‚ I was somewhat surprised by a few of the results and others not so much. Logical-mathematical and interpersonal intelligences were the highest scored categories scoring the same number. Bodily-kinesthetic scored the second highest just one point less than the logical-mathematical and interpersonal. The remaining intelligences scored a similar number but were definitely on the lower end of the range. Logical-mathematical intelligence focuses on science and
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PSY/201 Week 1 Assignment Working for a big company‚ there is always something new to learn and new work that comes our way. There are many different personalities. We were always training and learning new material and tools to use to make our work more effective and productive. We would have meetings that were hours long so everyone can train on the new work and tools we had coming our way. Most of the people were struggling to learn the new tools. I was taking a class in which we were learning
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University of Phoenix Material Psychotherapy Matrix Select three therapeutic approaches to summarize using any of the following: psychodynamic therapy‚ behavior therapy‚ humanistic therapy‚ cognitive therapy‚ family systems and group therapy‚ and biomedical therapies. |Therapy Approach |Techniques Used |Disorders Appropriate for This Therapy | |Psychodynamic |People meet with their therapist at least once
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information used to redact this research paper. Most of them were written by psychologists who conduct and grade different type of psychological tests‚ and therefore have first hand experience with the type of questions‚ the procedure‚ and the people who take the tests. Their professional experience regarding the topic made understanding intelligence tests and its grading easier‚ but it also proved that‚ since the person grading it is human and imperfect‚ mistakes can certainly be made and the results
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Testing a Theory John Padgett PSY/201 September 8‚ 2012 Marilyn Graves‚ PH.D. Testing a Theory I have never had the opportunity to test a theory formally‚ but I did test my own theory about what my 6 year old daughter will watch on the television in the evenings by doing my own little experiment. The research method was similar to the Naturalistic observation. When she is done with her homework my wife and I will let her sit down and watch a couple of hours of television
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