Read the three statuses below and think of three different scenarios where the original status listed could be interpreted to mean something different. For example, if the status update was, “Goodbye, cruel world!” it could be a reach out for help, a reference to pop culture (Pink Floyd album or several other songs), or someone being overly dramatic and silly. What it meant to the original poster […]

SPEECH ERRORS IN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION Resources Discussion Participation Scoring Guide. Capella Graduate Online Writing Center – APA Style and Formatting. Slips of the tongue provide a valuable window into the processes involved in language production. They are also closely related to the action slips examined in Chapter 7 of your course text, Cognitive Psychology. For this discussion: Describe at least three categories of speech errors, giving […]

APPROACHES TO READING INSTRUCTION Resources Discussion Participation Scoring Guide. Capella Graduate Online Writing Center – APA Style and Formatting. Which method for teaching children to read is best? Educators have wrestled with this question for decades and several approaches have emerged. For this discussion: Compare and contrast the whole-language, whole-word, and phonics approaches to reading instruction. Which seems to be the most effective? Explain. Please […]

Fact or Fiction? The final assignment for this course is a paper.  The purpose of the Final Paper is for you to explore a topical area and apply critical insight to discern fact from fiction.  You will review the available evidence for a commonly held belief and provide a conclusion regarding the merit of this claim by describing concepts in core psychological domains and examining […]

We read that multiple regression analysis typically involves one dependent variable and various predictor variables (Cozby & Bates, p. 258).  As a note, predictor variables are sometimes called explanatory variables.  Let’s focus on possible uses of multiple regression as explained by Rubinfield (n.d.). “…Multiple regression might be useful (1) in deciding whether a particular effect is present; (2) in measuring the magnitude of a particular effect; and (3) in […]

This cumulative assignment allows you to consider everything you have learned over the past 5 weeks in an attempt to change a behavior of your own. This overall process is similar to what a board-certified behavior analyst would compete with a new client. Refer to the approved behavior you would like to change, based on your submission to your instructor in Week 3. Track baseline […]

Create a PowerPoint presentation with 16 to 20 slides (not including the title and reference slides) entitled Ethical and Professional Issues in Psychological Testing. Your presentation must provide 2 to 3 slides for each of the required topics and include appropriate citations of your referenced sources. Separate reference slides, which follow APA formatting guidelines for a References page, must be included at the end of […]

Outline for the Psychiatric Diagnosis Review the instructions for the Psychiatric Diagnosis assignment in Week Six. This week’s assignment will build upon the work you have completed on your chosen case study in Weeks One and Two. For this assignment, you will construct an outline of your Psychiatric Diagnosis paper. This outline is meant to provide structure for your final assignment, jump-start your thought process […]

Week 4 – Interactive Assignment 38 38 unread replies. 50 50 replies.  Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.    Grand Rounds Prior to beginning work on this interactive assignment, please view the required […]

This is a discussion question Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read the assigned chapters from the text. It is highly recommended that you review each of the brief Blumenfeld (2012) video clips demonstrating the administration of a mental status examination. These are listed in the recommended resources and may require that you download Quicktime in order to view them. Although not required, these […]