Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be due by Monday, and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time. Issues of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination are common areas of study […]

Assignment 2: Choose a different kind of childhood trauma than you addressed in Assignment 1, and address How common is it for children to experience this kind of trauma? Are there specific effects that result from this kind of childhood trauma? What kinds of behaviors do children who have undergone this kind of trauma demonstrate? […]

1st Assignment   Discussion prompt: Parking Garage and Biases Biases affect all of us, and we are all prone to committing fallacious reasoning at times. This discussion allows us to investigate some of our own sources of biases and ways in which we may be prone to fall for fallacious reasoning. Prepare: Prior to answering […]

Explore the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families website, paying specific attention to the sections regarding child abuse.   Review the Child Abuse Treatment Case Study.   Complete the Child Abuse Treatment Plan Template.   APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.   You are […]

Assignment 3: Developmental Psychology Research Designs In developmental psychology, the focus of research is often to examine change over time. Developmental psychologists have some special research designs that allow them to accomplish this. Two such research designs are the cross-sectional design and the longitudinal design. A cross-sectional design measures different groups of people of different […]

PS350 Biological Psychology Directions: Be sure to save an electronic copy of your answer before submitting it to Ashworth College for grading. Unless otherwise stated, answer in complete sentences, and be sure to use correct English, spelling, and grammar. Sources must be cited in APA format. Your response should be four (4) double‐spaced pages; refer to […]

Explain the importance of completing a child abuse assessment at the onset of mental health counseling as well as continuing to assess for this throughout the course of treatment.

Directions: Read the case study of Rachel and answer the questions following the case study.   Rachel is a 15- year-old Caucasian female. Rachel is a ward of the state and lives in a group home with 12 other girls. Rachel is in the group home because she has a pattern of arrests and truancy […]

Victims Stereotypes Part 1 The purpose of this assignment is to make you aware of your beliefs about being a victim. What happens in society at large in any group when the topic of victims arises? Use the technique of free association and then analyze the thoughts behind those associations. To conduct your self-analysis, consider […]

Sociological Causes of Crime due 2/28/2016   Natalie will be one of the first in her family to earn a college degree. She is determined to earn her bachelor’s degree in psychology and then possibly go on to a master’s degree, or even a doctorate. However, these dreams need to deal with reality. She has […]