Normal & Abnormal Behavior is differentiated.

This posting discusses factors in distinguishing between normal and abnormal behaviors.

Abnormal Behavior is assessed.

This posting explains the benefits and risks of using diagnostic labels to describe abnormal behaviors.

Anxiety's indicators are briefly mentioned.

This posting focuses on how is anxiety experienced in terms of physiological, behavioral, and cognitive indicators. If both a parent and a child experience anxiety in similar situations, how would you account for the influences of heredity, preparedness, and vicarious conditioning?

Factors leading to depression are listed.

What socio-cultural and biological factors contribute to the difference in rates of depression between men and women?

Care for the mentally ill & De-institutionalization

What approaches have been used to care for the mentally ill? What are the pros and cons of de-institutionalization?

Mental Health Services and Types of Therapy

As a consumer of mental health services, which type of therapy would you prefer if you did not care much to talk about your problems? If you were suffering from a phobia? If you had recurring nightmares since childhood? If you wanted to improve your marriage?

This posting addresses issues as they relate to human motivation.

These tasks are modeled along with research links: a. Choose one of the theories on the attached word document and describe how this theory would and would not be applicable if applied to two or more workplace situations drawn for personal experience (real or made-up). b. In the case in which the selected theory was not ...continues

Discuss how prejudice and discrimination differ when it involves coworkers and family.

Social psychology looks at how the individual functions as part of a social group, including families, peer groups, and larger groups that support ethnic or national identity. In this presentation, you will relate two different examples from family, work, that demonstrate how behavior differs according to the social situation. ...continues

Insights about job discrimination.

How can employee's know when they are being discriminated? why is job discrimination bad? and what should employee's do if they suffer from discrimination in their work environment?

Operant Conditioning is modeled.

Is there a situation in personal (such for a student) or work life that would respond well to operant conditioning? What re-enforcers would you use?