Psychology Case Study

Megan is five years old in kindergarten. Megan Bryant is the only child she comes from a two-parent household. Megan mom Carrie is a stay at home mom who is a full-time graduate student. George is an attorney who spends long hours away from his family. The Bryant family lives in a suburban neighborhood. Megan attends one of the top elementary schools in her area. However, Megan is having behavioral issues in school daily. Megan teachers and parents are overwhelmed they are trying their best to find a solution to this problem. Teachers are advocating for Megan to take medication to help with her behavioral issues. Carries is against medication.

The individual I did my crime scenario on, Ricky, has a lengthy criminal record, and participated in a violent offence, which lead him to serving a life sentence. His upbringing was filled with neglect from family members, and bullying from peers. Furthermore, he was susceptible to substance abuse, and pro-criminal attitudes and associations, therefore leading to a life of criminal activity. The theories which support his behaviour are: differentiation association theory, social control theory, and psychopathy. This is an individual who suffers from impulsivity, lack of empathy for actions, as well as displaying no signs of remorse. A pour relationship with his father, lead to attachment issues, he has no regard for what society thought of

Thomas responded well to the meet and greet session. Thomas appeared to be in good physical health. Thomas stated, play video games, ride his bike, use his cell phone and hang out with his friends. Thomas stated, listening, eating food, not fighting with his brother, his anger, how he reacts to anger situation and talking back to his parents. Thomas stated, sometimes, when they are not yelling at him or punishing him. Thomas stated, using his stuff, not playing fare, yelling at him hitting him, and teasing him. Thomas stated, riding his bike, playing outside, paying video games and hanging out with his brother. Thomas stated, that he does not get along well with his brother, and that his brother tries to bully him and teas him a lot, and that make him mad and cause him to have fights with him.

Kutztown University provides students with multiple clubs and opportunities to get more involved within the school and the community. However one club in particular is predominate in academic awareness and experience for the field of psychology. Kutztown Psychology club provides students to get more involved within the psychology field by interacting with other students, along with faculty members, and guest speakers in the community who are also involved within the field. The club invites students once a week to meet during free hour to listen to different guest speakers, and demonstrations. In fact the first meeting of the club offers students to meet the whole psychology department by introducing each faculty member. Some other guest speakers

At end of every school year, the subject and their parents will be seated in their empty classroom and given another informed consent form in order to interview and answer a written questionnaire. The next day the participant will come back without the parents to avoid any threat to internal validity. The participant will again be escorted to their empty classroom, asked to be seated and then be given a written questionnaire and pencil and then asked to fill out the questionnaire. The questionnaire will be regarding how they perceive the level of their parent’s involvement towards their academics on a scale of 1-not interested to 5-highly interested. Afterward, they will be interviewed and asked a series of questions about the school year and if they received any extra help, such as tutoring, this will be in order to take into account some confounding variables that could affect the grade variation between participants. At the end of the last interview, the participant and their parents will be debriefed and be told that the study will be to see if there is any significant effect between the different SES and parental involvement in academic achievement. The participant and their parents will be thanked for their participation and escorted out.

Can you see anything wrong with the way the researcher(s) handled this study? Is there anything you would have done differently?

The assignment prompt gives the impression that the student has a considerable amount of freedom in choosing the subject of their paper and also how to organize as long as they satisfy the requirements laid out in the prompt. The requirement of a 10-15 page paper implies that good writing in the psychology field (or the other social sciences) cannot just be simple statements but rather more in depth and nuanced analysis. The prompt also asks for hypotheses to be laid out in the paper, which function as the thesis. It also calls for datasets to be used, which means that a good psychology writing will have quantitative data that will be analyzed throughout the paper. The prompt also specifically notes that the APA style of citation should be used, and good writing in any social science subject should follow the commonly used method of referencing in that field or what the class or professor require.

In Psychology 101, you learn about a personal fable; something that I have not lost. I have always wanted to change the world that I was destined for greatness and teaching elementary school students gives me that power. In the words of Nelson Mandela, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

The participants were recruited from preschools in Berkeley California three or four years of age. The sample size and composition varies base on the variables being analyses. In this study the focus was on parental sensitivity. The sample for material sensitivity was 117 participants 59 white males, 32 black males, 5 Asians; and three others. The samples for parental sensitive were 96 participant 44 males 69 white, 18 Black 8 Asian, and three other. Block and Block had each of the participants do a battery of four tasks, for a time of five weeks. During this time the sex of the child and the sex of the parent varied. The test they were required to perform were; 1. Construction of squares or posts 2. Matrix task of geometric shapes 3. Maze-completion task 4. Instances tasks. This study used 49-item Teaching strategies Q-set (TSQ) developed to describe parent-child interactions in teaching contest. The average item reliability for this composite was .70, and this was used for basis to measure parental sensitive. The correlations of the templates between rater raged for r = .59 to r =.82. The P scores in this study were; P< .05, P < .01 and P< .001 the scores are significant in this study. This study shows that having the presence of a biological father can have an important effect on the

From my standpoint, the researchers presented their conclusion well. There a couple concerns that I would like to

Psychology can be applied to everyday life in many ways. The three main ways Psychology applies to my life is through motivation and emotion, Stress and health and Psychological therapies. These topics of psychology are the ones that best describe my life. When most people think of psychology they think of therapists and psychological disorders. Psychology is much more than that and applies to everyone’s life in some form.

A parenting style emphasizing high standards and high communication encourages adolescents' exploration in a supportive environment.” It starts with the parents and how they raise their children to try to build their children’s identities. An example from my life is my parents trying to keep me busy as a child and trying to make sure I am not a lazy person. I was in sports during elementary school, currently a LAFD cadet, and having a job right after high school. I am always told by my mother that my twin brother and I are not going to be lazy like my two other siblings. “Parental support has been found to be positively related to a child’s cognitive development, moral behavior, conformity to adult standards, self-esteem, academic achievement, and social competence” (Gecas). A person’s identity is shaped up based on the parent’s actions and their actions could affect them positively or negatively. “Parents have an impact on their children’s identity in many ways including reinforcing the large messages of society, acting as role models, and by offering approval or disapproval of the child’s actions and behaviours, parents express their own values and thus exert much influence on how their children view the roles of males and females” states Susan Witt. Most people would say that their parents are their role models and most people know that their parents are the people who are

This paper consists of the similarities and differences between two therapies used in psychology. The approaches are known as the Client-Centered Approach and the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. They are both used daily, world-wide, and can be seen in different ways. In psychology, the use of therapy, approaches, and techniques are used all the time. The client-centered model is all about the clients themselves and the cognitive behavioral therapy relies on direct counseling tools to control and guide the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy is more short-term treatment is structured and is going towards a goal whereas the client-centered model aims towards asking

Participants included 16 males and 16 females (30 Caucasian, 2 of Hispanic origin) interviewed 11 times across the period from 4 to 24 years of age. Parents ' level of education averaged 16.0 years for the mother and 17.0 years for the father. By the time the participants had reached age 23-24, 2 had earned junior college degrees, 14 had earned a college degree, 4 were in graduate school, 1 had completed some college hours, 10 were

Methods: Data was collected from what they call a “3-wave study”. The authors studied 523 Spanish families all with children ranging from 9-13 years in the first wave (2007), 10-14 years in the second (2008), and 11-15 in the third (2009). Out of the 523 participants, 216 were boys and 307 were girls. The participants were randomly selected from 17 different schools in Madrid, Spain. The methods they used were assessing parental behavior from the Child Report of Parent Behavior Inventory. This uses three dimensions to assess both mothers and fathers. The three dimensions used are: Communication/ Positive Affect, Positive Control, and Kindness/ Hospitality. These measures reflected the instability of the mother or father’s behavior throughout the years and was able to be considered a quantitative component in the relationship between the parent and child. As part of the study the children were asked to take a survey during the session once a year for three years, the session normally lasted 1.5 hours, and participation from the students was voluntary. The survey consisted of a variety of questions about their