There are literally thousands of books, strategies, articles, study areas, and practitioners touting that they have the key to adjustment, personal growth, or self-help related to one or more of life’s many challenges. You can see their advertisements on late night television. You can read their books. You can pay their practitioners to guide you through a specific therapy or counseling session. You can explore hundreds of unique study areas including astrology, acupuncture, stress management, hypnosis, psychological counseling, nutrition, self-esteem building, smoking cessation therapy, alcoholism recovery groups, and on and on.
Try a short experiment. Go to an online book vendor and type “self help books” in the search tool. How many results do you get? Notice the topics and titles as you quickly peruse your results.
If you were to want to select one of the resources, how would you know which is credible? And how would you know for whom it is effective and whether or not it takes into account cultural differences or other diversity factors that make individuals and their life challenges unique? Finally, how can you tell if the resource and strategies within it have been researched using sound scientific methods?
As a first step in the exploration of psychological adjustment and personal growth and development, it is important to determine 1) where the information comes from, 2) if the information is credible, and 3) how the information applies to all types of individuals.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Review Chapter 1 of Psychology and the Challenges of Life, focusing on the definitions of adjustment and growth, as well as how diversity influences adjustment, how to critically think about adjustment resources, and methods for scientific investigation of adjustment topics.
• Consider the relationship between and among psychological adjustment, personal growth and development, and life’s challenges.
• Read Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask on the Berkeley University Libraries Web site.
• Select a strategy, book, article, Web site, or other resource that is designed to help an individual with a life challenge(s).
• Think about how this information was developed, who the information is designed for, if the information has been scientifically studied, who is making the claim, and if it passes a critical thinking test.
• Watch the following short video: The Placebo Effect.
• Watch the following animation: The Art of Prediction
Also think about whether the resource or strategy, etc., is designed to help a person adjust to a problem or grow beyond the problem by creating a healthier response to life.
Try a short experiment. Go to an online book vendor and type “self help books” in the search tool. How many results do you get? Notice the topics and titles as you quickly peruse your results.
If you were to want to select one of the resources, how would you know which is credible? And how would you know for whom it is effective and whether or not it takes into account cultural differences or other diversity factors that make individuals and their life challenges unique? Finally, how can you tell if the resource and strategies within it have been researched using sound scientific methods?
As a first step in the exploration of psychological adjustment and personal growth and development, it is important to determine 1) where the information comes from, 2) if the information is credible, and 3) how the information applies to all types of individuals.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Review Chapter 1 of Psychology and the Challenges of Life, focusing on the definitions of adjustment and growth, as well as how diversity influences adjustment, how to critically think about adjustment resources, and methods for scientific investigation of adjustment topics.
• Consider the relationship between and among psychological adjustment, personal growth and development, and life’s challenges.
• Read Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask on the Berkeley University Libraries Web site.
• Select a strategy, book, article, Web site, or other resource that is designed to help an individual with a life challenge(s).
• Think about how this information was developed, who the information is designed for, if the information has been scientifically studied, who is making the claim, and if it passes a critical thinking test.
• Watch the following short video: The Placebo Effect.
• Watch the following animation: The Art of Prediction
Also think about whether the resource or strategy, etc., is designed to help a person adjust to a problem or grow beyond the problem by creating a healthier response to life.
Finally, consider how the study of diversity, critical thinking, and research contributes to an understanding of the psychology of adjustment.
The assignment (2 pages): APA style format, absolutely no Plagiarism and must cited with references, special instructions by Professor. Thank you
For the strategy, book, article, Web site, or other resource you have selected:
(1)Briefly describe the resource and explain why you selected it?
The assignment (2 pages): APA style format, absolutely no Plagiarism and must cited with references, special instructions by Professor. Thank you
For the strategy, book, article, Web site, or other resource you have selected:
(1)Briefly describe the resource and explain why you selected it?
(2)Explain specifically what this resource recommends in terms of behavior and action steps for psychological adjustment to a specific life challenge(s) and then what, if anything, it suggests for personal growth and self-development?
(3)Explain how these concepts—psychological adjustment, personal growth and development, and life’s challenges—are related to one another?
(4)Explain how critical thinking, scientific research, and diversity were (or were not) taken into consideration in the development of this resource?
(5)Explain the contribution of the study of diversity, critical thinking, and research to an understanding of the psychology of adjustment?
Resources:
• Readings
• Review Course Preview and read Course Introduction.
• Course Text: Nevid, J. S. & Rathus, S. A. (2013). Psychology and the challenges of life: Adjustment in the new millennium (12th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
•
o Chapter 1, “Psychology and the Challenges of Life” (pp. 2-38)
o Chapter 2, “Personality,” Modules 2.1 -2.5 (pp. 40-76 only)
Media
• Classical Conditioning
Resources:
• Readings
• Review Course Preview and read Course Introduction.
• Course Text: Nevid, J. S. & Rathus, S. A. (2013). Psychology and the challenges of life: Adjustment in the new millennium (12th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
•
o Chapter 1, “Psychology and the Challenges of Life” (pp. 2-38)
o Chapter 2, “Personality,” Modules 2.1 -2.5 (pp. 40-76 only)
Media
• Classical Conditioning
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=mininav&bcsId=3631&itemId=0470079894&assetId=115402&resourceId=10556&newwindow=true
Click here to view a transcript of Classical Conditioning
• The Placebo Effect
• The Placebo Effect
http://higheredbcs.wiley.com/legacy/college/nevid/0470079894/videos/html_pages/placeboeffect.html
Click here to view a transcript of The Placebo Effect
• The Art of Prediction
• The Art of Prediction
http://bcs.wiley.com/he-bcs/Books?action=mininav&bcsId=3631&itemId=0470079894&assetId=115401&resourceId=10556&newwindow=true
Web site
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
• Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
This site provides an excellent tutorial on how to evaluate the credibility of Internet resources.
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