Psychological Foundations and Research
Budget: $30 – $250 USD
Everything must be in APA format. Use the reading attached and/or any other outside reading. Must be 200 to 250 words.
Project:
The five main psychological domains and also covered some of the main perspectives in psychology. Think about some of the various perspectives you learned about (including psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, humanism, and the biological approach), and use ONE of your choosing to explain the following behavior:
Charlie is a 12 year old boy in the 6th grade who resides with his mother and two older siblings. While Charlie has always done well in school and cooperated with his parents and other adults, there has been a recent change in his behaviors. Charlie now acts up at home and at school. There has been a lot of conflict with his mom over the house rules (doing chores, phone use) and he has been ignoring assignments and skipping class at school to be with his friends. While Charlie lives within a caring and stable environment now, there have been problems in the past. His parents were divorced when he was 3 and there was a long battle to decide custody.
1. Be sure to give a well-founded explanation of how a psychologist would explain Charlie's behavior from ONE of the domains described in the chapter Psychological Foundations. Defend your approach using information from the text and/or outside sources.
2. Design a study using one of the research methods described in the chapter on Psychological Research (e.g., experiment, observation, case study, survey, correlational) to test a hypothesis you form about these types of teenage behavior and it's influence (there are MANY topics you could choose from). Be sure to share your hypothesis, your chosen research method, variables of study, along with a brief explanation of the study you propose.
Project:
The five main psychological domains and also covered some of the main perspectives in psychology. Think about some of the various perspectives you learned about (including psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, humanism, and the biological approach), and use ONE of your choosing to explain the following behavior:
Charlie is a 12 year old boy in the 6th grade who resides with his mother and two older siblings. While Charlie has always done well in school and cooperated with his parents and other adults, there has been a recent change in his behaviors. Charlie now acts up at home and at school. There has been a lot of conflict with his mom over the house rules (doing chores, phone use) and he has been ignoring assignments and skipping class at school to be with his friends. While Charlie lives within a caring and stable environment now, there have been problems in the past. His parents were divorced when he was 3 and there was a long battle to decide custody.
1. Be sure to give a well-founded explanation of how a psychologist would explain Charlie's behavior from ONE of the domains described in the chapter Psychological Foundations. Defend your approach using information from the text and/or outside sources.
2. Design a study using one of the research methods described in the chapter on Psychological Research (e.g., experiment, observation, case study, survey, correlational) to test a hypothesis you form about these types of teenage behavior and it's influence (there are MANY topics you could choose from). Be sure to share your hypothesis, your chosen research method, variables of study, along with a brief explanation of the study you propose.