Assignment 2: Internet-Based Psychological Interventions

Post your response to the topic below with at least 300 words in the Discussion Area by the due date assigned. Cite information from at least one academic source, such as your textbook or an article from the Argosy Online Library, to support your statements. Use current APA standards to properly cite your source(s). Review and respond to your classmates’ posts through the end of the week, asking for clarification, suggesting a different perspective, and/or indicating how their responses illustrate development of their critical thinking skills.

Discussion Topic

With so many individuals using the Internet today, the psychology of the individual, the family, the community, and the society has changed. Some might argue that the traditional psychological theories cannot be applied and therefore psychology as an entire field needs to be revamped to incorporate the impact and the application of internet technology. As a student completing a bachelor’s degree in psychology, your future career will undoubtedly incorporate the use of the Internet in very new ways. Read the following article from the AUO Library:

Ritterband, L. M., Gonder-Frederick, L., Cox, D. J., Clifton, A. D., West, R. W., & Borowitz, S. M. (2003). Internet interventions: In review,
in use, and into the future. Professional Psychology: Research and
Practice, 34(5), 527-534.

Identify a problem area or psychological issue that could benefit from the use of an internet intervention. Now, using what you learned from the article, propose an internet intervention using the following guidelines:

1. What problem area would the internet intervention address?
2. Provide a general description of the proposed internet intervention.
3. How would the effectiveness of the proposed intervention be tested?
4. What are any legal and ethical issues related to the proposed intervention? Include the specific APA ethical standard(s) in your response.

1. For this assignment, research two of the experts listed below who are in the Discovery Channel program to determine his/her credibility in his/her field, and post your findings here BEFORE you view the programs. The main purpose of the assignment is to discover and document your steps in determining how websites are or are not credible. Check at least 5 websites for each person when doing your research. Please prepare a Works Consulted page in proper MLA 8 format. Please see the attached for more detailed instructions. If you quote from any of your sources in your report, please prepare a Works Cited page and use proper intext citations.

More detailed directions:

Discovery Channel Program Exercise in Support and Credibility of Experts by Googling — minimum 7 pages of writing (approx. 1250 words) half for each person you choose (625).

How can you tell which online information comes from reliable authorities? Anytime you use someone else’s words or ideas in your writing or formal speaking you should be aware who that person is; you can start now investigating the reliability of any sources you are thinking of quoting or paraphrasing.

We like to think that if information is in print, it is reliable. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. People with unjust biases and even those who want to sow hatred find their way into print. In general, works that appear in print go through a much more extensive vetting process than what appears online, but there are so-called vanity presses that will publish pretty much anything if the author will pay the cost. There are also all sorts of periodicals that express slanted—and often conflicting—points of view, some of them offensive to many of us. That’s what comes of freedom of the press.

When you go online, how can you start to weed through a list of results to find reliable authorities? For one thing, you can learn to “read” the list of results you get from Google or other search engines.

Please document the following by taking screen shots and explaining in prose as you work through your research in order to discover the possible credibility of two of the experts from the list. Please number each part of your assignment.

1. Choose two:

Dr. Robert Folk, a geologist

Dr. Monica Grady, a meteorite specialist

Dr. Michael Persinger, neurologist and geologist

Dr. Joe Nickell, a paranormal investigator

Dr. David M. Jacobs, an historian

Dr. Jack Cohen, a reproductive biologist

Garry Wood, an ambulance driver in Edinburgh, Scotland

1. Take a screen shot of the list of links that appear. Be sure to post this and all other screen shots in your paper. Before you click on a link, examine the first ten to fifteen entries in the resulting list. Yes, you may use Wikipedia as one source for this assignment. Look at each URL and see what you can learn from it. Also notice any other information that might affect your opinion of the source’s reliability or objectivity.

• Are there sources that you immediately trust as reliable? Which ones, and why?
• Are there any that you immediately assume will present a biased perspective? Which ones, and why?
• Are there any that are completely unfamiliar to you? If so, choose two or three and speculate what type of source each might be.

1. Now click on a couple of the sources that you trusted as being reliable. Identify exactly who wrote the document that you have accessed. If you cannot find an author, what does that suggest? If there is an author, search that person’s name and see if you find convincing credentials that support the assumption that he or she is qualified to write on the subject at hand.
2. Do the same with at least two sources that you predicted would be biased. Does further investigation support your assumption?
3. Go to at least one of the sources that were unfamiliar to you. Once you look more closely at the source, do you find any evidence of its reliability or lack thereof? Explain.
4. Based on your research, do you think the expert is credible in his/her field? Give at least two examples why.

** IMPORTANT** A sample of this assignment is attached!

Assignment 1: Developing a Public Relations Plan, Part 1
Due Week 4 and worth 280 points
Research a nonprofit organization that has faced a public relations crisis within the past few years.
Imagine that you were employed at this nonprofit at the time of the crisis and were tasked by the Board of Directors to develop a public relations plan to persuade the public that the facts of the matter are not as bad as what has been reported in the media.

Write a 4-5 page paper in which you:

1. State the name of the organization and describe what its mission and purpose.
2. Explain
   in detail the facts of the event that generated the negative publicity
   and why this situation would create negative publicity.
3. Create the specific goals your campaign will try to achieve, and justify why you chose these goals.
4. Design and explain the steps you will take to achieve your goals.
5. Compose an evaluation plan and explain how you will use it to assess the outcome of your campaign.

Your assignment must:

• Be
  typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with
  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA
  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional
  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the tile of the
  assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title,
  and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in
  the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Explain
  the basic functions of public relations, how it can be used to support
  corporate goals, and how it can be integrated into marketing strategy.
• Analyze
  a communication process, identify dysfunctional aspects of the process,
  and develop action plans to improve the communications
• Formulate
  and plan the implementation of public relations strategies to
  accomplish stated public relations objectives relative to various
  publics (media, employees, communities, governments, consumers, and
  international entities).
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in public relations.
• Write clearly and concisely about public relations issues using proper writing mechanics.

I need someone who has read/understands the book to kill a mocking bird. I need in atleast four pages a analysis of the book with these three questions:

1) Choose three characters from the novel who are of distinctly different social classes. Describe each character and the social class to which each belongs. How does the society of Maycomb differently socialize members of these social classes?(Be specific, use examples.) What are the consequences of these different forms of socialization?

2) Prior to the trial of Mr. Robinson, Maycomb society is a functioning, balanced society. Make an argument for how this community is balanced. Be sure to justify the functions of the Ewells and African Americans, as well as the functions of the Finches and the Radleys.

3)Prior to the trial of Mr. Robinson, Maycomb society is a functioning, balanced society. Make an argument for how this community is balanced. Be sure to justify the functions of the Ewells and African Americans, as well as the functions of the Finches and the Radleys.