Briefly summarize Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense argument, making sure to outline Plantinga's argument in detail.

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INSTRUCTIONS: Please choose one of the following questions and post an answer/response by Thursday 11:59pm ET. Also please make sure to respond to at least two posts of your classmates and/or the instructor by Sunday 11:59pm ET. To earn full credit for this discussion assignment you need to make three substantive posts (see Discussion Guidelines under Course Home). Make sure to include references to the course materials in your responses.
(1) The philosophical problem of evil basically involves three claims which seem to be mutually incompatible: (1) God is all-powerful and all-knowing. (2) God is perfectly good. (3) Evil exists. The reason that these claims are considered to be incompatible is that if God is all good and all-knowing, then it seems likely He would not allow evil to exist, if He could help it. Thus, if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, then God should be able to prevent evil. Yet evil exists. Thus, the existence of evil seems to imply that God does not exist, or He is either not all-powerful or not all-knowing. This argument, in short, is the problem of evil. Do you find this argument convincing or is the problem of evil similar to asking whether God could create a rock so large that He cannot move it? Why or why not? When answering this question make sure to include references to the assigned readings in your response.
(2) Briefly summarize Alvin Plantinga’s Free Will Defense argument, making sure to outline Plantinga’s argument in detail. Did you find Plantinga’s argument confusing or convincing? How does Plantinga’s argument relate to the problem of evil? Do you think Plantinga’s argument has solved the problem of evil? Why or why not? When answering this question make sure to include references to the assigned readings in your response.

Discuss how the concept of intelligence is different from academic achievement

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 Use the Electronic Reserve Readings, the University Library, or other resources to locate at least three articles concerning intelligence testing. Create a brochure for a local elementary school. Co

Use the Electronic Reserve Readings, the University Library, or other resources to locate at least three articles concerning intelligence testing.
Create a brochure for a local elementary school. Consider your audience, as this information would likely be distributed during meetings where a child might have received an intelligence test. Your brochure would be given to parents, guardians, and others to help them better understand the purpose of intelligence testing.
Include the following in your brochure:

  • Provide a brief overview of at least two theories of intelligence related to the content of your selected articles to help your audience understand what intelligence testing accomplishes.
  • Discuss methods of measuring intellectual functioning.
  • Discuss how the concept of intelligence is different from academic achievement.
  • Include three credible, peer-reviewed references.Create a brochure for a local elementary school. Consider your audience, as this information would likely be distributed during meetings where a child might have received an intelligence test. Your brochure would be given to parents, guardians, and others to help them better understand the purpose of intelligence testing

Think about Roger's view of human nature and how it influences the practice of counseling. Specifically, how do you think the actualization tendency influences the practice of Peron-Centered Therapy?

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Respond to BOTH questions below. Be sure to consult and list AT LEAST ONE outside resource and ABSOLUTELY MUST refer to the textbook readings. Pictures of the assigned chapters (7 & 9) are attatched below.
Question # 1: Person-Centered Chapter 7 (answer all parts of the question)
Think about Roger’s view of human nature and how it influences the practice of counseling. Specifically, how do you think the actualization tendency influences the practice of Peron-Centered Therapy? Make sure to make reference to the text to support your points.
Question # 2: Behavioral Therapy Chapter 9 (answer all parts of the question)
Put yourself in the place of a client and think of a particular problem you might have that involves some form of fear or avoidance.
As the client, would you want your therapist to use in vivo desensitization or flooding to treat the fear?
Identify the fear
Select a treatment (desensitization or flooding)
Explain how you would apply the treatment
Explain why you selected the particular method of treatment.

Explain the four different types of replications and the purpose of each.

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Assignment: Replication, Generalization, and External Validity
In the Discussion for this week, you addressed one of the threats to the internal validity of a study, that is, confounding variables. This Application Assignment will challenge you to consider possible threats to external validity. Generalization is the extent to which relations among variables in research studies can be demonstrated among a wide variety of people and across different settings. When the results of a research study are generalizable to additional populations and settings, the study demonstrates external validity. However, if a research study is only valid for the particular sample used in the study, then it is not very helpful to the study of psychology.
In the example provided in the Discussion introduction, two online student groups used different study strategies. Now imagine a human resource (HR) manager at a corporation, struggling with the concept of reading comprehension among employees in the workplace setting, wanted to try the new study strategy that the online course instructor had researched. Assume that the online college course instructor had resolved possible issues relating to internal validity and found that the new study strategy was effective at improving reading comprehension. The HR manager presumes that the results of the study with online college students will generalize to her training course at work. However, the replication of the study revealed that, although the new strategy was found to work well for online students, the results did not generalize to the training course in the work setting. Therefore, the original study lacks external validity.
Replications of studies, such as the one in this example, are essential to demonstrate generalization and external validity. This week, you will learn about four types of replication procedures, and you will develop original examples of each procedure with the goal of demonstrating generalization and external validity.
To prepare:
Review Chapter 13 from the course text.
The Assignment (1–2 pages):
Explain the four different types of replications and the purpose of each. Include for each type of replication a brief original psychological study example (i.e., make up your own) that is different for each type of replication (i.e., do not build on the same example). Plan to devote a short paragraph for each.