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What is the importance of biology

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Identifying Your Assumptions

Your initial post in this discussion has two parts; be sure to address both of them.
First, describe your own assumptions about human nature and behavior,  using the questions below to help clarify your theoretical assumptions.  Next, choose from the schools of thought presented in the multimedia  piece, Introduction to Schools of Psychological Thought. Is there one or  more school of thought that seems to match your own assumptions? How?  Be specific and use the four attributes outlined in this unit’s  Assumptions About Human Behavior discussion to discuss how your personal  theory aligns with a school of thought.
In preparing your response, you may use these questions to help define your existing assumptions:

  • What is the importance of biology? How much animal heritage remains in humans?
  • Are people basically good, bad, or neutral?
  • Is human behavior determined by past events and training, or by genetics? Is there free will?
  • How much influence is exerted by nature and by nurture?
  • How are the mind and body related?
  • What is the relative importance of feelings, thoughts, and actions  in human behavior? How should we go about finding answers to questions  about human beings?

analyzes the problem you chose specifically for your state

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You are a staff member for a state legislator. Many issues in your state have recently become a hot topic. The legislator has formed a committee to address some of the issues brought to them by staff. The legislator’s intention is to hear policy briefs and then implement action to begin solving some of the hot topic issues in the state. You have decided to present a policy brief on an issue that you are passionate about. You will need to prepare a short presentation to present your brief to the committee. Do the following:
Review the following to help you structure your policy brief correctly:
https://www.governor.wa.gov/tags/policy-brief
https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/Council/Issues/RegulatingShortTermRentals/Regulating-Short-Term-Rentals—Policy-Brief.pdf
Part I:
Write a 500-750 word policy brief that analyzes the problem you chose specifically for your state. The policy should be concise and follow the general structure of such a policy brief. At a minimum, your policy brief should contain the following:
A title
A summary of the problem
At least 3 possible solutions
Statement and explanation of the recommended solution with rationale
The implications and benefits of the recommended policy
Brief conclusion
At least 3 sources used to support claims
Graphics and/or other visual elements so it reflects the formatting of a professional policy brief
Part II:
Create a presentation that briefly outlines the policy. Include your decision making process for presenting the information contained in the policy.
Use two to three scholarly resources to support your decision making process, some of the sources may be the same as sources used to support your recommendations in the policy brief.
You will turn in both your policy brief and presentation. See the document “submitting multiple attachments” for assistance in attaching multiple documents to the assignment dropbox.
Your presentation will require an outline of your presentation speech or speaker notes depending on the format chosen for the presentation. For PowerPoint, 8-12 slides are required with speaker notes of 50-75 words for each slide. Reference information must be provided at the end of the presentation. Reference and title slides do not count as part of the slide count.

Identify and describe the diverse population and the unique characteristics and/or the distinctive needs of the population in 3 to 4 brief sentences

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 Piedra and Engstrom (2009) noted how the life model “remains general and unspecific regarding factors that affect immigrant families” (p. 272). Recall that there will never be one theory or a model that can fully explain a phenomenon or lay out all the steps and procedures when working with complex issues that clients present to social workers. Recognizing this, Piedra and Engstrom selected another theory in the immigration literature—segmented assimilation theory. They identified concepts from segmented assimilation theory to “fill in” the gaps that the life model does not address.
To prepare: (No More Than 500 words)

  • Review the life model.
  • Review this article in the Learning Resources: Piedra, L. M., & Engstrom, D. W. (2009). Segmented assimilation theory and the life model: An integrated approach to understanding immigrants and their children. Social Work, 54(3), 270–277. http://dx.doi.org.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/sw/54.3.270

Using an example from your fieldwork experience and a diverse population you encountered at the agency (for example, in Piedra and Engstrom’s article, it was immigrant families), respond to the following:

  • Identify and describe the diverse population and the unique characteristics and/or the distinctive needs of the population in 3 to 4 brief sentences.
  • Explain how the life model can be applied for the population.
  • Explain where the gaps are in applying the life model for this population.
  • When looking at the gaps, explain which theory might be helpful in filling the gaps of the life model when working with this population.

conduct your own observation of communication behaviors.

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Human communication, in essence, is about how humans interact and relay information to one another. It involves a wide variety of verbal and nonverbal methods and operates at the conscious and unconscious levels. The ways in which individuals communicate depend on many different variables, including age, social status, relationship (e.g., close friend versus new acquaintance), and culture. Psychological research on communication has also documented differences in communication based on gender.
These observed gender-based communication differences begin in childhood, with children often preferring same-sex play groups and demonstrating preferences for gender-typical styles of play. Differences continue through adulthood with variations in interaction style, language usage, leadership approaches, expression of emotion, and nonverbal behaviors (e.g., eye contact or touch). A great difficulty lies, however, in attempting to explain why gender-based communication differences exist. Is it possible to extricate sex and gender from the other aforementioned influences on communication? Research continues to search for trends in communication behavior to support theoretical explanations for gender differences.
For this Discussion, you will conduct your own observation of communication behaviors. You will analyze the behaviors for adherence to or difference from gender-typical behaviors in your culture and provide a theoretical argument for their potential causes.
To prepare

  • In a public place, such as a sporting event, the grocery store, the mall, a coffee shop, a park, or public transportation, conduct a 10- to 15-minute observation of the communication behaviors taking place around you. Write down your observations.
  • Consider the behaviors you observed that may be categorized as gender typical or atypical.

By Day 4

Post a summary of the gender typical and atypical behaviors you observed. What other factors (e.g., age differences, power differences, cultural context) might have influenced the individuals to display those behaviors? Provide a theoretical base to support your explanation of these behaviors.
Readings for this week:

Helgeson, V. S. (2017). Psychology of gender (5th ed.). New York, NY: Taylor and Francis.
Chapter 7, “Communication” (pp. 278–321)

Chaplin, T. M., & Aldao, A. (2012). Gender differences in emotion expression in children: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 139(4), 735–765. doi:10.1037/a0030737.
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.

Khazan , O. (2014, May). Vocal fry may hurt women‘s job prospects. The Atlantic. Retrieved from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/employers-look-down-on-women-with-vocal-fry/371811/