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Prior to beginning this journal entry, review the “Cognition: Overview and Recent Trends” (pp. 3-8), “Neuroscience Bases of Learning” (pp. 9-15), and “Learning in a Cross-Cultural Perspective” (pp. 16-22) articles in your text, and read the American Educational Research Association’s Code of Ethics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. It is important for you to have already completed your initial post in the “Learning and Cognition Perspectives” discussion before you compose this journal entry. Each week’s journal entry will include four parts. Each part does not need to be lengthy, but should demonstrate your understanding of the course content addressed within the week.

Part 1: Learning acquisition and development is a key area in the study of learning and cognition. Each week, you will include vocabulary from your readings in your journal that was unfamiliar to you or might be unfamiliar to your peers. Identify three to five words from this week’s content and research each word in the context of learning and cognition. Explain, in your own words, what each word means and how it is used in the context of learning and cognition.

Part 2: Based on this week’s discourse and content, access the Ashford University Library and research one peer-reviewed article pertaining to social processing that was published within the last 10 years. Provide a summary explanation of the findings on social processing in the context of your article. What implications should scholars consider based on this information? Support your explanation utilizing your course sources and your researched article.

Part 3: Consider the events from the past week of your life. Did you or someone you know experience anything that supports your conclusions about the effects of emotions and social learning on behaviors? Describe one personal real-life example of an occurrence that supports the implications of social learning on our behaviors and beliefs. As you share this information, consider and apply the professional standards found in “12.06 Anonymity of Sources”found in the AERA Code of Ethics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Part 4: Based on the AERA Code of Ethics (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., if you have described an event that occurred with a friend or a colleague, what do your resources suggest may possibly affect how you personally interpret the event? What is the possibility for bias on your part, and how can it be avoided (or should it be)? In what ways can you address your personal biases when explaining observations to be ethical in reporting of the information? How important is this process to the maintenance of professional standards?

Each journal entry should be 400 to 700 words in length and should establish your understanding of the content, apply appropriate methods of ethical practices, and exhibit appropriate scaffolding of personal experience to the week’s content.

Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your journal entry.

Evaluate the internal processes or strategies within an organization in which you are involved, such as your workplace, school, church, or community group, in order to identify a problem that provides an opportunity for innovation. Then, determine an innovative solution for addressing that problem. Examples of potential solutions are entering a new market, implementing a new practice or process, or even changing management structures. The ultimate goal of your solution should be to increase the diffusion of innovation within the organization and contribute to a culture that appreciates innovation as a key to competitive advantage and organizational success.

Though your final paper will not be due until the end of the course, you should identify your problem and generate potential solutions early on. Begin drafting your implementation plan in stages as you work through the course topics. As with your CLC project, you should research and select a model for evaluating both the feasibility of your idea and the implementation plan.

1. Describe the problem your innovation targets. What is the scope of the problem and which stakeholders, both within the organization and without, does it impact?
2. Describe your innovation and explain how it addresses the problem. How will it meet the needs of the organization and all stakeholders involved?
3. How does the innovation contribute to the organization’s competitive advantage?
4. Develop an implementation plan for effectively diffusing the innovation within the organization. Make sure the plan addresses potential resistance and obstacles, including people and processes.
5. Identify an appropriate method that could be used for measuring the impact of the innovation on the organization. Explain why you think this is a relevant measure.
6. Finally, assume your innovation is adopted by the organization. Make recommendations for additional improvements within in this organization (in processes, practices, structures, etc.) that could create and sustain momentum for innovation.

Include at least eight in-text citations from at least five secondary resources from your research.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

submit to the M5 Assignment 2 a mock forensic assessment report based on a patient in a selected vignette. Provide your diagnostic impressions based on the DSM-5 criteria.

Complete the following:

• Improve your interview and referral questions for the case vignette you selected in M1 Assignment 3.

Using this case vignette, add to your referral questions by integrating the feedback that you received from your instructor in M4 Assignment 2 on your mock interview questions and formulated hypothesis on why the individual needs the referral.

Example Referral Questions:

• As a forensic mental health professional, what factors do you need to consider in your psychological testing for the forensic assessment report?
• What are the pertinent multicultural consideration?
• What behavioral observations do you make about the client by reading the case vignette?
• What are your assessment options in working with the client?
• What standard and accepted psychological tests might you apply to your client in a forensic setting? Select from the instruments you researched in M3 Assignment 2 RA.
• How will you recognize and evaluate your client’s offender behaviors associated with malingering and deception?
• What theoretical orientation do you want to use in this case for your treatment recommendations?
• What is the case scenario that you have selected?
• What is the reason for referral?
• What is the purpose of the forensic assessment and report?
• What is the nature of the problem presented in your selected case vignette?
• What is the context in which the forensic assessment report will be used?
• What is the background of your client? What are the symptoms displayed by your client and their significance in this case?
• What is the mental status of your client? Be sure to elaborate on every major component addressed in the mental status examination.
• What interview type and approach did you use with your client?
• What tests are appropriate to use in your forensic assessment report? Identify one intelligence test, one objective personality test, and one projective test.
• What collateral information will you use in the process of the evaluation?
• How will you present your impressions of the client?
• Revise your copy of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report on the basis of your instructorâs feedback.

Using the Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report template that you downloaded for M4 Assignment 2, revise your evaluation and interpretation of the information provided to you in the case vignette that you selected. Synthesize the information you collected to create a forensic mental health professional individual assessment report. Your findings should be in a report format.

In a 10- to 12-page report, include only the following components:

• Reason for Referral: Explain the objective of your case vignette analysis, clearly bringing out the aspects or reasons that motivated you to carry out the study.
• Presentation: Create mock interview data and collateral information (you are to identify the questions to ask in the interview). Provide a synopsis of the interview. To support the mental status of your client, provide data based on your forensic assessment report and the mental status components you have identified.
• Current Life Situation and Background Information: Explain the problem provided in your selected case vignette using the interview and mental status data. How does the data relate to the background and multicultural characteristics of your client and your behavioral observations?
• Objective Testing: Identify the assessment instruments you would recommend to evaluate the client and explain the rationale for your recommendations. Describe the objective tests you have selected and their use. How did you apply these tests to your selected case vignette? According to your study, what is your analysis of the symptoms displayed by your client? What ethical and multicultural issues do you need to address? You will apply what you have learned from M3 Assignment 2 RA to this section.
• Provide your diagnostic impressions based on DSM-5 criteria. What is your principal diagnosis? What is your secondary diagnosis? Are there other conditions that may be the focus of clinical attention to consider?
• Conclusion and Recommendations: What is your hypothesis after taking into account the mental status examination, the interview, personality tests, and the symptom analysis? Explain your hypothesis and substantiate it using instances from your case study. Discuss your results with conclusions and recommendations.

The final version of Forensic Mental Health Professional Individual Assessment Report should contain all the assigned components and the corresponding information and include revisions and improvements based on your feedback from M4 Assignment 2.

Synthesize the data and write a reflection statement in 2â3 pages.

In a separate document, address the following:

• Describe your professional role and relationship with the court and the third party requesting the assessment or evaluation.
• Explain the hypothesis you have formulated.
• Explain why you chose the tests for the assessment of the client.
• Discuss potential ethical dilemmas that might arise in your assessment of the client.
• Discuss the pertinent multicultural perspectives you considered.
• Explain how you would prepare yourself to defend your evaluation in the court setting or to relevant third parties. Be sure to support your explanation with professional literature.
• If you recommended treatment for your client, discuss the evidence-based approaches used with the disorder you diagnosed.
• Discuss the influence of cultural factors on the assessment process.

Your final deliverables are:

• A selected case vignette
• A list of interview and referral questions
• The assessment template
• The final assessment report
• A reflection statement

Your report and reflection statement combined should be approximately 12â15 pages. You are to utilize outside resources in your reflection statement only.

All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

Professional Tracks and Boundaries of Competence

Based on the required readings at the beginning of this unit:

• Write a brief discussion of the different professional tracks in sport psychology.
• Identify the boundaries of competence between the various tracks in the sport psychology arena, tracks such as certified consultants, sport psychologists, performance enhancement consultants, and so on.
• Describe what each career track specializes in and how that differs from the other tracks, based on your understanding of each track’s education and training.

In this assignment, you begin working toward a culminating assignment in Week 5. This week, you will conduct a job analysis of the position of commercial airline pilot.

Read the “Making Air Travel Safer Through Crew Resource Management” customer relationship management (CRM) article on the American Psychological Association website, which you will use for assignments throughout this course.

Select one job analysis method and information from O*NET OnLine website to conduct a job analysis for the position of commercial airline pilot.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper that addresses the following:

• Justify your use of this method by comparing it to at least one other job analysis method.
• Evaluate various psychological tests and other methods that would be important to consider when hiring commercial pilots.
• What legal and ethical concerns should organization consider when hiring these pilots?
• Differentiate between various performance methods that would be most suitable for this particular job.