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Instructions This assignment provides you with an opportunity to analyze a real-world, peer-reviewed psychology journal article. You should find an article containing research that examines motivation, emotion, and social psychology. Begin by visiting the Columbia Southern University (CSU) Online Library to locate and choose a journal article in which motivation and emotion are viewed under the lens of social psychology. The article must be peer-reviewed and should be no older than 7 years. A good place to start your search is the PsycARTICLES database or the Academic Search Complete database. You can access these databases from the Databases box on the library homepage. For assistance in locating your article, you may find the following tutorial How to Find Journal Articles helpful. Additionally, you may find this How to Search in PsycARTICLES document useful. Once you have chosen your article, you will write an article critique that addresses the following elements. Explain the research methodology that was used in the study. Discuss social factors that influence people or groups to conform to the actions of others. Indicate how behaviors and motivation are impacted by the presence of others. Indicate the structures of the brain that are involved in emotion and motivation. Examine the article’s generalizability to various areas of psychology. In addition, your article critique should clearly identify the article’s premise and present an insightful and thorough analysis with strong arguments and evidence. You should present your own informed and substantiated opinion on the article’s content. You must use at least one source in addition to your chosen article to support your analysis and opinion. Your article critique must be a minimum of two pages in length, not including the title and reference pages. All sources used must be properly cited. Your article critique, including all references, must be formatted in APA style

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The Final Research Paper provides the opportunity for you to demonstrate your ability to apply the concepts covered throughout the course. This assignment must be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be at graduate level English. Use the University Virtual Library as well as online or hard copy research to find current articles on positive psychology from professional journals dated within the past 5 years. A minimum of six (6) current research articles are required to complete this assignment, as indicated below. The course texts are not to be used for this assignment.

Your paper should be 10 pages plus a title and reference page Prepare a comprehensive research paper in which you choose an area of research that is relevant and pertinent to Positive Psychology. Your research paper must include relevance to culture, age, gender et al., as well as applicable legal and ethical issues. Suggested topics (not limited to) Topic 1. Positive Psychology Concepts (to include any of the following) – Happiness – Optimism and helplessness – Mindfulness – Flow – Character strengths and virtues – Hope – Positive thinking – Resilience – Self-efficacy – plus other concepts

Prompt 1: The Developmental Debate on Gender Identification There is debate among developmental theorists as to what influences thoughts and behavior related to gender. For example, what influences a child to play with a doll versus a truck, or what influences a child to engage in active play versus passive play? Do we make these choices because of innate desires determined by biological factors, or is it because we have become socially conditioned to make certain choices? Review and identify the positions that developmental theorists take regarding the influences of gender, and describe what you believe influences gender identity most. Elaborate on your answer. Discussion Prompt 2: Learning Language Some experts emphasize the importance of adult reinforcement of early speech, others suggest that language learning is innate, biologically wired, while others believe it to be a biproduct of social impulses. Reflect on this week’s video, Out of the Mouths of Babes. Which language development theory does this video emphasize, and how can you tell? To support your answer, provide an example of one of the experiments conducted and explain how it fits in to the learning theory process you identified. What position do you take on the matter of language acquisition, and based on that position, would you advocate that parents read to children even before they start to talk? Explain your rationale.

Assignment Journal Entry Instructions 1. Plan a visit with a child you know, or spend some time in a park or on a playground, watching children interact. You can also locate home videos posted on YouTube or other video sharing sites. 2. In your journal using full sentences and paragraphs, give examples of how the children you observed demonstrated each the following (please comment on each behavior below): Sensorimotor behavior: object permanence testing or purposeful action Preoperational behavior: egocentrism, animism, artificialism, or objective responsibility Concrete operational behavior: decentration or subjective moral judgments 3. In the next part of the journal, think back to when you were a preteen. List examples of you or your friends’ behavior that was consistent with the following developmental theories (please comment on each theory below): deductive reasoning imaginary audience personal fable post-conventional moral reasoning ego identity and/or role diffusion

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1.Uploaded the scenario case study file. MUST USE. 2. Also, Please Please Please refer to the Instructions for Assessment 2 on how to conduct this assessment.

Essay Topic: Drawing on relevant nursing and social science literature, and using at least two examples from scenario Case Study 2, write an essay on the following topic: What are some important aspects of psychosocial development that occur in children between the ages of two and five years (2-5 years), and what influences this development?