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Overview

You are a member of SNHU’s champion debate club. You have had a successful season and are well on your way to the College Debate Bowl championship. Your team’s objective for this event will be to prepare a defense for a position on the following topic: Which impacts human behavior more: nature or nurture?

In the weeks before the debate, each member of the team is assigned a specific behavior or response and you were assigned to focus on stress. This will help the team argue its side, as well as counter the opposing viewpoint. Because you don’t yet know which side you will be on, your goal is to give as much objective information as possible.

Prompt

You will use your webtext to complete the milestone.

For your graphic organizer, you must address the rubric criteria listed below:

1. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the neuroscience perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
2. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the evolutionary perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
3. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavior genetics perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
4. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the psychodynamic perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
5. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the behavioral perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
6. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the cognitive perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.
7. Summarize your opinion on why nature or nurture is more significant for the social-cultural perspective of psychology. Your response should be a minimum of 3 to 5 sentences.

What to Submit

You will use your Soomo webtext writing template to complete the milestone and download your completed graphic organizer. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

M9 Q1

What is a mental disorder?  As a group, please address all of the following points (each person need only contribute to at least one).

a) Compare and contrast the definition in DSM-IV from the proposed revision for DSM-5.  Do you see any significant changes?

b) Do you think the DSM definition is adequate?  If not, what concerns do you have?  Have you seen those concerns expressed elsewhere (sources in the textbook, lectures, or elsewhere)?

M9 Q2

Diagnosis.  In the lecture and readings you have encountered some curious facts about mental disorder diagnoses:  Depression rates are higher among women than men; autism and ADHD rates have risen dramatically; the frequency of schizophrenia is stable over time but varies from one country to another.

Comment on one or more of these facts, indicating what you think might be causing it:  Does it reflect something “real” about the frequency of that mental disorder, or does it stem from something else?  Also relate your group’s comments to major issues that concern the diagnosing of mental disorders in general.

M9 Q3

Playing Amateur Psychologist.  The American Psychiatric Association’s web site about the DSM says that no one who is not properly trained should ever use it to try to diagnose mental disorders.  But we are going to do it anyway.  Sort of.  Just not on real people.

Give an example of a fictional character who you think fits one of the diagnostic categories from the DSM.  (It can be a character from a book, TV show, movie, or any other source so long as it is not a real person.)  Explain why you think the diagnosis fits, giving examples of how the specific diagnostic criteria apply to the actions of this character.  Try not to duplicate the choice of anyone who has already posted.

Each Discussion should be 150-200 words

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An article critique is important to learn to develop your literature review and to understand the content in a journal article. You learn how to understand the authors points as related to the study as you evaluate the study. When you critique a study, the following is required:

1. Name(s) of the author(s)

2. Title of article

3. Title of journal, volume number, date, month and page numbers

4. Statement of the problem or issue discussed

5. The author’s purpose, approach or methods, hypothesis, and major conclusions.  

Include the following as appropriate: (this is your commentary on the study)

• Is the title of the article appropriate and clear?
• Is the abstract specific, representative of the article, and in the correct form?
• Is the purpose of the article made clear in the introduction?
• Do you find errors of fact and interpretation? (This is a good one! You won’t believe how often authors misinterpret or misrepresent the work of others. You can check on this by looking up for yourself the references the author cites.)
• Is all of the discussion relevant?
• Has the author cited the pertinent, and only the pertinent, literature? If the author has included inconsequential references, or references that are not pertinent, suggest deleting them.
• Have any ideas been overemphasized or underemphasized? Suggest specific revisions.
• Should some sections of the manuscript be expanded, condensed or omitted?
• Are the author’s statements clear? Challenge ambiguous statements. Suggest by examples how clarity can be achieved, but do not merely substitute your style for the author’s.
• What underlying assumptions does the author have?
• Has the author been objective in his or her discussion of the topic?