During the last seven weeks of class, you have been asked to read several journal articles. You have also been asked to reflect on your cultural identity as you consider the many levels that constitute your identity. You also considered attribution, dialectics and how all of this is applied to interpersonal communication. For our final assignment, you will choose four articles from the articles you have been asked to read in class and/or from the article list provided for the Week 6 assignment and you will complete three items for each.

1.     Complete an APA reference for the article

2.     Complete an annotation of the article.

• The annotation is not a summary or paraphrase. In this paragraph, you will interpret and evaluate the contents of the article itself. It is a narrative paragraph of about 100 words providing information and assessment about the article.

3.     Write a reflection of your own intercultural communication connecting the information from the article as it applies to you personally (This section only can be written in first person).

• In this paragraph of about 100 words, relate the information that you have evaluated in the article to your own cultural identity and intercultural communication. This is a reflective piece where you are able to connect the information in theory to an understanding of your own identity.

DISCLAIMER:Originality of attachments will be verified by Turnitin. Both you and your instructor will receive the results.

In this discussion forum, you will assess the validity of popular assumptions and beliefs about problem solving. Please note that your answers need be supported by scientific evidence. For your initial post, complete the steps below:

1. Watch the video, Rory Sutherland: Sweat the Small Stuff (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., on how simplicity can benefit problem solving.

Topic: Laypersons and scientists alike often report that after having tried to solve a problem for an entire day, “sleeping on it” led to a solution. Does sleep indeed promote problem solving?

• 1. Select a theoretical view/model of problem solving (e.g., Gestalt psychology, information processing approach, etc.). What is the evidence that supports it? What evidence, if any, does not fit the model?
• 2. Are experts better at solving problems than non-experts? If so, what is responsible for experts’ superior performance? Is their superiority general or limited to their field of expertise?
• 3. Are there individual differences in problem-solving abilities? For instance, is working memory’s capacity linked to one’s ability to solve problems?

After you select a topic, access the Ashford University Library and Google Scholar and review the literature on problem solving. Then select a research article that answers the questions related to the selected topic. Finally, share the evidence you have uncovered and your critical examination of such evidence with the class. Your initial post must be a minimum of 300 words.

PHE4120- NO plagiarism No copy /paste—Recent references <500- Be detailed and stay on topic!!

Reducing Health Disparities

Create a 4-page Microsoft Word document that addresses the following:

· Compare the patterns of the major diseases of Hispanic/Latino groups and their rates and health effects between the other racial or ethnic groups living in the United States.

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· Identify at least one consequence that a lack of access to healthcare has on Hispanics/Latinos.

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· Explain why access to care issues will need to be monitored even more closely within the U.S. healthcare system beginning 2014.

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· Find at least two scholarly journal articles that discuss all or at least one of the topic areas related to Hispanic/Latino health disparities in the United States. Provide a synopsis of each article.

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· Explain what type of barrier(s) (structural, financial, or socio-cultural) each article examines? Describe at least two policies or strategies that can be implemented to improve access to healthcare services as they relate to the articles you reviewed.

PART 2

PHE4015- NO plagiarism No copy /paste—Recent references <500- Be detailed and stay on topic!!

Humanitarian Emergencies

On the basis of your research, create a 3-page report that addresses the following:

· How is the human rights–based approach (HRBA) necessary in these instances, or is it?

· What is an example of a complex humanitarian emergency in which the elements of the article apply? Discuss any ethical or unethical issues that may have arisen from this issue.

· How do the elements illustrated in this article relate to the 10 Essential Public Health Services?

Be sure to support your points for each of the components in parentheses with data from the program and outside research.

It is reasonable to admit that in four weeks you have been exposed to a great deal of information about the human mind! This assignment will give you the opportunity to examine how the knowledge that you have acquired during the past weeks may tie together. You will explore a phenomenon that interests you, highlight the methodologies used to study it, uncover the results obtained, and assess the validity of the knowledge acquired. These activities will make you aware of the intrinsic relationship between knowledge of specific mental and behavioral phenomena, as well as the limitations of the techniques used to study them. Knowledge in cognitive psychology is largely gathered by means of experiments. Thus, it is important that you become intimately familiar with this data-gathering method. The goal of the assignment is to ensure that you have a good understanding of specific cognitive psychological phenomena as well as experiments that are often used to investigate such phenomena. Abide by the instructions listed below:

• Watch the video, Experimental Research Methods in Psychology (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., on the experimental method.
• Go to the Ashford University Library or Google Scholar and select a peer-reviewed article on a topic of interest among those discussed in our class. If you prefer, you may select an article from the recommended resources.
• Describe the main research questions that the study attempts to answer. Keep in mind that a description of the main question of the study entails an explanation of the importance of the question (i.e., illustrates the gap in the existing literature).
• State the main hypothesis (prediction) made by the researchers.
• Identify the key variables.
• Describe the critical characteristics of both the participants and the procedures used.
• Summarize the main findings. How do these findings answer the question that the researchers formulated in the introductory section of the article?
• Explain the extent to which the findings answer the research question. Do the findings support their research question (or prediction)?
• Illustrate the weaknesses and strengths of the selected study. For instance, ask yourself questions such as the following:
  • Is the technique used to understand the selected phenomenon able to gather adequate information about it?
  • How does this technique compare to other techniques used in cognitive psychology?
  • Do the findings of the selected study generalize to individuals who may be different from those who participated (young versus older adults)?
• Please note that research articles often contain more than one study. Thus, in this assignment, you are given the opportunity to describe each experiment separately or focus on what you believe to be the most significant experiment.

Your paper must begin with an introduction to the selected topic in which you define the research question and all concepts that will be discussed in the paper. For instance, let us assume you select the article by Strayer and Johnston “Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone” as the topic of your paper. Then your task is to state the question the researchers want to answer and define the terms attention, divided attention, and distraction.

Your paper requires a brief summary of the content of the selected article according to the guidelines described above. It also requires a conclusion expressing your thoughts about the strengths and weaknesses of the available evidence. If possible, suggest the course that future research should take if the answer to the selected question is less than conclusive.

The Memory Errors in Real Life Paper

• Must be four to five double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must use at least one peer-reviewed source (the article you chose) in addition to the course text.
  • The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.