The Stress and Coping Reading discussed the difference between problem-focused and emotion-focused coping.

Following is a list of stressors. For each one, give a problem-focused and an emotion-focused strategy for dealing with the stressor. Remember the problem-focused either helps fix the problem or prevent it from recurring. The emotion-focused coping is designed to change your perspective on the problem. They are both important strategies to learn.

Example: Stressor: You get in an accident and wreck your car. Problem-focused strategy: You take photographs of the accident and call the insurance company daily to check on the status of your claim. Emotion-Focused Strategy: Whenever you start to feel discouraged about not having a car, you think to yourself how lucky you are that you did not get injured in the accident.

For each of the following stressors, come up with an emotion-focused and a problem-focused strategy. See the example above.

1. Stressor: You get in a fight with your boyfriend or girlfriend.
2. Stressor: You are late for work.
3. Stressor: You get a low score on an important exam.
4. Stressor: You have a “bad hair day.”
5. Now, come up with your own. List a stressor that you experience, and give a problem-focused and an emotion-focused strategy for dealing with it.

To submit your homework:

1. Save it either as a word document (doc or docx) or pdf.
2. Attach the file to the assignment link. Do not send it through email.

Following are guidelines for this assignment:

• I will grade mostly on content, but mechanics (grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.) do count, also.
• Please proofread carefully.
• Please use 12-point Times New Roman Font.
• Use 1″ margins and double-space.

Please respond to the following questions:

1. What is the central issue faced by the speaker of the poem? (5-6 sentences)

2. Is the speaker of the poem optimistic about the future? How do you know?(5-6 sentences)

3. What unites the historical figures that Gonzales writes about in the poem? (5-6 sentences)

4. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is an important event in the history of Mexican Americans because it significantly changed the U.S.−Mexico border. Use a map to identify the border before and after the treaty. Conduct some research about the terms of the treaty. Why does the speaker call the treaty “another treacherous promise”? (5-6)

5. The poem mentions a paradox in its opening stanzas. What is the nature of this paradox, and how does it foreshadow important themes in this work?(5-6)

Rubric

Homework Questions

The journal should include the following three components: (1) Self-awareness, (2) Critical Analyses, and (3) Action Plan. The critical self-awareness component should be short, no longer than a couple of paragraphs. It should narrate an occurrence of daily systemic oppression. The critical analyses portion should critically analyze, in light of the literature, how that particular occurrence of systemic oppression that the student described has been normalized in our society. The action plan should include specific, measurable, and realistic actions that the student can take to raise her/his awareness of systemic oppression.

You should write your paper and cite any references following APA style from the American Psychological Association Publication Manual, 6th edition. Each paper must not exceed 6 pages in length, plus the title page and the reference page(s), and should have a minimum of 5 references from scientific journals or books. You can use references from the syllabus or from other sources. In addition, you can also include non-academic references in any format including excerpts from radio programs, videos, newspapers, etc.

You will not be graded on your feelings or the “acceptability” of any ideological positions you take. The criteria for evaluation are clarity of writing, logic or arguments, sound reasoning, and a specific and feasible intervention.

Specifically, the grading criteria for this assignment is as follows:

● Self-awareness (8 points)

● Critical-based analyses (12 points)

● Action plan (10 points)

● Correct use of APA style (5 points)

● Quality of writing (5 points)

: Between the Articles, choose 4 concepts or themes to reflect upon. This will require synthesis of concepts across materials. 6 full page minimum. SINGLE SPACE!!

Reflection:Between the Articles, choose 4 concepts or themes to reflect upon. This will require synthesis of concepts across materials. 6 full page minimum.

Formatting Requirements: Single space, 12 pt. font, 1 in margins, Justified (or sometimes called block) formatting, 1 1/2 -2 pages, Word document. If you are uncertain as to what any of this means, I suggest you refer to the example posted in the Syllabus section and visually compare to your own.

Concept: Blah, blah, blah.

Personal Reaction: Blah, blah, blah.

Professional Use: Blah, blah, blah.

(Repeat for the 2nd concept)

Briefly provided your understanding of the concept, comment on your personal reaction to the concept, and your professional opinion of how it would be useful with examples (or how you might struggle with it). Students will receive full credits for all completed reflections that are turned in on time that meet the criteria above. You will post them to Blackboard prior to the class meeting. Please make the reflection an attached document – not in the body of the post. It must also be in Word.

Project 2 Description

Project two also uses the Method of Adjustment to find a difference threshold. In this project the method of Adjustment is applied to the T illusion. This illusion again demonstrates how our perception of visual phenomena can be influenced by the position of stimuli in relation to each other. As in project 1 you are to do 20 trials of the T illusion. After each trial you are to click the Show Results button and record the percentage shown. Unlike Project 1, the percentage result shown is not a difference but the actual percentage length of the vertical line compared to the horizontal line. After you have recorded the 20 percentages, add them up and get the total, then divide the total by 20. This number is the average percentage length of your adjusted vertical line compared to the horizontal line. Now you have one extra step to do. Take your average vertical line percentage and subtract it from 100%. That result is your difference threshold expressed as a percentage difference between the length of the horizontal and vertical lines. In other words the illusion caused you to see the lines as equal in length when they were actually xx% different.

Use your results to write up your project using the sample project (found on the course shell) as a guide. Your write up will be similar to project 1 except that the illusion used is different. Be sure to read about the T illusion above the Project 2 description