Motivation Cognition and Motivation

1. Motivation arises from both internal motives (i.e. needs, cognitions, emotions) and external events (i.e. incentives, consequences, social contexts). Is one of these sources of motivation more potent or more effective in motivating people than is the other? Are people primarily motivated by internal motives or by external events, or are people motivated about equally by internal motives and external events? Justify your response by giving examples from your own life.

2. Selecting one physiological need (e.g. hunger, thirst, sex) as an example, explain, how the biological beginnings of this need eventually manifest themselves as a psychological drive in a person’s subjective awareness. In other words, explain how a biological event becomes a psychological motive. Give an original example to support your explanation.

3. How does self-determination theory explain how external events (e.g. rewards, praise) sometimes produce positive effects on motivation but other times produce negative effects? Give an original example to support your explanation.

4. Learned helplessness theory relies on the components of contingency, cognition, and behavior to explain the motivational dynamics underlying helplessness. Explain what these three components mean and provide an original illustrative example of each.

5. Consider the origins of the need for achievement. Discuss and provide original examples from your own life, of each of the following three sources of high need for achievement: its socialization influences, its cognitive influences, or its developmental influences.

6. Differentiate the motivational and performance-based advantages versus disadvantages for performers who adopt a short-term goal (e.g., eat less than 2000 calories today) versus performers who adopt a long-term goal (e.g. lose 20 pounds this year) and offer a recommendation as to whether performers should adopt a short-term or a long-term goal. Explain/justify your recommendation.

Pavement and stormwater management facilities

Discusses the concept of correlation. Assume that An agency has focused its system development and critical infrastructure data correlation efforts on separate engineering management systems for different types of assets and is working on the integration of these systems. In this case, the agency focused on the data collection for two types of assets: water treatment and natural gas delivery management facilities. Please identify what type of critical infrastructure data correlation is needed between these two facilities.

To complete this assignment, you must do the following:

A) Create a new thread. As indicated above, identify what type of critical infrastructure data collection is needed for pavement and stormwater management facilities.

Discussion: transference and countertransference

Specific skills and knowledge are essential for a social worker working with children. Understanding transference and countertransference is crucial to a healthy therapeutic relationship. Both transference and countertransference can be evident in any client–therapist relationship, but are especially important in working with children because of a common instinct among adults to protect and nurture the young. The projection or relocation of one’s feelings about one person onto another, otherwise known as transference, is a common response by children (Gil, 1991). Countertransference, a practitioner’s own emotional response to a child, is also common.

For this Discussion, review the Malawista (2004) article.

Post your explanation why transference and countertransference are so common when working with children. Then, identify some strategies you might use to address both transference and countertransference in your work with children.

Support your posts with specific references to the Learning Resources.

Respond to at least two colleagues who identified strategies different from your own by proposing alternative strategies.

Multimodal rhetorics

Choose one of the short videos provided and answer the questions Address the following questions in your analysis: Who is the intended audience for this text (or for your text)? What specific multimodal strategies did the creators use to reach out to that audience? Which of the five modes are being used in this text? How are they being used together with other modes? What are three ways that the chosen modes (or combinations) are successful and make the text engaging and convincing to their audience? What are three ways that the chosen modes don′t work well, or fail to engage the audience, or could be much better, or fail to convince the audience? Why did you choose this text and why do you like it?

Shark tank evaluation

View episodes of ‘Shark Tank’ and select two businesses (one that was financed and one that wasn’t financed. The two businesses can be from a single episode or different episodes of shark tank) and investigate about the following: 1) what types of businesses were requesting financing, 2) how did they arrive at their valuation (make sure to calculate the value of the business based on how much the owners are willing to give up of the company in relation to the amount of cash the business is expected to generate), 3) did you notice any recurring questions asked by the sharks, 4) what were the primary reasons for rejecting a business and what were the reasons given to finance a business, 5) offer some other insights (what did you find interesting, shocking, intriguing….) about what you learned from listening to pitches from the participants and comments from the sharks. Most importantly, finish your right up with some suggestions to the business that did not get the financing and some suggestions to grow for the business that was financed by the shark.

Cultural/spiritual practice-powerpoint

Hispanics/Mexicans –
Conduct a literature search for varied types of credible, peer-reviewed scholarly publications which may include journal articles, book chapters, white papers; government publications or sources such as credible professional nursing and healthcare organizations. Prepare a powerpoint slide presentation which concisely addresses key points in items one through five below as they apply to your chosen cultural group. Include a title slide which names the chosen culture, and a reference slide with only selected key citations cited in the slide presentation.

Required Content for Powerpoint Presentation

What are the appropriate interdisciplinary interventions for hereditary, genetic, and endemic diseases and high-risk health behaviors within this culture?
What are the influences of value systems in this culture on childbearing and bereavement practices?
What are the sources of strength, spirituality, and magico- religious beliefs associated with health and health care within this culture?
What are the healthcare practices for this culture such as acute versus preventive care, barriers to healthcare, the meaning of pain and the sick role; and traditional folk medicine practices?
What are cultural issues related to learning styles, autonomy, and preparation of educational content for this culture?

Economic Measures, and Transportation and Telecommunication

Economic measures are an important piece of the market assessment process. In this discussion, you will work on the following critical elements of the final project: Economic Measures, and Transportation and Telecommunication. Using The World Factbook, World Bank (World Bank Video Transcript: INT-113 Geek out with Tariq – The Geek and the Internet Transcript), Trading Economics, and International Trade Centre, find the following economic data on your project country:

Interest rates
Unemployment
Inflation
GDP
GDP growth rate
Exchange rates against USD
Exchange rate regime
Labor force major industries
FDI rates
Using The World Factbook, identify the following elements of physical infrastructure:

Consider the data collected and make some observations on the stability and strength of the economy in your project country. What do high and low levels of unemployment indicate? What does the exchange rate regime tell you about the economy? Consider the presence of existing industries and identify areas of opportunity or risk. Also consider the logistics of shipping and distribution based on physical infrastructure.

xplain the role of health education in health promotion. How is the nursing process used in developing health education? Describe a contemporary issue, local or global, that a family may experience today. What steps would the nurse take to address these as part of a health education plan?

Explain the role of health education in health promotion. How is the nursing process used in developing health education? Describe a contemporary issue, local or global, that a family may experience today. What steps would the nurse take to address these as part of a health education plan?

Article/Video Assignment

While we usually read newspaper or online articles or watch YouTube videos for entertainment or general interest, modern media does often address some psychological concepts.
For this assignment, you will select a YouTube or other public access video or an article (online or in print) that addresses one psychological concept from your textbook.
At the top of your write-up, you will need to provide the link to the article or video. If you chose an article in print format, please scan it and email it to me.
The write-up will include three paragraphs: 1) define the concept from the textbook in your own words and provide an APA citation; 2) describe the article or video that you selected and include a citation; 3) compare the article or video to the textbook’s description of the concept.

Accounting-Tax-Computing Taxable Income

Prepare a Word document answering the following case:
Rank the following three single taxpayers in order of magnitude of taxable income (from lowest to highest) and explain your results. (Note: Use standard deduction amounts provide under the Tax Cut Job Acts
(TCJA) enacted in November 2017).
Alice: Gross Income = $80,000
Deductions for AGI = $15,000
Itemized deductions = 0
Brian: Gross Income = $80,000
Deductions for AGI = $5,000
Itemized deductions = $12,000
Craig: Gross Income = $80,000
Deductions for AGI = $0
Itemized deductions = $15,000
In your paper, you should consider the differences between the standard deductions vs. itemized deductions given the filing status. Additionally:
Compare and contrast deductions for AGI and deductions from AGI (itemized deductions).
Discuss whether the tax treatment for each taxpayer is in line with the Adam Smith’s taxation cannons