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Touchstones are projects that illustrate your comprehension of the course material, help you refine skills, and demonstrate application of knowledge. You can work on a Touchstone anytime, but you can’t submit it until you have completed the unit’s Challenges and Milestones. Once you’ve submitted a Touchstone, it will be graded and counted toward your final course score.
Throughout this course, you will learn how to better use problem-solving, self and social awareness skills in order to practice key concepts within the field of psychology. Discovering how self and social awareness and problem-solving skills coincide may help you better understand the perspectives of others, examine situations objectively, and use evidence to make more accurate decisions. By employing this case study assignment, you will have the opportunity to put your skills to work.
Read the case study below and use your problem-solving and self and social awareness skills to help a colleague work through a difficult situation.
Touchstone 3.1: Personality Development
SCENARIO: Monica is a single mom who has a 16-year-old son named Jordan. Monica and Jordan were close at one point. As of late, Monica has been noticing that Jordan spends a lot of time focusing on what his friends think about him. Without his mother’s permission, Jordan recently crawled out of his bedroom window and went to a party when he was supposed to be studying for an exam. Upon his return home, Jordan reeked of alcohol and marijuana and was caught by his mother. Shocked and appalled by her son’s recent behavior, she grounded him for two weeks.
What advice would you give Monica about her son’s recent behavior?
ASSIGNMENT: Using what you learned about the adolescent brain and social development, you will answer questions related to this case study assignment below. Your goals are to help Monica understand why her son makes the choices he does and recommend some strategies that may help solve the problem.
In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any plagiarized or recycled work will result in a Plagiarism Detected alert. Review this tutorial for more about plagiarism and the Plagiarism Detected alert: Touchstones: Academic Integrity Guidelines. For guidance on the use of generative AI technology, review Ethical Standards and Appropriate Use of AI.
A. Assignment
DIRECTIONS: To complete the assignment, you will answer the following four questions in 5-7 sentences each:
What happens inside the brain of a teenager that makes it difficult for Jordan to weigh the risks and rewards of his behavior? Describe how the adolescent brain weighs risk and reward.
Why does it appear that Jordan values the opinion of his peers more than the opinion of his mother? Explain the psychological concepts that may account for why Jordan places value on his peers’ opinions.
What advice would you give Jordan’s mother, Monica, that would teach him how to make better choices and decisions? Discuss a specific strategy that Monica may implement to help her son make better decisions.
If you were in Monica’s shoes, how would you feel? Explain why a better understanding of Monica’s perspective could result in more constructive advice.
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Using what you have learned about the adolescent brain and social development, answer the
questions in this case study assignment. Your goals are to help Monica understand why her son
makes the choices he does and recommend some strategies that may help solve the problem.
For each question, you should write a paragraph-length response (5–7 sentences) to receive
credit for this assignment. You may use your Sophia tutorials as a resource.
Question 1: What happens inside the brain of a teenager that makes it difficult for Jordan to
weigh the risks and rewards of his behavior? Describe how the adolescent brain weighs risk and
reward.
Question 2: Why does it appear that Jordan values the opinion of his peers more than the
opinion of his mother? Explain the psychological concepts that may account for why Jordan
places value on his peers’ opinions.
Question 3: What advice would you give Jordan’s mother, Monica, that would teach him how to
make better choices and decisions? Discuss a specific strategy that Monica may implement to
help her son make better decisions.
Question 4: If you were in Monica’s shoes, how would you feel? Explain why a better
understanding of Monica’s perspective could result in more constructive advice.
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