Tag: Biological

How do these issues affect people and society? How are they affected by technology, society, genetics, and the environment?

Module 6 Final Presentation

Present the neural basis of your topic and highlighting recent research on these brain mechanisms. Include the names and functions of specific anatomical regions and any relevant points about cell function, neurotransmitters, or other cellular and molecular mechanisms.

Present the practical implications of this biological and psychological knowledge. How do these issues affect people and society? How are they affected by technology, society, genetics, and the environment?

Explain and give examples of the most notable consequences to individuals and groups or highlight other primary topics of concern and application within this field.

 

Examine the historical conceptions of mental illness (supernatural, biological, and psychological). Select one model or tradition that you think is still present today. Provide examples from today’s society.

Mental Illness and Madness

In your required readings and video clip, Mental Illness and Madness, you learned about the history of the perceptions of mental illness. For years, individuals have attempted to explain and control mental illness based on the popular models or traditions of that particular time.

One such belief is that outside agents such as demons, spirits or other phenomena influence and control our behavior, thinking, and emotions.

In your initial post:

Examine the historical conceptions of mental illness (supernatural, biological, and psychological). Select one model or tradition that you think is still present today. Provide examples from today’s society.

Develop your own definition of mental illness.

Discuss the biological, behavioral, environmental, and/or social risk factors associated with the Leading Health Indicator you chose to focus upon in Module 1. (Public transit, Housing for different incomes as well as different stages of life, and Community centers.)

Discussion

Discuss the biological, behavioral, environmental, and/or social risk factors associated with the Leading Health Indicator you chose to focus upon in Module 1. (Public transit, Housing for different incomes as well as different stages of life, and Community centers.)

Explain how motivations, deviance, and abnormal behaviors from the criminal’s past may have led to, or been a warning sign of, the criminal actions they eventually engaged in.

Infamous criminal offenders

Write a 500-750-word essay in which you select an individual from the list of infamous criminal offenders (in the Topic 7 documents), and then choose a theory discussed in this course that best explains their offending.

Research information about their upbringing, education, family life, or other Biological or lifestyle characteristics and construct an argument as to why your selected theory best explains the crimes this individual committed. Provide specific examples.

Also, explain how motivations, deviance, and Abnormal behaviors from the criminal’s past may have led to, or been a warning sign of, the criminal actions they eventually engaged in.

THE LIST OF CRIMINALS TO USE ONLY
 Use the following list as a resource for the Topic 7 assignment.

1.Aileen Wuornos
2.Al Capone
3.Charles Manson
4.Jeffrey Dahmer
5.Omar Mateen
6.John Dillinger
7.Adam Lanza
8.John Wayne Gacy
9.Andrea Yates
10.Ted Bundy
11.Dennis Rader
12.Thomas Sweatt