I am starting on my last course of my first semester and was curious if the finals are hard and how they handle them if you are an online student? What material are we allowed to use for them? I will print out my notes but do we have any other materail we can use? Where do we take the final etc. I saw some old post that said they were hard and was wondering how hard lol.

Thanks,

Some etiquette issues have been established over decades of propriety. It's common sense to write thank you cards after recieving a gift or to not talk on the phone at dinner, but when it comes to social media,  the rules aren't so concrete. After the tragedies in Newtown and Boston, people naturally want to share their feelings on Facebook. After a while, however, people begin posting their own personal information again and seemingly move on from the recent events. But how soon is too soon to resume normal posting habits?

Not everyone will express their grief on Facebook in the first place. For example, if your child's birthday was on the day of the Boston Marathon attack, should you not post anything about their birthday because of the event? Or is it acceptable to make a post about your child's special day? "There are no concrete rules about these things, but you want to think about who it is affecting, how many people, the scope and scale before you share and as you move into sharing other things," Jodi R.R. Smith, president of Mannersmith and author of "The Etiquette Book," told ABC News in an interview.

Aside from when it's appropriate to post things, how do you feel about seeing other people's posts that are unrealted to tragedy while on Facebook? On the day of the Boston Marathon, would it matter to you to have seen a post by a friend about something unrelated to the events?

While this topic doesn't necessarily fit with intro to psychology courses, like those offered at Ashworth College, it's still interesting to hear your opinions.

Often when we see some one on trial an we see the color of that persons skin, or there back ground an know that so many people say that this person is guilty.Knowing what we are learning now do we come out from under being bias an not using assumption.Or is a growing process.

Jodi Arias is currently under the public's microscope as she goes on trial for the murder of her ex boyfriend. Originally, Arias claimed she hadn't been there when Travis Alexander died and later recanted that story to say two intruders broke in and killed him while she hid. After further examination, Arias admitted that she did, in fact, kill Alexander, but that it was in self defense.

On the stand, Arias often doesn't recall stabbing or shooting her ex boyfriend in June 2008. While the prosecution seemed skeptical, the defense provided a psychologist who offered an explination to her behavior. Dr. Richard Samuels believes Jodi Arias suffers from post traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD. This disorder is often referenced in context to former military men and women who return from war, but Dr. Samuels believs Jodi may have it too.

He also believes PTSD explains why she fabricated another situation in her mind and continued to call Alexander's phone after she had killed him. He claims she had a break with reality after killing him and she made up an alternate reality to help her cope. "Memories are not formed in many people who are experiencing acute stress, because, chemically, it just doesn't work," Samuels told the court.

The prosecution believes that even if Jodi does have PTSD, that occured after the killings and doesn't justify any pre-meditation that took part.

As a student in online psychology courses, what do you think?

I was just wondering if there is anyone out there knows if there is a way to get extra credit? If so please let me know. Thank you.

LM

Classes open for discussion

Human relations    

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3165

Intro to Psychology 1  

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3166

Intro Psychology 2

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3271

Social Psychology

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3168

Human Growth and Development 1&2

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3169

Abnormal Psychology

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3171

Social Impact of Technology

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3172

Psychology of Personality

http://community.ashworthcollege.edu/docs/DOC-3173

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Magazines are littered with pictures of celebrity women who are back to their normal bodies mere weeks after giving birth.  This phenomenon has now spawned a name - mom bombshell or "mom-shell" - that has many new moms worried they too are supposed to look like that.  It's causing psychological issues for some of these new moms that has some seeking help from those in psychology careers. 

One mom was so upset that she didn't look like a model after having her child, she refused to have her picture taken at her baby's first birthday party because she knew she wouldn't like the way she looked.  That spawned a wake up call and she decided to help others who felt like her.  She started a blog asking other moms to submit a picutre of them with their children, even if they didn't look their best.  Calling it "Mom Stays In The Picture," the blog has gained support all over the world.  "You're not looking at whether the mom is overweight, or did her hair, or did her makeup," she said. "All you see are moms and their kids, and all the love that are in those photos."

What do you think about this?