1. Find an article of interest to you on development or manifestation of a psychological disorder (ex. Depression, PTSD, drug or alcohol abuse, eating
disorders, or any other of interest) during adolescence. How does your article support, add to or refute your readings? Use correct APA format to cite specific
evidence from the article and course material to support your position.
2. How does the “adolescent brain” influence behavioral concerns during adolescence?
How does “adolescent brain” influence behavioral concerns during adolescence? Adolescent is the period between childhood and adulthood encompassed by changes in physical, psychological, and social development (Ernst et al. 2006). These alterations make this period a time of vulnerability and adjustment (Steinberg 2005). Adolescence is also a time of increased emotional reactivity. A number of cognitive and neurobiological hypotheses have been postulated to explain why adolescents engage in suboptimal choice behavior (Yurgelun-Todd, 2007). Our neurobiological model proposes that the combination of heightened responsiveness to rewards and immaturity in behavioral control areas may bias adolescents to seek immediate rather long-term gains, perhaps explains their increase in risky decision making and emotional reactivity.
Area 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources
This examination will investigate the inquiry: To what degree was the skirmish of Kursk a Soviet triumph? This will predominantly zero in on the time span during the Battle of Kursk, a fruitless German attack on the Soviet remarkable around the city of Kursk from July 5, 1943 to Aug 23, 1943, however it will likewise examine the groundwork for the Operation Citadel, a German hostile mission to Kursk that prompts the Battle of Kursk, to look at the drawn out reasons for the German loss at Kursk.
The primary source that will be assessed is Colonel David M. Glantz’s report, “Soviet guard strategies at Kursk, July 1943,” written in 1986. The reason for this source is to get to the Soviet strategies at Kursk and how the Soviet strategies have created all through the Battle of Kursk from July 5, 1943. The substance of this source differentiates the Soviet strategies before the Battle of Kursk and during the Battle of Kursk, how the Soviet strategies have taken on to the German raid, and how successful the Soviet changes were in the Battle of Kursk. The beginning of this source is important on the grounds that Glantz is an American military antiquarian who is known for his books on the Red Army during World War II and the central proofreader of the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, demonstrating that he is proficient on this point. The date of distribution of this source, 1986, is one more worth since it shows that Glanz has had the option to investigate different sources from other military antiquarians. Truth be told, he has refered to archives from the militaries all over the planet, including the US Army Foreign Military Studies. One constraint of this source is that this source doesn’t assess the German circumstances, similar to the way that Germany were running short on stores and assets during the Battle of Kursk, which is a critical component that added to the result of the fight. The reason for this source is one more impediment for students of history since it doesn’t present a decent contention whether the consequence of the Battle of Kursk is a German strategic disappointment or a Soviet’s strategic triumph.
The subsequent source assessed top to bottom is Robert M. Citino’s show in the International Conference on World War II at the National WWII Museum in 2013. The reason for this show is to give a strategic – how the commanders’ arrangements for the fight and functional – how it truly ended up – way to deal with the Battle of Kursk in an engaging manner to the crowd. The substance of the source frames the course of the fight, from the start of the Battle of Kursk to the furthest limit of the fight when Hitler requested the end of the activity, through two viewpoint: military strategic point of view and functional viewpoint. One worth of the source is that the location gives bits of knowledge from the planning of the Battle of Kursk and doesn’t just zero in on the course of the fight. By giving data about the German’s and the Soviet’s planning, the source provided the crowd with a superior comprehension of the result of the fight. Other worth is the way that Citino’s location presents various points of view: the German and the Soviet commanders’ points of view and German variables and the Soviet factors that add to the result of the conflict. Nonetheless, one constraint is that Citino had somewhere around 70 minutes to introduce. In this manner, he might have not given every one of the subtleties because of as far as possible. The reason, to introduce current realities in an engaging way, is additionally one more impediment as a portion of his focuses perhaps misrepresented or obscured with the end goal of diversion.