Locate and take a free online assessment that uses the Big Five personality factors. You may also use the one located in Chapter 8 of the text. Each team member takes an assessment to gain a better understanding of their personality traits. To enable valid comparisons of results, each team member should take the same assessment from […]
PSY 250 Week 4 Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits
Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper analyzing the formation of habits using behavioral and social/cognitive approaches. Your paper should cover the following areas: Analyze one of your habits. This could be either a “good habit” or a “bad habit”. Descrube your habit and the sequence of behaviors involved in it. How did you develop this habit? […]
PSY 250 Week 5 Person-Situation Interactions Presentation
Prepare a 10-12 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation [including Speaker Notes] using one of the following scenarios in which your team applies the perspective of personality, based on person-situation interactions: Sharon is talkative and friendly to guests she has invited over for a dinner party. She mingles freely in the various social circles that have developed throughout her home. […]
Humanistic Perspectives Paper
Humanistic Perspectives Paper Write a 700- to 1050-word paper analyzing the humanistic approaches to personality. Your paper should cover the following areas: Compare person-centered theory with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. Use Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to discuss the extent to which growth needs influence personality formation. Outline the main components of person-centered theory that […]
leadership approaches.
Choose a leader from history whom you admire. Similarly, to the Barnes, Humphreys, Oyler, Pane Haden, and Novicevic (2013) article that profiles Jerry Garcia, discuss which leadership style discussed in this unit was employed by your admired leader. Begin with a summary of the approaches and theories discussed in this unit. Be sure to […]
Case Study: Clinical Supervision
Assignment 2: Case Study: Clinical Supervision For this assignment, you will refer to the Course Case Study. Reread the case study, looking specifically at issues related to clinical supervision. Examine the ACA’s ethical guidelines related to the issue of supervision in Section F and answer the following questions: Explain the ethical issues related to the […]
Mental shortcuts can be both beneficial and costly
Mental shortcuts can be both beneficial and costly. In this paper, you are to find one benefit and one disadvantage associated with both the availability heuristic and the representative heuristic. You can rely on specific examples from your life, the lives of people you know, the media, books, or movies. After you describe the […]
Comparing Modernist Approaches
Comparing Modernist Approaches During the modernist period, you noticed a countercultural movement of romanticism and early existentialism. Explore the two major strands of early modernism – sensationalism and rationalism – along with the countercultural movement – romanticism and early existentialism. While British sensationalism also emerged during this period, it is more of a blending of […]
Discussion Question: Power Structures
Discussion Question: Power Structures An important difference between premodernism, modernism, and postmodernism resides in where power or authority lies. For premodernists, authority rested in religious leaders and the church because they were the holders of revealed truth. For modernists, political and scientific leaders assumed power because they had a privileged position in relation to what […]
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
You tell your next-door neighbor, Hal, that you are studying to be an I/O psychologist focusing on implementing organizational change initiatives. Hal does not understand why a large, successful organization would need to undergo change. His opinion is, “If it works, don’t fix it!” Explain the process of organizational development and the importance of organizational […]