Purpose To measure students’ ability to:
Explain major psychological concepts, theories, and perspectives. Apply psychological concepts to personal, social, and organizational problems. Use information literacy skills to locate appropriate relevant community resources and materials to create an informative essay.
Product Students will write an essay of 500-750 words (means approximately 2 or more pages) in which you analyze and synthesize psychological concepts and apply them to your speculations concerning one of the options listed below. In the essay, you will need to choose one of the following options: Future Career- Identify your future career and why you have chosen it, and then explain how what you have learned in psychology will enhance your career and life. Apply Psychology to your personal life- How will you use psychology in a specific area in your life? (Examples: relating to others, parenting, understanding a family member with a mental health illness, coaching a team, etc.) Self-Analysis- Self-analysis about what you remember about your developmental history.
What was significant at various points in your life (preschool, elementary school, high school, etc.)?
What events have most influenced and impacted you? What influences do you feel have been the strongest, and why?
What are your most vivid memories of childhood?
What accomplishments and struggles have you experienced as a young adult or up to this point?
How have you changed and how have you remained stable at this point in your life? Directions This project will require you to use your critical thinking skills and your writing ability to address one of the options listed above. (You get to choose which to focus on.) To be able to successfully answer one of the questions, you must be able to analyze and synthesize psychological concepts and be able to apply them to your speculations concerning the option you choose.
In your essay, you will need to identify the area you are addressing and why you have chosen it, and then explain how what you have learned in psychology applies. You will need to be specific in this! You will need to use your textbook and at least one other resource. “Other” resources can be an article, website, research journal, or book. In discussing information from your text, you must reference the appropriate chapters, identify and define each relevant concept, and explain why the psychological concepts you focus on are or will be relevant to your career and your future life. You will be expected to use specific examples of how the concepts will be relevant to the topic you chose. Merely saying a concept is important is not sufficient. You must be specific about how it relates. For the “other resource”, you will be integrating its content into your paper to highlight its significance to your chosen topic rather than merely citing it. You will be using the resource to discuss its relationship to one of the concepts or topics you have selected as important to your topic. Note that you will be discussing the resource you choose and the implication of its findings in some detail, not merely mentioning it in passing.
Your paper will need to include the following formatting: Paper length will be 500-750 words. You do not have to do a title page. Simply include the following information in the top right corner of your paper: (Note that this is not included in your 500-750 words requirement.) The title of your project Your full name is “General Psychology Course Project” Provide references at the end of your assignment.
