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PSY 230 Week 1 CheckPoint Observations
PSY 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2
PSY 230 Week 2 CheckPoint History of Personality Psychology
PSY 230 Week 2 Assignment Personality Theory Presentation
PSY 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Interactionism
PSY 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2
PSY 230 Week 4 Checkpoint The Cluster
PSY 230 Week 4 Assignment Character Evaluation
PSY 230 Week 5 CheckPoint My Experience
PSY 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2
PSY 230 Week 6 Checkpoint Motivation Theories
PSY 230 Week 6 Assignment Motivation Evaluation
PSY 230 Week 7 CheckPoint Personal Constructs
PSY 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2
PSY 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Stages of Ego Development
PSY 230 Week 8 Assignment Erikson’s Timeline
PSY 230 Week 9 Capstone Discussion Question
PSY 230 Week 9 Final Project Personal Narrative
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PSY 230 Week 1 CheckPoint Observations
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CheckPoint: Observations
Write a 200- to 300-word response to the following: How have you used the scientific process (unsystematic observation, building theories, and evaluating propositions) in your life to better understand your personality? Provide an example in your response.
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PSY 230 Week 1 DQ 1 and DQ 2.
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In your own words, describe each of the five basic dispositional traits. Then, select one of the adjective pairs listed in the table for each of the five trait categories in Table 1.2 and describe where you think your personality falls in the spectrum of each adjective pair. For example: Extraversion: Talkative — Quiet; I am generally more talkative than I am quiet. I favor the talkative end of the spectrum. When I am at work, however, I tend to be quieter.
What is one of your dispositional traits? What is one of your characteristic adaptations? Identify one of your dispositional traits and one of your characteristic adaptations. Provide an example of how each influences your behavior. How has your life story changed over time? Explain.
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PSY 230 Week 2 Assignment Personality Theory Presentation
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Assignment: Personality Theory Presentation
As an expert in the field of personality theory, you have been asked to present at a large Psychology conference. The focus of your presentation is behaviorism and social-learning theory.
Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint®presentation on behaviorism and social-learning theory.
Include speaker notes and graphics, use appropriate font size, limit text on each slide to five lines, and use approximately five words per bulleted item.
Incorporate key concepts from the following theories in your presentation:
Behaviorism — Classical conditioning, operant conditioning, reinforcement, tabula rasa, etc.
Bandura’s social-learning theory — Information on observational learning and self-efficacy.
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PSY 230 Week 2 CheckPoint History of Personality Psychology
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CheckPoint: History of Personality Psychology
Resource:pp.24–26 ofThe Person and Appendix B
List at least five of the events or major concepts found in each of the three historic periods of personality psychology.
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PSY 230 Week 3 CheckPoint Interactionism.
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CheckPoint: Interactionism
Resource: Table 4.1 on p. 117 of The Person.
Observe a social gathering.
Posta 200- to 300-word response to the following: What influence does culture have on personality? Do you see a person’s reaction to something as separate from social experience or as a result of social experience? Which one of the four positions of the nature of traits do you agree with most and why? Compare and contrast your position against one of the other four positions of the nature of traits.
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PSY 230 Week 3 DQ 1 and DQ 2.
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Discussion Questions
Locate and complete a free personality inventory online.
What findings of this personality inventory do you feel were accurate? Which do you feel were inaccurate? Identify the Web site where you took this personality inventory and share this personality inventory link and your critique of it with the class. Then, complete one of the personality inventory tests taken by a classmate. Critique it, and explain whether you agree or disagree with his or her critique of the inventory. Based on this experience and the readings from your text, what qualities do you think make an effective trait inventory?
Compare mechanistic and reciprocal interactionism. Provide an example of reciprocal interactionism (influences among a person, a situation, and a behavior). Provide an example of mechanistic interactionism: a trait, a situation, and the relationship between a situation and trait. Do you support one view over the other? Explain why.
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PSY 230 Week 4 Assignment Character Evaluation
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Assignment: Character Evaluation
Think about a character from one of your favorite films, fictitious or biographical.
Write a 350- to 700-word paper that describes the character’s personality in terms of the five trait clusters.
Provide specific examples of how these personality characteristics affect the character’s choices.
Cite the film you used as a reference.
Format according to APA standards.
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PSY 230 Week 4 Checkpoint The Cluster
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CheckPoint: The Clusters
Resource:The Person
Select three of the five clusters.
Explain, in 200 to 300 words where you think you fall within the spectrum of each. Of the five clusters, where do you think your personality fits overall?
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PSY 230 Week 5 CheckPoint My Experience
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CheckPoint: My Experience
Think about an experience, positive or negative, that has affected the course of your life.
Post a 200- to 300-word response to the following: Do you think this event changed your personality? If it has changed your personality, how has your personality been changed? If the event has not changed your personality, why not? How much of your personality do you think has been determined by environmental influence vs. genetic influence?
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PSY 230 Week 5 DQ 1 and DQ 2
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What is the difference between absolute continuity and differential continuity? Do an individual’s experiences affect differential continuity? Provide specific examples.
How do traits change over time? How do traits stay the same from infancy through adulthood?
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PSY 230 Week 6 Assignment Motivation Evaluation
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Assignment: Motivation Evaluation
Select a famous person in the media or in history and think about a choice the person has made.
Write a 350- to 700-word paper profiling this person and explain how each of the three views of motivation — psychoanalytic, humanistic, and diversity — may help understand his or her reasoning and choice.
Include a summary of the concepts and terms from Henry Murray’s theory of needs.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
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PSY 230 Week 6 Checkpoint Motivation Theories
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CheckPoint: Motivation Theories
Post a 200- to 300-word response to the following: With which of the motivation theories do you agree most? With which of the theories do you agree least? Explain your position.
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PSY 230 Week 7 CheckPoint Personal Constructs
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CheckPoint: Personal Constructs
Explain the concept of personal constructs. What is a personal construct? How are personal constructs related to social perspectives? What is the relationship between personal constructs and behavior?
Compose your response in a single, 200- to 300-word post.
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PSY 230 Week 7 DQ 1 and DQ 2
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Describe how a person’s cognitive style influences learning style. How is personality influenced by inherent learning styles and learning environments?
Explain how having a negative self-schema affects one’s social interactions. How does social intelligence affect one’s responses in any given situation? How might a person’s self-guidesaffect his or her perspective of the world?
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PSY 230 Week 8 Assignment Erikson’s Timeline.
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Assignment: Erikson’s Timeline
Write a 350- to 700-word paper that explains in which of Erikson’s eight stages of life you believe you are currently.
Explain why you think you are at that stage and describe that stage in your paper. What is the central question posed during that stage? How have you consciously or unconsciously sought to answer that question? Provide specific examples.
Choose someone you know who you think is at another stage in his or her life. Briefly describe that stage. What is a central question posed during that stage? How has this person consciously or unconsciously sought to answer that question? Provide specific examples.
Format your paper according to APA standards.
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PSY 230 Week 8 CheckPoint Stages of Ego Development
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CheckPoint: Stages of Ego Development
Explain Jane Loevinger’s stages of ego development in 200 to 300 words.
Include manifestations that might appear during each of the stages.
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PSY 230 Week 9 Capstone Discussion Question
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Capstone Discussion Question
Post your response to the following: Integrate multiple ideas from theorists you have studied during this course to construct your own personality theory. Using the text to support your theory, address the following questions:
How is personality developed? What roles do genetics and environment play in personality development? How do experiences influence personality? How is a person motivated?
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PSY 230 Week 9 Final Project Personal Narrative
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Final Project: Personal Narrative
Review the Final Project Overview in Appendix A.
Review yourresponses to CheckPoints in Weeks Three and Five.
Write a 700- to 1,050-word personal narrative that addresses the following questions:
How have you seen the purpose and meaning of your life evolve over the past 5 years? What events have led to this evolution? Describe how one of the theories from your text might explain this evolution. Use specific concepts and terminology from the theory in your answer.
What roles have religion, race, culture, family, and gender played the development of your personality?
Suppose you might change one of the major episodes of your life (your earliest memory, a turning point, a high point, or a low point, for example). What change would you make and why?
Format your paper according to APA standards.
