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Career Exploration Project

The Career Exploration Project is Due by 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 5.

Instructions:

  1. Choose a career in psychology you might be interested in - include this in your Introduction page.
  2. State the reason you are interested in this career - include this in your Introduction page.
  3. Find information about the career online. 
  4. What skills are required - include this in the body of your paper.
  5. Salary - include this in the body of your paper.
  6. Education required - include this in the body of your paper.
  7. Length of time required to complete your desired program for this career - include this in the body of your paper.
  8. Ask yourself if you would enjoy doing the kind of work required in your chosen career - include this in the Conclusion part of your paper. 
  9. Submit a 5-page paper telling me what you found out.

Here is the suggested structure for your paper:

Page 1: Introduction (items 1 and 2)

Pages 2 through 4.5: Body of paper (items 4 through 7)

Page 5: Conclusion (item 8)

 

Literature Review Collaborative Project

Literature Review Collaborative Project

Course Learning Objectives

  • summarize the various subject areas in psychology
  • examine applications of psychological concepts, theories, and research findings to personal and social contexts
  • examine the role culture and diversity play in the various aspects of human behavior and mental processes
  • explain the relative influences of biological and environmental factors on behavior and mental processes

Instructions

Due by 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 1

150 Points Each Group Member

During the first week of the semester, your instructor will assign you to a group of four people so that you can work collaboratively on this literature review project throughout the semester and finish it by 11:59 PM on Sunday, November 1. You will receive an email from your instructor letting you know which group you are assigned to during the first week of the semester. Once you receive the email, please work with your group through the Collaborations function in Canvas to follow the instructions below:

There are three parts to this small group assignment:

  1. Meet with your group through the Collaborations function in Canvas to choose and design your project.
  2. Divide the topic your group chooses into manageable pieces, one piece for each group member. Each group member will be responsible for completing their piece of research on your group's topic.
  3. Each group member will be graded individually for their part of the group's multimedia presentation.

Here are some suggestions for how to structure your group's project. You can choose any one of these suggestions or create your own way of structuring your project:

  • Conduct a literature review of a psychological topic that is of interest to your group.
    • Your group should choose at least five sources of information: One must be your textbook. Two sources of information may be books, articles that you have found in the library databases, or other online sources . You must use your textbook to anchor your research and use your remaining references as supplements. This ensures that the information you gather regarding your topic is based on sound research.
    • After gathering your sources of information, read them to inform yourself of the research that has been done on your topic 
    • Present a review (summary) of the information regarding your topic.

or

  • Prepare a biography of a prominent researcher/theorist in the discipline of psychology.
    • Include a life history, including education and how their life experiences influenced their contribution to the discipline of psychology.
    • Include the researcher/theorist’s major contribution(s) to the field of psychology.

or

  • Choose a psychological disorder to prepare a report about.
    • Include the symptoms of the disorder.
    • Include the causes and risk factors of the disorder.
    • Include the treatment of the disorder.
    • Include any new developments in research regarding the disorder

or

  • Choose a psychological perspective
    • Explain the perspective in depth
    • Include the major theorists
    • Include the theories associated with the perspective.
    • Include the history of how the perspective developed.

Please submit an outline of your group’s presentation to the instructor by August 30 through the Literature Review Collaborative Project Discussion

  • The outline should include each group member’s name and a brief statement regarding his or her section of the presentation.
  • Each member of the group must present an equal portion of the project.
  • The entire presentation should be about 20 minutes of reading/viewing in length (about 5 minutes of course material, using visual media in Google Docs (Power Points or video), by each member of the group).