Psychology week 7 assignment 2

Week 7 Assignment

Objective:

Social psychology is full of concepts that are relevant to your life and future career. As we’ve talked about before, the most valuable knowledge you’re gaining this semester is your ability to apply the concepts you’ve been learning about and to recognize when they’re happening right in front of you. This paper allows you to make those applications toward something very important in your life: your career.

What to do:

For this assignment, you will choose four social psychological concepts from anything that we talked about throughout the entire course (this can also include Week 8 topics) and write a 5 page paper (minimum; double-spaced, 12-pt font) describing how each concept might apply to your career. In your paper, you should be sure to first explain what your current and your intended career is (if you would like to be changing careers with your graduate degree). Define each social psychological concept (see next paragraph for citation expectations). Each concept should be defined in its own paragraph, one sentence is not sufficient to demonstrate understanding of a concept. Remember that your four social psychological concepts must be relatively specific (e.g., “helping” is too broad, but “the bystander effect” is appropriate). After defining each concept, describe and clearly explain how it is relevant in your current or future career (e.g., being aware of how self-fulfilling prophecies affect kids and how you can avoid it as an elementary school counselor). At least two concepts must apply to your current career (unless you are not working); two concepts can apply to your future career. Feel free to be creative!

How to do in-text citations:

When defining your concepts, you must paraphrase the definition in your own words without using quotation marks and you must include an in-text citation in parentheses that indicates where you got the definition. In-text citations must be APA format. You should include a reference section with a minimum of 10 citations.

Professionalism in writing:

Please write your papers with care. You must include a cover page and submit an APA formatted paper that is professional in writing style. Begin with an introduction paragraph and end with a conclusion paragraph. Use APA style formatted headings. Write full sentences and organize your sentences into paragraphs. Use proper spelling and grammar, and proofread your paper before submitting it to check for typos. Please also consider submitting to the Graduate Writing Studio for review prior to submission.

Protip:

Although I will not review papers in advance of the due date, if you have questions about any of the concepts you are considering including, you may check with me via a brief email.

How to submit:

This assignment must be turned in via the Blackboard submission portal by 11:59pm on the due date.

Checklist:

In submitting your application paper, be sure to double-check that:

· You have a cover page

· Your concepts are specific enough (not too broad)

· Your definitions are appropriately paraphrased and include in-text citations

· Your applications are thorough and correct

· There are no spelling or grammatical errors in your paper

· Your paper is formatted in APA style and includes a Reference section

· Your file is in PDF, DOC, DOCX, or RTF format

· Your file was correctly uploaded to the Blackboard dropbox and is readable

· That your SafeAssign score is acceptable; if not, revise and resubmit

Rubric:

Grading will following rubric below (100 points total):

_____ (5) Degree and career/future career described

_____ (8) Concept #1 correctly defined with in-text citation

_____ (11) Concept #1 accurately and thoroughly applied to your career

_____ (8) Concept #2 correctly defined with in-text citation

_____ (11) Concept #2 accurately and thoroughly applied to your career

_____ (8) Concept #3 correctly defined with in-text citation

_____ (11) Concept #3 accurately and thoroughly applied to your career

_____ (8) Concept #4 correctly defined with in-text citation

_____ (11) Concept #4 accurately and thoroughly applied to your career

_____ (10) Overall writing quality (e.g., spelling/grammar, organization, APA format)

_____ (9) APA formatted Reference section with 10 scholarly journal articles