Positive Psychology help please

Positive Psychology Chronicle

Learner Name

PSYC 4110

Positive Psychology

Capella University

Positive Psychology Chronicle

The text of the paper starts two single spaces down from the title. Typically, the writer will present something of interest to capture the reader's attention and introduce the issue. Also, it helps to include a specific statement of purpose. For example, the writer might state "This paper will address . . ." Adding an obvious statement of purpose not only helps the reader know what to expect, it forces the writer to focus and stay on task.

Introduction

Introductions (a) gain the reader’s attention, (b) identify the subject of your paper, and (c) present the basic substance of your argument or position on the paper.

In the introduction (a) introduce the purpose of the paper, (b) give the reader a sense of how the paper will unfold, (c) provide context to show why the main idea is significant, and (d) establish credibility using a scholarly voice. Present your position and all subsequent statements of opinion or persuasion in the third person (e.g. “It is the position of this paper that…”, or, “This paper proposes a series of steps…”, or, “This would suggest the best step for the psychologist to take…”) Maintain the third person voice in the introduction; it is good practice and establishes your paper as a scholarly work.

3.1 Positivity Ratio Assessment

In the portion of this paper that reports your personal experiences with the chronicle activities you are encouraged to use the first person voice in your writing.

Assume the reader of your paper is unfamiliar with the chronicle activities. Include a brief description of the chronicle activities and a very brief description of the scoring. This way your paper will read better to the uninformed reader, and to yourself a year from now when you may have forgotten the content of the chronicle activities.

Follow the Response questions in each of the chronicle activities to organize your reflections on the activities. Do not simply answer the questions. Provide a thoughtful response to each of the Response questions that demonstrates your understanding of the activity and the insights you gained from completing the chronicle activity.

The purpose of the chronicle activities is to experience something new and then reflect on that process and report your findings. You can strengthen your experience and your paper through contemplative introspection and reporting to the reader what you have discovered.

The Positivity Ratio Assessment is an activity from an external source. In your brief description reporting the activity and the scoring, you will need to properly cite the source using APA formatting. We can assume that Barbara Fredrickson created the Positivity Ratio Assessment tool and the copyright notice states 2009, so the citation you use within paragraphs would be Fredrickson (2009) for this activity. The APA reference for this activity is included in the Reference page of this document.

3.2 Satisfaction with Life Scale

Each section in the body of the paper will present a summary of one of the chronicle activities. Continue to use the Response questions as your form of organizing your thoughts in the narrative of your paper. If you want to use the Response questions in your paper as sub-headings to more clearly specify what you are reporting, you may do so by inserting the Response questions on the left side in bold, like this:

· Do I feel the assessment adequately and accurately gave me input on my life satisfaction levels? Then you can begin your narrative response in normal font (not bold). Be cautious using this method. The natural tendency is to simply “answer the questions” rather than making a thoughtful, introspective reflection in response to the questions.

Because the Satisfaction with Life Scale was originally published in a scholarly journal but you read about it in your textbook, the citation and reference on this is called a secondary source. In your narrative you would cite the activity in a manner like this: I completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale (as cited in Snyder, Lopez & Pedrotti, 2011, p.130) by rating each of the questions…. You would use the three authors’ names in your first citation of the textbook. Any subsequent citations of the Positivity Psychology textbook within your paper can then be abbreviated as Snyder et al. (2011). The reference at the end of your paper for this citation would then simply be the reference for the Snyder text which is included at the end of this template.

3.3 Resolution Chart

Properly citing and referencing the Resolution Chart is a bit challenging. This is a chronicle activity with no published author that you obtained on the Internet within the Capella University website. You watched the video with Nicole Zuber which introduces the idea for the activity, but the actual activity (if one were to try and repeat it for oneself) is found in the chronicle activity webpage. As a result, despite the cooperative efforts of several members of the Capella faculty in producing this video, we have no persons who are credited with being the author. The APA considers this “gray literature”, scientific information that falls outside the peer review process but is written by scholars. Simply refer to the activity as the Resolution Chart, and use the reference I have provided in the Reference section at the end of this template.

4.1 StrengthsFinder Assessment

There are two parts to the StrengthsFinder assessment. The first part is the book which you purchased that gave you the key to go online and then take the assessment. The second part is the report of the actual assessment you completed online and then printed out for your reference. You will make use of the StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report which you downloaded but is not a “published” document, and you will simply refer to that as the StrengthsFinder 2.0 Report. When you refer to the actual book by Rath (2007), you will cite it as done here and use the reference which is included in the Reference section at the end of this template.

Summary and Conclusion

Conclusion summarizes the main arguments or points of your paper, and may present a solution to a problem, describe consequences, call for action, or suggest further work/research by other scholars. Begin by restating your opinion or position and summarize the most important points that you have presented to support your position.

References

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EXAMPLES: [for illustration purposes]

Ben-Shahar, T. (2007). Happier: Learn the secrets to daily joy and lasting fulfillment. New York: McGraw-Hill.