PSY 260 – Dr. Kaplan
Illustrate a Personality Concept
In this 3-5 page paper (plus bibliography with a minimum of 5 accompanying sources), you are to find a good (e.g., probable) illustration of a personality concept in a real person’s actual biography, life-description, or behavior.
Step 1:
Find an extended description of the life and behavior of a real individual. By extended, I mean that it should be at least 3-10 pages long or can even be a biography or autobiography. It should contain information about the person’s background or life history, the person’s present life, the person’s actions, behaviors, and so forth. The description can be drawn from an autobiography, a biography, a magazine, or a newspaper article.
Step 2:
Look carefully at the description to see if there is a personality concept from the course that is illustrated by the description of the person you have chosen. This concept can be (a) a personality component, or (b) a personality dynamic. If no such concept is illustrated, or if the concept is illustrated poorly, find a new individual with a richer or more historic number of articles so that you will be that you will be better able to illustrate personality concepts from the course.
Step 3:
Once you have found an appropriate individual with adequate article to illustrate concepts of personality from our class, please turn in the name of the individual along with the references/sources in proper APA format (e.g., author, publication, volume, date, pages, etc.; the exact form will depend on the source you have found; you may use any valid academic citation form, although American Psychological Association style is required), plus the photocopies of your five sources.
Step 4:
The paper must be written in APA format, double-spaced paper (including a cover page and references), clearly describing and defining appropriate concepts of personality you have come across in your research/articles. Be sure to include references for all of your sources at the conclusion of your paper.
Here are examples of some concepts you could choose (but you may choose others):
*Evidence for a shadow in someone’s life
*The presence of a particular trait to an unusual degree (e.g., friendliness-hostility)
*An example of repression, a Freudian slip, or both
*A feared or other possible self
*A person’s repeated, characteristic dating or other relationship pattern
*An unrealistic model of the world or of the self-in-world
Grading will be according to several criteria:
(a) excellence of writing,
(b) excellence of example (i.e., the degree to which it provides a clear, probable, description of the psychological characteristic under consideration)
(c) quality of understanding the component
(d) sophistication of the concept you have chosen to write about (i.e., writing about a difficult concepts and comprehensive personality such as the unconscious mind of the individual or the transitions in their life/challenges and organization will be considered more sophisticated than writing about an easier concept such as a single trait).
NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED
** DO NOT DIAGNOSE MENTAL DISORDERS OR PERSONALITY DISORDERS
** ONLY ILLUSTRATE PERSONALITY CONCEPTS AND USE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT
first source must be from bibliography.co
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