Please post your findings. In addition, pose one follow-up question to the class and respond to the questions of at least TWO of your classmates.

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Complete a Big Five Trait personality inventory to examine your trait profile. There are a variety of trait personality tests available online; I recommend either the “Big Five Personality Inventory” (http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~buchant/wwwffi/) or “All About You” (http://www.outofservice.com/bigfive/). After completing the on-line personality test, reflect on your scores for the “Big Five” traits. Based on your reflections, do you think five traits are adequate to provide a description of an individual’s personality?

As a follow-up, I would like you to complete a “mini-study” to address this question. Solicit the help of three or four close acquaintances of a “target person” (all acquaintances must know the same target person). Ask these acquaintances to describe the “target person” in terms of general characteristics or traits. These descriptive terms should not be in terms of behavior (e.g., “She likes to pick fights”), but in terms of personal dispositions (e.g., “She’s aggressive”). Neither should the descriptions be physical attributes (e.g., “He has an athletic build”) nor should they be in terms of the acquaintance’s relationship with the “target person” (e.g., “She makes me laugh” or “I like him”) Acquaintances should not be told how many traits they should name. They should simply list descriptive adjectives that they feel others would also list. After you have gathered this data, group synonyms and then count the average number of central traits that others agree the “target person” possesses. You may be interested to find whether the average number of outstanding personal dispositions is approximately the same as the number of central dispositions hypothesized by Allport, namely five to eight. In other words, can individuals be consistently described by five to eight central dispositions? Raymond Cattell

 

 

Please post your findings. In addition, pose one follow-up question to the class and respond to the questions of at least TWO of your classmates.

Organize and format your paper according to current APA style and cite your references as you would in current APA style

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Biblical Worldview Paper Instructions

For the Biblical Worldview Paper in this course, you are to write a short essay that critically examines the relationship between crisis management and the justice professional and constructively identifies the gaps and omissions in the literature where a Biblical Worldview should be internalized and expressed in the life of the criminal justice professional. Your paper must be at least 2 pages. For the first page, it is important that you make the distinction of where and on what grounds the literature comes up short as it relates to what the research has for us versus what God has for us. For the second page, you must demonstrate how you might integrate the Biblical Worldview into the specific problem you are studying. Organize and format your paper according to current APA style and cite your references as you would in current APA style. If you need more help understanding how to analyze scholastic literature, consult the corresponding section in your APA manual.

Include the following elements in your short essay:

· A page that critically exposes the gaps or omissions in the literature regarding a Biblical Worldview

· A page that constructively integrates the Biblical Worldview into the problem you are studying

· Bibliography of the sources you cited in the short essay

Before this point in your life, which have you thought about more, having ‘privileges’ compared to other people OR not having privileges compared to other people? Explain.

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The focus of Chapter 9 is ‘Prejudice’. The purpose of this assignment is to acquaint you with the flipside of prejudice and discrimination. This concept is referred to as unearned privilege. There are many forms of unearned privilege (e.g., white, male, American, rich, Christian, pretty, English-speaking, tall, etc.). Can you think of some ways that people who fall into the aforementioned groups have an easier time navigating the world? Some people suggest that systems of privilege are established acts of aggression against the downtrodden. What are your thoughts on the subject? Before this point in your life, which have you thought about more, having ‘privileges’ compared to other people OR not having privileges compared to other people? Explain.

You may have heard some discussion about this topic already (e.g., a recent song featuring MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS FEAT. JAMILA WOODS – WHITE PRIVILEGE II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_rl4ZGdy34). For some background, please feel free to view one or both of these videos: https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/white-privilege-explained/2016/01/16/0173cba6-bbbc-11e5-85cd-5ad59bc19432_video.html or https://medicine.utoronto.ca/news/privilege-101-understanding-privilege-oppression.

For this assignment, I want you to take a privilege test and write a brief reaction to your scores and the related implications. There are 3 steps:

Step One: Take the privilege test: I have already took the test and uploaded my results below.

Step Two: Answer the following 5 questions in an enumerated list. Please do not copy and paste the questions into your paper.

1) What were your scores?

2) Before this point in your life, which have you thought about more, having ‘privileges’ compared to other people OR not having privileges compared to other people? Explain.

3) In your life, which of these (having privilege OR not having privilege) has impacted you the most? Explain.

4) Comment on the types of things (e.g., employment, educational attainment, property ownership, involvement in politics, etc.) that could be predicted by people’s levels of privilege? Be specific and explain your answer(s).

5) Do you think that systems of privilege are established acts of aggression against the downtrodden? Explain.

Step Three: Title the answers, “Privilege is the flipside of prejudice”.

Describe the study: What was the purpose of the research? What were the researchers studying? Was a hypothesis stated?  If so, what was it?

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First of all: think of a topic of interest to you that applies to the course you are studying with me.   If you can’t think of a topic, go to the index in the textbook and choose a topic from there.  If you are unsure about a topic, you can also email me, or you could go to the Ohlone’s Library and simply browse through the Psychology Journals to find an interesting topic.  The Librarians are very helpful, if you have any questions. Or you can go online using the Ohlone’s Library link (Academic Premier Search).

Then, think about what aspect of your topic that you might want to focus on.  For example: 1) Teenage Depression and Drug Use, 2) Watching Violent Video Games and Later Aggression in Children, or 3) Consequences of Sexual Violence, etc.etc.

Find one article that is a primary sources, i.e. documenting studies that use the experimental method or a descriptive method.    The study you select must have participants.  The article cannot be either a literature review or Meta Analysis.  (If you do not know what these are, look up the definitions and if you’re still unsure, email me.)   Feel free to discuss any part of this with me; and, if you wish, you can show me the 1st page of the study you’ve found, just to make sure you are ‘on track.’  Do not use newspaper or magazine articles as these are, often, ‘secondary sources.’

In writing your paper you may not use more than 5 consecutive words from the study without using quotation marks around the passage and citing the source. State the name of the person who wrote the words that you are quoting.  The majority of the paper must be in your own words.  It’s important that you get into this ‘habit’ to avoid plagiarism accusations.

Your paper must include the following:

  1. Type 3 pages describing the study.  This could include:
  2. Describe the study: What was the purpose of the research? What were the researchers studying? Was a hypothesis stated?  If so, what was it?
  3. Who were the subjects? How many? How were they obtained?
  4. Describe the type of study that was conducted: Was this an experimental method or descriptive methods study?  Were the independent and dependent variables? What measurements were used?
  5. What were the results and conclusions of the study?
  6. Type a 1- 2 page critique of the study: What have you learned about this assignment?  Include your likes and dislikes.   If you had conducted the study what questions would you have asked?  Or perhaps the sample was too small, the sample wasn’t diverse enough; the operational definitions did not really measure what the researcher was wanting to measure, etc.
  7. Type the complete citation for the article. For example Smith, James C., “The Impact of TV Violence on Teens,” in Jo. of Child Development, vol. 2, issue 4, 1999, pp.1-52.   This can be typed at the end of your paper.
  8. Attach a photo of the 1st – 2 pages (PDF version) of the article.