Using the UMUC Library electronic databases, find an article from a recent issue of a peer-reviewed journal related to the biological basis of psychology, sensation and perception, or memory and cognition.

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Using the UMUC Library electronic databases, find an article from a recent issue of a peer-reviewed journal related to the biological basis of psychology, sensation and perception, or memory and cognition. The article should describe specifically an experimental manipulation by the researchers. Prepare a 2–4 page summary of the article in your own words including specifics regarding the overall purpose of the research in question, a clear statement of the researcher’s hypothesis, details regarding the study methodology, and pertinent results of the manipulation. Also include your personal opinion of the work. Should it be repeated/ how can it be improved? What was your overall impression of the work? What are the implications of the study for the practice of counseling psychology?

Identify someone in your community who is a manager. This should be someone who is responsible for recruiting and/or selecting employees, supervising employees, and evaluating employee performance.

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This required Portfolio assignment will give you experience observing and interacting with peopleoutside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in a real world setting. This assignment accomplishes that goal by challenging you to:

• Conduct a 30-minute, semi-structured interview with a manager
• Identify common challenges and issues that arise in the workplace
• Evaluate strategies for addressing these challenges
• Integrate your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook, and additional scholarly sources.

Objective: This assignment is designed to help you identify common problems that managers face when dealing with employees, and the solutions that managers use in an attempt to solve those problems. This assignment will also give you an opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of the solutions from a practical perspective and from the perspective of research in Industrial/Organizational psychology.

Step 1: Identify someone in your community who is a manager. This should be someone who is responsible for recruiting and/or selecting employees, supervising employees, and evaluating employee performance.

Step 2: Conduct a 30-minute interview with the manager. In your interview, be sure to cover the following questions:

• What are some of the common problems that you have experienced with employees? Be sure to steer the discussion toward relevant topics such as recruitment, employee selection, employee motivation, employee training, job attitudes, giving feedback, creating incentives, managing conflict, and so forth.
• Identify two major problems that the manager mentions and ask how he or she has responded to those problems. What solutions has the manager tried? Have the solutions worked?

Personality Assignment

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Personality Assignment
This is an introspective assignment. You should do some deep thinking here and express your thoughts and feelings through writing responses to these questions. This should be a 2-3 page paper, double spaced, 12 pt font, and one inch margins. If you use any sources besides your book, you will need to cite them. Points will be deducted if the paper isn’t well edited and has spelling and grammatical errors.

1    Take three personality assessments. Take the Big Five, the grit assessment, and the Brief Strength Finder (found on the Positive Psychology Center Web-cite). Summarize what you scored on each assessment and note if you agree with each assessment or not (explain why).

2    Interview three people (one from work/school, a close friend, and a family member). Ask them to list three strengths and three weaknesses that you have. Summarize your findings and describe if you agree or not and explain why.

3    Now describe three goals you want to have accomplished by the time of your 75th birthday party. Who do you want to be as a person and a community member, what kind of legacy do you want to leave behind? After answering these questions, write your personal vision statement about who you are. Write it like you are already that person so that you can grow into this statement. Mine is: I am a loving wife and mother, independent and resourceful, and a dedicated educator who values lifelong learning, healthy living, and adventure.

4    Look over everything you wrote above and describe what you learned about yourself. What will you do to become your best self? What will you do to grow into the person you want to become?

What types of racial, ethnic, and other minority groups do you think you would work particularly well with? Explain why.

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As a potential professional in the field of psychology, you bring many of the concepts learned in this course into clearer focus. This assignment helps you clarify your own multicultural views as they relate to working as a counselor with multicultural clients.

Address the following issues, and be sure to respond to you peers in an inclusive, sensitive and respectful manner:

Explore the relationship between appreciating diversity among racial, ethnic, and other minority groups and being an effective counselor. Substantiate your answer using examples.

What types of racial, ethnic, and other minority groups do you think you would work particularly well with? Explain why.

What types of racial, ethnic, and other minority groups do you think you would have difficulty working with? Explain why.

What steps would you like to take in the near future to improve your sensitivity to diverse clients and become an effective counselor?