Social Psychology

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Written responses should be at least 1 full page, with care being taken to address all parts of questions.  Write your responses directly into this document, save, and submit via Blackboard by the deadline.

Part I: Participate in the Day of Compassion

To complete this assignment, choose a day that will be your “Day of Compassion” and try your absolute best to live each minute of that day as compassionately as possible. In other words, for a full 24-hour period you should do your best to reduce suffering of others, help those in need, be considerate and respectful, and avoid causing harm to any living being.

When carrying out this assignment, leave no behavior unexamined — from watching TV to eating lunch to decisions about giving time or money to others. That is, don’t limit yourself to simply holding the door open for a stranger or petting a lonely dog; think about all the unnecessary suffering in the world, and strive for the greatest impact and deepest level of compassion without being phony or insincere. It is up to you to define what compassion is and to decide how best to realize it.

If you are already quite compassionate, try being compassionate toward groups you don’t often focus on, and even if your actions don’t differ much from how you normally behave, carefully observe and analyze what transpires during the day. If outside events make it difficult for you to participate on the designated day, or if you feel dissatisfied with your performance of the assignment, feel free to repeat the exercise on a later day.

Note: To minimize any bias in social reactions, it is best if you do not tell others about the class assignment until after the Day of Compassion is over.

Part II: Write About Your Experience

“The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction.”

~Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace (1987)

Before class begins on the due date, submit a social psychological analysis of what the day was like. Here are a few sample questions you might address:

• How did you define compassion, and who were the recipients of your efforts?• If your behavior was different than normal, which person did you like more: the “Day of Compassion you” or the “normal you”? If you preferred the “Day of Compassion you,” what are the psychological factors that prevent this “you” from coming out?• What are the psychological costs and benefits of behaving compassionately? In your view, do the benefits outweigh the costs?• How did others respond to your compassion? Do you think they noticed a difference in your behavior? What attributions did people make for your behavior, and why?• If you wanted to encourage others to behave as you did during the Day of Compassion, what psychological techniques would you use? How can social psychology be used to foster compassion?• If you were to predict your behavior one month from now, do you think it will be changed in any way as a result of participating in the Day of Compassion? If so, how? If not, why not?

Discussion 1: Defining Adulthood

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How cultures define adulthood vary dramatically. For some, adulthood may be religious celebration milestones and for others it may be based on a physical change or event. In still others, it may be based on legal factors such as, chronological age or marital status.

For this Discussion, you will explore cultures and factors that establish adulthood. Also, you will examine the value and limitations of utilizing indicators to define adulthood.

To Prepare

  • From your Learning Resources, select two cultures in relation to one factor that may mark adulthood.
  • Search the Internet and/or the Walden University Library to select an additional scholarly article related to at least one of the two cultures and the one additional factor that mark adulthood to support your Discussion post.

By Day 3

Post, describing the two cultures in relation to the one factor you selected that may mark adulthood. Next, explain one potential value and one potential limitation related to the factor that define adulthood in both cultures you selected.

Note: Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources. Use proper APA format and citations.

Discussion: Paraphrasing A Short Passage

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The ability to paraphrase effectively is one of the fundamental skills required for effective academic writing. Paraphrasing shows you understand the source language and can restate it in your own words. Paraphrasing also helps you ensure originality in your writing.

To prepare for this Discussion:

Review the Week 3 Resources. Pay special attention to the webinars on paraphrasing and quoting. Also, study the noted sections of the APA manual so you can learn how to format citations properly.

By Day 3

Post a paraphrase of the following passage from Walden’s Code of Conduct. Include a proper in-text citation in your paraphrase. Make sure to use your own words while preserving the meaning of the original passage. Your paraphrase should ideally be the same length or shorter than the original passage. In addition to paraphrasing the passage, explain in one paragraph the strategy you used to paraphrase effectively.

“As an institution fundamentally  concerned with the free exchange of ideas, the university depends on the  academic integrity of each of its members. In the spirit of this free exchange,  students and instructors of Walden recognize the necessity and accept the  responsibility for academic integrity. A student who enrolls at the university  thereby agrees to respect and acknowledge the research and ideas of others in  his or her work and to abide by those regulations governing work stipulated by  the academic unit or academic program, and, in turn, the instructor” (Walden University, 2016.  para. 8).

Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.

By Day 5

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ postings in one of the following ways:

  • Ask a probing question.
  • Share an insight from having read your colleague’s posting.
  • Offer and support an opinion.
  • Validate an idea with your own experience.
  • Make a suggestion.
  • Expand on your colleague’s posting.

Gender- and Family-Conscious Career Counseling

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resource on your own before you bid. Main references come from Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2012) and/or American Psychological Association (2010). You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation regarding treatment. APA format also requires headings. Use the prompt each week to guide your heading titles and organize the content of your initial post under the appropriate headings. Remember to use scholarly research from peer-reviewed articles that is current. I have also attached my discussion rubric so you can see how to make full points. Please follow the instructions to get full credit for the discussion. I need this completed by 07/20/19 at 7pm.

Assignment – Week 8

Application: Gender- and Family-Conscious Career Counseling

Gender has wide-ranging effects on career counseling—from influencing people’s career choices to institutionalized discrimination that has resulted in disparities in salary, prestige, and benefits for men and women. Family life is also significant in how it supports or limits the opportunities and priorities that individuals may have with regard to career options.

Counselors need to examine and reflect on their own gender-based beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors, while also being conscious of how gender may be influencing their clients’ choices. They also need to be conscious of how their own ideas about the role of family and the meaning of work-life balance may influence their approach to counseling clients.

To prepare for this assignment:

  • Review the week’s Learning      Resources. Focus on the case examples of Maria and Richard, on pp.      515–517.
  • Think about the      similarities and differences in the daily lives of Maria and Richard and      the role that gender expectations, bias, and discrimination, as well as      the role that family life, may play in each scenario.
  • Reflect on how a counselor      might engage in a holistic approach to career counseling with Maria and      Richard using one of the following holistic approaches: Self-Efficacy Beliefs (p. 92), Learned Optimism (pp. 93–94),      Planned Happenstance (pp. 94-95), or Positive Uncertainty (pp. 96–99). Consider how a counselor would honor each individual’s unique      needs while also being conscious of how expectations, bias, and/or      discrimination related to gender and family life may influence them.

The assignment: (1–2 pages)

  • Explain how you would work      with Maria and Richard using one of the following holistic      approaches: Self-Efficacy Beliefs (p. 92), Learned Optimism (pp. 93–94),      Planned Happenstance (pp. 94–95), or Positive Uncertainty (pp. 96–99).
  • Analyze each case (Maria’s      and Richard’s) in terms of the influence of gender and family life on      their career decisions and development.

Required Resources

· Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2012). Career counseling: Foundations, perspectives, and applications. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

o Chapter 16, “Career Counseling with Couples and Families”

o Chapter 17, “Gender Issues in Career Counseling”

Website

· National Career Development Association. (2015). Internet sites for career planning. Retrieved from www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/resources

Week 8 Application Assignment Rubric

 

Criteria

 

  

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Progressing

 

  

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Emerging

 

  

 

Score
Meets Assignment Objectives

Application: Gender- and Family-Conscious Career Counseling

· Explain how you would work with Maria and Richard using one of the following holistic approaches: Self-Efficacy Beliefs (p. 92), Learned Optimism (pp. 93–94), Planned Happenstance (pp. 94–95), or Positive Uncertainty (pp. 96–99).

· Analyze each case (Maria’s and Richard’s) in terms of the influence of gender and family life on their career decisions and development.

 Responsive to and exceeds the requirements

 

 

4 points

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Responsive to and meets the requirements

 

 

 

3–3.5 points

 Somewhat responsive to the requirements

 

 

2–2.5 points

 Unresponsive to the requirements

 

 

0–1.5 points

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Application of Knowledge

 

Demonstrates an ability to think about, use, and integrate course material.

 

 In-depth understanding and application of concepts and issues presented in the course (e.g., insightful interpretations or analyses; accurate and perceptive parallels, ideas, opinions, examples, and conclusions)

 

4 points

 Basic understanding and application of the concepts and issues presented in the course demonstrating that the student has absorbed the general principles and ideas presented

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3–3.5 points

 Minimal understanding and little application of concepts and issues presented in the course or, while generally accurate, displays some omissions and/or errors

 

 

 

 

 

2–2.5 points

 Lack of understanding and little or no application of the concepts and issues presented in the course; and/or the application is inaccurate and contains many omissions and/or errors

 

0–1.5 points

 /4
Writing

Demonstrates graduate-level writing.

 

 Application meets graduate-level writing expectations, uses language that is clear and concise, has a few or no errors in grammar or syntax, is well organized and clear, and adheres to APA style with few or no mistakes

 

 

 

4 points

 Application meets most graduate-level writing expectations, uses language that is clear, has a few errors in grammar or syntax, is well organized and clear, and adheres to APA style with few mistakes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3–3.5 points

 Application partially meets graduate-level writing expectations, uses unclear and inappropriate language, has significant grammar or syntax errors, lacks organization, OR demonstrates significant issues with APA style.

 

 

 

2–2.5 points

 Application does not meet graduate-level writing expectations, uses unclear and inappropriate language, has significant grammar or syntax errors, lacks organization, AND demonstrates significant issues with APA style.

 

 

0–1.5 points

 /4
   

12 points

100%

  

9–10.5 points

75–87.5%

  

6–7.5 points

50–62.5%

  

0–4.5 points

0–37.5%

 Total Score

 

/12

 

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