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Assignment One

Instructions:

For this discussion post, you will use the knowledge you have gained about personality, the career specific reports you have created in the previous weeks’ discussions, and assessments associated with various fields of psychology you have studied to help you to choose and develop a cover letter for a job in the human services sector. To begin, determine what type of job within the human services sector related to personality psychology is of interest to you. Using career websites, including those listed on the Job Search (Links to an external site.) section of the Career Resources at the University of Arizona Global Campus website, and/or other third-party search engines such as the American Psychological Association’s PsycCareers (Links to an external site.) website, Monster.com  (Links to an external site.), Indeed.com  (Links to an external site.), and SimplyHired.com (Links to an external site.). Once you have found a suitable job posting, carefully review the requirements and note these for inclusion in your cover letter. Before you begin designing your cover letter, review the required readings, videos, and websites to help you determine how best to formulate it. Within the letter, you will address the person or title of the person that is listed as the contact for the job in the job posting. As you draft your cover letter, consider the elements within the job post and use your knowledge of personality theory to make yourself appear to be the best candidate for the job. Assess the various types of personality measurements that might be most effective in the position listed and mention how you might use these on the job. Once you have developed your letter, save it as a document and attach it to your discussion post. In the discussion post itself, copy and paste the link to the job posting for which you wrote your cover letter. Describe your experience(s) writing the cover letter including the ways in which you may have attempted to manipulate the reader to get the best response. Analyze and describe any ethical issues that could be associated with this process.

Resources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/career-transitions/201104/writing-the-dreaded-cover-letter

Assignment Two

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the required Churchill and Mruk (2014), Hayes (2012), and Waterman (2013) articles, and review the APA’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct  (Links to an external site.) and Chapters 14 through 17 in your textbook.

For this discussion, you will choose a person who has an important presence in popular media today. This person might be a political, business, human rights, education, or entertainment figure. Examine the major theoretical approaches studied in the class so far (psychodynamic, behavioral, learning, trait and type, and humanistic). Briefly describe your chosen figure’s personality from the point of view of each of these five approaches. Evaluate and describe any cultural considerations which may affect the personality assessment within each of the given approaches. Analyze the ethical implications of basing your personality assessment on the information available through the popular media. Select the theoretical approach you think best describes the person and elaborate on his or her personality using this approach. 

Resources

American Psychological Association. (2010). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct: Including 2010 amendments (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/index.aspx

This document outlines a series of ethical standards, guidelines, and aspirational goals to guide psychologists.
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Brooks, K. (2011). Writing the dreaded cover letter  (Links to an external site.). Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-transitions/201104/writing-the-dreaded-cover-letter

The author of this online article provides some great insight and information about writing cover letters in psychology fields.
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Churchill, S. D., & Mruk, C. J. (2014). Practicing what we preach in humanistic and positive psychology. American Psychologist, 69(1), 90-92. doi:10.1037/a0034868

The full-text version of this article can be accessed through the EBSCOhost database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. The authors of this article discuss some of the issues presented in the article by Waterman (2013). The article focuses on the commonly understood epistemological boundary between the disciplines of humanistic and positive psychology.
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Hayes, S. C. (2012). Humanistic psychology and contextual behavioral perspectives. Psychotherapy, 49(4), 455-460. doi:10.1037/a0027396

The full-text version of this article can be accessed through the EBSCOhost database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. The author of this article examines the relationship between the humanistic and behavioral perspectives, which have often been described as opposing theories.
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Waterman, A. S. (2013). The humanistic psychology–positive psychology divide: Contrasts in philosophical foundations. American Psychologist, 68(3), 124-133. doi:10.1037/a0032168

The full-text version of this article can be accessed through the EBSCOhost database in the University of Arizona Global Campus Library. The author examines the relationshi

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