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Article 1: webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/conclusions.html
Boeree, C. G. (2006). The ultimate theory of personality. C. George Boeree. https://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/conclusions.html
Article 2: oercommons.org/authoring/22859-personality-theory/2/view
Kelland, M. (2017, July 7). Personality theory: Personality, culture, & society. Open Education Resources Commons. https://oercommons.org/authoring/22859-personality-theory/2/view
Part 1: Identify one of the future directions discussed in your Unit 8 Learning Resources that you find most interesting. Combine that knowledge with what you learned in Unit 1 about how we study personality (i.e., case study, experiment, or correlational design) and in a brief, 1-paragraph research proposal, design a relevant study. Identify the approach you are taking (correlational, experimental, or case study), who you would recruit as far as participants go, the variables you would investigate, and how you would go about measuring them. Make sure your methods align with the study method you chose.
Part 2: Let’s home in more specifically on where personality research is right now. Using the UMGC library or Google.com/scholar, find and surmise the gist of a personality-based study published in the current year. Briefly summarize its methods and findings and deduce what this article says about the direction of personality research today.
Part 3: Identify a specific idea, notion, or concept that you learned in this course that you resonated with and/or has implications for your personal, professional, or academic life. Discuss that a bit. End by finding a mic-drop* quote from any of the personality researchers we’ve covered in class that captures that idea (hint: Typing “[Enter Theorist Name] Quotes” into google.com/images should offer an array to choose from).
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Articles/reference
Article 1:courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-abnormalpsych/chapter/gender-dysphoria/
Miller, S. (n.d.). Gender dysphoria. Lumen Learning. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-abnormalpsych/chapter/gender-dysphoria/
Article 2: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:774055f3-d241-48db-bb6a-a7b9e98bf914
Roberts, L. W., and Louie, A. K. (2015). Study guide to DSM-5 (1st ed.). American Psychiatric Association Publishing. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2015.43
Part 1: Watch this video – a moving poem describing the experience of children with neurodevelopmental issues or who learn best in neurodivergent ways: Animal School.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8limRtHZPs&t=75s
First, share your reaction to the video.
Then, pair two of the conditions you learned about in this unit with two of the “animals” represented in this poem. Use information from your learning resources and what you learned about the hallmark features of each condition to justify your pairings
Lastly, share some ideas on the kind of alternative educational environment in which these two “animals” (children) could eventually thrive. Provide at least one resource to support your ideas.
Part 2: The authors of your DSM-5 Study guide chapter on gender dysphoria (Greaves & Reicherter, 2015) end by asking some interesting questions. Here are a couple of them –choose one (1) of them to answer.
What is the relationship of societal views regarding gender identity to the manifestations of gender dysphoria? Would there be such a thing as gender dysphoria if society ascribed equal value to all forms of gender expression?
Can there be gender dysphoria in people who do not question the gender they were assigned at birth? Do other forms of dysphoria relate to gender?
Part 3: Identify one of the emerging trends discussed in the APA Monitor on Psychology article (and associated linked blog posts) that you found interesting.
Describe the trend here for us in your own words.
Locate a peer-reviewed study published in the last year that demonstrates the current work being done in this area. Briefly summarize it (especially the findings) and link it for us in case we want to read more.
Offer some questions or hypotheses that you think researchers should be asking/testing in the next five years, as it pertains to this trend. Where should we head next?
If you were to describe the state of psychology right now, what one sentence would you use to describe it?
