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CH 9- Assignment

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Read the chapter and review the powerpoint presentation that was sent to you.

Answer the following questions, using the questions as headings.

What was the most surpising thing you learned in this chapter?

What information did you learn that you think will be personally helpful to you in your life? Why?

What is the relationship betweens self-efficacy, mastery beliefs, and hope?

 

Book Report Guidelines

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Book Report

You are required to write a book report for this course. The book report is worth 100 points.  The report should be 2000 words long, typed, and in APA style (1 inch margins, double spaced, citations where appropriate, cover page, reference page).  You will be submitting your book report to www.turnitin.com where I will verify that your work has not been plagiarized. You will also turn in an identical hard copy to me on the day that it is due.

Here are some guidelines for your book report.

Buy your book early. Don't wait to find out that it will take 10 days to get to you through the mail.

Read your book.

Your next step will be to organize what you are going to say about it in your report. Writing the basic elements down in an outline format can help you to organize your thoughts. Your report should focus on the psychological factors related to motivation and emotion that are evident in your book. Don't just try to write this off the top of your head, but rather, from your focused effort in applying the principles in your textbook to the book you read. You should only very briefly summarize your book (e.g., less than one page). The remainder of your paper should be focused on the relevant psychological factors inherent in the story or content of your chosen book. Questions? See me.

The Final Paper

1. Spell check your paper.

2. Have a friend read and review your paper.

3. Read your paper out loud.

4. Make any changes that your friend and you have pointed out.

5. Spell check again.

Grading:

10pts for APA style cover page

10pts for APA style reference page

10pts for APA style throughout the paper

10pts for appropriate length of paper

25pts for accurate and effective presentation of psychological principles/concepts

25pts for writing style

10pts for spelling/grammar

 

Ch 3 & Ch 4 Comments

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Browse your notes and the chapters themselves for chapters 3 and 4. Choose a topic that is in one of the chapters. Now, go to www.youtube.com and find a video clip that relates to that topic,

In your comment, discuss the topic (as it is presented in the textbook), describe the video clip, provide the link, and then describe how the video clip is representing the topic.

Stimuli-Motive-Behavior

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Recalling yesterday's exercise where you broke up into groups and came up with various environmental stimuli, the aroused motive, and the resulting motive-relevant behavior, I'd like you to post a comment detailing out an example (one that we did not cover in class). Imagine a comment from someone who did not participate in yesterday's exercise, and someone who did--the person who did should be able to provide a comment that clearly states the example, terms, and links between them as we did as a group yesterday.