Exploring Self-Assessment Tools for Career Goal Identification

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Issues and ethics in psych (new class) Week 7 discussion: career goals After reading "Assessing and Developing Career Goals" use the three self-assessment tools within the chapter Life Interests and Preferences (Boxes 4.2 and 4.3)  Career Abilities (Boxes 4.4 and 4.5) Academic Strength and Weaknesses (Boxes 4.6 and 4.7)  to conduct a self assessment.  Discuss what the self assessment revealed about yourself (what are your best skills, main interests, and strength and weaknesses?) and answer the following questions: Were you surprised by anything? How accurate do you think this self-assessment tool is?  What are the limitations to this type of assessment?  What career and educations goals did this assessment help you to identify? Week 7 journal: ethics in psychology Based on the Kuther reading and the "Steps in Ethical Decision Making" article, which do you think has more value in the field of psychology -- Kuther's discussion in regard to the career planning process, or Pope's ethical decision making model for solving ethical dilemmas? https://kspope.com/memory/ethics.php Week 7 Paper: studies that changed psychology The "Studies that Changed Psychology" paper is due on Sunday at the end of Week 7 by 11:59pm EST. For this assignment, you will select any one of the readings from the Hock textbook ("Forty Studies that Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research") that were not discussed in class and conduct a further review. Part 1: For part 1, you will summarize the reading with a focus on the study and its results. Part 2: For the second part of the paper, read the "Recent Applications" section of the reading that you selected. From this section, identify a topic of interest that you would like to study further. After you have chosen a topic, access the JWU library's online resource and search for an article on it. Be sure to find a NEW study that was published after the Hock textbook (within the last 10 years.) The second part of your paper will be a summary of the study and it’s findings. Textbook > https://www.mayfieldschools.org/Downloads/All%2040%20Studies.pdf Assignment description below  Studies that Changed Psychology Paper Assignment.pdf Personality (new class) Week 6 discussion: behaviroal/social learning approaches The behavioral/social learning approach includes areas of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, and the social-cognitive learning approach. In this area of psychopathology, behaviorists account for many of the behaviors and psychological disorders through these concepts, and many use these techniques designed to overcome many of these behaviors and disorders in therapy.    For your discussion this week, select a current news event from the past 6-12 months that discusses an individual’s behavior that might be considered abnormal.   Select two approaches in the behavioral/social learning approach and explain how these approaches may have contributed to the acquisition of this behavior.   Explain:  Compare and contrast these...