Extra Credit Assignment
Due
by Tues, December 3 No
late papers accepted Worth
0 to 10 points
1.
Only one paper per
student accepted and awarded appropriate point value.
2.
Write a 3-5 page
paper (APA style) on one of the “greats” in the history of psychology.
3.
Below is a list of
individuals that you may choose from.
4.
Please sign up with
Dave or myself on the individual you intend to report about. I want these
individuals evenly distributed over the population of students who are
choosing to do an extra credit assignment. Those who sign up first get to
choose first. As individuals from the list are selected, they will be removed
from the list of availability to subsequent students. View listing of extra credit subjects students have already signed up for 5. Please use a minimum of 3 references Journal articles or books, or full-text sources offered online. Any material that has been published in a book or journal that is available online is okay, but you must obtain the publication info for your references. Feel free to visit internet sites to enhance familiarity with your subject and lead you to books or articles, but they do not qualify as references in themselves. Include a complete list of references (written in APA format – APA Style Guide or visit library for APA manual). Click here for a step by step guide for searching for articles within the PSU Library System. Note: your sources for the extra credit need not be empirical studies.
6.
Immanuel Kant
(1724-1804) Charles
Darwin (1809-1882) Wilhelm
Wundt (1832-1920) William
James (1842-1910) Sigmund
Freud (1856-1939) John
B. Watson (1878-1958) B.
F. Skinner (1904-1990) Carl
Rogers (1905-1987) Abraham
Maslow (1908-1970) Mary
Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) Margaret
Floy Washburn (1871-1939) Christine
Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930) Lillien
Martin (1851-1943) Leta
Stetter Hollingsworth (1886-1939)
Open to other suggestions – Check with Dave or myself if you want to write about individuals not on this list.
7.
Include in your
paper:
a.
Background on the
individual (e.g., when and where they lived, who their associates were, area
of study)
b.
Contributions to the
field of psychology
c.
Personal successes
(if possible/applicable)
d.
Theories he or she
are associated with, worked on, discovered, built on, etc.
e.
Your reaction,
perspective, opinions to do with that individual’s psychological discipline
(e.g., structuralism, functionalism, nativism, gestalt, theory of evolution,
nature vs nurture, behaviorism, humanism, psychoanalysis, etc.)
f.
Talk about a
theory/perspective that opposes this person’s perspective and why
8.
You will be graded
on:
a.
Compliance with the
above expectations
b.
APA formatting/style
c.
Number of references
(meaning: a minimum of the required 3)
d.
Where references are
derived from (no internet citations0
e.
Grammar, spelling,
and sentence structure. I expect a well-written document.
f.
Organization of paper
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