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Assignment: Reflection Journal

Overview

Since you started PSY101, Smarter Decisions through Psychology, you have had the opportunity to learn about fascinating topics, including the brain and nervous system, emotions, motivation, and stress management. As you learned the psychological concepts and principles covered in this course, you’ve gained insight into what influences decision making and how you can apply what you’ve learned to make better decisions in your own life and career. Through your study of psychology, you’ve also started honing two essential employability skills:

Problem solving to identify and frame problems, explore ideas, and create effective, ethical, and evidence-based solutions based on psychological concepts and principles.

Self and social awareness to monitor one’s own and others’ emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to receive feedback, reflect, and guide one’s thinking.

Questions

In this journal, you will share your reflections on your time in PSY101 by answering the questions below. For each of the questions, write a paragraph-length response (5-7 sentences).

1. As a result of this class, how will you immediately apply your problem solving skill at home or work?

2. As a result of this class, how have you grown in terms of your own self & social awareness skill?

3. Of all of the Strayer videos, which one was most relevant for you? Why?

4. What is one psychological concept that you have learned in this class that was most helpful to you? How will you use this concept to succeed in your personal or professional life?

Instructions

Use the Reflection Journal Template to record your responses. For each question, you should write a paragraph-length response (5–7 sentences) to receive credit for this assignment. Once you have completed your work, save the file and upload it to the assignment submission area.

Strayer University Writing Standards Note: Review the Strayer University Writing Standards. These are provided as a brief set of user-friendly guidelines that make it easier for you to learn the behaviors of appropriate writing (i.e., clear, professional, and ethical writing). This is meant to support the use of the template provided.

Group Dynamics and Teams

We will continue our experiential approach to the study of Organizational Behavior by engaging in a personal applied case on the topic of group dynamics and teams. As in module 1, use the following outline to structure your 4-6 page paper. You may use the subtitles as headings for your paper.

Introduction: Discuss the topic of the paper and how you will approach it. It is best to write this section after you have written the rest of the paper.

Concrete Experience: Begin with a specific situation/event. Describe an experience with a group or team that was meaningful to you. It may have been an extraordinarily good experience – or it may have been an experience that did not work out very well at all! The important point is that it should be an experience which you would like to understand better. Be objective and focus on just the facts: who, what, where, when, and how – as if you were composing a newspaper article.

Reflective Observation: Reflect upon that experience from multiple perspectives of persons involved or affected in the experience. Step back from the situation, look at the experience from your own viewpoint, and from the perspective of all other parties involved or affected. You want to look at the circumstances surrounding the experience from every relevant point of view. Why did you behave the way that you did? Why did others behave the way that they did? Did others have the same positive (or negative) experience? Explain. (Note: your discussion of theories and models from your module materials belongs in the following section.)

Abstract Conceptualization: Use critical thinking skills in order to understand and interpret the experience at a deeper, more generalizable level. Interpret and understand the events you have described by drawing on the concepts, theories, and models in the background material from this module. Explain how they apply to your experience. For example, what behavior patterns can you identify in yourself and others that are similar to the ones described in the material on communication, teams, and conflict management? Does the model of Force Field Analysis (home page) help you better understand why people behaved the way they did? Be sure to apply at least three concepts, theories, and/or models and cite all references to concepts, ideas, and/or quotes that you use from any outside source.

[This Abstract Conceptualization section is the “heart” of your paper. Using critical thinking skills, provide a clear, specific discussion on the logic, theories, and models and how they apply to your experience.]

Active Experimentation: Identify ways to respond to the next occurrence of a similar experience. What have you learned about the way groups work from this analysis? What have you learned from your mistakes? How are you going to put what you have learned to use? What actions will you take to build more effective work teams in your job?

Conclusion: Sum up the main points of your analysis and the key learning you are taking from it.

Reference List:
List all references that you have cited in the paper using APA formatting. References include materials from the required background readings as well as any outside internet or library sources you used in researching and writing your paper. If you have APA questions, refer to the optional listings on the background page

Your paper will be evaluated using the criteria as stated in the Case rubric. The following is a review of the rubric criteria:

Assignment-Driven: Does the paper fully address all aspects of the assignment? Is the assignment addressed accurately and precisely using sound logic? Does the paper meet minimum length requirements?Critical Thinking: Does the paper demonstrate graduate-level analysis, in which information derived from multiple sources, expert opinions, and assumptions has been critically evaluated and synthesized in the formulation of a logical set of conclusions? Does the paper address the topic with sufficient depth of discussion and analysis?

Business Writing:
Is the essay logical, well organized and well written? Are the grammar, spelling, and vocabulary appropriate for graduate-level work? Are section headings included? Are paraphrasing and synthesis of concepts the primary means of responding, or is justification/support instead conveyed through excessive use of direct quotations?
Effective Use of Information:
Does the submission demonstrate that the student has read, understood and can apply the background materials for the module? If required, has the student demonstrated effective research, as evidenced by student’s use of relevant and quality (library?) sources? Do additional sources used provide strong support for conclusions drawn, and do they help in shaping the overall paper?
Citing Sources:
Does the student demonstrate understanding of APA Style of referencing, by inclusion of proper citations (for paraphrased text and direct quotations) as appropriate? Have all sources (e.g., references used from the Background page, the assignment readings, and outside research) been included, and are these properly cited? Have all sources cited in the paper been included on the References page?
Timeliness:
Has the assignment been submitted to TLC (Trident’s learning management system) on or before the module’s due date?

Disney’s Hercules – Viewing Journal Questions

1.

How does the film adapt Hercules’ birth and childhood story? Do you believe

these are ‘acceptable’ adaptations?

2.

What do you think of Disney’s depictions of the Greek gods and goddesses?

3.

The scene in which Hercules meets Megara represents a conflation of a number of

Herculean myths – list the various references to the ancient material in this scene

and comment on how this material has been adapted.

Note:

In response to these questions, remember to comment on the points of similarity AND

difference between ancient myth and the film. There should also be consideration of the

intended audience of the film in your answer

Hercules (2014) – Viewing Journal Questions

1.

You have now watched two film adaptations of the Hercules story – in your

opinion, was one more ‘accurate’ to the ancient material than the other? If so,

what made it more ‘accurate’?

2.

Building on your response to Q1, did increased ‘accuracy’ directly lead to a

‘better’ film? (or – to put it another way – was your favourite film of the two the

more accurate one? If so, why? If not, why not?)

3.

How does this film represent the concept of “heroism”? Does this differ from the

Disney conception of Greek heroism? You should consider the intended audience

of both of the films in your answers

Troy (2004) – Viewing Journal Questions

1.

Read the selections of the

Iliad posted in the ‘additional readings’ folder. How

accurately does the film capture these key moments of the narrative?

2

The film drastically condenses the timeline of the events of the Trojan War – in

your opinion, how does this condensed timeline effect our interpretation of the

unfolding events? Do you think this was a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ choice for the

screenplay

Spartacus (1960) – Viewing Journal Questions

There are only two questions this week because they will each require extended

exploration:

1.

The figure of Spartacus is both a gladiator and a slave – in what ways does the

film explore the intersection of these two sides of his character? Remember to

include specific examples of scenes from the film in your analysis.

2.

Do you think the film is a ‘call for revolution’? Or, to put it another way, is the

figure of Spartacus in the movie a ‘revolutionary hero’? You should consider the

historical context of the time of production and support your answer with

examples from the fil

This week’s required readings discuss the residual effects of abuse at the hands of an intimate partner. Intimate partner violence remains an important phenomenon in American culture. Depending on the characteristics of the victim, multiple barriers could exist which make it challenging to address instances of intimate partner violence.

Address the following in your initial post:

• Analyze the rise of our understanding of intimate partner violence?
• What are some common risk factors associated with intimate partner violence?
• How do age, gender, and financial resources impact an individual’s ability to address intimate partner violence?
• Critique the criminal justice system’s responses and explain the effectiveness of the criminal justice system’s response to intimate partner violence.

Your initial post must contain approximately 400 words and reference at least two scholarly sources in proper APA format.