Assignment Instructions

Week 3 Module 3 Careers in Psychology Specialty Focus Areas:Learning/Memory Psychopathology/DisordersAssignment Resources

Learning/Memoryhttp://www.thepsychfiles.com/category/topics/learningmemory/ Psychopathology/Disordershttp://www.thepsychfiles.com/?s=disorders Kuther and Morgan (2012) textbook Chapter 2

Listen to several podcasts on each of the above web pages and select one from each for use in your assignment completion. NOTE: If either of the hot links above doesn’t work, paste http://www.thepsychfiles.com/ into your web browser and use drop-down menu under the Topics tab on the Psych Files website.  

American Psychological Association Website

http://www.apa.org

Week 3 Module Report Use the above assignment resources to research Psychopathology and Learning & Memory, this week’s specialties of the larger field of psychology. Write a report based on your findings that includes the seven elements listed below. A minimum of 4 pages is required for Module Report assignments. They are graded for thoroughness, evidence of ability to clearly articulate and apply knowledge learned, organization and clarity and the degree to which they meet requirements identified on the Module Report grading rubric including compliance with APA formatting rules. 1) The types of work professionals in specialty areas within the larger field of psychology do 2) The type and level of education one must achieve to work in those specialty areas 3) A description of work settings and average incomes one can expect in careers within the specialty areas. 4) Whether after researching the areas you find them to be career possibilities you are interested in or careers that don’t capture your interest and why 5) A description of the most interesting thing not previously known that you learned about the specialty areas 6) A description of an everyday and real-world human experience related to two pod-casts you select to listen to on the specialty web pages provided 7) A description of a “Hot Topic that fits with what you know about each specialty area after researching it and how the two are related.

Go to http://www.thepsychfiles.com

Click on Topics, it is a pull down menu.

and click on Development, and Personality, and choose a Pod Cast.

Personality

http://www.thepsychfiles.com

Click on Topics, then Personality.

Listen to several podcasts on each of the above Psych Files web pages and select one from each for use in your assignment completion.

Go to the

http://www.apa.org

and go to Divisions of APA

Look up Division 8

This should help you much with your module report.

Week 1 Module Report

Use the above assignment resources to research Development Psychology AND Personality Psychology, this week’s TWO specialties of the larger field of psychology.

Write a report FOR EACH SPECIALTY based on your findings that includes the seven elements listed below. There is no page number minimum for Report Module assignments. They are graded for thoroughness, evidence of ability to clearly articulate and apply knowledge learned, organization and clarity and the degree to which they meet requirements identified on the Report Module grading rubric including compliance with APA formatting rules.

MAKE SURE THAT YOU ANSWER EACH QUESTION FOR BOTH SPECIALITIES, IT MAY EVEN HELP TO NUMBER YOUR PARAGRAPHS

1) The types of work professionals in specialty areas within the larger field of psychology do

2) The type and level of education one must achieve to work in those specialty areas

3) A description of work settings and average incomes one can expect in careers within the specialy areas.

4) Whether after researching the areas you find them to be career possibilities you are interested in or careers that don’t capture your interest and why

5) A description of the most interesting thing not previously known that you learned about the specialty areas

6) A description of an everyday and real-world human experience related to two pod-casts you select to listen to on the specialty web pages provided

7) A description of a “Hot Topic that fits with what you know about each specialty area after researching it and how the two are related.