Your paper will make use of two sources. The first source is your textbook itself. You will select FOUR PSYCHOLOGY concepts/topics from at least two different chapters to focus on in your paper. The second source is an article from a refereed (peer-reviewed) journal (preferably an American Psychological Association journal published within the last five years) which addresses one of the psychological concepts or topics relevant to your intended career.
You will want to find an article which is research (data-driven) based and which uses the experimental or correlational method. The article must have the traditional sections associated with a research study (abstract, introduction (literature review), methods, results, discussion, references). That means no reviews of literature or other types of articles.
You must reference the appropriate chapters, identify and define each relevant concept, and explain why the psychological concepts you focus on are or will be relevant to your career and your future life. You will be expected to use specific examples of how the concepts will be relevant to your career. You must be specific about how it will benefit you in your career.
For the journal article, you will be integrating the article and its content into your paper to highlight its significance to your chosen field of study rather than merely citing it. You will be using the journal article to discuss its relationship to one of the concepts or topics you have selected as important to your career.
Note that you will be discussing the article and the implication of its findings for your career in some detail, not merely mentioning it in passing.
Given textbook info: STP eBooks Editor, Richard Miller, is pleased to announce the publication of “Introductory Psychology Teaching
Primer: A Guide for New Teachers of Psych 101, Second Edition (2015)” edited by Sadie Leder-Elder, Jessica J. Good,
Stephanie Afful, and Jennifer J. Stiegler Balfour.
As all STP eBooks, this volume is free and may be downloaded at http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/index.php
