Assignment 6

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This Assignment should be written adhering to the guidelines of Standard English. This means that your thoughts should be well-organized, logical, and unified as well as original with the viewpoint and purpose clearly established and sustained. Standard English guidelines also include the use of correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. All writing should be in APA Formatting and Citation style.

Perspectives and Theories in

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Perspectives and Theories in

As a reminder, your Assignment should be 2-4 pages, not including the Cover and Reference pages.
Your introductory paragraph should include the historical research study (video) you selected and the main points you will be covering in this paper. It should include your thesis statement (the main point of your essay).
The next 1-2 paragraphs should summarize the results of this study and what implications it has with regards to human behavior and mental processes that you have learned about in Units 5 and 6.
The next 1-2 paragraphs should discuss what is meant by social psychology and how it could apply to your research study using references to its theories and concepts.
The next 1-2 paragraphs should consider the personality theories you read about in Units 5 and 6, naming one theory that you see illustrated in the research, and explaining your reason(s) for choosing it (for example: psychodynamic, humanistic, social cognitive, behaviorism, or trait theory).
The next 1-2 paragraphs should discuss whether or not you think this historical research study could explain the development of psychological disorders using reference to the study and the disorder(s).
Finally, your conclusion will be one paragraph summarizing the main points that you have already written about and restating your thesis statement.
Review the Assignment Rubric for more information.

References

For books:

Digital book-

Author’s Last Name, First Initial. Second Initial if Given. (Year of Publication). Title of book: Subtitle if given (edition if given and is not first edition). Publisher. URL

Hardback/Softback book:

Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of work: Capital letter also for subtitle. Publisher Name. DOI (if available)

For journal articles:

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages. https://doi.org/xx.xxx/

For videos:

Person or group who uploaded video. (Date of publication). Title of video [Video]. Website host. URL 

For webpages:

Author’s name listed-

Lastname, F. M. (Year, Month Date). Title of page. Site name. URL

Only group name listed-

Group name. (Year, Month Date). Title of page. Site name. URL

No author/group name listed-

Title of page. (Year, Month Date). Site name. Retrieved Month Date, Year, from URL