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Homework: Psychology

Remember, your initial draft must be the entire, completed paper so that your peer reviewer can offer you feedback on your writing. This homework is aimed at helping you improve your work and those of your peers, as well.

Be sure to review the grading rubric below that will be used to assess your final draft later on.

During peer reviews, please be thorough in your comments. Be sure to add your comments to the rubric provided via the grade book. Outlines or incomplete drafts will not be accepted for credit.

Individual Project: Thinking Globally (Three options)

For this homework, you are to apply what you have learned throughout the term to global topics in psychology. You are to select one of the following options and complete it for your final project. Keep in mind you will be submitting your rough draft for peer review (worth up to 10 points) and the final draft will be due at a later date in the term (worth up to 90 points) for a total of 100 possible points for the project.

Review the important information about the homeworks page.

Option I: What is your worldview?

Consider different societal/cultural factors that can influence a person's worldview. Select themes present in the topics we have discussed this term and discuss how they might be considered in different ways when you bring in cultural and societal factors to the mix of topics. This can include gender identity, sexual orientation, and racial/ethnic identity which are all different layers of individual identity and cultural presentation. It is encouraged that you select specific themes and cultures from across the globe to best address each of these points.

In your paper, include the following discussions:

1. At the start of the course, what was your worldview? How has this course impacted your worldview?

2. What theories presented in our course materials support these changes? (i.e. racial identity, gender identity, sexual identity, cultural identity, etc.)

3. How do you feel your worldview now meets, or falls short, of the three multicultural competencies identified in class? (i.e. awareness of your own culture, understanding other worldviews, and development of culturally appropriate interpersonal skills)

4. Explain how you feel your perception of global psychology and the presence of a global society of humans has changed.

5. When reviewing these ideas, keep in mind how they impact a person's mental health.

Option II: Current Events in Global Psychology (Cultural/Multicultural Psychology)

Conduct an online search of current events related to the field of global/cross-cultural psychology. Find a minimum of three articles you want to summarize and discuss (must be from the last 90 days).

Your paper must be at least 2 to 3 pages in length and formatted according to APA guidelines. Page count does not include a title page or references page.

You are not required to include an abstract. If you do include an abstract, please review the formatting to ensure you are submitting a correctly formatted one.

You are required to include pagination, headings, citations, and a running head.

You are required to use at least 2 peer-reviewed journal articles for your project from the last 5 years. These are in addition to your current event articles. These are different from the recent news articles you will be using for this project option. Peer-reviewed journals are based on psychological research, and published in professional journals. News articles can be found on the internet and are published by news and media outlets.

In your writeup, include a discussion of the following for each article:

1. Name, Date, and Publication/Website of Article (Must be in last 90 days)

2. Global Psychology Themes discussed or of focus in articles

3. Factors/considerations in the following areas as they relate to global psychology:

a. Cultural background
b. Gender identification
c. Sexual orientation
d. Religious beliefs

4. Were any hot-button topics included? Did you agree/disagree with the views expressed in the article - explain your stance.

5. How accurate is the article in relaying information from the field of global psychology and mental health treatment?

Fulfills Global Learning Objective: Global Awareness: Knowledge of the interconnectedness of local, global, international, and intercultural issues, trends, and systems.

Option III: Global Psychology Researcher - Interview

An interview is a great tool for gathering data in qualitative global psychological research. It invites the participant to share their views and thoughts through open-ended questions. For the purposes of this homework, you are to interview someone either with whom you share a cultural background or someone with an entirely different cultural background than yours. You are to interview them on their experiences in the following areas of life as it relates to their cultural experiences and mental health to date.

Include questions related to the following topics:

1. Gender
2. Sexuality
3. Sexual orientation
4. Race
5. Worldview
6. Religious beliefs
7. Disability
8. Veteran status

Focus on how cultural differences have shaped these different areas of your selected individual. How do you see that their current mental makeup or how they view themselves has been influenced by their cultural background? Summarize your findings and support them with ideas from concepts/theories we discussed in class via peer-reviewed journal articles (i.e. identity development models, sexuality development models, racism/stereotype concepts, acculturation, worldviews, health/mental health, etc.)