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Homework
Quiz 1/7
Unlisted Intro Video for YouTube… By 1/8
Discussion 1/9 – Individualist vs Collectivist
Module 1 Post
Activity 1.1 on page 1.3
(DONE) - Discussion/Participation contract due Wednesday 1/7
Go through the discussion boards
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Week 2 - DONE
WEEK 3
Discussion
1. What are your Big 5 results? Do you agree with the results? Explain.
2. What are implications for your results and how they do/could play out in interpersonal
relations with others? Provide examples.
3. Regarding the personality perspectives from the text, which perspectives do and don't
resonate with you? (Note: this question is not referring to your Big 5 results which
falls under the Trait perspective, but rather which of the general personality
perspectives from the chapter. These are Psychodynamic (also called
Psychoanalytic), Behaviorist, Social Cognitive (also called Social Learning),
Humanist, and Trait)
1. Which one of the personality perspectives are you drawn toward that you agree
with or fits your experience? Why?
2. Which one of the personality perspectives are you not drawn toward or you
disagree with? Why?
Week 4
Discussion
1. Activating event (A): Your situation
2. Beliefs (B): Irrational thoughts that you have about yourself, that you have about the other
person, and that you have about the situation (Make sure you include all 3 and that they are
only your thoughts and not the thoughts you think anyone else could be having!)
3. Consequences (C): Feelings and behaviors resulting from these irrational thoughts
4. Dispute (D): What irrational thought categories (from the text) do your irrational thoughts from
B fall under? Using the irrational thought categories (from the text) to guide you in thinking
patterns, how could you dispute/challenge the irrational thoughts from B to be more rational?
5. Exchange (E): Using the irrational thought categories (from the text) to guide you in thinking
patterns, what would you change/exchange the irrational thoughts from B to be more
rational? Click on the following document for examples to get you started on challenging and
changing your irrational thoughts to more rational ones to help you manage these situations:
Irrational thoughts challenged and changed to more rational
6. Check
1. Were all 5 parts of A, B, C, D, E included?
2. Were all 3 types of irrational thoughts included under B and only thoughts you are having
(not guessing about the thoughts of anyone other than yourself)?
3. Were only feelings and behaviors included (not thoughts) under C?
4. Were 2-3 irrational belief/thought categories included from pp. 87-95 in the text?
5. Were thoughts only (not feelings or behaviors) under E that applies to the irrational
belief/thought categories from D to help deal with this situation and similar situations?
Week 9
Abstraction Ladders to communicate
‘I’ statements
Culturally Sensitive
Nonverbal
-Touch
-Body Posture and orientation
- Physical appearance
-Personal Space
-Paralanguage and silence
- Eye contact and facial expressiveness
- Gestures
- Physical Environment
Final Paper