Project paper: My Life and Personality
The purpose of this paper is to apply personality theories that we have learned throughout the class to your life. In this paper you must identify which theories “speak” to you most and apply them to your own personality and experiences.
Instructions
Part I: Describe your personality by listing 5 – 10 of your most outstanding traits
Personality theorist Gordon Allport believed that “everyone has several central dispositions, which include 5 to 10 most outstanding [prominent] characteristics around which one’s life focuses. Allport (1961) described central dispositions as those that would be listed in an accurate letter of recommendation written by someone who knew the person quite well” (Feist & Feist, p. 382).
List your 5 – 10 most outstanding (or prominent) traits. If you want to, you can also ask up to 3 people who know you well to do the same, and then compare their notes with yours. Show them Allport’s definition of a central disposition (above) and ask them to list yours. Did they come up with the same qualities you did?
(Part I should be around 1/4 page long and 1/2 page long.)
Part II: What have been the 3-4 most important or influential theoretical insights that we have covered?
That is, which theories (or parts of theories) have you relied upon to tailor your understanding of personality (yours and others) as we’ve gone through the quarter? For each theory you choose, you must then:
1. Summarize the main points of the theory that “speak” to you.
2. Tell me why you chose the theory. What about the theory makes sense to you?
(Part II will probably be around 2 pages long.)
Part III: Apply the Theory to Why You Are the Way You Are
How does this theory help explain the person you have become — the person you described in Part I? How would each of the theories you chose above explain the experiences that have contributed to making you uniquely “you?”& nbsp;In sum, interpret your life and personality from the perspective of the theories we discussed in class. (Hint: If you took the optional “personality tests” offered along the way in some Topics to Learn, you might want to talk about your test results and why they probably came out the way they did, according to the theory!)
(Part III will probably be around 2 pages long.)
Rubric
Your paper will be graded on the depth and creativity of your analysis and the quality of your writing style. The following is the general rubric that will be used to grade your paper:
• Part 1 = 5 points
• Part 2 Critical Analysis = 20 points
• Part 3 Critical Analysis = 20 points
• Readability, grammar, proofreading = 5 points (Note: spell-checkers doughnut catch ever mistake ewe make. Please proofread carefully!)
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