Discussion: Personality development.

Discussion: Personality development.

For this assignment, you will have a chance to put into practice all
you have been learning throughout this course. You will analyze the
personality development of one of the theorists studied in this course
from three different theoretical perspectives.

Choose one of the theorists you have studied this term. Use your
textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library
resources to research the life history of the theorist.

Do the following:

Describe the major life events of the theorist that you feel
influenced his or her personality development.
Describe the cultural influences that had an influence on the
chosen theorist’s personality development.
Analyze this person from Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective.
Analyze this person from two other theoretical perspectives
studied in this course, except for the trait perspective.
Summarize and present your critical opinion about how well (or
not) these theories explain the person.

Write a 5–7-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation
of sources.

By Saturday, June 7, 2014

Course Project Grading Criteria and Rubric
Assignment 1 Grading Criteria

Maximum Points
Description of influential life events that shaped the theorist’s
personality development.
(Course Objective [CO2])

44
Description of cultural influences on the theorist’s development
(CO3)

44

Analysis of theorist using Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective
(CO2)

48
Analysis of theorist from two other theoretical perspectives
(CO2)

48
Evaluates how well these theories explain the person
(CO 2)

52
Presentation Components:
Organization (16)
Usage and Mechanics (16)
APA Elements (24)
Style (8)

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.