Our personal belongings can tell a lot about our personalities
Using information from the video “
Measuring Personality: Crash Course Psychology” as well as information from the
Theories of Personality textbook about assessment methods, choose one of the three following prompts to respond to in an initial thread. Your initial thread should be at least 350 words in length.
Option 1: Our personal belongings can tell a lot about our personalities. Our bedrooms, our cars, our significant others even our churches can give a glimpse into what is important to us and what we value. We can learn about someone’s personality.
- Choose a particular aspect of life and explain how you would evaluate a group of people’s personality based on that aspect.
- Which type of assessment method would you use? Why?
- What would be the drawbacks or limitations of your method?
- What predictions would you make based on your own observations? Is this based on a “formal theory” or a “personal theory”?
Option 2: From the list of personality traits (see attachment below), select two that you think would make an interesting study. (For instance: Are people who are honest also kind? Can you be honest without being kind?)
- What is your research question? What is your hypothesis?
- What method or methods might you use to measure these differences or similarities? ▪ How would you compare/contrast the two traits?
- How would you select your groups?
Option 3: Psychologists have found that the use of online social networking sites like Instagram can both shape and reflect our personalities. Is your Instagram (or other social media site) a reflection of your personality? Or do other people’s posts shape how you represent yourself in social media?
- How would you design a study to examine whether social media shapes a personality or reflects a personality?
- What method or methods might you use to measure your hypothesis?
- How would you select your groups?
Replies:
There are two parts to the replies:
1. You will provide two substantive replies to another person’s initial thread. Evaluate two other research projects. Provide more feedback than just “good job”. What did you like about it? How could it be improved? What other factors should be considered? What are some possible confounding variables (things that could mess up your results)? These replies need to be 150-200 words each.
2. You will also be graded on the number of “touches” you make to others’ posts or replies to your initial post. These can be brief acknowledgements that you appreciate someone’s feedback or acknowledgements that you read their post and liked it. The more “touches” (times you engage), the more points you will receive.
Submit your initial thread by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Thursday of Module/Week 1 and your replies by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Sunday of Module/Week 1.
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