Personal Application Assignment: Perception, Attitudes, Individual Differences, and Emotional Intelligence

The objective of this drop box assignment is to help you find supplemental information about the topics covered this week and write about an experience that relates to it. You can write about any of the following four topics covered in chapter 2 (Pick one: perceptions, individual differences, attitudes, emotional intelligence). Choose an experience in your own personal or professional life that was significant to you and one about which you are motivated to learn more.

Search for a Journal Article that relates to one of the four topics that interests you. Using the Kent Library website select the Ebsco Host databases to search through (you can do it simultaneously, kind of like Kayak travel website). From the library home page, select databases. Choose Academic Search Complete. Once the Ebsco Interface comes up, select "Choose Databases" at the top of the screen. Select Business Source Premier, PsychARTICLES and PsychINFO as additional data bases. You are now ready to enter your search terms. Once you have found and article that interest you and relates your experience that you about to share complete the following:

Please use this form as your template and just fill in your answers. Please make them thoughtful and complete. The points assigned to each question should guide you with respect to the scope, depth and rigor of each question. There is no page length guideline, however , depending on how much you enjoy writing (I have already used one page for the template alone). I suggest reading the entire template all the way through before starting; it helps clarify what is expected.

A. Concrete Experience (worth 10% of grade)

1. Objectively describe the experience (who, what, when , why, how)

2. Subjectively describe your feelings, perceptions, and thoughts that occurred during (not after) the experience. What did others seem to be feeling?

B. Reflective Observation (worth 10% of grade)

1. Looking back at the experience, what were the perspectives of the key actors (including you)?

2. Why did the people involved (including you) behave as they did?

C. Abstract Conceptualization (worth 60% of grade)

1. Relate concepts or theories from the assigned readings (Chapter 2 in the text, and any supplementary readings) to the experience.Explain thoroughly how they apply to your experience. Please apply at least two concepts or theories and cite them correctly (APA format).

D. Active Experimentation (worth 10% of grade)

1. What did you learn about perceptions, individual differences, attitudes, or emotional intelligence (pick one) from this experience? (1 point)

2. What did you learn about yourself?

3. What action steps will you take to be more effective in the future? (2 points)

E. Integration, Synthesis, and Writing (worth 10% of grade)

1. Did you integrate and synthesize the four previous sections (A, B, C, &D)?