portfolio

portfolio. required to submit a 500 words each chapter of the summary of chapter 1 to 4
Textbook Bartlett and Beamish 2014 textbook. Need to write a 500 word summary on how these readings underscore the importance of various weekly concepts.

From chapter 1 to chapter 4, write a 500 words summary for each chapter totalling 2000 words based on concepts as well as from the readings.

After that, write another 500 words each for readings 6.1, 6.2 and 8.1, 8.2 based on the mentioned textbook

Part of the appeal of social psychology is that the theories and ideas tested by socialpsychologists have direct applications to your life. The purpose of the Portfolio assignment is to have you examine the media and your experience in an attempt to connect these sources to the material covered in the textbook. To complete the assignment, you will be required to find 10 media examples of social psychological phenomena. Each of the 10 entries should list the media source (and include a copy of it if possible) and explain how this example is relevant to a social psychological principle.
Media sources include: websites; t.v. shows; movies; newspaper articles; magazine articles; comic strips; novels; song lyrics; commercials; print ads; etc. I do limit the types of examples you may use in three important ways. First, you may only use a specific type of source for two entries at the most (i.e., you could only use 2 examples from websites; 2 examples from t.v. shows, 2 from magazines, etc.). In addition, you may use one (and only one) example from something that happened to you in your own life. Second, you may only use a given social psychological principle twice (i.e., you could only use 2 examples of cognitive dissonance; 2 examples of Sternberg’s model of love; 2 examples of the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion, 2 examples of the fundamental attribution error, etc.) Third, magazine articles, newspaper articles or t.v. news items directly concerning psychology are not acceptable. For example, Newsweek recently ran a cover story on the social psychology of happiness, and the Discovery Channel recently had a program on the social psychology of prejudice. These types of stories are off limits.

I want you to look at the everyday information you are exposed to and try to interpret it in social psychological terms on your own. Using a story that is specifically about a psychological principle would not provide you with the experience I would like you to have. Two sample Portfolio items are included in this course pack to give you a better idea of what you will need to do for this assignment. Note that there are 3 components to a good Portfolio entry: 1) a description of the example in enough detail that I will be able to understand what you are evaluating; 2) a brief description of the social psychological principle being addressed by the example (a very good way to ensure that you do this well is to quote a definition of the principle from the textbook, and tell me what page number this appears on); and 3) an integration of the first two components, so that it becomes clear how your example ties into the appropriate theory. In my experience, the integration of the example and the social psychological principle is the most difficult aspect for students.

My advice is to not assume that I will understand the connection without you telling me precisely how your example relates to the principle in question. Note: It is best to simply collect these examples as you move through your daily routine. Keep your mind open to the possibility that something that happens to you today may be relevant for your social psychology Portfolio. If you wait until the end of the semester and then seek out examples to complete this assignment, these examples are more likely to be bad fits that are less relevant to social psychology. Finally, I would strongly suggest that you run a couple of your examples by me via e-mail early in the semester long before turning in your entire Portfolio. This allows me to give you feedback about your entries and allows you to be sure you are on the right track. Also: When you are done with the assignment and want to turn it in, submit it as an attachment to this posting in MS Word format.