Assignment:
Book knowledge has little value if it is not applied. The discipline of psychology provides an opportunity to examine one's self as well as others. The primary goal of this assignment is for you to apply concepts you have learned from this course to your own lifetime development.
How did you become the person you are today?
What factors impacted your development?
How do you describe yourself?
How do you know who you are?
How do others experience you?
Where did you come from?
What outstanding experiences have you encountered?
Guidelines:
1. Piece together a number of autobiographical accounts of your life or if you choose one key facet, gather as much information on it as possible. You may want to ask your parents, siblings or friends 2r information.
2. You may want to look at significant life events (remember unique events are ones that most likely influence your personality)
3. You may want to examine patterns of your own behavior. (likely developed early)
4. You may want to explore your dominant personality traits and then answer academically the possible origin.
5. Interpret your autobiographical data in light of preferred theories (or theory) of personality or researched facts.
Organization of your paper:
Your Psychoautobiography should include the following:
• Introduction
• Introduce the importance of studying your key life events
• Theoretical perspective. Include information concerning the theory (or theories) and any series of known facts of developmental influences to be used in your Psychoautobiography.
• Explanation
• Implications
• Psychobiography
• Interpret your life (or key life events) chronologically through the lens of your theoretical perspective and academic factual information
• Demonstrate how your behavior throughout your life can be explained academically. Reference theoretical underpinnings of major life
events and everyday activities.
• Conclusion
• Tie up loose ends
• Reflect upon assignment (i.e., what did you learn about yourself)
• References
• If you used only your text, include it here, but if you used other sources, include them.