Assignment: Ethical Principles of Psychologists

Assignment: Ethical Principles of Psychologists

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, please read the required  Churchill and Mruk (2014), Hayes (2012), and Waterman (2013) articles,  and review the APA’s  and Chapters 14 through 17 in your textbook.

For this discussion, you will choose a person who has an important  presence in popular media today. This person might be a political,  business, human rights, education, or entertainment figure. Examine the  major theoretical approaches studied in the class so far (,  behavioral, learning, trait and type, and humanistic). Briefly describe  your chosen figure’s personality from the point of view of each of  these five approaches. Evaluate and describe any cultural considerations  which may affect the personality assessment within each of the given  approaches. Analyze the ethical implications of basing your personality  assessment on the information available through the popular media.  Select the theoretical approach you think best describes the person and  elaborate on his or her personality using this approach.

Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas without giving proper acknowledgment. The term “plagiarism” includes, but is not limited to, the use, by paraphrase or direct quotation, of the published or unpublished work of another person without full and clear acknowledgment. It also includes the unacknowledged use of materials prepared by another person or agency engaged in the furnishing or selling of term papers or other academic materials.

The Modern Language Association’s MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers defines plagiarism as follows:

• repeating another’s sentences as your own,
• adopting a particularly apt phrase as your own,
• paraphrasing someone else’s argument as your own,
• presenting someone else’s line of thinking in the development of a thesis as though it were your own.

In short, to plagiarize is to give the impression that you have written or thought something that you have in fact borrowed from another.

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