PSY172 Canyons Personal Experience To Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages
Humanities
Some topics that would be appropriate to explore:
- Education/career plans as you entered college or after a first career
- Entering or dissolving relationships as a young adult
- Identity (gender, sexual, cultural, religious, ethnic, etc.)
Once you have determined your topic:
- Connect the personal experience to your chosen stage
- Explore what you learned (or are learning) from the experience
- Explain how has studying lifespan development helped you understand the experience
Formatting is as follows:
- 5-8 pages (including cover page and reference page…so, 3-5 pages of actual content!)
- Your paper must contain an introduction, thesis (what you plan to discuss/argue), and a conclusion
- 12 point font
- One inch margins
- Double-spaced
- APA formatted (use the paper template in this module, not the current event template)
3 references are required (1 can and should be the textbook, the other 2 must be peer-reviewed articles. See the library guide in this module for details on how to find these articles)
As always, 60% of your grade will be based on content (did you address prompts above?), 20% of grade will be based on organization and style, and 20% of grade will be based on APA formatting/mechanics/grammar.
Don’t forget – anything written in your paper that is someone else’s idea/work/research etc. must be cited within the paper and the reference must be included at the end of the paper on the reference page.
This is the textbook for the class: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Documents/Psychology%20172%20Textbook%201-4-2018.pdf
