Individual (Week 4)Portfolio Group Influence Assignment This required Portfolio assignment due in
Week Four will give you experience observing and interacting with people
outside of the classroom. It has been designed to provide you with the
opportunity to develop skills, synthesize knowledge, and integrate learning in
a real world setting. This assignment
accomplishes that goal by challenging you to: • Observe
a group discussing a topic of interest such as a focus group, a community
public assembly, a department meeting at your workplace, or local support group• Study
how the group members interact and impact one another• Analyze
how the group behaviors and communication patterns influence social
facilitation • Integrate
your findings with evidence-based literature from journal articles, textbook,
and additional scholarly sourcesPurpose: To provide you with an opportunity
to experience a group setting and analyze how the presence of others
substantially influences the behaviors of its members through social
facilitation.Process: You will participate as a guest at
an interest group meeting in your community to gather data for a
qualitative research paper. Once you have located an interest group,
contact stakeholders and explain the purpose of your inquiry. After
you receive permission to participate, you will schedule a date to
attend the meeting; at which time you will observe the members and
document the following for your analysis: o Any
assignment that has more than 15% of the paper quoted (properly or improperly)
will be subject to a point deduction or discipline action in the case of
intentional plagiarism. You may run your
paper through the UoPX Plagiarism Detector to ensure compliance.o Please
note the 1200-1500 word assignment is a MINIMUM – as noted in Helpful Hints – A
papers go above and beyond the minimum requirements.o Part
I is integrated into your 1200-1500 word minimums. The questions are answered as part of your
paper.o Be
sure that you view the rubric for a more thorough discussion of paper
requirements.As this is an upper division psychology
class, the proper use of Help write my thesis – APA formatting will be required and will be a graded
focus on all papers within this course.
Please be sure to submit the certificate of originality in a SEPARATE
file with every assignment. See course
for more details.Here is what our professor posted:•You are not allowed to use websites,
encyclopedias, dictionaries or previous textbooks on your papers – only library
peer reviewed research.•Just to be clear from above – any paper
that has anything OTHER than our CURRENT textbook and EXCLUSIVE peer reviewed
research will not receive a passing grade – no matter how good it is.
•I do not have a required number of
citations per paper, however, you should DEFINITELY use the textbook and at
LEAST ONE peer reviewed journal article that you get from the library for EACH
paper. Like the word count, doing one
peer reviewed journal article will help you pass the paper. A papers generally go above and beyond, and
include 3 or 4 peer reviewed journal articles and NO websites, dictionaries,
old textbooks and encyclopedias.

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