Instructions
Select an option and use the Consider This Situation example as a model to write your synthesis. Write three paragraphs using the MEAL plan to write a synthesis that represents ideas from multiple sources based upon the school of thought in the context of your selected option.
Evaluate important approaches to understanding human behavior in the history of the profession of psychology.
Synthesize ideas from multiple sources to illustrate changes in values, principles, a subject matter brought to the field of psychology by a school of thought.
Synthesize ideas from multiple sources to illustrate how changes brought about by a school of thought affected psychologists' ways of understanding human behavior.
Synthesize ideas from multiple sources to illustrate ways in which psychologists' within a school of thought ask questions and conduct research.
Option 1
Humanistic psychology is also called third-force psychology. Discuss the changes in values, principles, and subject matter that humanistic psychology brought to the field of psychology, and how these changes affected psychologists' ways of understanding human behavior. Also, address the ways in which humanistic psychology asks questions and conducts research. Provide at least two peer-reviewed articles that support your ideas.
Paragraph 1: Changes in values, principles, subject matter
Main idea
Evidence from Researcher A and Researcher B
Analysis of Evidence from both sources
Linking information
Paragraph 2: Effect of changes
Paragraph 3: Research methods
References
Joseph, S. (2020). Why we need a more humanistic positive organizational scholarship: Carl Rogers’ person-centered approach as a challenge to neoliberalism. The Humanistic Psychologist, 48(3), 271–283. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000151
Dillon, J. J. (2020). Humanistic psychology and the good: A forgotten link. The Humanistic Psychologist, 48(3), 244–256. https://doi.org/10.1037/hum0000149