This formative assessment is designed to introduce students to the content of the unit ina way that encourages reflection on the course material and their personal engagement with that material....

This formative assessment is designed to introduce students to the content of the unit ina way that encourages reflection on the course material and their personal engagement with that material.

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  Students will be required to write a300-wordreflective statementthat describes their reactionto an event, experience, or phenomenon(referred to here asthe event)that has relevance to psychology.This could be something related to the student’s personal experience ora public event.

  
  


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  Students are required to:

  
  

• Identify a relevantevent that has some connection with psychology.


• Reflect on their reactions tothe identified event.

• Reflect on the possible role that psychologycould play in their own personal understandingand responses to the event, along with the possible broaderimplications of the role of psychological research in fostering a deeper understandingof the event.

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  The reflection should emphasise psychology as a research-based scientific discipline rather than as ahelping profession, although it is understood that there may be some overlapbetween these two areas.

  
  


• Students should avoid selecting an event or issue that is related to sensitive personal issues and should avoid disclosing content of a highly personal nature in their reflection.

a. Explain key developments in the discipline of psychology in their historical, cultural, and social context.

c. Apply the scientific method to question claims that arise from myths, stereotypes, pseudoscience, or untested assumptions.