Maria Scruggs | Aspiring Clinical Psychologist
This project helped me dive deep into my personality traits, lived experiences, and social influences that have influenced the development of my social change identity
In this reflection project, I wrote about the ways in which grit, resilience, and coping skills are essential to any advocacy effort and described the ways in which my knowledge of psychology has prepared me to execute my social change initiative.
In this milestone paper, I researched the definitions of social change identity. Presented in the form of an annotated bibliography, I described emerging themes in the scene of social change identity.
In this milestone paper, I reviewed Susan Fiske's Core Social Motives and how they apply to my social change identity.
In this milestone paper, I applied a specific theory of social psychology and cognitive psychology, to advance your advocacy agenda. I also explored assessment tools to measure social change and described critical first steps in developing an intervention to effect social change in the workplace.
In this journal activity, I described personal and social factors that guide my ethical decision making in choosing to support a cause. In addition, I explored ways to increase cognitive consonance and decrease cognitive dissonance to realign my ideas and actions.
In this journal activity, I wrote about values that reflect my leadership style and how I would apply it to a case study, and described the impact of psychology on decision making and leadership.