Type A and Type B personality types in the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine

Review Paper on Type A and Type B personality types in the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine

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As you have observed throughout this course, beginning with your Unit 1 assignment, Psychology’s goals are a natural outgrowth of our desire to understand behavior.

Basically, they boil down

to asking the following questions:
•    What is the nature of this behavior? (description)
•    Why does it occur? (understanding and explanation)
•    Can we forecast when it will occur? (prediction)
•    What conditions affect it? (control)
Today many psychologists are eclectic practitioners because they realize a single psychological perspective is unlikely to fully explain the complex nature of human behavior. As a result, there

are a variety of perspectives, with insights from one often complementing insights from another.

First addressed in Unit 1 and referenced throughout this course, your text refers to the

following contemporary ways to look at behavior:
•    Biological Perspective.
o    Biopsycological View.
o    Evolutionary View.
Psychological Perspective.
o    Behavioristic View.
o    Cognitive View.
o    Psychodynamic View.
o    Humanistic View.
Sociocultural Perspective.
o    Sociocultural View.

For your final assignment, you will demonstrate your understanding of both the goals of psychology and the contemporary views of behavior as they pertain to the areas of health psychology

and behavioral medicine.
My Topic is: Type A and Type B personality types.
You will complete a 3–5 page review paper on Type A and Type B personality types in the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine. Within this paper you will also illustrate an

application of both the goals of psychology and the contemporary psychological perspectives. In addition to utilizing your course materials, you will be required to incorporate information from a minimum of three recent

(a publication date within the last 10 years) scholarly articles in your paper. Resources have been provided in the Resource section of this assignment to assist

you in conducting your article search.
Your selected articles should specifically address current psychological research that directly applies to your chosen topic and should be obtained from the many databases found in the

Capella Library. Guidelines for using the Capella Library search functions and recommended databases are found in the Library’s Undergraduate Research Guide, in the section for Psychology

courses. A link to the Library Guide is provided in the Resource section of this assignment.

Use the following outline to construct your paper:
Introduction
This section of your paper should provide an overview of your chosen topic in the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine. Use the questions that illustrate the goals of psychology

(listed above) to guide your development of this section.
Related Research
In this section summarize each of the articles you have selected for this paper. Your summary should include the following:
8.    A statement regarding the purpose of the psychological research. Note: The purpose of the research will be discussed in the abstract, introduction, and discussion/conclusion sections of the article.

9.    Identification of the specific methods utilized by the researchers to conduct the study. Note: This information is addressed in the methods section of the articles. Review Table 1.3 in

your Coon text, Contemporary Ways to Look at Behavior and identify which views or perspectives are supported in the research findings you have selected.

10.    A discussion of the research findings and their implications. Note: This information is addressed in the discussion/conclusion section of the article.
Conclusion
You should conclude your paper with 1–2 paragraphs that compare and contrast your selected articles.

Explain how the research findings support an eclectic approach to your chosen topic in

the field of health psychology and behavioral medicine. In addition, describe how you were able to achieve the goals of psychology through your own research of the topic.
Assignment Requirements
•    Written Communication: Written communication should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
•    APA Formatting: Use the APA (6th edition) style and formatting for citing your references.
•    Font and Font Size: Times New Roman, 12 point, double-spaced. Use Microsoft Word to complete the assignment.
•    Length: 3–5 pages of content. Also include a title and references page.
•    Turnitin: Prior to submitting your assignment for grading, you are required to submit your paper to Turnitin. Review your results and make any edits needed based on the results.
•    SmarThinking Submission: You are encouraged to submit this assignment to Smarthinking and to incorporate the feedback into your paper.

Writing Assistance
During your first course at Capella you were required to complete a research paper. Throughout the course you were introduced to a variety of writing resources designed to assist you in

completing a correctly formatted paper. In the Resource section of this assignment are files that contain links to those writing resources. Refer to those files to refresh your memory and assist

you in writing and formatting this assignment.

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