Advertising or consumer psychologist

Career Paper
Overview
For this assignment, you need to investigate two career paths. This paper should be about 1.5 pages long. You are welcome to use either single or double spacing (or something in between), and you may set your margins and font as you like, but please don’t use font smaller than 10 pt.
Please proofread, spell check, and grammar-check your work. If your spelling or grammar makes it hard for your instructor to understand you, you may lose points.
Reminder: Students who have taken this course previously may not re-submit previously submitted work without the permission of the instructor.
For this assignment, you need to investigate two career paths. Please select form the careers listed below. If you want to write about a different career, please contact your instructor to discuss.
Career List: advertising or consumer psychologist, art/music/sex therapist, biopsychologist, child care worker, child life specialist, clinical laboratory technician, clinical neuropsychologist, clinical psychologist, cognitive neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, counseling psychologist or counselor, dentist, developmental psychologist, doctor, early childhood and behavior specialist, environmental designer, experimental psychologist, forensic examiner, forensic science technician, gerontological aide, health educator, health psychologist, human factors or engineering psychologist, human resources specialist, human services worker, industrial-organizational psychologist, lawyer, market researcher, mental health technician, military psychologist, occupational therapist, operations research analyst, physical therapist, product development consultant, professor, program and development evaluator, psychiatrist, psychiatric technician, psychometric psychologist, public relations specialist, quantitative psychologist, recreational therapist, researcher, school counselor, school psychologist, social policy development and evaluation, social psychologist, social worker, sports psychologist, substance abuse counselor, usability specialist.
The websites listed below should be helpful.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
• O*Net (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (See Table 6.4 on pg. 60 of Thinking About Modern Psychology for helpful codes)
• Our course Career Resources (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. page
If these web sites are not helpful, you are welcome to use additional sources (books, credible websites, etc.). Either way, you must have 3 or more sources. Please do not use Wikipedia or About.com. These sites contain some incorrect information about Psychology careers. You may interview an expert as one of your sources.
If you already have a career in mind that is not covered in the list above, please talk with your instructor to get permission to go off topic.
Paper Content
Answer the following questions for each of your two career paths:

1. What tasks and duties do people in this career do? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain.
2. What knowledge, skills, and abilities will you need to be successful in this career? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain.
3. What degree/education do you need to get a job in this career?
4. What did you learn about this career that surprised you? Why did you find this surprising? Please start this section of your paper with, "I was surprised to learn that…"
   Citing Sources
   Every time you write about information you found in ANY source, you MUST put an in-text citation at the end of that sentence and also reference the source in a bibliography. You may use APA format if you want to, but you do not have to. Either way, for in-text citations list the author of the source and include both the title and the author of the source the bibliography. If you use a website, use the URL (web address) instead of the author for in-text citations and the title and author for the bibliography.
   PLEASE DO NOT PLAGIARIZE - do not copy material from sources. If you paraphrase an author or use a fact from a source (for example, a fact about the symptoms of a psychological disorder), make sure you credit the author or website!!!! If you quote an author or web site, put the quote in quotation marks AND cite the author.
   It is okay if your paper is full of citations. It is not okay to hand in a paper created by cutting and pasting different quotes together.
   Examples:
   • One symptom of schizophrenia is hallucinations (author).
   • Brown was the first researcher to focus on cultural diversity (web address).
   • I need to get a doctoral degree to be a practicing psychopharmacologist (author).

Career Paper
Criteria Ratings Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 1: Tasks & Duties
What tasks and duties do people in this career do? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain. 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 1: Skills
What knowledge, skills, and abilities will you need to be successful in this career? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain. 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 1: Education
What degree/education do you need to get a job in this career? 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 1: Surprising
What did you learn about this career that surprised you? Why did you find this surprising? Please start this section of your paper with, "I was surprised to learn that…" 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 2: Tasks & Duties
What tasks and duties do people in this career do? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain. 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 2: Skills
What knowledge, skills, and abilities will you need to be successful in this career? Which one or two of these do you think is the most important. Explain. 2.5 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career 2: Education
What degree/education do you need to get a job in this career?
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome Career

2: Surprising
What did you learn about this career that surprised you? Why did you find this surprising? Please start this section of your paper with, "I was surprised to learn that…"
This criterion is linked to a Learning Outcome -2 points for each missing citation/bibliography entry

Sample Solution