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1. Initial Assumptions About Personality Development DQ
Initial Assumptions About Personality Development DQInitial Assumptions About
Personality Development DQ3 Ways Knowing Your Personality Type Can Help You With
Your Career (Links to an external site.) (Stahl, 2017).Be sure to cite all three sources in your
paper.In addition to the above links, you can utilize the Ashford University Career Services’
Self-Assessment: Learn About Your Personality and Strengths (Links to an external site.
page to discover more self-assessments available to students. This resource provides
multiple self-assessments that will assist in the facilitation of your career and may provide
information that will assist in this Week 1 assignment.According to the American
Psychological Association (n.d.) web page Personality (Links to an external site.Personality
refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
The study of personality focuses on two broad areas: One is understanding individual
differences in particular personality characteristics, such as sociability or irritability. The
other is understanding how the various parts of a person come together as a whole. (para.
1)In this course, you will explore seven well-known models that explain the development of
personality. You probably already have some ideas and opinions about how personalities
develop based on your prior learning and life experiences. This first assignment is meant to
provide a baseline of your thinking about personality that you can compare and contrast to
the theories we will be studying. In this initial paper, address the following items:Explain
your view of the impact of genetics and environment on the development of
personality.Discuss how understanding personality theory can help you to be successful in
your career.Describe the four tools used for assessing personality outlined in Section 1.5 of
your text.Discuss how your personality developmental journey impacted these initial
assumptions about personality development.The Initial Assumptions About Personality
Development paperMust be three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and
references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing
Center’s APA Style (Links to an external site.resource.Must include a separate title page with
the following:Title of paperStudent’s nameCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDate
submittedFor further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA
Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).Must utilize academic voice. See the
Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.Must include an
introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a
clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.For assistance on writing
Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis

2. Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.Must
document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Must include a
separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource
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